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Points: 7003 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 13 2009 at 16:53
Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

I saw them headlining the Friday night session over at Whitchurch Festival (Hants, UK) back in about 2000... thoroughly enjoyable gig...Thumbs Up
 
and incidentally, may I just say how nice is it to see a thread where everyone has been so constructive and positive about the addition of a potentially controvertial band to Prog Related?
 
you all deserve some clappies...ClapClap
 
I don't think there's anything too controversial about Thank Christ..., Mighty 'hogs and Split going into prog related - some of McPhee's more straight ahead blues albums would be pushing it, but on those albums from 1970-75 they even used mellotron from time to time.
 
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Points: 4119 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 13 2009 at 22:41
Yeah good to see so many good responses . I Have been Groundhogs fan since 1975, i was around my friends house and his older  Brother was Blaring out Cheery Red,  ihave seen the band Many Many times since 1975 and have met and talked to Tony a good few Times,

And Yep Great to see Two Sides of in the Archives to. i Would review all the Groundhog albums on here
but  i am not to good at the Whole Review Thing.  and Split and Hogwash would both be 5 star albums
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Points: 91 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 27 2009 at 16:44
First heard The Groundhogs in late 1970 - to my ears, they were a revelation. I bought "Thank Christ..." ("Garden" is STLL superb) and "Split" ('nuff said) quickly. I got "Who will save.." (not quite so good) and "Hogwash" later. After hearing "Earth Shanty" on "Hogwash", I thought that McPhee actually got better the further he went from his blues roots. I saw them live in Birmingham in '73, but they did too much old non-Groundhogs stuff (e.g. an couple of old Elvis Presley numbers). I saw him again in Workington in 1989, but it was a "look how good I am" sort of gig, with little old stuff. he looked tired and haggard, almost with an "I wish I was somewhere else" kind of attitude. A sad decline.
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Points: 12816 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 27 2009 at 17:41
Originally posted by Syzygy Syzygy wrote:

 
I don't think there's anything too controversial about Thank Christ..., Mighty 'hogs and Split going into prog related - some of McPhee's more straight ahead blues albums would be pushing it, but on those albums from 1970-75 they even used mellotron from time to time.
 


Why are we pissing about? I'm all for a blues rock section we have virtually everything else on board. To repeat, we early progressive music fan had blues bands (e.g.Canned Heat, John Mayall) in the genre long before Krimson turned up. I can't wait to add Groundhogs with John Lee Hooker.

I trust Syz , you're musing there? I happened to deliberately played Stray with heavy Mellotron on Thursday's night show, definitely heavy rock not prog (i.e. the  first track on Suicide)
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Points: 7559 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2009 at 17:14
Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

Originally posted by Syzygy Syzygy wrote:

 
I don't think there's anything too controversial about Thank Christ..., Mighty 'hogs and Split going into prog related - some of McPhee's more straight ahead blues albums would be pushing it, but on those albums from 1970-75 they even used mellotron from time to time.
 


Why are we pissing about? I'm all for a blues rock section we have virtually everything else on board. To repeat, we early progressive music fan had blues bands (e.g.Canned Heat, John Mayall) in the genre long before Krimson turned up. I can't wait to add Groundhogs with John Lee Hooker.

I trust Syz , you're musing there? I happened to deliberately played Stray with heavy Mellotron on Thursday's night show, definitely heavy rock not prog (i.e. the  first track on Suicide)
 
And don't forget that Graham Bond's Organisation was using trons back in 1965 (or was it 1966).
 
The Hogs are a progressive Blues band in the same way that the Bluesbreakers, Cream and the Yardbirds were - there's nothing intrinsically different in the music.
 
Not Prog - but who cares anymore? LOL
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Points: 7053 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2009 at 04:15
Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

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I trust Syz , you're musing there? I happened to deliberately played Stray with heavy Mellotron on Thursday's night show, definitely heavy rock not prog (i.e. the  first track on Suicide)
 
I saw Stray a couple of times in the 1970s around the time Saturday Morning Pictures was released.
 
Happy to confirm that live they were purely heavy/hard rock. And bloody good too IMO, esp. Del Bromham.
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