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вЂњI donвЂ™t think I touched a guitar for six years,вЂќ he told Cotter and Gross. At that point, Geils focused all of his attention on his love for Italian cars. While the band was successful, Geils poured most of his attention into music, but creative differences led frontman Peter Wolf to quit the band in 1983, and the band officially broke up in 1985. He launched a business - KTR Motorsports - in nearby Ayer, Massachusetts to service the enthusiasts that became his customers. While the band wasnвЂ™t touring, he began rebuilding complex Ferrari V-12 engines, and his home workshop in Carlisle, Massachusetts started to attract the attention of other well-heeled Ferrari enthusiasts in the Boston area. To provide an example of how prescient Geils was about Ferrari collecting, another example of that Ferrari sold in February of 2016 had an auction estimate of 1.4 million to 1.8 million Euro (about the same in current US Dollars).ДЄs the bandвЂ™s success grew, so did GeilsвЂ™s skill as a Ferrari technician. In the classified ads in the New York Times, he found the car he was looking for: a Pininfarina-bodied 1960 Ferrari 250 GT SII Cabriolet for $5,000. вЂњSo IвЂ™m starting to think that I can get a ten- or twelve-year-old Ferrari for $3,000, $4,000 or $5,000,вЂќ he told Cotter and Gross. Geils had given up his Austin-Healeys for a Volkswagen Squareback, but quickly, the drudgery of driving a family car wore thin. Geils Band.Д«y this point in the early 1970s, the band started getting regular gigs opening for major acts like Black Sabbath, and Geils started earning a respectable living as a musician. FunkвЂќ Klein and Richard вЂњMagic DickвЂќ Salwitz, and the three formed the nucleus of the J. He enrolled in Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) where he met up with Danny вЂњDr. His engineering pursuits waned as he began to play more and more live music, and he eventually dropped out of Northeastern altogether, intending to move to Chicago to play with still-living blues legends like Muddy Waters and HowlinвЂ™ Wolf, but his parents gave him an ultimatum: Get back in school or join the Army. He quit playing horns in favor of the guitar because - as he told Cotter and Gross - вЂњChicks donвЂ™t dig trumpet players.вЂќ He ended up at BostonвЂ™s Northeastern University because the city satisfied his two interests: Engineering and live music. вЂњMy father would be looking at the Packards and Lincolns, and I was over looking at the Alfas and Bugattis and Talbot Lagos.вЂќ вЂњFor one reason or another, I was always drawn to the European stuff,вЂќ he said. In Tom Cotter and Ken GrossвЂ™s great book RockinвЂ™ Garages, Geils explained that his love for sports cars came because he attended those shows and SCCA events with his father. Growing up in New Jersey, Geils accompanied his father to Classic Car Club of America events in his fatherвЂ™s 1937 Mercedes-Benz 540K and 1937 Lincoln LeBaron Roadster. GeilsвЂ™s father was an engineer at Bell Labs and a legitimate car enthusiast.

#J GEILS ALBUM COVERS CRACKED#

These days, the music industry hardly pays anyone, but in 1973, being in a band that cracked the Top 10 on Billboard meant - for most of the band - financial independence. 10 on BillboardвЂ™s charts, it would be the bandвЂ™s biggest album until it hit No. The bandвЂ™s breakout record was 1973вЂ™s Bloodshot. That cover was recorded both at home at the Boston Garden, and at Cobo Hall in Detroit, the city that most fervently adopted the Boston rockers. Geils and his band - like the early Rolling Stones - were at their best tearing a hole in covers of 1950s an 1960s blues and soul classics, evidenced by this incredible cover of the 1967 hit from the Showstoppers, вЂњ(AinвЂ™t NothinвЂ™ But A) House Party.вЂќ

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Those live albums - 1972вЂ™s Full House and 1976вЂ™s Blow Your Face Out - are a much more accurate record of the the bandвЂ™s true power than any studio album it ever recorded. Geils Band had released eight studio albums and two raucous live records. 1 charting record.Д«y that point, though, the J. Geils was found dead yesterday in his home in Groton, Massachusetts, an affluent, leafy community 40 minutes west of Boston on Route 2.Д®very single major media outlet covering GeilsвЂ™s passing canвЂ™t help but mention the three major hits that eventually led to the bandвЂ™s ultimate demise: 1980вЂ™s вЂњLove StinksвЂќ off the album of the same name, and вЂњCenterfoldвЂќ and вЂњFreeze FrameвЂќ off 1981вЂ™s Freeze Frame, the bandвЂ™s only No. John Warren Geils - and his band - were steeped in car culture long before the hits ever came, when their biggest success was on a few radio stations in his home city of Boston, and his most welcoming city outside of home, Detroit. Geils Band was so into cars that he built a Massachusetts-based business around Ferrari restoration that still exists today. Geils, the namesake lead guitar player of the J. Before AerosmithвЂ™s Joey Kramer, before Billy Gibbons, and before Jay Leno, J.

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