R.I.P J. Geils

[Gary 351C]

We lost another great guitarist at 71.

Some of his best work right here. Too bad the video isn't better.

[pdub]

Wow, RIP. Wasn't Peter Wolf the singer? Am I right on that?

And was not Magic Dick the harp player, or am I thinking about another band? I didn't get to meet J Geils but I may be thinking about Steve Miller, but I got to meet Magic Dick on a cruise boat, the only cruise I'll ever go on, it was a blues-themed cruise, a chartered. boat. And they were on it. A bunch of them, 1994 I believe.

Magic Dick wasn't feeling well, he had a cold or something, he was trying to sit over there out of the way in the dark in a barroom on the ship, and I went and bothered him. My bad I guess. I guess you get tired of peons coming up to meet you when you're famous and just trying to have a beer. My bad.

The J Geils Band rocked my world when I was a teenager, they were sure a big part of the sound experience. Wore their records out, wore holes in them.

[studemax]

Getting old ain't fer sissies.
RIP, Mr. Geils.

[pdub]

Getting old ain't fer sissies.

Goodness knows I sure don't want to get into any sort of a fight with you again, but can you elaborate on that just a little bit? I'm only curious where that mindset comes from. That statement, that's just about as callous as anything could be. But I'm sure I'm only misinterpreting it.

[67 Malibu]

Speaking just for myself, I did not take it too seriously until I got into my sixties & all of a sudden what used to take a few days to work through, strained muscle, common cold, etc., now takes a couple of weeks to get rid of. It becomes very frustrating & you will know it when you get there.

[Barry Donovan]

I have been 65 since I was 23.
now that I am 44...

I posted this sad news in the friday night song thread yesterday.
that band was local to my upbringing.
A new record was fresh in my 7th grade and was still long hair everywhere...
the only record that went platinum.
it all changed quick. That was the early 80s.

J Geils was big.
I let it fade away like van halen, and many others.
listened again on the internet..late 90s.
not heard much anywhere.

RIP

[pdub]

Just sayin.....I tried to post this once already and it didn't work.....

[studemax]

But I'm sure I'm only misinterpreting it.

You usually do.

[pdub]

You usually do.

You're a world of fun Stude. A huge circus of barrels full of laughs and entertainment.

[corvettedad]

Had one of their albums, I remember on the back it said " MADE LOUD TO PLAY LOUD ". RIP !!

[studemax]

You're a world of fun Stude. A huge circus of barrels full of laughs and entertainment.

Thanks. I know.

[70chevyC-10]

one of my favorite bands in their early years - not so much when they went mainstream top 40 whatever it's called

[pdub]

one of my favorite bands in their early years - not so much when they went mainstream top 40 whatever it's called

That's so true. Sort of like when Duane Allman died and Dicky Betts turned the Allman Brothers into a country band.

[Barry Donovan]

not many kept up.
Aerosmith went on, ozzy osbourne..
so many others dropped right off.
the group boston, the eagles, like an apocalypse.

One has to go back to listen.
I think i said that about midgets taking over wars too.

music today is of the 25 year shit storm...err... desert conflicts.

I am glad pdub keeps playing. I still have my own jingles sometimes. Good to keep them.