Hey now ... let's have a live version of that early reggae by a white band ... with a nice terse solo of J. (of German descent, no less!) around the 3:35 mark, one of his more rare lengthy ones.
I always wonder why they weren't huge, Peter Wolf was such a cool frontman, the band shit-tight, their music infectuous without being bludgeoning. Wikipedia says that their success was allegedly limited by being "
too white for the black kids and too black for the whites", I never thought about it like that, it would give them the same fate as Mothers Finest then.
"Teresa" was a lovely ballad of theirs, why that never had more airplay is beyond me.
And when Freeze Frame (the album) and Centerfold (the song) elevated them in popularity late in their career, with Peter Wolf looking suitably MTV-photogenic (plus Seth Justman's pretty boy curly hair-rockstar looks) and a tour with the Rolling Stones taking them around the world to huge audiences, they broke up!