Wolf's fractured fairytale ended up on an FM radio single as a segue into the band's "Must of Got Lost," which the singer didn't realize until one night in Detroit, when fans kept bellowing for Raputa the Beauta. One performance, recorded for a live album, found Wolf ad-libbing a story that mentioned long-haired fairytale beauty Rapunzel, except Wolf couldn't remember her name on the spot, so he called her Raputa - then in the next breath - Raputa the Beauta. "Most of them used to change every night." "A lot of people didn't realize all my raps were spontaneous," Wolf said.
Geils Band, which loaded its early sets with blues and R&B covers, forging a reputation as a must-see live act with a singer who introduced songs with sly, rapid-fire banter. Wolf began hanging out with a bunch of fellow music lovers, and after mustering the courage to sing at a party he found his calling, and joined a New England band, the Hallucinations, that soon got gigs backing blues legend John Lee Hooker, later touring with alternative-rock pioneers the Velvet Underground. "But he thought I was a little too crazy for him, so I moved into a loft and he moved to Philadelphia to make movies," Wolf said.
Wolf attended art school in Boston, and ended up roommates with future "Blue Velvet" director David Lynch. Listening one night to a radio interview with an intriguing new folk singer, Wolf called the station and soon found himself chatting on the phone with future "Voice of a Generation" Bob Dylan. From that day on, I bought every record every one of those artists ever made, and I still have all the original records."Īt age 14, the New York-reared Wolf began sneaking into the legendary Birdman jazz club, where he saw greats like John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus and Pittsburgh's Art Blakey. "You see films of Pentecostal or Baptist church gatherings where people are losing their minds and falling to the floor in catatonic states. "As soon as I saw Jerry Lee Lewis kicking over that piano stool and standing on his piano, and saw Chuck Berry duck-walking across the stage and Little Richard and Frankie Lymon popping out from behind the Teenagers and singing 'Why Do Fools Fall in Love?' I was enraptured," Wolf said last week in a phone interview.
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Wolf has enjoyed plenty of amazing experiences, starting at age 10, when his big sister - a dancer on deejay Alan Freed's TV show - dragged him to a concert that included Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, the Chantels and Buddy Holly. "It feels good to get back together with a group where you've had older experiences with a lot of stuff you've helped create that still remains meaningful to people today," Wolf said. Lead guitarist John "Jay" Geils is no longer in the group named after him. Wolf and Salwitz are joined on stage by longtime bassist Danny Klein and keyboardist Seth Justman. Also turning up in setlists have been raucous, R&B infused '70s treats "Lookin' for a Love," "Whammer Jammer" and "Ain't Nothin' But a House Party" each known for Wolf's adrenaline-gushing, street-smart delivery and the blistering harmonica work of "Magic" Dick Salwitz. "Centerfold" and "Love Stinks" have appeared steadily in the band's Seger support role at packed venues like Madison Square Garden. 21, 1982, at the Civic Arena (tickets: $10.25) when the band supported its chart-topping "Centerfold" and the "Freeze-Frame" title track, both preceded by 1980 radio smash "Love Stinks." "This is a unique opportunity for us to get back to a place we used to play quite frequently."įocused more on solo work the past few decades, Wolf hasn't prowled a Pittsburgh stage as J.
"We're looking forward to being back in Pittsburgh to give you a full-ahead, steamroller of a rock and roll show," pledged J. PITTSBURGH - Bob Seger is the main draw Thursday at Consol Energy Center, but you'd be a fool if you had a ticket and skipped opening act, the J.
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