In order to start off on a confusing note, I’ll say that I like the J. Geils Band. I really do.
And now for clarification: I like the J. Geils Band, blues-rock group who, in the year 1972 but out a live album entitled “Full House,” which is currently one of my favorite albums (I just discovered it in a pile of old records). It’s a lot of fun to listen to, and features the quasi-insane Peter Wolf on vocals, and the completely whacked-out Magic Dick on harmonica.
I do NOT like J. Geils, the little shit-monger who just happened to play guitar for the band.
Somehow, this little felchmonkey got the band named after him. THEN, after the band broke up, our dear friend went off and became a teeny-bopper idol, putting out glurge like “Centerfold” and “Freeze-Frame”.
Even worse, he did it while using the SAME FUCKING NAME as the band that actually made GOOD MUSIC.
Now, whenever I talk about bands that I like, and say “J. Geils is good,” all I get is “Oh YEAH! CENTERFOLD! You like that song? I didn’t.” Or, even worse, “CENTERFOLD?! I LOVE THAT SONG!!”
By not having the decency to change his name when he went crappy, J. Geils has, in essence, ruined the memory of the good music. In fact, he’s done more than ruin it. He and his teeny-bopper hoarde have burnt the memory to the ground, pissed on its ashes, killed its women and raped its farm animals with their filthy, assembly-line spawned paws.
The little squicker could have at least changed his goddamn name, so that he wouldn’t drag Magic Dick down with him.
Fuckpocket.