Stories

John Geils, the guitarist and leader of the J. Geils Band has passed away so we wanted to honor this musical legend with some of our favorite J. Geils Band songs... These songs are so nostalgic for me, taking me back to a time in and place in my life where things were very different. The J. Geils band's songs will resonate forever in my mind. They got me through some dark times and some good times but always got me through. Thank you for the memories... https://youtu.be/BqDjMZKf-wg Centerfold Does she walk? Does she talk? Does she come complete? My homeroom homeroom angel Always pulled me from my seat She was pure like snowflakes No one could ever stain The memory of my angel Could never cause me pain Years go by I'm lookin' through a girly magazine And there's my homeroom angel on the pages in-between My blood runs cold My memory has just been sold My angel is the centerfold Angel is the centerfold My blood runs cold My memory has just been sold My angel is the centerfold Angel is the centerfold Slipped me notes under the desk While I was thinkin' about her dress I was shy I turned away Before she caught my eye I was shakin' in my shoes Whenever she flashed those baby-blues Something had a hold on me When angel passed close by Those soft and fuzzy sweaters Too magical to touch Too see her in that negligee Is really just too much My blood runs cold My memory has just been sold My angel is the centerfold Angel is the centerfold It's okay I understand This ain't no never-never land I hope that when this issue's gone I'll see you when your clothes are on Take you car, Yes we will We'll take your car and drive it We'll take it to a motel room And take 'em off in private A part of me has just been ripped The pages from my mind are stripped Oh no, I can't deny it Oh yea, I guess I gotta buy it! My blood runs cold My memory has just been sold My angel is the centerfold Angel is the centerfold https://youtu.be/wHo43B6nu60 Freeze-frame I could see it was a rough-cut Tuesday Slow-motion weekdays stare me down Her lipstick reflex got me wound There were no defects to be found Snapshot image froze without a sound Thursday mornin' was a hot flash-factor Her face still focused in my mind Test-strip proof-sheet love is hard to find Friday night, we'll dance the spotlight grind Stop-time heart for me if she's not mine Freeze-frame! (Freeze-frame!) Freeze-frame! Now Freeze! Now I'm lookin' at a flashback Sunday Zoom lens feelings just won't disappear Close-up darkroom sweet-talk in my ear Her hot-spot love for me is strong This freeze-frame moment can't be wrong Freeze-frame! (Freeze-frame!) Freeze-frame! Now Freeze! Freeze-frame! (Freeze-frame!) Freeze-frame! Now Freeze! Freeze-frame, freeze-frame, freeze-frame Freeze-frame, start to freeze, freeze, freeze Start to freeze, freeze Freeze-frame, freeze-frame, freeze-frame https://youtu.be/E0LAs7X5ybE Love Stinks You love her But she loves him And he loves somebody else You just can't win And so it goes Till the day you die This thing they call love It's gonna make you cry I've had the blues The reds and the pinks One thing for sure Love stinks yeah yeah (Love stinks) Love stinks yeah yeah Love stinks yeah yeah (Love stinks) Love stinks yeah yeah Two by two and side by side Love's gonna find you yes it is You just can't hide You'll hear it call Your heart will fall Then love will fly It's gonna soar I don't care for any casanova thing All I can say is Love stinks Love stinks yeah yeah (Love stinks) Love stinks yeah yeah Love stinks yeah yeah (Love stinks) Love stinks yeah yeah I've been through diamonds I've been through minks I've been through it all Love stinks Love stinks yeah yeah (Love stinks) Love stinks yeah yeah Love stinks yeah yeah (Love stinks) Love stinks yeah yeah https://youtu.be/x0kszci6GRY Must Of Got Lost Hold on this song has a little introduction to it It's ain't supposed to be sad though you might feel it that way It's a song about desperation, Every now and then we do get desperate This is a song about L-O-V-E, And if you abuse it you're gonna lose it And if you lose it you're gonna 'buse and If you 'buse it you ain't gonna be able to choose it 'Cause you ain't gonna have it further on down the line Things ain't gonna be so fine You're gonna to be sitting there on your little machine Trying to look and keep it clean and You're going to be home playing bingo all night all alone And that's why your sitting there by the telephone And you know that she ain't going to call you! So you put on the TV and you're watching Johnny Carson Segwaying right into the Tomorrow show But that don't got the go so you turn it off ya turn on the radio, The radio don't seem to get the click so you say "Hey Man, I can't lickety split" You start to open up a little book And there's something there you got to overlook And you say "BABY, you know there's somethin on my mind! "You say "Baby there's somethin on my mind - I know that you're home and I know you ain't all alone! " So you start walking over to her house And you get over to her house And you walk over to her door and You start poundin on her door and you say "Open up the door bitch!? This is wooba gooba with the green teeth, let me in!!" Well, she opens up the door And then you just kinda walk up to her and say "Baby", (say Baby!) you look up way up at her green mascara And you say "Oh my darling, You know her and me was at the party as friends - Do not believe what they say That's only gossip that they tellin ya - A wise crack of lies!" You say Darling!!! Take your big curls and squeeze them down Ratumba - What's the name of the chick with the long hair? (Rapunzel!) Hey Rapunzel! Heh heh... Hey Reputa the beautah! Reputa the Beautah! Hey Reputa the Beautah flip me down your hair And let me climb up to the ladder of your love!! Because this is the wooba gooba sayin to ya "Love comes once and when it comes You better grab it fast 'cause sometimes the love You grab ain't gonn' last and I believe I musta, You know I think I musta, You know baby I think I musta, You know I think I musta, I musta got lost!!!!!!! 1?2?.3? Never thought about tomorrow Seemed like a long time to come How could I be so blind, baby Not to see you were the one I let ya slip on from me baby I let ya walk on by, Shoulda loved, you told me I refused to love, I let it die Musta got lost, musta got lost, musta got lost Somewhere down the line Musta got lost, musta got lost Give away the day you were mine Don't know why I let you leave me Honey I don?t know See its hard to see lovin' comin baby But I have a way to see it go Musta got lost, musta got lost, musta got lost Somewhere down the line Musta got lost, I got lost Give away the day you were mine Love can be a sweet thing Girl I just don't understand Made a game outta lovin' you Now I hold a losin' hand Musta got lost, musta got lost, musta got lost Somewhere down the line Musta got lost, I got lost girl Give away the day you were mine I just don't understand it I just don't understand it I just don't understand it And I musta got lost, musta got lost, musta got lost Somewhere down the line, hey Musta got lost, baby, I got lost girl Give away the day you were mine Musta got lost, I got lost, musta got lost Somewhere down the line Musta got lost, I got lost girl Give away the day you were mine C?mon Oh, I got lost, double-crossed Your lovin, give it to me all night long I said your love got me higher, Than I ever been lifted before I said your love got me higher, Than I ever been lifted before?? Somewhere??????? https://youtu.be/lNAH2IKW_zE Looking For Love Somebody help me Somebody help me now Somebody help me now Somebody help me Find my baby Somebody help me Find my baby right now I`m looking for a love I`m looking for a love I`m looking here and there I`m searching everywhere I`m looking for a love To call my own Gonna get up in the morning And rub my head I`m looking for a love To call my own Fix my breakfast And bring it to my bed I`m looking for a love To call my own Do my love Do it all the time I`m looking for a love To call my own With lots of love and kisses But people until then I`m looking for a love To call my own I`m looking for a love I`m looking for a love I`m looking here and there I`m searching everywhere I`m looking for a love To call my own Stay in my corner All the way, yeah I`m looking for a love To call my own Stick by me, baby No matter what they say I`m looking for a love To call my own I`ll give my love To her all the time I`m looking for a love To call my own Loving, kissing People on the way I`m looking for a love To call my own I`m looking for a love I`m looking for a love I`m looking here and there I`m searching everywhere I`m looking for a love To call my own Somebody help me To find my baby I said I`ve got to find My baby right now I`m looking in the morning I`m looking at night Got to find my baby But she`s nowhere in sight Somebody help me To find my baby I said I`ve got to find My baby right now I`m looking in the morning I`m looking at night Got to find my baby She`s nowhere in sight I`m looking, I`m looking I`m looking, I`m looking...... https://youtu.be/w05ADkFwBpA Southside Shuffle I should have known you'd bid me farewell There's a lesson to be learned from this and I learned it very well Now I know you're not the only starfish in the sea If I never hear your name again, it's all the same to me And I think it's gonna be all right Yeah, the worst is over now The mornin' sun is shinin' like a red rubber ball You never care for secrets I confide For you I'm just an ornament, somethin' for your pride Always runnin', never carin', that's the life you live Stolen minutes of your time were all ya had to give And I think it's gonna be all right Yeah, the worst is over now The mornin' sun is shinin' like a red rubber ball The story's in the past with nothin' to recall I've got my life to live and I don't need you at all The roller-coaster ride we took is nearly at an end I bought my ticket with my tears, that's all I'm gonna spend And I think it's gonna be all right Yeah, the worst is over now The mornin' sun is shinin' like a red rubber ball Oh, oh, oh I think it's gonna be all right Yeah, the worst is over now The mornin' sun is shinin' like a red rubber ball https://youtu.be/q4YhOCnxADw https://youtu.be/q4YhOCnxADw Angel In Blue We met in a bar Out on Chesapeake Bay With her white patent boots And her blouse red lame A table top dancer She would smile on cue Oh those lips of an angel Angel in blue She'd been dancin for ages Through cities of bars She was kickin' the habit Of scoring in cars She'd been drained of her spirit All caged up in this zoo A wild cat angel Angel in blue And as she stared out into nowhere I thought yes I thought she might break down and cry Oh when I whispered I thought I could love her She just said, "Baby don't even bother to try" And I watched as she spoke Her words chilled my bones All her friends did her favors That were really just loans And she never had dreams So they never came true Oh the palest of angels Angel in blue And the bees they had stung her The birds they had flown There were guys she could number But none had she known And she never had dreams So they never came true Oh my fade away angel Angel in blue Angel in blue Angel in blue Angel in blue https://youtu.be/MASqWqf09V8 One Last Kiss Just one last kiss Before I walk out the door I'm gonna hold you tighter Than I ever did before And I, I never promised you The things you promised me And I, I can't justify The way it's gotta be And the good times are the best times The bad times fade away The good times are forever But now, baby, the last time is today Just one more night There's no time for anymore I'm gonna tell you something That you've never heard before But I, I can't find the words To ease your lovers pain And I, I know the feeling's gone I can feel it in my veins And the good times are the best times The bad times fade away The good times are forever But now, baby, the last time is today One last kiss And the good times are the best times The bad times fade away The good times are forever But now, baby, the last time is today One last kiss https://youtu.be/qlmCPoDKH0g Where Did Our Love Go Baby, baby, baby don't leave me. Ooh, please don't leave me all by myself. I've got this burning, burning, yearning feelin' inside me. Ooh, deep inside me and it hurts so bad. You came into my heart (baby, baby) so tenderly, With a burning love (baby, baby) That stings like a bee (baby, baby). Now that I surrender (baby, baby) so helplessly, You now want to leave (baby, baby). Ooh, you wanna leave me (baby, baby). Ooh (baby, baby). Baby, baby, where did our love go? Ooh, don't you want me? Don't you want me no more (baby, baby)? Ooh, baby. Baby, baby, where did our love go? And all your promises of a love forevermore! I've got this burning, burning, yearning feelin' inside me. Ooh, deep inside me, and it hurts so bad. Before you won my heart (baby, baby) You were a perfect guy. But now that you got me, You wanna leave me behind (baby, baby). Ooh, baby. Baby, baby, baby don't leave me. Ooh, please don't leave me all by myself (baby, baby). Ooh. https://youtu.be/2gdvgjLvi6c WINTERLAND FULL CONCERT (1977): https://youtu.be/6YCal82alH8 (Sources: YouTube & Google Lyrics)