![]() Monkey Island found the group stretching out and trying a little bit of everything, in hopes of landing one of those left-field hit records. The band was coming off the relative success of 1976 double-live classic, Blow Your Face Out, which was packed with high-energy concert classics that became instant FM radio regulars. The group would shoot their shot in 1977 with the full-length Monkey Island, released under the band name of just Geils. While frontman Peter Wolf and company had climbed as high as #10 on the Billboard 200 with breakout 1973 release, Bloodshot, that LP proved to be more of an outlier. No matter how hard they tried, scoring that ever elusive hit far too often ended up as a losing proposition. The issue came in the form of the Boston band's studio efforts. Renowned across the country as a barn-burning live R&B band that could set the party off in pretty much any situation. Geils Band were caught in quite a conundrum throughout the 1970s.
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