Original members will perform live in Arena on September 16th

The J. Geils Band will be giving its fans another dose of hard-driving Rock ‘n’ Roll as they unite once again for a special limited tour.  The band is hitting the road with original members Peter Wolf (lead vocals), Seth Justman (keyboards), Danny Klein (bass) and Richard “Magic Dick” Salwitz (harmonica) and will be joined by longtime associates Duke Levine (guitar) and Tom Arey (drums). The band will perform at Mohegan Sun Arena on Sunday, September 16th at 7:00pm.
Tickets are $30.00 and go on sale Friday, July 20th through Ticketmaster at 10:00am.  Ticketmaster customers may log on to ticketmaster.com; call Ticketmaster’s national toll free Charge By Phone number 1.800.745.3000; or visit any Ticketmaster outlet.  Tickets will also be available at the Mohegan Sun Box Office starting Saturday, July 21st, subject to availability.
Once again, The J. Geils Band will be joined by The Uptown Horns and background vocalists, who appeared with the group on their historic “Freeze Frame Tour” in the early 80s.
Signed to Atlantic Records in 1970, the band received immediate airplay with the singles “First I Look at the Purse,” “Looking for a Love,” “Give It To Me,” “(Ain’t Nothin’ But A) Houseparty” and “Musta Got Lost.”  
The group garnered further commercial success in the early 80s with their EMI albums Sanctuary, Love Stinks and Freeze Frame, which included the smash hits “Freeze Frame” and “Centerfold,” which stayed at #1 for six weeks on the Billboard “Hot 100” chart.
The J. Geils Band was invited to tour the U. S. and Europe as “special guests” for The Rolling Stones in 1982.  After disbanding in 1985, the group reunited with Wolf in 1999 for a critically acclaimed tour.
Recent band highlights include multiple nominations for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, co-headlining a sold-out hometown show with Aerosmith in front of 37,000 fans at Fenway Park in Boston and an upcoming appearance in Adam Sandler’s film sequel, Grown Ups 2.
Mohegan Sun Arena is ranked the 4th best venue in the world by Billboard Magazine and was the 2008 and 2010 recipient of a Country Music Award for “Casino of The Year.”  Venues Today also ranked Mohegan Sun Arena #4 in 2011. For more information on concerts and other great events at Mohegan Sun, visit mohegansun.com. For information on this week’s schedule, call the Entertainment and Special Events hotline at 1.888.226.7711, ext. 27163.