Album Notes

One of the best things about owning your own business is that you never know who will walk through the door. Such was the case for Marc Rine when Jay Geils stopped into City Sounds, his music store in Gardner. Rines, who grew up in Acton and lives in Shirley, considered that day a dream come true. He was part of a fledgling band, The Installers, and the more Geils came in, the more he became interested. Seeing J. Geils at the Boston Garden in 1975 when he was 16, Rines never thought the guitar great would one day produce his record. But that's what happened on Nail It, The Installers' full-lenghth CD, which came out last month where Geils plays guitar on a few tracks. So when they open for J. Geils on New Year's Eve at the Bull Run, if you notice some similarities, you won't be mistaken. Rines, a bass player and writer, describes The Installers' sound as as classic rock combined with "Sunday Morning rhythm and blues." Stephen Clarke on vocals, Kevin Visnaskas on guitar, Jim Burns on drums, and Shawn McCann on keyboards all rocked out with Geils last year at the Bull Run and will so again this year. LOWELL SUN PAPER