{"id":826,"date":"2012-06-19T17:19:16","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T21:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=826"},"modified":"2012-06-19T17:19:16","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T21:19:16","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-98-academy-days-rage-in-the-cage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/06\/19\/my-musical-evolution-part-98-academy-days-rage-in-the-cage\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 98 Academy Days Rage In The Cage"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"J<\/a>How could I have missed the J. Geils Band for all these years. I had no idea that the band started in 1967. When Freeze Frame blew it up they seemed to be a sudden sensation.\u00a0 The first J. Geils Band song that I heard was No Anchovies, Please. It seemed to make it on the radio once in a while but I had no idea that it was a\u00a0(make air quotes here) song.\u00a0 Still I thought it was funny. I think my cousin actually picked up Love Stinks.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

J Geils Band falls in that category with Kansas in that I really liked this album but yet never felt compelled to look into anything else they did. I shouldn’t say never. Fifteen years later I eventually bought Love Stinks<\/em> just because I wanted the No Anchovies, Please<\/em> song.<\/p>\n

I have a hard time comprehending how Freeze Frame could be so good and yet nothing else they did caught fire like that.\u00a0 I thought it was a regional thing at first. They were from Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

I don’t think that there is a bad track on this album. At the same time, for as much as I listened to this back then, when I put it away it was away for a long time. This was one of those cassettes that eventually got played to death and it would be a very long time before I got around to replacing it on Compact Disc.\u00a0 It is music like this that makes me wish there were more hours in a day to listening to music. I used to listen to music like this for hours each day.\u00a0 I need to make an effort to get back to that but somethings gotta give.<\/p>\n

Freeze Frame<\/em>
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