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Cherry Red
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Cherry Red
Album: The Best Of
Data di uscita:: 1 mar 2003
Etichetta: CAROLINE WORLD SERVICE CATALOG
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    Cherry Red

    5:46

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    One more chance

    4:21

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    Split (Part 2)

    5:16

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    Devilived

    2:57

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    Garden (1996 Digital Remaster)

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Informazioni generali

  • Genere: Blues / Progressive / Rock classico

    Posizione Midlands, Un

    Visualizzazioni profilo: 127676

    Ultimo accesso: 14/10/2011

    Iscritto dal 07/02/2007

    Sito Web www.thegroundhogs.co.uk

    Etichetta EMI/Talking Elephant/Blues Matters

    Tipo di etichetta Major

  • Biografia

    ............ ....Myspace Layouts.. at Pimp-My-Profile.com / ..Tree frog.. / ..Comments.. .. Tony McPhee had a stroke on 16th June 2009. He is doing well in recovery, but lost the ability to speak.... Tony has made fantastic progress and The Hogs are now back on the road.... Groundhogs gigs now booked in for 2011 (see listing facebook or www.thegroundhogs.co.uk). .. Groundhogs facebook fan page now set up, get information on gigs and the new album as its published. .. The Groundhogs are an iconic blues and progressive rock band characterised by improvised screaming guitar solos, which achieved several top chart albums (Thank Christ For The Bomb, Split, Who Will Save The World & Hogwash) through the 1970’s. .. Tony ‘TS’ McPhee is the talent behind ‘The Groundhogs’, and his outstanding writing and phenominal guitar skills have formed and pushed at the outskirts of British blues and rock for the last fourty odd years. Despite the album success, The Groundhogs retain a cult status, you are either absolutely passionate about them or have never heard of them. .. In the early 1960s Tony was invited to join his mates band, 'The Dollarbills' a local pop band, he persuaded them to start playing Blues and R&B after he had seen Cyril Davies and the All-Stars playing at the Marquee club and suggested 'Groundhogs' as a name for the band, after a John Lee Hooker album track. .. Tony and the band played all of the gigs on the blossoming blues circuit and then were fortunate to be asked to back Hooker on the final week of his first British tour. John enjoyed the company of the band and preferred to travel with them in their Commer van and asked the “Number one British blues band”, to back him on later British tours. At around the same time the Hogs also backed Champion Jack Dupree who later told Melody Maker that they were 'the best band he'd ever played with'. In 1965 the Hogs backed Hooker on an album which was initially called John Lee Hooker, but which has also been re-released as 'Hooker & the Hogs', & 'The London Sessions'. .. The first album 'Scratchin' the Surface' (1968) was a blues album with line up bass player Pete Cruickshank, drums Ken Pustelnik and Steve Rye on Harmonica. The second album 'Blues Obituary' saw the departure of Steve Rye and a more 'progressive' approach. Tony was now growing in confidence and wrote all of the songs for the third album 'Thank Christ for the Bomb', which entered the charts after John Peel played one of the tracks 'Soldier' on his Sunday afternoon Radio show and it sold 30,000 copies. .. The follow-up 'Split' went straight in the charts and would have made number one, however the record company had not re-stocked in time! Despite this ridiculous cock-up the album re-entered the charts, stayed for 6 months, sold 100.000, became 6th best-selling album of 1971 & Tony was voted 5th best guitarist. Also in that year they toured with the Rolling Stones and Glyn Johns, who was recording the Stones recorded the Groundhogs set, this was first used as a promo for the States (rare item as only 100 were produced) and released later as 'Live at Leeds'. .. Tony and the Groundhogs have released over 20 new albums since then, notably 'Who Will Save The World?' in 1972, which was a UK Top Ten entry, reaching No. 8 and staying in the charts for 9 weeks. The famous comic strip style album cover was designed by Marvel Comics artist Neal Adams of 'Spiderman' Fame. 'Solid' was released in 1973, this was also the year which saw a resurgence in Tonys solo career with the release of 'The Two sides of Tony McPhee'. The album featured one side with a collection of blues and electric solo numbers and side two, an innovative synthesizer based work called 'The Hunt', which expressed his disgust and hatred of blood 'sport'. In 1974 the band disbanded, till 1975 and two albums 'Crosscut Saw' and 'Black Diamond' were released in 1976. .. The Groundhogs lead by Tony McPhee (despite some short lay-offs and various line ups) have been gigging ever since. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..Collaborators.. Tony McPhee & the Groundhogs have worked with many people over the last 40 years the following list is made up of those with which there has been recorded work. .. ..John Lee Hooker.. ..Jo Anne Kelly.. ..Dave Kelly.. ..Champion Jack Dupree.. ..Eddy Boyd.. ..Big Joe Williams.. ..Hapshash & the Coloured Coat.. ..John Dummer Band.. ..Andy Fernbach.. ..Mike Batt.. ..Billy Boy Arnold.. ..Blue Cheer.. ..Amon Duul.. ..Yorkshire Chamber Choir.. ..Dick Heckstall-Smith..

  • Iscritti

    Tony (TS) McPhee, (Guitar, Vocals) Dave Anderson (Bass) Carl Stokes (Drums, backing vocals) Joanna Deacon (Vocals)

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