The J. Geils Band
World Music Theater
Tinley Park, Illinois
16 Jul 99

Lineage: Sonic Studios DSM-6 mikes => Sony TCD-D7 DAT deck => Master DAT => Stand-alone Pioneer CD burner => EAC => Magix Audio Cleaning Lab => WAV => FLAC Front-end (level 8)

(1) Just Can't Stop (3:54)
(2) Southside Shuffle (3:51)
(3) Love-Itis (3:56)
(4) Peter talks (1:09)
(5) Homework (3:41)
(6) Sanctuary (3:44)
(7) Night Time (7:46)
(8) Peter talks (1:43)
(9) My Good Days Are Gone (?) (5:36)
(10) Crusin' For Love (3:44)
(11) Peter talks (0:50)
(12) One Last Kiss (4:28)
(13) Peter rap (0:26) =>
(14) Freeze Frame (3:48)
(15) Hard Drivin' Man (4:14)
(16) Band introductions (7:20)
(17) So Sharp (2:37)
(18) Detroit Breakdown (6:34)
(1) Teresa (3:39)
(2) Just Can't Wait (3:28)
(3) Give It To Me (6:44)
(4) Rapunzel story (5:26)
(5) Musta Got Lost (4:33)
(6) Love Stinks (3:18)
(7) Lookin' For A Love (3:32)
(8) Whammer Jammer (2:44)
(9) (Ain't Nothin' But A) House Party (4:58)
(10) Encore break (2:00)
(11) Where Did Our Love Go? (4:13)
(12) Thank you's (2:25)
(13) Pack Fair and Square (1:55)
(14) Centerfold (3:53)
(15) Encore break (1:57)
(16) Peter intro (0:36)
(17) Start All Over Again (3:21)
(18) First I Look At The Purse (4:16)

An amazing show. With the exception of a couple of Boston-area benefit concerts at the end of the year, this was the final stop on Geils' 1999 reunion tour. It is much to Chicago's embarassment that notwithstanding the city's reputation as the "home of the blues," this band was only able to draw about 1100 people to the enormous (35,000-capacity) World Music Theater on a beautiful Friday night.  As a sidenote, it did get worse as the band had to completely cancel their Philadelphia show since only 150 tickets were sold. Regardless, for this Chicago show, the band was in great spirits and great form; and their backing vocalists and the Uptown Horns were a terrific addition to the core line-up. The setlist varied throughout the tour, but this one pulled out all of the stops . . . there are only a couple songs performed in the tour (most notably "Land of 1000 Dances") that weren't performed this night.

The recording itself is pretty good, recorded roughly 11th row dead center in the middle of all of the band's guests. While this made for a stressful taping experience, it offered the benefit of relatively little crowd noise to interfere with the music. The audience that *did* have the good sense to come out were very rowdy, and I was happy that the noisiest revelers were far away from the microphones.

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