Geils band backed Buddy Guy and Junior Wells on two tracks for their Plays The Blues release in 1972: “This Old Fool” and “Honeydripper.”Īs these were two of his heroes who he had seen play many times, and had covered a number of their songs, Danny was sweating bullets to be in the same room with these guys, let alone record with them, but it worked out great. Geils Band was formed. Seth Justman was added on keys about a year later.Īnd the rest as they say, is history… which continues to this day!ĭanny and the J. They joined forces with Danny, Jay and Magic Dick, and the J. Around that time, vocalist Peter Wolf, and drummer Stephen Jo Bladd were in the process of leaving their band, The Hallucinations. At that point Jay was playing an acoustic guitar.Īs the band started playing more blues, Jay gravitated to electric guitar, and Danny graduated from washtub bass to a rented Harmony bass, that, according to Danny “had a neck that looked like a roller coaster.” Although he is left-handed, due to a lack of financial resources, he played a right-handed bass.Ī field trip to New York City in 1966 to see Muddy Waters sealed the deal for Danny-he quit school and immersed himself in music. Danny chose the former – and his first instrument was a washtub bass at the age of 21. Jay asked Danny, who did not play an instrument, whether he wanted to play bass or drums. It was there that he met John Geils (“Jay”) and Richard Salwitz, aka “Magic Dick.” With the folk era starting to boom, they formed a jug band. Klein attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts in 1964, studying Chemical Engineering. But at that time, in the ’60s, it started to cross over…also there were shows out of the Bronx…goin’ on at night…they’d play some really funky stuff and blues…so that’s basically how I got it. “ New York AM radio, a whole lot of R&B, Otis and the Supremes, the Motown thing, the Memphis thing, and the New York thing, and all that, a lot of R&B in those days, a lot of black stuff…I guess before that like in the ’50s you’d never hear that, the original artists doing the music, you’d hear Patti Page covers, you know that kind of thing. Geils Band.īorn in New York City, and raised in New Jersey, the Kleins were not a musical family – in fact, there was not a record player in the household until his sister purchased one!ĭanny’s musical education came from listening to AM radio where he soaked up Motown and Memphis Soul, and a lot of rhythm and blues and Blues coming from New York. Revered as the “Ace of Bass” – Danny Klein’s passion for rhythm & blues, jazz, pop, soul, Motown, and British Invasion formed the foundation for America’s greatest bar band – the mighty J. “Because this is the Wooba Gooba sayin’ to ya love comes once and when it comes you better grab it fast ‘cuz sometimes the love you grab ain’t gonna last…”
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