They lived and played in Harvard Sq. back in the 70s and where I grew up. They gave free concerts in the Commons on weekends. Just regular cool guys who walked around like everyone else, that were great rockers.
I saw that show too, December 11, 1971, at the Eastown Theater in Detroit, a week before my 16th birthday. J. Geils Band stole the show. The opener was a band called "The Frut". They tossed a case of Boones Farm Apple Wine out to the crowd. A crazy night and rowdy crowd. The Eastown Theater was closed the next weekend by the city.
I saw J Geils Band in 1972 open for Johnny Winter! 2 Incredible groups with tremendous energy! Nobody compares. Johnny Winter was always a cut above the rest, as was Magik Dick. Unforgettable (we were standing where the bands had to pass right by us to get on stage, almost brushing up against us, Rick Derringer was playing with Johnny back then.)
I have played blues harp for40 years and I can tell you that Dicks Whammer is one of the hardest songs to blow ( not foe not ). It took me a 6 months to get the licks down where other songs I could master in a week. Even better, in person, Dick is an amazing person as well. Thanks for posting.
Took me 8 months to get it down with all of the nuances and hand cupping with that fat Jt-30. This song was the reason I learned to tongue block. It’s always a hit when folks hear it.
This song reminds me of my very dear friend, Holly, who died suddenly and unexpectedly May 2005. Maybe 2003, not sure of the date, we were driving home from a Springsteen concert, in a great mood. Holly called our local FM radio station, KLOS, and Jim Ladd answered. She requested this song, and it played while we were still driving. We blasted the stereo. What a great memory. ~To live is to go on a journey. To die is to come back home. R.I.P. Holly~
One of the best instrumentals ever devised by man...Magic Dick on Harp w/ J Geils Band...Another tune that Makes me do 100 miles an hour on the bike...
In my younger days loving blues I was absolutely "blown away" by the playing of Magic Dick Salwitz. When I heard Whammer Jammer for the first time, well, that was it. I've tried to learn to play it and forty years later, I'm still tryin'! Cool moment last year: my son and I caught the Harp Blowout at the Cabooze in Mpls, with Kim, Mark and Dick. And of course, MD torched the place with the Whammer: two minutes of pure harp ecstasy. I pity that defenseless little harp! Keep Rocking, MD!
We have to get them in the RNR Hall of Fame.They should have been one of the first bands in.Every time I saw them live it was sold out shows and no one was in there seats.Every one was up and dancing.
In High School in the 70's harps were a big thing. We used to all meet in the bathrooms between classes get baked, and jam harp! the acoustics in the bathrooms were amazing. We loved Mdick especially since he was from CT. One of the guys we went to school with got up on stage with Magic Dick during a J Geils show at the New Haven Coliseum. Weisel Brown was his name! Rock on Weisel!
Having an older brother back around 1970-72, I get taking to concerts every week. I got to see J Geils at least 20 times. Capital Theatre, Passaic NJ. The Academy of Music at 14th and 3rd in NY City at Outdoor shows. So many. But Seeing Zep in 1972 and ELP, Pink Floyd. The big bands were amazing. BUT, want to party? Going to see a J. Geils Concert with a so much reefer everywhere. You couldn't sit still. What memories hearing the Magic Man!!!
Dick is the best modern harmonica player you'll find. He's versitile and devoted to his instrument. But I can't help but think he'd be SICK of this song after all these decades! :-)
I saw the J. Geils Band in San Francisco at the Fillmore west on their first album tour. They opened for Johnny Winter and were introduced as the boys from Boston. They kicked off their set with the instrumental Sno-cone. Then around mid 1971 I saw them at the Hatch Shell in Boston for a free concert when they kicked off their second album. That might have been the first live performance of Whammer Jammer. So where Arthur Feidler and the Boston Symphony played every 4th of July, the J. Geils Band stood and crushed it with John Lee Hooker's, Serve You Right To Suffer. Chuck Berry was right, roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news!
Yeah, you were there when it all started really happening, something that most of us will never ever see or experience again. Those were the days my friend ✌️😏keep on keeping on brother.🎶
My brother and I were in downtown Baltimore In September 1972 when we walked by the Baltimore Civic Center. The billboard advertised a Ten Years After concert that night. We went to the ticket office to see if any tickets were left. It was sold out, but the guy said he just had 2 Will Call tickets had cancelled. We had of course heard of Ten Years After from the Woodstock movie, but we had not heard of the opening act, J. Geils Band. That soon changed. The tickets were great -- row 11 on the floor and the band tore the freakin roof of of the arena. Magic Dick was absolutely amazing and Peter Wolf was a one-man mosh pit onstage. The entire crowd screamed for more and got it. Needless to say Ten Years After was good, but compared to the energy level of the opening act, they were mannequins onstage. I'll never forget seeing J. Geils Band and it's great to see Magic Dick much more recently.
You can absolutely play this good. This song is nothing more than a bunch of harp technique rudiments, and was originally just a way he liked to warm-up. One day, someone suggested he turn it into a song and boom, Whammer Jammer. If you really want to get good, play the original album version on UA-cam @ 50% speed and learn 5 seconds of the song at a time. Be sure to tongue block everything except the 10 blow bend. It took me 8 months, but it was worth every second of it now that I can play this live for a crowd.
Saw the Full House tour at Cobo Hall in Detroit. Magic was wasted . He was leaning on the amps ( with roadie help ) for support but answered the bell when his turn came everytime. It was a magical night. The second tier was a rocking and a rolling.
i still listen to their first album-i probably have replaced it a few times....i'd love to see Dick, Kim Wilson, and Mark Wenner go at this one(and big little and medium walters are rollin in their graves!)-go cat go!
I've been blowing harp for 41 years its hard to get the high note on the "A" key harp to hit it sharp without it fluttering your "Eb" keys and up easy but "A" through "D" not an easy task lots of practice, this guy is a legend!
It took me almost 2 months to be able to pull it off in real-time. The tongue positioning is almost right behind the front teeth... it’s very unusual feeling and the amount of movement required to bend/flutter the note is so tiny that it’s Damn near impossible to stay perfectly in tune... but, that’s part of the joy of harmonica, it sounds good anyway!
@@RocketRonRayRashjr not for bending and vibrato, they’re not. The full-step 10 blow bend eludes most players. Many can make the note, but few can hold it with vibrato and maintain proper intonation.
haven't heard this in a long time..i remember first listening to it about 30 years ago..and I must confess..he sounds BETTER now than he ever did...age and experience is a wonderful thing...
@seeyouinthecorners What a great story! I'll bet Holly was very close to you. I last my teenage daughter the same way and Yes, she was a HUGE JG's fan and especially (as she used to refer to him, as The Big Dick) haha. I'm sorry for your loss but great words to live by.....about the journey and coming back home...
This tune, and Canned Heat’s version of “Walkin’ By Myself”…all the high school kids jammed in the hallways back around 1971-1972 doing their versions--
Haven't seen Jimmy Vaughan in quite some time, wasn't sure if we would hear from him again after his brother died, it's nice to see that he kept playin' guitar! :)
@Jeniphish Haven't seen Jimmy Vaughan in quite some time, wasn't sure if we would hear from him again after his brother died, it's nice to see that he kept playin' guitar! :)
Amazing. Tried playing it on one of those cheapo Hohner "piccolo" harps in the key of C. Came pretty close! Even blowing and bending those high notes...but those early ones with the wooden hole separators swell out a litle and cut into your lips when they get damp...
Here's the story I just told my son. In the 70s about 73 to 75 I had a friend Paul Batista who used to play the harmonica she would drive us crazy for a couple of years could you started to get good I mean really good. We will go to Bellis Park in Buena Park and play music in the bathroom because of the acoustic. Me Jack diamond Paul and Andy who was our drummer who by the way would you cardboard boxes for drums in the bathroom
Sorry but the rest of the story is unbelievable don't know where it went I'll continue. We went to a concert at Long Beach arena festiva seating page like 5 bucks to get in status quo played first. Aerosmith coming up. Paul got up on a chair in the third row while the Roadies were setting up the stage for Aerosmith. He started playing whammer jammer byJohn mayal. He hits every note. Pretty soon the Roadies notice the sky playing in the third row on a chair. Someone turns off the house music
0 the drummer for Aerosmith comes out he screams out what the f walk to the right and all of a sudden the house music starts playing again and the lights go off Paul 0 the whole arena erupts boo boo boo that was the end of that night for us but I will never forget and I know there are people out there who were there please contact me. We would go to tahquitz canyon in Palm springs and play music from the 3rd canyon with boxes for drums. Small little pig amps with a rinky dink generator
@treyrosenmeyer Hey there!! Thanks for the message!! I will keep a few of them with me.. getting colder here in NY, but during the summer downtown there is always someone with an accoustic guitar looking for a mate to play with... sometimes at the train station... sometimes it's just what the people need to keep them from killing each other after a stressful day at the office!
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Every harmonica player should own "J. Geils Band Live Full House"
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Everyone who loves American rock & roll should own "J Geils Live Full House"! Is simply, one of the best live albums ever!
*Everyone* should own “J. Geils Band Full House”
Bingo!!!! Boys from Northern Canada! Ain't nobody touchin this !!!!
FIRST I LOOK AT THE PURSE!!!
One of the greatest harmonica instrumentals of all time. Dick's still got his mojo workin'!
Saw the J.Giles Band in concert in CLE along with Humble Pie winter of 71. "Whammer Jammer" got us all fired up. Magic Dick lit it up....
They lived and played in Harvard Sq. back in the 70s and where I grew up.
They gave free concerts in the Commons on weekends.
Just regular cool guys who walked around like everyone else, that were great rockers.
Man, J. Geils Band and Humble Pie. Must've been one hell of a show.
I saw that show too, December 11, 1971, at the Eastown Theater in Detroit, a week before my 16th birthday. J. Geils Band stole the show. The opener was a band called "The Frut". They tossed a case of Boones Farm Apple Wine out to the crowd. A crazy night and rowdy crowd. The Eastown Theater was closed the next weekend by the city.
if THAT doesn't get the club jumping... run away, cause the house is fulla zombies... what a great post!!!!!
my ears are grinning!!!
I saw J Geils Band in 1972 open for Johnny Winter! 2 Incredible groups with tremendous energy! Nobody compares. Johnny Winter was always a cut above the rest, as was Magik Dick. Unforgettable (we were standing where the bands had to pass right by us to get on stage, almost brushing up against us, Rick Derringer was playing with Johnny back then.)
Who do you prefer Magic Dick or Howard Levy?
@@WmArthur Agree. I think Levy would build the Levy, then Magic would smash it!
cooool
Loved this song ever since I bought the J Geils album, Full House, back in 1974. A classic jam. Magic Dick is a hero!
The best Harp solo ever.
Greatest harmonicatune ever written (and played)!
It started to haunt me after I wached Hancock, so I looked it up. This is one beast of a harmonica song and this guy sure is a magician!
DO WE ALL LIVE THE SAME LIFE JUST YEARS APART!!!!!!!!
I've been playing for 15 years, and just heard of this guy...glad that I finally did though....holy shit, he plays amazingly!
to so a musican still in to a song hes played an billion times is a rare sight
I first heard Magic Dick do this live back in 1976. He's definitely still "The King".
Richard Salwitz (Magic DIck) is one of the best harmonica players every. . I started listening to him and the J.Geils band when they first started….
I have played blues harp for40 years and I can tell you that Dicks Whammer is one of the hardest songs to blow ( not foe not ). It took me a 6 months to get the licks down where other songs I could master in a week. Even better, in person, Dick is an amazing person as well. Thanks for posting.
Took me 8 months to get it down with all of the nuances and hand cupping with that fat Jt-30. This song was the reason I learned to tongue block. It’s always a hit when folks hear it.
58 year old music lover and I just came across this, this is f****** killer! Kudos to the poster!❤❤❤
This song reminds me of my very dear friend, Holly, who died suddenly and unexpectedly May 2005.
Maybe 2003, not sure of the date, we were driving home from a Springsteen concert, in a great mood. Holly called our local FM radio station, KLOS, and Jim Ladd answered. She requested this song, and it played while we were still driving. We blasted the stereo. What a great memory.
~To live is to go on a journey. To die is to come back home. R.I.P. Holly~
Damn that was friggin Smokin, my favorite J Giles song. Excellent
It doesn't get any better than that!!!! 😎👍👍
Man, that brings back memories!
One of the best instrumentals ever devised by man...Magic Dick on Harp w/ J Geils Band...Another tune that Makes me do 100 miles an hour on the bike...
In my younger days loving blues I was absolutely "blown away" by the playing of Magic Dick Salwitz. When I heard Whammer Jammer for the first time, well, that was it. I've tried to learn to play it and forty years later, I'm still tryin'! Cool moment last year: my son and I caught the Harp Blowout at the Cabooze in Mpls, with Kim, Mark and Dick. And of course, MD torched the place with the Whammer: two minutes of pure harp ecstasy. I pity that defenseless little harp! Keep Rocking, MD!
We have to get them in the RNR Hall of Fame.They should have been one of the first bands in.Every time I saw them live it was sold out shows and no one was in there seats.Every one was up and dancing.
wow every time i listen to this wow fantastic
In High School in the 70's harps were a big thing. We used to all meet in the bathrooms between classes get baked, and jam harp! the acoustics in the bathrooms were amazing. We loved Mdick especially since he was from CT. One of the guys we went to school with got up on stage with Magic Dick during a J Geils show at the New Haven Coliseum. Weisel Brown was his name! Rock on Weisel!
one of my favourite harp players. one of the top harp tunes of all time
Having an older brother back around 1970-72, I get taking to concerts every week. I got to see J Geils at least 20 times. Capital Theatre, Passaic NJ. The Academy of Music at 14th and 3rd in NY City at Outdoor shows. So many. But Seeing Zep in 1972 and ELP, Pink Floyd. The big bands were amazing. BUT, want to party? Going to see a J. Geils Concert with a so much reefer everywhere. You couldn't sit still. What memories hearing the Magic Man!!!
That's a real badass playing..
The FAMOUS harmonica song. It goes down in history as the favorite! Great quality video too. Thanks !!
Dick is the best modern harmonica player you'll find. He's versitile and devoted to his instrument. But I can't help but think he'd be SICK of this song after all these decades! :-)
Great performance!
I saw the J. Geils Band in San Francisco at the Fillmore west on their first album tour. They opened for Johnny Winter and were introduced as the boys from Boston. They kicked off their set with the instrumental Sno-cone. Then around mid 1971 I saw them at the Hatch Shell in Boston for a free concert when they kicked off their second album. That might have been the first live performance of Whammer Jammer. So where Arthur Feidler and the Boston Symphony played every 4th of July, the J. Geils Band stood and crushed it with John Lee Hooker's, Serve You Right To Suffer. Chuck Berry was right, roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news!
Yeah, you were there when it all started really happening, something that most of us will never ever see or experience again. Those were the days my friend ✌️😏keep on keeping on brother.🎶
My brother and I were in downtown Baltimore In September 1972 when we walked by the Baltimore Civic Center. The billboard advertised a Ten Years After concert that night. We went to the ticket office to see if any tickets were left. It was sold out, but the guy said he just had 2 Will Call tickets had cancelled.
We had of course heard of Ten Years After from the Woodstock movie, but we had not heard of the opening act, J. Geils Band. That soon changed. The tickets were great -- row 11 on the floor and the band tore the freakin roof of of the arena. Magic Dick was absolutely amazing and Peter Wolf was a one-man mosh pit onstage. The entire crowd screamed for more and got it. Needless to say Ten Years After was good, but compared to the energy level of the opening act, they were mannequins onstage. I'll never forget seeing J. Geils Band and it's great to see Magic Dick much more recently.
I can only dream of playing that good!
yep i hear you,,, close dont count when it comes to this guy ,,
he is a master he can carry a whole band with a couple harps like
magic lol
Seen him with the J.Geils band back in the 70's. Woohoo!
You can absolutely play this good. This song is nothing more than a bunch of harp technique rudiments, and was originally just a way he liked to warm-up. One day, someone suggested he turn it into a song and boom, Whammer Jammer. If you really want to get good, play the original album version on UA-cam @ 50% speed and learn 5 seconds of the song at a time. Be sure to tongue block everything except the 10 blow bend. It took me 8 months, but it was worth every second of it now that I can play this live for a crowd.
Saw the Full House tour at Cobo Hall in Detroit. Magic was wasted . He was leaning on the amps ( with roadie help ) for support but answered the bell when his turn came everytime. It was a magical night. The second tier was a rocking and a rolling.
Saw the J. Geils Band in Seattle WA in 1972 while awaiting discharge from the Navy. They blew the house down. Absolutely awesome show.
Yeah man they were absolutely amazing live!!
Freakin' Awesome.
I LOVE THIS SO MUCH!!! I grew up listening to this it’s just so fucking cool
Lumpy space Noodle ,dude me too! Saw the J.Geils Band in Maryland.....year's ago! Just relived that night and remember it too!! lol.Philadelphia, Pa.
i still listen to their first album-i probably have replaced it a few times....i'd love to see Dick, Kim Wilson, and Mark Wenner go at this one(and big little and medium walters are rollin in their graves!)-go cat go!
U gonna get crazy tonight 🤣
Damn! That was the best performance I've seen of his! Plus, one of my favorite harp jams!
Soooo much pleasure to watch these guys having so much fun! It's stuff like this that makes me such a music head!
thanks so much 4 this. i've loved this guy 4 40 yrs. and he sounds the same. fabulous.
Always was my favorite J. Geils Band song. Magic Dick rules!
I was in love with this man in the 70's. He blows me away! Hahaha..
what a legend
The best, thank you for the video.
In love !! Splendid !
I've been blowing harp for 41 years its hard to get the high note on the "A" key harp to hit it sharp without it fluttering your "Eb" keys and up easy but "A" through "D" not an easy task lots of practice, this guy is a legend!
It took me almost 2 months to be able to pull it off in real-time. The tongue positioning is almost right behind the front teeth... it’s very unusual feeling and the amount of movement required to bend/flutter the note is so tiny that it’s Damn near impossible to stay perfectly in tune... but, that’s part of the joy of harmonica, it sounds good anyway!
I been playing 4 about 31years, I Fell the higher notes more easyer, my self.
@@RocketRonRayRashjr not for bending and vibrato, they’re not. The full-step 10 blow bend eludes most players. Many can make the note, but few can hold it with vibrato and maintain proper intonation.
They are GREAT! Saw them live in Huntsville AL. WOW!
where is he NOW will always be a magical song for me.......
Another hidden archived treasure found here today. Thanks for this great upload!
haven't heard this in a long time..i remember first listening to it about 30 years ago..and I must confess..he sounds BETTER now than he ever did...age and experience is a wonderful thing...
I forgot about this song for a while man it's good I got to drag my amp out
what a rare treat to witness something like that. Thanks for sharing it
Sounds so good, it makes me want to damn well "cry"! Rest in peace bro!
Magic dick is still alive, j geils past away
@seeyouinthecorners What a great story! I'll bet Holly was very close to you. I last my teenage daughter the same way and Yes, she was a HUGE JG's fan and especially (as she used to refer to him, as The Big Dick) haha. I'm sorry for your loss but great words to live by.....about the journey and coming back home...
This tune, and Canned Heat’s version of “Walkin’ By Myself”…all the high school kids jammed in the hallways back around 1971-1972 doing their versions--
true-ly in-spired !
he's still got it!... and thanks for sharing it!
Unreal harp playing, yes I can dig it !!!!!! WOW
just dont get any better that ! sounds as amazing today as it did in the seventies
That was insane ! Dang 😎✊🏼
what a great harmonica player...... so much fun!!!
I can play this on the harmonica. It took me a year but it was worth it
I'm working on it, not even halfway through yet
Mystical Mari and Magic Dick. That would look alright in bright lights anywhere.
Can you share tabs ? :)
@@matpratlund there’s a good 6-part video showing how to play it with tabs. Just search whammer jammer harmonica lesson and you’ll find it.
ONE OF THE BEST HARMONICA PLAYERS. NEED I SAY PAUL BUTTERFIELD'S AMAZING PLAYING, THE MASTER OF THEM ALL. QUICKWATER.
my 1st concert 73. i was 8. good shit
@jshawn777 its an A harp in 2nd position... so the song is in the key of E
saw them in 76, with Lynard Skynyard, in Buffalo...This was their final encore...Stole the show. Awesome licks!!!
Food on the table good work
How f'ing amazing is that!? So cool, Dickie. Rave on.
He's still got it! Man...now that is some harp playing
Haven't seen Jimmy Vaughan in quite some time, wasn't sure if we would hear from him again after his brother died, it's nice to see that he kept playin' guitar! :)
That's not Jimmy Vaughan.
F'n AWSOME -- I saw him play this in concert twice.
@Jeniphish Haven't seen Jimmy Vaughan in quite some time, wasn't sure if we would hear from him again after his brother died, it's nice to see that he kept playin' guitar! :)
Excellent!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MAGIC!
(midnight just hit here in Norway)
Legendary group! Woobah goobah!!
1 of the coolest jams of all time.
Enorme , magnifique , dingue.
..this guy with the clever stage name...LOL..he is DEFINATELY THE BEST..THE BEST EVER I have heard on harmonica!!!!
Check out Sugar Blue doing Hootchie Gootchie man
Check out Howard Levy and Jason Ricci
Wow
Amazing. Tried playing it on one of those cheapo Hohner "piccolo" harps in the key of C. Came pretty close! Even blowing and bending those high notes...but those early ones with the wooden hole separators swell out a litle and cut into your lips when they get damp...
hells yes that was great!!
I wish they would come to Regina Sask. Canada .
my 2nd live show was the "full house" tour early 70's at Convention hall in Asbury Park NJ a week after Deep Purple at the Sunshine Inn
Full House is the best album to play at a party . Non stop action !
Awesome!!!!!!!!@😊😊
Let me hear ya Dicky!
Cindy Jo Anderson come on baby!
Amazing !
He uses that damn harmonica like it's a Gibson Les Paul Custom!
Here's the story I just told my son. In the 70s about 73 to 75 I had a friend Paul Batista who used to play the harmonica she would drive us crazy for a couple of years could you started to get good I mean really good. We will go to Bellis Park in Buena Park and play music in the bathroom because of the acoustic. Me Jack diamond Paul and Andy who was our drummer who by the way would you cardboard boxes for drums in the bathroom
Sorry but the rest of the story is unbelievable don't know where it went I'll continue. We went to a concert at Long Beach arena festiva seating page like 5 bucks to get in status quo played first. Aerosmith coming up. Paul got up on a chair in the third row while the Roadies were setting up the stage for Aerosmith. He started playing whammer jammer byJohn mayal. He hits every note. Pretty soon the Roadies notice the sky playing in the third row on a chair. Someone turns off the house music
Everyone starts noticing
This kid playing the harmonica slapping his chest making you sounds just play John Mayer sorry for the spelling anyway
0 the drummer for Aerosmith comes out he screams out what the f walk to the right and all of a sudden the house music starts playing again and the lights go off Paul 0 the whole arena erupts boo boo boo that was the end of that night for us but I will never forget and I know there are people out there who were there please contact me. We would go to tahquitz canyon in Palm springs and play music from the 3rd canyon with boxes for drums. Small little pig amps with a rinky dink generator
Love to hear from anybody who remembered these days pall Batista where are you?😊
Happy 68th Magic!!
My teen hood right here! Boston
As a long time harp player A and C are the best to carry .
I carry 'em all and sharp notes too
An ICON,
Best harmonica song ever done ! Go Magic Dick and the Lickin' stick !
awesome!
Timeing is everything an he still has it down to a "T"
GO Magic, GO Big Baddy GO.
: )
Nice! the drummer is my drum teacher
@Toocko Looks like a Hohner Bluesblaster, basically a reissue of the Astatic JT30 Roadhouse.
@treyrosenmeyer
Hey there!!
Thanks for the message!! I will keep a few of them with me.. getting colder here in NY, but during the summer downtown there is always someone with an accoustic guitar looking for a mate to play with... sometimes at the train station... sometimes it's just what the people need to keep them from killing each other after a stressful day at the office!
WHO puts a thumbs down on THIS!? Oh... must be tone deaf!
a harmonica player who's extremely butt hurt that they cant play this no matter how hard they try.
+Spike S That 10 blow full bend is a killer on the chops, that's for sure. As if the rest wasn't
+Spike S Yeah ive been playing 35 years and can only do a little bit of whammer jammer
Somebody jammin out with a glass o' bourbon and clickin' the wrong button, don't hate em.
Thumbs "Up" they Ass
Un friggin' believable!