Groundhogs,Wishbone Ash & Focus,Nov08,FolkestoneUK

I recently went to see the Groundhogs, Wishbone Ash, and Focus on tour together, it was a great Gig.

The Groundhogs were on first and unfortunately there sound was not good, i thought at first it was the  hall, Tony played well enough, and it was good to hear some of those classic Groundhog tracks, he played stuff off "Split and Thank christ for the Bomb" which are both albums i like very much, the drummer did a long drum solo, great to see them after many years but i was a little disappointing by the sound quality it was a bit mushy. which is a real shame considering what great musicians were on stage, Tony McPhee-classic blues rock guitarist, Dave Anderson-Bass (X in search of Space) and Marco Anderson on Drums

Wishbone ash on the other hand sounded fantastic, they had that classic interchange with one guitarist had a Gibson ES and the other a Fender Strat, they were all great musicians and had practices well for the gig and again played all of there classic hits, in fine style. they were really tight.

Focus were the last band on, and played a blinder, there is only 1 origonal member left, the keyboard player and flautist, all the other musicians were superb and played all the classic Focus songs like they had recorded them all those years ago inn the late 60's and early 70's.
The young guitarist was note perfect on every solo, so had obviously practiced very hard to get as good as he was.
all together a Cracking GIG and a real treat for an old rocker like me...lol

Where and when was the gig?

Hawkwise wrote: Ewwwwwww you lucky bugger , three my fav Bands  in one gig how sweet is that,  I Can Understand what you said about the Groundhogs they can be very Hit and Miss Live  Tony "TS"  never plays his songs the same way  i have seen him when he totlay blown me away and other times it was like he wishes he wasnt there but gues we all have bad days at the Office . but I Do LOVE the Groundhogs,  havent seen Wishbone Ash Since  70s  Have to say the 5 times i did see them i would say One the Best Live Bands ive ever seen, Focus awwwwwwww man one Band i never got to see you Lucky Bugger

Yes i am pleased that i got to go...i dont get much chance to do the gig thing so much these day due to family commitments etc......but yes it was one cool gig.

I also love the groundhogs having seen them 4 times over the last 15 years, as you say sometimes on form some times not.

I imagine from your Forum name that you are a Hawkwind fan ?  did you notice that i put Dave Anderson was played Bass with the groundhogs now,...pretty cool i thought !!!! he wrote "Children of the Sun" played bass very well indeed on "X in search of Space"..im also a big Hawkwind fan...especially the early stuff.