Yeah, Hellbound Train live is a repackage of the material I mentioned and another similar collection from a year or two ago called "Jack the Toad." Definitely total ear blow-out lo-fi blooz shouting and guitar violence. You won't be able to play it around anyone who's not completely into the early live Savoy Brown/Groundhogs/TYA at Klooks Kleek/Mike Vernon thing. It's an exclusive rock noise club; at volume, way beyond extreme metal.
― George Smith, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 06:09 (twenty years ago) link
fuck yeah
― chaki, Friday, 9 November 2007 22:11 (sixteen years ago) link
That's a plus for 70's hard rock. It's real woman-hate inspiring stuff -- not lyrically, but sonically.
this is fuckin nuts. This is pretty much ALL my wife ever wants to listen to! Zep, AC/DC, Black Sabbath, etc. I dunno how she feels about the Groundhogs but she's definitely listened to them.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 9 November 2007 22:25 (sixteen years ago) link
the groundhogs KICK FUCKING ASS PEOPLE. LISTEN!!@#!@@#!@#
― chaki, Friday, 9 November 2007 23:33 (sixteen years ago) link
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s18780.jpg
One of the best record sleeves ever. I wish there was a pic online of the full fold-out. And, of course ... bad ass band.
― Romeo Jones, Saturday, 10 November 2007 20:41 (sixteen years ago) link
CALL ME AN ECCENTRIC MAN
― strgn, Saturday, 5 July 2008 08:32 (fifteen years ago) link
First two Groundhogs LPs reished on vinyl courtesy of Sundazed...
http://www.sundazed.com/artists.php?artistID=367
― Plunge Protection Team, Friday, 6 February 2009 23:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Just finish listening to Who Will Save the World? The Mighty Groundhogs and I must say this one fucking great album. It still sounds fresh and to certain extent ahead of its time. I can see how Malkmus was influenced by them.
― micheline, Saturday, 12 December 2009 23:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Listening to Hoggin' the Stage (the 10-track version, not the 15-track Hoggin' the Stage...Plus that came out a few years ago) right now. The roughness of the mix compared with the cleaned-up and kinda weak-sounding Live at Leeds '71 (recorded when they were opening for the Stones) that I had previously is really revelatory - the uglier these guys sound, the better, and this is some seriously amp-frying shit.
― neither good nor bad, just a kid like you (unperson), Monday, 1 March 2010 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link
i discovered this band as a teen, when the dad of some kids i babysat regularly lent me Split, Who Will... and a couple of other albums, because i was deep into zeppelin and hendrix at the time (he also lent me living colour's time's up, which i'm heavily grateful for). i taped the albums, but lost the tapes shortly after, and rediscovering them over the last few albums has been a blast... split in particular is amazing.
which album was 'i love you miss ogyny' on, though? i remember thinking it was a clunker of a title even back when i was a kid...
― Touch! Generations (stevie), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 08:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Please vote for this band in the 1970-1979 WTF - The Hard 'n' Heavy 'n' Loud + Krautrock, Arty, Noisy, Weird, Funky, Punky Shit - Albums Poll! - VOTING THREAD! Closes Mar 8th 11.59 PM UK Time - All ILXORS/LURKERS WELCOME
tony mcphee needs you¬
― Vote in the ILM 70s poll please! (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 22:54 (eleven years ago) link
hey scott did you ever hear any albums before thank christ?
― Vote in the ILM 70s poll please! (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
ok, this thread is making me want to rush back to fopp to pick up some groundhog reissues for £3 ...
i'm guessing i should start with 'who will save the world ...' ?
― mark e, Thursday, 11 July 2013 12:35 (ten years ago) link
hmm nice tip, thanks! "Split" is great.
― Neil S, Thursday, 11 July 2013 12:56 (ten years ago) link
SPLIT is my go-to tbh
― Puff Daddy, whoever the fuck you are. I am dissapoint. (stevie), Thursday, 11 July 2013 14:29 (ten years ago) link
This is weird:
http://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/liles-andrew-groundhogs-split-up-a-exhumation-by-andrew-liles-cd/DPROM.112CD.html
― You say tomato, Isao Tomita (RIP) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 14 May 2016 18:41 (seven years ago) link
yeah, i don't need that.
― scott seward, Saturday, 14 May 2016 18:59 (seven years ago) link
I think I wanna hear it onceBut not pay for it
― You say tomato, Isao Tomita (RIP) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 14 May 2016 19:22 (seven years ago) link
Spotify loves to recommend me "Cherry Red"." Recently it recommended me a Leaf Hound track as well.
― RIP Skeletons in the Closet (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 15 May 2016 22:55 (seven years ago) link
Spotify likes you, dude, you should ask it out
― You say tomato, Isao Tomita (RIP) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 16 May 2016 04:43 (seven years ago) link
Lol
― RIP Skeletons in the Closet (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 16 May 2016 07:34 (seven years ago) link
Listening to 'Hogwash' this afternoon I was pretty impressed by the productions and how it sounded. I knew that Martin Birch engineered some of the early Groundhogs records, so I went to see if he did this one. Birch of course engineered all the classic Iron Maiden, Deep Purple and other hard rock bands records.
I was surprised to find that Martin Rushent recorded 'Hogwash' in 1972, so it had to be a pretty early work by him considering Rushent is more known for doing so many of the UK punk/new wave bands like The Buzzcocks and Stranglers. Looking up Rushent's work, he did some different stuff early in his career including the Jesus Christ Superstar cast record, Gentle Giant and worked on T-Rex's Electric Warrior.
Seemed to be an interesting degree of separation to me.
― earlnash, Monday, 27 November 2017 01:36 (six years ago) link
Man, I just came across the second side of The Two Sides of Tony (T.S.) McPhee – it’s all ARP 2600, Rhythm Ace drum machine and spoken word. Wild.
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 5 July 2020 14:14 (three years ago) link
The Groundhogs - BBC In Concert is definitely worth checking out. They are much more aggro live, there is some serious noisy wah on those recordings. Pieces of it sound like what the Minutemen might have sounded like as a heavy boogie band.
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Friday, 5 May 2023 16:12 (one year ago) link
awww RIP Tony McPheewhat a dudehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdJa0JZwzRw
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 02:39 (eleven months ago) link
Man, I just came across the second side of _The Two Sides of Tony (T.S.) McPhee_ – it’s all ARP 2600, Rhythm Ace drum machine and spoken word. Wild.
― brimstead, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 03:10 (eleven months ago) link
:(
― Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 03:18 (eleven months ago) link
Riffs go on forever. Boogie on.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 04:47 (eleven months ago) link
seven inch edit of 'the hunt' here, wild indeed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJxnKc5gLlY
― rincton monkspoon (NickB), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 06:40 (eleven months ago) link
RIP Tony. I just picked up Hogwash and Who Will Save The World? The Mighty Groundhogs a few weeks ago, they're not quite up there with the mighty Split but that whole run of 70s records is fantastic
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 08:13 (eleven months ago) link
listening to Split...this band was fucking outrageous! what a strange beast they were in that zone of post blues heavy rock/prog/proto-metal/droopy moustaches/flare trousers
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 14:51 (eleven months ago) link
Truly a perfect genre name and description for said zone. (And as a point of comparison, I do recommend the three CD compilation sets Cherry Red has released called I'm a Freak, Baby....)
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 15:23 (eleven months ago) link