As he performed “Peace of Mind” on Friday night, April 17, at the Fillmore Detroit, Peter Wolf sang that, “Now I’m not a young man, and I don’t know what song to sing.”
Rest assured he figured it out.
At 80 and back on a metro area stage for the first time in nine years, the former J. Geils Band frontman gave everyone in the packed house reason to want to grow up to be him. Spry, lucid, witty and unquestionably present, the gold-jacketed Wolf even looked like he’d hopped right out of a photo from “Blow Your Face Out,” the 1976 album that’s one of three live sets Geils recorded in the city it considered a second home…