Seth Justman wrote and produced this song. Not coincidentally for this keyboard-heavy song, Seth Justman was also the keyboard player for the J. Geils Band.
He was not J. Geils, though.
Neither was Peter Wolf, although a lot of casual fans of this song, the band's biggest hit (six weeks on top of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1982) sure thought he was. He was the vocalist and most prominent publc face of the band.
No, no. J. Geils was the guitarist for the band. And their leader, I suppose.
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| This is Jay. John Warren Geils, Jr. |
A little strangely, the video takes place in a high school classroom full of young women who end up being relatively scantily clad. It makes sense to the plot of the song - the narrator has discovered his high school crush has appeared as a centerfold in an unspecified men's magazine that we can only assume is Playboy. He's both titilated and, well, confused, I guess is the right word.
I don't have any explanation for the milky drum, though.
The band did have some hiatuses - hiati? - but remained mostly intact until 2013, when J. Geils passed away. They did tour through 2015 at least - as shown in this live performance from that year.
Contrast that with this performance from 2009, with J. Geils still on guitar. I think it's a better performance, frankly.
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