“There’s a fascination now with a lot of the music that we all grew up with,” says Wolf. Powered by the hard-nosed title tune - a loving evocation of every three-chord junk-rock basher from “Louie Louie” to “Sweet Jane”-and a raw, pounding cover of the Strange-loves’ 1966 classic, “Night Time,” Love Stinks cops the perfect attitude for the nascent Eighties without even trying.
Love Stinks, the group’s eleventh album, has made more noise right out of the box than any other Geils LP in years, and ‘Come Back,” the album’s single, is making a quick rise up the chart. Geils Band finds itself right at home in the era of New Wave. We are volunteers.”Īnd so, by maintaining a generally steady commitment to tough, flashy, R&B-tinged rock, the J. We’ve committed ourselves to doin’ what we’re doin’- you know, three chords and unh! We are not prisoners of rock & roll. “I could have put on a three-piece suit and we could’ve gone disco, and maybe have been incredibly successful. “There were a lot of temptations to cash in,” Wolf admits. Whereas the Stones used their blues and R&B roots as a launching pad, Geils has remained stubbornly committed to its original idiom, resisting the commercial blandishments of discomania in the late Seventies as firmly as the band rejected any connection with the ill-starred “Bosstown Sound” of 1967 or the mindless stomp-and-spit boogie bands of the early Seventies.
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Ironically, as the wheel of musical fashion comes full circle, it may now be at hand. Ten years after its debut album, which had critics hailing the group as America’s answer to the Rolling Stones, Geils is still waiting for the big payoff. Geils Band has always seemed tipped for the top ranks of a rock stardom that never quite arrived. It’s a source of some irritation, actually, because the J. Name a major band and Geils has probably headlined over it at one point or another during the past decade. They weren’t all Früts: Bob Seger, the Eagles, the Cars, Billy Joel. Wolf is trying to recall some of the more memorable acts that have opened for the J. A band before its time.” “Īnd abandoned before its time,” cracks lead singer Peter Wolf, slouching on a sofa next to Klein, his ever-present black beret tugged so low over his forehead it almost touches the rims of his impenetrable black aviator shades. “Started off in white tuxes and ended up in Fruit-of-the-Loom underwear. “Früt, yeah, there was a group,” Klein chortles, referring to a now-defunct Detroit band (pronounced fruit). Geils Band, who, a week before embarking on their latest tour, are scattered like a handful of loose guitar picks around the office of their homey Boston rehearsal loft. Instantly, a chorus of hoots rises up from the other five members of the J.
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