Geils Band, he found that his persona translated just fine to the stage. On the radio, Wolf developed a persona as rambling, cartoonish, fast-talking hipster. Wolf and Lynch have not had any detectable influence on each other’s artistic lives.) Wolf had spent a little while fronting a Boston band called the Hallucinations, and he’d landed a job as the overnight DJ on the local rock station WBCN. (His freshman-year roommate was David Lynch. Wolf - real name Peter Blankenfield - was a Bronx native who’d moved up to Boston for art school. After a little while, they decided to go electric, bringing in drummer Stephen Bladd and a ringer of a frontman known as Peter Wolf. Originally, they were an acoustic blues trio - Geils on guitar and Danny Klein on bass, along with a harmonica player who still calls himself Magic Dick. put together the first iteration of his band when he was at college in Worcester, Massachusetts in the late ’60s. Naturally, the song that pushed them over the top was a horny and conflicted na na na singalong about seeing a high-school crush naked in a porno mag. But they’d never been anything more than a party band - at least not until they finally harnessed the twin forces of MTV and new wave, briefly becoming bona fide stars before splintering. They’d developed a rep as one of the most purely fun live bands in America, a distinction that’d landed them spots opening for bigger stars like the Rolling Stones and Peter Frampton. Geils Band, perhaps America’s ultimate party band, had been together for more than a decade. Every once in a long while, the party band wins.īy the beginning of the ’80s, the J. But every once in a long while, you will find a party band that takes off while still remaining a party band. If that’s what they’d wanted to be, they would’ve stopped being a party band. The party band isn’t supposed to become a significant artistic or commercial force. If they’re really good, maybe they’ll sign to a label, put out a couple of records, open for a bigger band on tour. If they’re good enough, maybe they’ll eventually hit the local club circuit. The party band’s story usually goes something like this: A bunch of college buddies get together to play fun, uptempo R&B covers at local frats and dive bars. The party band is a rich and noble tradition. In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.
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