Legendary rock musician and frontman Peter Wolf joined host Kenneth Womack to talk about discovering obscure songs, “warming up” to The Beatles, his new memoir “Waiting on the Moon” and much more on a special bonus episode of “Everything Fab Four,” a podcast co-produced by me and Womack (a music scholar who also writes about pop music for Salon) and distributed by Salon.
Wolf found international fame in the early 1980s as lead singer of the J. Geils Band, the group behind such hits as “Centerfold,” “Freeze Frame” and “Love Stinks.” As he told Womack, his father, mother and older sister all played instruments, and thanks to them he experienced what he called “the two great early music impacts on his life”: accompanying his father to a rehearsal by famed Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini and tagging along on his sister’s date to an Alan Freed rock ‘n’ roll revue which featured such stars as Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard and Buddy Holly.
