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“There are a lot of bands that have asked the Geils band to play with them,” he said. Wolf pointed out that both Geils and Seger have shared the same producer, Bill Szymczyk, on several albums. One cut “Detroit Made” is getting heavy airplay on Sirius/XM’s Outlaw Country channel. Seger’s new album “Ride Out,” his first in years, like Peter Wolf’s solo efforts, falls more into the Americana category than it does hard rock. Geils Band, and pairing them with Motor City’s Bob Seger is a perfect combination. Sometimes public demand overshadows creative differences. I guess to use the old cliche time will tell,” he said. “I don’t know if the opportunity will arrive. Twenty year later, Wolf still is hedging his bets about ever co-writing with Justman again. I’ll leave it up to people to draw their own conclusions.” He became the producer, the player, the singer. “He ended up becoming the lead singer and how people solve a problem is just sometimes the cause of a problem. How are we gonna spice it? The arguments were over this spice or that spice,” he said.

In 1994, Wolf described the conflict that led to his split with Justman. Wolf’s seven solo albums have been wonderful showcases of his maturing talent. The Geils band broke up after one post-Wolf album “You’re Gettin’ Even While I’m Gettin’ Odd,” which stalled on the charts at No. More importantly, however, Wolf will be playing with his old collaborator Seth Justman, who co-wrote the band’s biggest hits with Wolf, “Centerfold” and “Freeze Frame.” Like Mick Jagger and Keth Richards, neither Wolf nor Justman has been as successful since their 1983 creative split.

“That kind of music is just not where I’m at anymore,” he said. At that time, he said he had always hated playing the shimmering guitar introduction to John Lee Hooker’s “Serves You Right Suffer,” one of the Geils’ band’s live staples and a personal favorite of mine. Back in 2000, Jay played a Troy Music Hall show billed as New Guitar Summit with blues artists Duke Robillard and Gerry Deaudoin. The band’s namesake and guitarist Jay Geils has been replaced by two axe-wielders, Duke Levine and Kevin Barry. Womack died weeks before the session, the same fate befell a scheduled duet with Willy DeVille on Wolf’s last album “Midnight Souvenirs.” The new CD, due the middle of next year, originally included plans for a duet with Bobby Womack on a songs Wolf co-wrote with Don Covay. Wolf has gone on to a solo career marked by seven highly regarded solo albums – he’s working on his eighth – and regular local appearances, most recently at The Egg. Never mind that they were opening for the iconic blues legend Muddy Waters.

Fans had come to expect two-hour-plus concerts that spiked their South Side blues shuffles into orgasmic stage extravaganzas.

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In the early ’80s, their abbreviated 50-minute show at Saratoga Performing Arts Center set off a spark that had angry fans rampaging through the parking lot, breaking windows on cars. The same year, the group headlined a Detroit show in which Seger opened for them, MC5, Iggy Pop & The Stooges, Alice Cooper and Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels. Geils Band’s opening set for the Allman Brothers at Hudson Valley Community College. The Capital Region has had a four-decade love affair with Peter Wolf from 1971 when he fronted the J.