#Whammer jammer j. giels full#

In late 1965 their line-up consisted of vocalist/saxophone player Peter Kraemer, guitarists Terry MacNeil and William 'Truckaway' Sievers, bassist Martin Beard (born 1947, London), and drummer Norman Mayell. He formed an acoustic blues trio, 'Snoopy and the Sopwith Camels', with bassist Danny Klein and harmonica player Richard 'Magic Dick' Salwitz, while studying mechanical engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the mid-1960s. Geils began playing jazz trumpet but eventually switched to blues guitar. They were in a relationship when she was a sophomore and junior in high school. He dated Meryl Streep, who had moved to Bernardsville in 1962. When he was drawn to folk musicians in Boston, he left Northeastern for Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he studied mechanical engineering. In 1964, he began attending Northeastern University and was a trumpeter in the marching band. He learned to play Miles Davis music on the trumpet and drums, and he listened to blues singers Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters on the radio.

įrom an early age, he heard his father's albums by Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, and Count Basie, and was escorted by his father to a Louis Armstrong concert. His father was an engineer at Bell Labs and a jazz fan. Before he graduated in 1964 he was a member of the math club, the physics club, student council, car club, band club and the marching band. He attended Bernards High School in nearby Bernardsville. In 1959, his family moved to Old Farm Lane in Bedminster. was born on February 20, 1946, in New York City, and grew up in Morris Plains, New Jersey.

#Whammer jammer j. giels full#

'Live' Full House is a short, punchy shot of rock & roll genius by one of the great bands of the '70s and one of the best live albums ever recorded.John Warren Geils Jr. Geils himself on guitar when you have a magnetic frontman like Peter Wolf or the unstoppable force that is harp player Magic Dick (check 'Whammer Jammer' for proof of his greatness), but his soloing on this track serves notice that he could tear off a ferocious solo with the best of them. Geils Band and The Morning After, kicking out the jams on rockers like the Motown chestnut 'First I Look at the Purse,' Otis Rush's 'Homework,' and one of the group's first self-penned classics, 'Hard Drivin' Man,' as well as positively scorching through an incredible version of John Lee Hooker's dark and evil blues 'Serves You Right to Suffer.' It's easy to overlook J. Recorded in 1972 at Detroit's Cinderella Ballroom, the group runs through songs from their first two albums, The J.

'Live' Full House was their first live record, and it is a blast from start to finish. Most live albums tend to be a poor excuse for actually being at the show in question, but the Geils Band's live albums jump out of the speakers with so much joy, fun, and unquenchable rock & roll spirit that you might as well be there. Geils Band made many fine, sometimes great, studio albums but where they really captured their full, thrilling potential was on the concert stage.