Geils Band’s thirteenth album, Freeze-Frame, for imagination, studio ingenuity and basic raunch-and-roll drive. Indeed, few bands today could serve up a tasty Memphis stew like “Cry One More Time” (from 1971’s The Morning After) with such down-home panache and commercial cool or go Top Forty with reggaecum-Rascals-type R&B as in their 1973 hit, “Give It to Me.”Įven fewer groups stand a chance of matching the J. Geils’ bull’s-eye licks and the wicked Wyman-and-Watts-style kick of bassist Stephen Bladd and drummer Daniel Klein may be the main reasons why the group was once knighted the American Rolling Stones.
Singer Peter Wolf’s mighty mouth, guitarist J. Such songs were ignited by the group’s adventurous spirit and wild-party enthusiasm. Geils Band were also creating incendiary originals based on the lessons of Motown soul and electric Chicago blues.
No matter what style of music they played (rock, R&B, blues, reggae, ballads), they always played it with conviction & panache…Įver since their early greaser days, when they were spitting out hard-boiled cover versions of tunes by the Miracles and John Lee Hooker, the J. Their sound had changed quite a bit over the years, as they left behind their early blues roots and started to incorporate new wave elements into their sound (which began with the previous album Love Stinks ). This was the band’s last album made with frontman Peter Wolf and was also their biggest. Novemat 10:11 am ( David Fricke, Reviews & Articles)ĭavid Fricke wrote this review for Rolling Stone, dated Jan.
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