No matter how you feel about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, there's no denying the excitement of witnessing former bandmates back onstage at the ceremony.
36 years ago, the mighty J. Geils Band returned to the CCCC for the second time. It was the Love Stinks tour and the first of many sold out shows in the 80s here in Portland on May 2, 1980.
Tonight in the Big Red Love Van we celebrate an historic beginning. 38 years ago today, the mighty J. Geils Band rocked the Cumberland County Civic Center for the very first time.
Happy Birthday to the keyboardist and songwriter for the J Geils Band. He co-wrote songs with front man Peter Wolf throughout their history and wrote the band's biggest hit Centerfold from their only number one album, Freeze-Frame.
The mighty, mighty J. Geils Band will bring blues-rock at its best back to Blimpville this summer! Peter Wolf, Magic Dick, Seth Justman, and Danny Klein are bringing the Houseparty to the Maine State Pier on Thursday September 3rd just before Labor Day weekend!
WBLM celebrates a New England rock n' roll legend and harmonica king. Happy 70th Birthday to Richard Salwitz! We all know him in Blimpville as Magic Dick of the J. Geils Band.
Hey, what happened to all the whistling?! When I was a kid it seemed there was a whole lot more whistling going on! I wonder why it has gone away. A cultural historian at Syracuse University in New York figured it out. It's cell phones! Every change in modern society seems to get traced back to cell phones, but the theory actually makes sense...
For the 50-somethings, 60-somethings and 70-somethings who packed the Cross Insurance Centre in Bangor Saturday night to see Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band and J. Geils Band, it felt like the 1970s all over again.
More than 7,000 people sang nearly every lyric of ever song that both bands belted out over three hours...