The moment of truth has finally come. Former J. Geils Band frontman and Metro Times cover boy Peter Wolf, still riding the wave of his bestselling 2025 memoir, Waiting on the Moon, is ready to man the bandstand once again Friday night in the Motor City.
The Bronx native and former late-night Boston radio DJ known as “the Woofa Goofa” has long been a towering figure in the annals of Detroit rock ’n’ roll history.
From the Geils Band’s slew of high-energy shows at the Eastown in 1971 to their raucous 1972 gigs at the Grande Ballroom to their ever larger shows at Cobo Arena in the late ’70s and at Pine Knob in the early ’80s, Wolf has made an indelible mark on his adopted hometown over the last 55 years…