In Reply to: Whammer Jammer posted by Michael on Jat 05:32:18: Wolf is excited about his next solo album, due out in summer, though first comes the task of firing up fans like those at Consol Energy Center, eager to hear Seger sing massive hits like "Turn the Page," "Like a Rock," "Old Time Rock and Roll" and "Night Moves.Posted by Dr Harmonica on Octoat 02:51:29: Wolf solo concerts earned high praise, too, including his 2010 visit to Mr. Wolf's subsequent solo albums didn't dent the charts though earned rave reviews from the likes of Rolling Stone. But I said, 'Hey, we got no problem here: We'll just call mine 'Lights Out,' which is the first words I say before I come blasting out at you." "It was just one of those things," Wolf said. Total coincidence, Wolf said, certain Springsteen hadn't swiped his song title. Alas, Bruce Springsteen beat him to the punch with his own song "Dancin' in the Dark" that The Boss recorded in the same building where Wolf had been making his solo album. Geils shortly after the '82 tour, finding a few years of commercial success, first with Top-20 single "Lights Out," which he originally planned to title "Dancing in the Dark," from a line in its chorus. "But remember: 'Love Stinks,' but we all crave that smell," Wolf said. "Plus the lyrics were written at a time, for me, where I was going through a tumultuous relationship (his divorce from Oscar-winner Faye Dunaway) which made it easy to relate to. "It comes out of the same tradition as the Kinks' "You Really Got Me" - just basic, straight-ahead rock and roll," Wolf said. Wolf and keyboardist Justman penned the hit title track. With 1980's "Love Stinks," the band veered toward radio friendly songs. "Finally I figured it out - Oh, it was that rap thing I did one night - so I had to go out and buy the album and try to memorize what I said."
"I didn't know what they were talking about," Wolf said. Wolf's fractured fairytale ended up on an FM radio single as a segue into the band's "Must of Got Lost," which the singer didn't realize until one night in Detroit, when fans kept bellowing for Raputa the Beauta. One performance, recorded for a live album, found Wolf ad-libbing a story that mentioned long-haired fairytale beauty Rapunzel, except Wolf couldn't remember her name on the spot, so he called her Raputa - then in the next breath - Raputa the Beauta. "Most of them used to change every night." "A lot of people didn't realize all my raps were spontaneous," Wolf said. Geils Band, which loaded its early sets with blues and R&B covers, forging a reputation as a must-see live act with a singer who introduced songs with sly, rapid-fire banter. Wolf began hanging out with a bunch of fellow music lovers, and after mustering the courage to sing at a party he found his calling, and joined a New England band, the Hallucinations, that soon got gigs backing blues legend John Lee Hooker, later touring with alternative-rock pioneers the Velvet Underground. "But he thought I was a little too crazy for him, so I moved into a loft and he moved to Philadelphia to make movies," Wolf said. Wolf attended art school in Boston, and ended up roommates with future "Blue Velvet" director David Lynch. Listening one night to a radio interview with an intriguing new folk singer, Wolf called the station and soon found himself chatting on the phone with future "Voice of a Generation" Bob Dylan. From that day on, I bought every record every one of those artists ever made, and I still have all the original records."Īt age 14, the New York-reared Wolf began sneaking into the legendary Birdman jazz club, where he saw greats like John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus and Pittsburgh's Art Blakey. "You see films of Pentecostal or Baptist church gatherings where people are losing their minds and falling to the floor in catatonic states. "As soon as I saw Jerry Lee Lewis kicking over that piano stool and standing on his piano, and saw Chuck Berry duck-walking across the stage and Little Richard and Frankie Lymon popping out from behind the Teenagers and singing 'Why Do Fools Fall in Love?' I was enraptured," Wolf said last week in a phone interview.
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Wolf has enjoyed plenty of amazing experiences, starting at age 10, when his big sister - a dancer on deejay Alan Freed's TV show - dragged him to a concert that included Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, the Chantels and Buddy Holly. "It feels good to get back together with a group where you've had older experiences with a lot of stuff you've helped create that still remains meaningful to people today," Wolf said. Lead guitarist John "Jay" Geils is no longer in the group named after him. Wolf and Salwitz are joined on stage by longtime bassist Danny Klein and keyboardist Seth Justman.