The J. Wolf and Justman served as principal songwriters. After Wolf left the band in to pursue a solo career, the band released one more album in with Justman on lead vocals, before breaking up in Geils, on April 11, The band first released several Top 40 singles in the early s, including a cover of the song " Lookin' For A Love " by The Valentinos which reached No.
Their biggest hits included " Must of Got Lost " No. Funk" , and harmonica player Richard Salwitz " Magic Dick ". They became The J. Geils Blues Band, later dropping the word "Blues" from the band name. Soon, fan Seth Justman joined on keyboards and the band started to earn a sizable following in the Boston area.
The band took its time carefully considering various offers of contracts. Geils 'bathroom tapes' that were almost exactly what the name implies and a tape of their performance at Alternate Media Conference at Goddard College, but these hardly sufficed" to fans who wanted a proper album. After spending the better part of playing live shows around the US opening for artists as eclectic as B. The band started to get airplay with release of their first single, a rock-cover of The Contours ' Motown hit, " First I Look at the Purse ", and soon the band would get more AM radio airplay with a series of several successful singles in the early s, the first one being a cover version of The Valentinos ' " Lookin' for a Love ", which appeared on their second album The Morning After and was their Top 40 debut in at No.
The album was released in October Through constant touring, the band soon built a large following in the US for their energetic live shows, [ 4 ] with the charismatic stage-antics and "microphone-stand-pole-vaulting" [ 9 ] of singer Peter Wolf, as well as its innovative use of the harmonica as a lead instrument. Geils Band as its favorite local band.
Although they hailed from Boston, the band had always considered Detroit its second home because of its enormous popularity there. After the release of their first two albums and keeping a busy show schedule, it was The J. Geils Band's third studio album Bloodshot that would be the first commercial breakthrough for the band, reaching No.
