Peter Wolf, who was the frontman for the J.Geils Band, has fond memories of Detroit.
Wolf, who is playing at the Ark in Ann Arbor next Sunday and Monday, tells Detroit News reporter Susan Whitall about Detroit being such a “sacred” place to him.
Whitall writes:
There’s been a mythic, emotional bond between Wolf (and the J. Geils Band) and Detroit since the early 1970s. It was almost exactly 42 years ago that the Geils band recorded “Full House,” one of the most ferociously potent live albums ever at the Cinderella Ballroom. Surely the band’s blood and sweat, and that of their excited audience, remains soaked in the earth where the old movie house once stood on Jefferson.
“It’s something that I’ve really valued and enjoyed so much,” Wolf says, of Detroit, “and it’s an interesting extension from the Cinderella Ballroom to the Ark in Ann Arbor.”
Whitall writes that Wolf loves to talk about Detroit singers including Nolan Strong of Fortune Records, Smokey, Aretha, Little Willie John and Jackie Wilson. -- A.L.
