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Live: Blow Your Face Out

The J. Geils Band

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Geils at their best

This is J. Geils in the perfect presentation. I have seen them live five times and live is what they are all about. They have the ability to make a 15,000 arena feel like a club with 500 people. They were not so much the show but the house band and we all got invited. This is rowdy and out of control adventure from song one to the end. Particularly great are Shoot Your Shot, Where Dod Our Love Go? (listen for the real cool bass womps at the end), So Sharp, Detroit Breakdown, Chimes, Raise Your Hand, and Give It To Me. P Wolf is in command and the audience is amazing. I have never heard an audience so loud and into all the songs. Still makes me feel great when I hear it.

Blow Your Face Out

A great album, has to be in the top 5 of all time best live albums. A fun, party down and dirty good time. "Musta got lost" , a great song, is even better here live, with one of the best "intro's" of all time. Get this album and CRANK it, old time rock n roll, at it's best.

"Do ya wanna dance?!!" ~P. Wolf

Let's face it; there are, have been, and always will be performers and artists who must be been seen live to be fully appreciated. It's a fact. That being said, it's pretty easy to defend a mediocre band with such words. And the J Geils Band had often been dubbed as 'just another party band'. Even though they consistently played to packed houses, were a phenomenon in their home city of Boston, and considered Detroit their 2nd home, The J Geils Band had a hard time making it as a national success until 1980s "Love Stinks". And as commercially successful as that release was, that, along with their follow-up; "Freeze Frame" only crystalized them on mainstream radio as that; 'just another party band'. It didn't matter that they wrote their own material, or put on an amazing live show. ..and they did that in spades.

"Blow Your Face Out" captures The J Geils Band a few years earlier in their true element; Live performance.
And in spite of the fact that this double-album was released in 1976, it stands separate from the wave of 'Live' albums of the 70s. It's not a "Double-Live-Gonzo, Kiss-Alive!, Frampton-Comes!" kind of an album. It's more like a rhythm & blues barn-burner, or an old school rock & soul revue from the early 60s. Like Jerry Lee Lewis' legendary 1963 live show in Hamburg; more like a crime scene than a concert. Peter Wolf was an animal on the stage, vocally and physically. His dynamic energy and connection with his audience were more like those of Wilson Pickett or James Brown than anyone else. This was J Geils' true strength and even their calling card for over a decade.
'Blow Your Face Out' offers solid evidence that The J Geils Band was really meant to be seen to be heard. ..But it's also a testimony of just how great a so-called 'party band' can be. And it does beg the question; If Rock & Roll is good time music, why isn't this band in its Hall of Fame yet?

Biography

Formed: 1967 in Boston, MA

Genre: Rock

Years Active: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

The J. Geils Band was one of the most popular touring rock & roll bands in America during the '70s. Where their contemporaries were influenced by the heavy boogie of British blues-rock and the ear-splitting sonic adventures of psychedelia, the J. Geils Band was a bar band pure and simple, churning out greasy covers of obscure R&B, doo wop, and soul tunes, cutting them with a healthy dose of Stonesy swagger. While their muscular sound and the hyper jive of frontman Peter Wolf packed arenas...
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