 moshkito wrote:
cannon wrote:
The Groundhogs were part of the 2nd. wave of the British blues revival and got thier start backing up John Lee Hooker in 1965. Entering the '70's the band left behind thier "traditional" blues influences are started to fuse prog, heavy psych, and hard rock. Your fav album from the band in the '70's? |
Not so sure about that ... I think I read somewhere that Toni and Eric came from the same school or area ... and both are quite blues leaning ... but if I have a chance to make a call, I would take Toni any day of the week, because his music and playing is far more exciting and lively and talented than Eric's. Eric may have the biggest hit, but Toni has the better sound, and music all around for my tastes.
"Crosscut Saw" is my favorite and then some, and some cuts on "Black Diamond" are unreal! ... But if you never heard his original guitar anthem that inspired Jimi to do his own at Woodstock, you haven't lived. "Amazing Grace" is probably just as important a piece as the other ... it just didn't have all the garbage for you to check out in front of you! And you all really have to hear "Live Right" from the Black Diamond album ... absolutely awesome music, writing and creativity. |
Tony was playing skiffle back in the early '60's and joined a band with the Cruickshanks brothers in '63 and took thier sound towards the blues and called themselves the Groundhogs after Hooker's song, "Groundhog's Blues". They played with Johnny Lee Hooker and recorded an album with him in 1965 and then they disbanded with a few line up changes and called themselves Herbal Mixture playing a mod/psych/pop and released a few singles and again after personnel changes and back to the British blues-rock formula and took on the name of the Groundhogs again.
So I guess you could say they were from the first wave(sort of), but Scratching The Surface released in '68 and was considered the second wave. I considered any release from '67 and '68 the second wave of the British Blues revival as any releases from '64 and '65 the first wave like the Stones early albums, Yardbirds, The Animals, and the Bluesbreakers. Second wave I would consider the debut releases from Fleetwood Mac, Ten Years After, Chicken Shack, and Savoy Brown.
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The "Mighty" Groundhogs:The '70's
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