The Groundhogs appreciation thread

[Divisive Cotton]

Fronted by singer / songwriter and ace blues guitar player Tony 'TS' McPhee the Groundhogs are one of Britain's greatest ever bands and, sadly, the most neglected...

Tony McPhee I salute you sir!!

Their best albums are

Blues Obituary (September 1969)
Thank Christ For The Bomb (May 1970)
Split (March 1971)
Who Will Save the World? The Mighty Groundhogs (March 1972)
Hogwash (November 1972)
Solid (June 1974)

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

or

i'm surprised nobody has mentioned the groundhogs yet

 

[danny la rouge]

Split's my favourite. I might look it out later. Cheers.

 

[Santino]

Didn't we do this yesterday?

 

[belboid]

I only know Split & Thank Christ For The Bomb. They are both very good. Band were still great when I saw them ten years ago as well

 

[seeformiles]

We used to do a cover version of "Split Part 2" - must dig out the LP!

 

[Divisive Cotton]

Didn't we do this yesterday?

we should have a groundhogs appreciate thread every day

 

[Santino]

we should have a groundhogs appreciate thread every day

We do but only I remember it.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Fronted by singer / songwriter and ace blues guitar player Tony 'TS' McPhee the Groundhogs are one of Britain's greatest ever bands and, sadly, the most neglected...

Tony McPhee I salute you sir!!

Their best albums are

Blues Obituary (September 1969)
Thank Christ For The Bomb (May 1970)
Split (March 1971)
Who Will Save the World? The Mighty Groundhogs (March 1972)
Hogwash (November 1972)
Solid (June 1974)

Have all of the above (all on CD now, originally on vinyl or cassette), plus a couple of c90s full of radio sessions that are lurking around somewhere.

 

[audiotech]

 

[sunnysidedown]

I remember when I first heard The Hunt (from The Two Sides of Tony McPhee) and being reminded of A Pagan Day by Psychic TV (with a mix of Hawkwind, Sonic Boom's (Spacemen 3) Forever Alien album & The Clangers thrown in), I was surprised it was from '73.
There's a bit of a connection there as well as Spacemen 3/Sonic Boom used to play with PTV during the mid-late 80's and David Tibet who used to be in the first incarnation of PTV covered The Groundhogs' Sad Go Round back in the early 90's with his band Current 93. And Tony has now started playing live with C93.

BTW, it was Nick Saloman of The Bevis Frond (another overlooked British guitarist/songwriter) who played guitar on the C93 cover of Sad Go Round.

 

[Smangus]

bevis frond, now there's a good psyche band!

 

[nino_savatte]

Great music, shite lyrics.

Fave albums include
Hogwash
Crosscut Saw
Split

 

[SaskiaJayne]

Ha! a few of us about. I remember boppin about to Cherry Red when it first came out. I'm sure I saw the Groundhogs play at Essex uni at the time.

 

[two sheds]

First band I saw, Birmingham ooo 1970 i think. Good n loud.

 

[danny la rouge]

Okay, campers, rise and shine, and don't forget your booties 'cause it's cooooold out there today.

 

[seeformiles]

Okay, campers, rise and shine, and don't forget your booties 'cause it's cooooold out there today.

 

[danny la rouge]

Nice going boys, you’re playing yesterday’s tape.

 

[cuppa tee]

r.i.p t.s



Anthony Charles McPhee (23 March 1944 – 6 June 2023

 

[nino_savatte]

RIP Tony 'TS' McPhee.

 

[seeformiles]

 

[cuppa tee]

tribute in the guardian

The Groundhogs’ Tony McPhee will remain a hero for the musically adventurous

Influencing Arctic Monkeys to Underworld, with music that spanned blues with John Lee Hooker to avant-garde synth experiments, the late musician was an astonishing British great

www.theguardian.com