“Pack Fair and Square” features some rollicking piano work and jumps and jives just like the Killer did at the Star Club oh so long ago. “First I Look at the Purse” is a four-minute slice of R&B heaven, with Seth Justman’s organ running roughshod over the proceedings and Magic Dick tucking in some nice work the lickin’ stick. “Homework” is a snaky number and both Magic Dick and J.
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“Looking for a Love” goes full tilt boogie and really makes me wish I’d been conscious the time I saw ‘em. It’s easy to cheat at poker when everybody else at the table is actually on the floor. Perhaps they were hoping the folks who bought the album were as wasted as I was at the time and wouldn’t know the difference. I would love to say the band never lets up or lets things go slack but more or less keeps things jumping at a fever pitch except they kinda do on their otherwise mean as a snake cover of John Lee Hooker’s “Serves You Right to Suffer.” And they do it again on the only original on the LP, “Hard Drivin’ Man.”īut aside from those caveats “Live” Full House is the shit even if the cards on the cover don’t constitute a full house but just three Jacks.
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Steve Marriott, God bless him, wouldn’t have shut up for a good long quarter of professional football. Even the one on which Wolf talks to the audience clocks in at well under 5 minutes, and that’s got to be some kind of record for the time. Geils Band keep the songs short instead of dragging ‘em out forever like so many other bands were doing at the turn of the decade. One of the things that make this such a great live LP is the fact that the J. Just check out his set piece “Whammer Jammer” if you don’t believe me. And when he’s not busy emoting, Magic Dick who is my second favorite Dick in rock’n’roll behind Handsome Dick Manitoba, is busy honkadonkin’ up a storm on the old harpoon. They mainly stick to the rock and R&B basics but they infuse what are of course a couple of formulas as old as the hills with so much passion you’ll find yourself jumping up and down and screaming along with Peter Wolf who can really shout ‘em out for a white boy. It ain’t Jerry Lee Lewis and it ain’t Roxy Music but man do the J. So I decided to review “Live Full House and let me tell you I’m glad I did.
Geils Band, whom I saw at Shippensburg College in the late seventies but can’t really remember seeing at Shippensburg College in the late seventies because I was totally blotto on a combination of Wild Turkey and Placidyl, the latter of which I can only describe as an industrial strength memory dissolvent. A few words on the evolution of this review: I originally intended to write about 1977’s Foghat Live because I consider it the best live album this side of Jerry Lee Lewis’ 1964 Live at the Star Club, Hamburg, which I love even more than Roxy Music’s 1976 Viva! Roxy Music, which is guaranteed to make your ears clasp their tiny little hands and say, “Glam bam thank you ma’am!”īut then my friend Hank Dittmar who has forgotten more about music than I’ll ever know recommended this 1972 live album by the J.
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