Broheems, You Do Need A Copy Of Black Diamond! A.K.A. The Groundhogs Thread

SPLIT is my go-to tbh

This is weird:

http://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/liles-andrew-groundhogs-split-up-a-exhumation-by-andrew-liles-cd/DPROM.112CD.html

yeah, i don't need that.

I think I wanna hear it once
But not pay for it

Spotify loves to recommend me "Cherry Red"." Recently it recommended me a Leaf Hound track as well.

Spotify likes you, dude, you should ask it out

Lol

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.

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.

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.

awww RIP Tony McPhee

what a dude

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdJa0JZwzRw

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.

:(

Riffs go on forever. Boogie on.

seven inch edit of 'the hunt' here, wild indeed!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJxnKc5gLlY

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

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

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....)