Perry recalled being in those audiences as 'a dewy-eyed kid.' The Tea Party was Boston’s key late-‘60s rock club and the J. “I remember those days of going to the Tea Party and seeing them,” Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry said Tuesday night, reached in LA. He was found dead from undisclosed causes on Tuesday at his home in Groton. A former mechanical engineering student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, he tended to hang back on stage during concerts. Geils (John Geils Jr., professionally billed as Jay Geils) was the oft-shy guitarist, skilled in rock, blues and jazz idioms. He was not the wild man at centerstage, bouncing up and down, whipping the crowd into a frenzy.
Geils Band bore his name and his imprint, but he was never the focal point. Geils Band via Facebook) This article is more than 4 years old.
