Geils recorded two blues albums with Magic Dick during the 1990s, then formed a jazz trio with guitarists Duke Robillard and Gerry Beaudoin. This prompted him to quit the group permanently. In 2012 he filed a lawsuit against the other band members when they allegedly planned to tour without him while using the band's trademarked name. Geils took a break from music to concentrate on auto racing and restoration. Tension and conflict arose among band members, and Wolf left to pursue a solo career. Their next album, Freeze Frame, produced the song ' Centerfold', which sat at number one for six weeks, and the title track, which was a Billboard Top 10 hit. The band's sound moved toward pop and rock by the time the breakthrough album Love Stinks ( EMI, 1980) came out. Their success was allegedly limited by being 'too white for the black kids and too black for the whites'. Although they were influenced by soul music and rhythm and blues, their musical style was difficult to categorize. Geils Band', the band released eleven albums between 19.

Geils Blues Band' with Klein, Salwitz, Bladd, and Wolf, with Seth Justman becoming the final member before the band released its debut album in 1970. They soon moved to Boston, where they added new drummer Stephen Jo Bladd and lead vocalist Peter Wolf, who was a late-night DJ on WBCN. In late 1965 their line-up consisted of vocalist/saxophone player Peter Kraemer, guitarists Terry MacNeil and William 'Truckaway' Sievers, bassist Martin Beard (born 1947, London), and drummer Norman Mayell. He formed an acoustic blues trio, 'Snoopy and the Sopwith Camels', with bassist Danny Klein and harmonica player Richard 'Magic Dick' Salwitz, while studying mechanical engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the mid-1960s. Geils began playing jazz trumpet but eventually switched to blues guitar. They were in a relationship when she was a sophomore and junior in high school. He dated Meryl Streep, who had moved to Bernardsville in 1962. When he was drawn to folk musicians in Boston, he left Northeastern for Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he studied mechanical engineering. In 1964, he began attending Northeastern University and was a trumpeter in the marching band. He learned to play Miles Davis music on the trumpet and drums, and he listened to blues singers Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters on the radio. įrom an early age, he heard his father's albums by Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, and Count Basie, and was escorted by his father to a Louis Armstrong concert. His father was an engineer at Bell Labs and a jazz fan. Before he graduated in 1964 he was a member of the math club, the physics club, student council, car club, band club and the marching band. He attended Bernards High School in nearby Bernardsville. In 1959, his family moved to Old Farm Lane in Bedminster. was born on Februin New York City, and grew up in Morris Plains, New Jersey.

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