{"id":18979,"date":"2017-04-12T22:29:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T03:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smaggi.us-east-1.derr.space\/?p=18979"},"modified":"2017-04-12T22:29:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T03:29:31","slug":"rip-j-geils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2017\/04\/12\/rip-j-geils\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP: J Geils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He was the lead guitarist and not the singer as most people thought when The J Geils Band hit the charts with their\u00a0<em>all killer, no filler<\/em> album\u00a0<em>Freeze Frame<\/em>. I still love all the tracks. Back before FM radio was hijacked by Lee Abrams&#8217; crappy formats, the FM station I cut my teeth on, WDBR of Springfield, IL, played most of the records tracks: &#8220;Rage in a Cage,&#8221; &#8220;Insane, Insane Again,&#8221; &#8220;Centerfold,&#8221; &#8220;Flamethrower,&#8221; and &#8220;Freeze-Frame.&#8221; My personal favorite was &#8220;Angel in Blue.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Several of the obits I read online put J Geils down as an Eighties success. This is blatantly false and lazy reporting. The J Geils Band had been plugging away with numerous records throughout the Seventies. Then they landed their first break around 1980 with &#8220;Come Back&#8221; and then &#8220;Love Stinks.&#8221; This led into\u00a0<em>Freeze Frame.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sadly success was the worst thing to happen. Lead singer Peter Wolf and main writer\/keyboardist Seth Justman couldn&#8217;t agree on which direction to go next plus the former was becoming more famous. So Peter left to become a pretty good solo artist (<em>Lights Out<\/em> is a fantastic album) and Seth took over the vocals. What was J&#8217;s role in this? Who knows but the band with his name on it was no more by 1985 despite a pretty good album and doing the theme to\u00a0<em>Fright Night<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Farewell J. Your guitar work on the only two albums I have by your band were\u00a0excellent. Now in light of your passing, I may try to acquire the earlier work from the Seventies.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was the lead guitarist and not the singer as most people thought when The J Geils Band hit the charts with their\u00a0all killer, no filler album\u00a0Freeze Frame. I still love all the tracks. Back before FM radio was hijacked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2017\/04\/12\/rip-j-geils\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[144,148,262,154],"class_list":["post-18979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-eighties","tag-obit","tag-rock","tag-seventies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18980,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18979\/revisions\/18980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}