![]() "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. 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. And they stuck him in cement.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. Has anybody here seen my friend Moe Howard? Can you tell me where he went? He threw a lot of pies and he poked them in the eyes. The book may (or may not) also offer these modified lyrics (to the tune of Dion's inspirational 1968 hit song, "Abraham, Martin & John"): No less memorable is the chapter entitled "Moe's Greatest Threats," which includes a timeless tidbit, guaranteed to enliven any party or social gathering: "Mingle or I'll mangle." ![]() One of our favorite lines in it is: "In all the world, perhaps only Lyndon Johnson could understand how lonely a place Shemp and Pope Paul VI occupied." Happily, we just happen to have a copy of the book. That "information" consists of more than 15 inches of blank space. ![]() The review of the pseudo-scholarly "Moe Haircuts" on the website for Publisher's Weekly reads: We don't currently have a review of this title, but here is all the information we do have about it. It examines the possible influence of the Stooges on, among others, Pablo Picasso, Sigmund Freud, The Beatles, former President Richard Nixon and (hey, why not?) poetry and Cubism. ![]() That was one of many theories posited by now-former Musician magazine editor Bill Flanagan in his sadly overlooked book, "Last of the Moe Haircuts: The Influence of The Three Stooges on 20th Century Culture" (Contemporary Books, 1986). Speaking of Moe, did the head Stooge later influence the famous mop-top hairstyle popularized by The Beatles in the early and mid 1960s? It includes a segment from the late 1930s short "Swingin' the Alphabet," which at one point features Moe "playing" a banana peel. ![]() More learned Stooges fans may recognize some, or all, of the footage Jennings uses. ![]()
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