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J. Geils Jr. - April 11, 2017

 

John Warren Geils Jr., the guitarist known as J. Geils and part of the rock group The J. Geils Band, has died. He was 71. The musician was found dead in his Groton, Massachusetts, home on Tuesday, according to the Groton Police Department. Geils had called Groton home since 1982.
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    The J. Geils band was formed in 1967. They hung around until 1985 when they broke up like all good rock bands are want to do. The result was a series of lawsuits and bad feelings. Like any bad marriage the breakup was based on a shaky ground of "Creative Differences."

    I have no recollection of the band, the man or the music they made. By the 1980s I had lost my interest in following music as I had a wife and was starting a family. When I heard the news, I did not think I would submit an article to BCN because I did not have any personal memories of the band. That all changed when I saw a short reflection piece on the news about one of their songs. The song was "Centerfold," which was released in 1981. Well, as most readers of BCN know, it does not take much for me to attach a personal remembrance to things.    Photo credit: Carl Lender, CC BY-SA 3.0,

   The song rang a bell because in 1981 it prompted my buddy Reg and I to create a video on VHS tape of all our Playmate Centerfold pictures. It was most likely our last gasp tribute to our wild days of the early 1970s. Fortunately, we had an extensive collection of almost all the Playboy issues from 1960's until about 1975. Just by coincidence, we were both married in 1975 and somehow the subscriptions lapsed due to non-payment but not lack of interest. We knew the magazines would never survive the next spring cleaning so we took out all the centerfold pictures and filmed each with my Panasonic VHS camera. It took all day and a few beers one Saturday, but we were dedicated historians in this endeavor. I am still in the process of converting the family VHS videos to digital form and I sure that somewhere in the family VHS tapes that video still exist with background vocals by Johnny Mathis, but I have not run across it yet. If it turns up I assure you, I will give it due attention as a historical footnote reference it deserves.    (That is my story and I am sticking to it)

   In any event now that I have set the stage with a personal memory about 'ME,' here is the video that represents all I know about the man, the band and its music.


Centerfold

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    Thanks to   Alex J. Ortolano   for 'allowing' me to appropriate his additional information tag.

    Lagniappe:   Some may wonder why there is a picture of a pretty girl in the Article Icon.    That is Terri Welles who was the Playmate of the Year in 1981. She was also a STEWARDESS for United Airlines when she was featured in the Playboy issue on Airline STEWARDESSES. I had to add that because it is terribly inappropriate now to use the word STEWARDESS. It is also inappropriate to even think about women as objects of admiration without benefit of modest coverage. That is not just an Islamic thing it is also a Liberal Commandment. I also could not help pilling on United since they are still inappropriately interacting with the flying public.

    In the spirit of full frontal hedonism, we offer one of our favorite centerfolds below; so it you would like to view a full length image of one of our favorites, click the link here below:

Full Frontal Centerfold