J. Giles Full House Live album harp keys

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So … I think one of the greatest rock albums was " J. Giles Full House Live " relaesed in 1972

We all know Richard Salwitz goes by the name of " Magic Dick " and I’m sure we all tried to to copy that album note for note . Here’s some guidance I found on the JT30 site

Full House live album

1- First I look at the Purse / song in C / Bb harp for rhythm ( 3rd position ) F harp solo

2- Homework /song in D / G harp ( no solo , beautiful rhythm part )

3- Pack fair and Square / song in C / F harp

4- Whammer Jammer / song in E / A harp

5- Hard Drivin’ Man / song in A / D harp

6- Serve You Right To Suffer / song in E / A harp

7- Cruisin’ for Love song in G / G harp ( nice first position solo )

8- Lookin’ For a Love / song in C / F harp

Now get to it …lol

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I saw them live in 1970 –– unbelievable how good they were !!

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Thanks for sharing the info. I always remember that song “ You got to give it up” by J Geils . If that’s the right name of it. Those were some good times with great bands.

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I’ve heard that back in the day, if you ever had the money to hire a band to play a party, J. Giles Band was the band to hire.

Thanks,

Don.

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I actually own the album on vinyl, but I haven’t gotten the chance to listen to it yet. I really like the J Geils Band’s early albums as they were a fun party rock band to listen to. And of course, Magic Dick is an incredible musician no matter what instrument he’s playing. I read somewhere that he also has some horn experience, either trumpet or saxophone, but you could definitely tell there’s a lot of horn influences in his harmonica playing.

Going off on a slight tangent here, sometimes when people come up to me about how much they love how I play the harmonica, Magic Dick and John Popper are the two most popular names that are mentioned to me. I actually don’t get that many “so you’re like Bob Dylan” comments if at all. I think I got that only once in my life. The most common comment I get from other people is whenever I play a country song with Terry McMillan on the harmonica on the bar’s jukebox, they’d say “I thought it was only a blues instrument”. It feels weird in a way that I didn’t grow up with what trad blues guys go through, but I have my own unique challenges as a harmonica player who doesn’t focus on the blues.

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