Geils Band never had the impulse to be a museum group.We learned those blues things and played them a lot live, but when it came time to get serious as a group in the studio, that material wouldn't necessarily.have been the best business move to make.'Ģ2-year-old J. Notwithstanding the band's dedication to the highest standards of blues mastery, he added that 'the J. I emulated everything on that record for a long time.' We were honing our teeth on Junior Wells's Hoodoo Man Blues album- that had even more of an influence on us than Butterfield's band.

We loved the blues thing and we played it a lot. Peter Wolf was already in Boston.a tough kid from, a record collector, and a great disc jockey. We all decided to quit school, move to Boston, and form an electric band. I just sat down and started playing with them, and I've been playing ever since.The first Butterfield album had come out, and that was a big influence on us. I'd only been playing harp about three months. I was walking across campus one day and they were out on the quadrangle playing some acoustic blues. I met Jay Geils and Danny Klein at college. The main guy that I missed and never saw directly was Little Walter. I discovered those players from records at first, but a lot of them came through the Club 47 in : Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Muddy Waters, James Cotton. In Kim Field's historical survey Harmonicas, Harps, and Heavy Breathers, Magic Dick talked about the band's origins, 'I first learned about the Chicago blues sound at Worcester.

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