Geils trade some harp-guitar riffs from the best days of Muddy Waters and Little Walter, then back to now as J. Time to get down to it - side two opens with the band working out on John Lee Hooker's "Serve You Right to Suffer." It starts very much in the style of the Hook, then it's time to pay debts as Wolf says "gonna do it Chicago style." Magic Dick and J. ("Blow your face out!" singer Wolf says, and he does.) "Hard Drivin' Man" (a Wolf-Geils original) gives Seth Justman a chance to work out on piano, and his time spent with Jerry Lee Lewis 45s shows here. Then time for solos: Harp player Magic Dick scores on the instrumental "Whammer Jammer" proving he's one of the best harpmen blowing today. It opens with a full-blast attention-grabber, "First, I Look at the Purse," with everybody getting in their licks, then moves right into Otis Rush's "Homework." A short breather, then into "Pack Fair and Square," another stomper.
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Those albums contained a mixture of older numbers, as well as originals which fit right into the styles of the raunchers whose music they absorbed.įull House consists entirely of tracks which appeared on the first two, but here they're full of the dragons-breath frenzy which the group puts into all their shows, without sacrificing any music.īesides being a straight-ahead rocking motherfucker, the album also could serve as a model of set structuring. Their two previous albums showed a hard-core blues band metamorphosing into a good-time rock band with long roots in the sound they grew up grooving on. Though much of their sound and style comes from Chicago blues, they aren't one of those pretentious blues revival groups they'd rather stimulate your groin than your intellect. Not your run-of-the-mill campy sequined theatricality of miscellaneous gender, but instead slippin' and slidin' and raunchy madman jiving which makes watching as good a hearing.
The Geils Band is one of my favorite performing groups - not only do they play a tight and tough no-bullshit mixture of blues and rock, but they know and groove on the value of giving folks a show.
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