Peter Wolf

Blues in Harvard Square

By: Charles Giuliano - Dec 25, 2015

Peter Wolf

Heart and soul
Boston's
Wolf Man
With artist Paul Shapiro
On guitar
Hallucinations
First DJ
When WBCN
Went rock
At midnight
From the Tea Party
Oooffa woofa
Wamma jamma
Beautiful tragic Edie
Later J Geils Band
Mario the Big M
Discovered them
Blue eyed soul
Signed with Atlantic
Heavy hitter
Frank Barsalona
Managed
Tons of hits
They broke up
Bad vibes
Peter hosted
Muddy Waters
Birthday party
Blues master
Mother to us all
Passing through
Mississippi via Chicago
Neighbor in the
Murder Building
University Road
Harvard Square
Encountering
Annie Liebovitz
In from Frisco
Shooting him for
Rolling Stone
When not on the road
Through the alley
Past Casa B
And Harvest
To Cardell's
For breakfast
Detour to marry
Faye Dunaway
The lady makes demands
Introduced him
A starry night
Pip this is Peter
Peter this is Pip
So long ago
When rock
Was young

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Reader Comments

"The performance photos of Wolf, Paul Shapiro, Willie Alexander and John Lincoln Wright were from a benefit for Roger Thomas, who ran The Road lightshow with John Boyd at the Tea Party, and who was dying from cancer."

Posted By: Steve Nelson on 12-29-2015, 08:41 pm
"One of my absolute faves. What a performer!"

Posted By: Mark Connoly on 12-27-2015, 10:29 am
"Wow! J. Geils Band, one of the best!"

Posted By: Alan Smason on 12-27-2015, 10:28 am
"Thanks Charles....you didn't miss a thing ....such great memories...College of Musical Knowledge....I spent so many great days and nights with Peter...."

Posted By: Peter Wassyng on 12-26-2015, 09:16 pm
"you do know that I was the lead singer of the hallucinations until uncle peter took my place. rightly so. I did not like to rehearse. I once broke the microphone. I did not want anything to take me away from painting, but I did have fun singing about peggy harper and staff terriers."

Posted By: Arthur Yanoff on 12-26-2015, 05:09 pm
"Hey Chas! Thanks so much for this trip down memory lane. Quite serendipitous, as the cat and I found ourselves quite alone on Christmas and in need of cheering up, we decided to have ourselves a "Houseparty" J. Geils style! We boogied along with the Woofadduffa until we plotzed! It is not possible to stay down when Peter is on the turntable. If you haven't heard some of his newer discs try " Sleepless" and "Midnight Souvenirs". And of course the the high energy photo on the cover of your Gonzo poetry was a J, Geils record release party!"

Posted By: Jan Nelson on 12-26-2015, 02:05 pm
"Who is Pip and who was I a patient of ?? This would make a good rap song."

Posted By: Paul Shapiro on 12-26-2015, 12:46 pm
"The murder building was cheap! Hard to believe we lived through the birth of Rock and Roll!"

Posted By: Jane Hudson on 12-26-2015, 11:18 am
"Peedha....."

Posted By: Pip on 12-26-2015, 10:25 am
"Paul Shapiro was a patient of mom's. I saw him in the waiting room. That was a weird sight."

Posted By: Pip on 12-26-2015, 10:21 am