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How a Jewish kid from the Bronx shared the stage with Bruce Springsteen, married Faye Dunaway and became the Zelig of rock 'n' roll

JL;DR SUMMARY Peter Wolf, the former J. Geils Band lead singer, has penned a memoir titled "Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses." A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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MemoirJewish HeritageRock And RollMusic IndustryCultural ExchangeCelebrityBruce SpringsteenPeter WolfJ. Geils BandFaye Dunaway

Places mentioned

Clarkston, Michigan, United States
"Peter Wolf performs in Clarkston, Mich., in 2017."
Bronx, New York, United States
"It's a personal story though, too, starting with the singer born Peter Blankfield and his Bronx upbringing, attending art school in Boston, and the beginnings (and end) of the J. Geils Band."
Newton, Massachusetts, United States
"The key theme of this book, Wolf told me last month, speaking from his home in Newton, Mass., was the Christopher Isherwood sentence: I am a camera where the shutter is always open."
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
"It's a personal story though, too, starting with the singer born Peter Blankfield and his Bronx upbringing, attending art school in Boston, and the beginnings (and end) of the J. Geils Band."
Ukraine
"When my grandparents came to this country from Eastern Europe Ukraine and Poland they needed to adapt to a new culture."
Poland
"When my grandparents came to this country from Eastern Europe Ukraine and Poland they needed to adapt to a new culture."
Chicago, Illinois, United States
"And I think with these blues artists, when they left the South and went to Chicago to work in the steel mills, or car places in Detroit, or the meat packing places to get out of agriculture, they were really in foreign cities."
Detroit, Michigan, United States
"And I think with these blues artists, when they left the South and went to Chicago to work in the steel mills, or car places in Detroit, or the meat packing places to get out of agriculture, they were really in foreign cities."

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