AT THE ZOO WITH THE J. GEILS BAND

It was time for a big Rock Show at the monolith just outside of Detroit, Pontiac Stadium, and this wasnt no rock 'n' roll at the Hollywood Bowl, sir. The parties involved in filling the cattle pen arena for the (J.) Geils (Band)/Steve Miller/ Peter Frampton show were the younger, just slightly more luded out, and definitely anti-social brothers and sisters of the cats whod packed the Cinderella Theatre on April 21st and 22nd, 1972, when the J. Geils Band cut their first live album, Full House. It was an evening to kick that restroom door open, jack, and dont get th cooties on you hands. What should be a good Geils audience, even if there were a few bloated Steve Miller lookalikes in the audience rootin for their man, and all 20 groupies from Detroit had turned out to see if Frampton was really picking up waitresses, really that desperate...

Still, itd been a long time between dream dates for the Geils band and their Detroit friends...after several intensely erotic encounters—who could forget those nights at the Cinderella? Those sweaty trysts at Cobo?—the band seemed played out, the Woofer Goofers manic prancing a little too strained to be fun. So you thought the last album a bit gratuitous? Guess what? The boys agree. Thats why they took a year off.