The J. Geils Band - The Fillmore, Detroit, MI, 4-25-2009

Here's an excellent concert by the J. Geils Band in 2009. The band broke up in the early 1980s, and only had occasional reunions up until this time. This concert was broadcast on the radio at the time, so the sound quality is excellent. 

The other day, I came across a YouTube video discussing the break-up of the J. Geils Band in the early 1980s. They'd been moderately commercially successful until 1981. That year, they released two singles, "Centerfold" and "Freeze-Frame," that were massive. "Centerfold" even was the Number One song in the U.S. for several weeks. This success proved their undoing. The band's lead singer Peter Wolf wanted to stick to the band's blues and R&B roots, but some other band members wanted to go into a pop direction. Wolf left the band before they could release a new album. The rest of the band released an album without him anyway, but it flopped and the band broke up.

After that, Peter Wolf had a successful solo career for a while, but that eventually petered down to a low level. Meanwhile, many other band members actually left the music business for some years. For instance, lead guitarist J. Geils opened a car shop restoring vintage cars, and bassist Danny Klein attended cooking school and then became a professional chef! But the band reunited for about a dozen concerts in 1999. Then they had another concert in 2005, and one in 2006. That takes us to 2009, when they had another short reunion tour, but only six concerts that year. There would be more short tours from 2011 to 2015, and then the band broke up for good. 

The band has only released three live albums. But the only one that includes most of their famous songs, "Showtime," from 1982, is short at only 45 minutes. And it was recorded when the band was falling apart, and has some issues. So, in my opinion, this is their definitive live concert recording to provide an overview of their entire career. Nothing here is from after 1981. But it has pretty much every essential song they did. And while nearly thirty years had passed since their hit-making days, you wouldn't know it at all from listening to this.

In terms of sound quality, there was one problem. Sometimes, a soundboard is so good at capturing what was happening on stage that it captures very little of the audience noise. That's what happened here. So when each song ended, it sounded like a small amount of applause from a tepid audience. To fix that, I just carefully boosted the volume on the applause after every song while keeping everything else the same. 

This album is two hours long. 

01 talk (J. Geils Band)
02 First I Look at the Purse (J. Geils Band)
03 Homework (J. Geils Band)
04 talk (J. Geils Band)
05 Hard Drivin' Man (J. Geils Band)
06 talk (J. Geils Band)
07 Pack Fair and Square (J. Geils Band)
08 Sanctuary (J. Geils Band)
09 Night Time (J. Geils Band)
10 talk (J. Geils Band)
11 Cruisin' for a Love (J. Geils Band)
12 talk (J. Geils Band)
13 So Sharp (J. Geils Band)
14 Detroit Breakdown (J. Geils Band)
15 talk (J. Geils Band)
16 Serves You Right to Suffer (J. Geils Band)
17 Give It to Me (J. Geils Band)
18 talk (J. Geils Band)
19 Musta Got Lost (J. Geils Band)
20 Love Stinks (J. Geils Band)
21 Looking for a Love (J. Geils Band)
22 talk (J. Geils Band)
23 Whammer Jammer [Instrumental] (J. Geils Band)
24 [Ain't Nothin' but A] House Party (J. Geils Band)
25 talk (J. Geils Band)
26 Just Can't Wait (J. Geils Band)
27 talk (J. Geils Band)
28 Freeze-Frame (J. Geils Band)
29 Start All Over (J. Geils Band)
30 Where Did Our Love Go (J. Geils Band)
31 talk (J. Geils Band)
32 Peachtree Street (J. Geils Band)
33 talk (J. Geils Band)
34 Centerfold (J. Geils Band)
35 Love-Itis (J. Geils Band)
36 talk (J. Geils Band)

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The cover photo of lead singer Peter Wolf is from a concert at the House of Blues, in Boston, on February 19, 2009.