I honestly don't know how I missed this band all these years, except to claim disadvantaged status as a Yank.
At the urging of several friends I eventually obtained the Best of Groundhogs disc, and thoroughly enjoyed it, believing I had obtained the distilled essence of the band.
Well, hold everything. Live at Leeds offers a handful of the best Groundhogs compositions recorded as brutal (for 1971), stripped-down power-trio blasts.
These performances make the studio versions sound positively genteel by comparison.
If any tune suffers for this simplification and brutalization it's the opener, "Cherry Red," best experienced in the still-heavy-but-slinkier multitracked studio version... read more at http://phrockblog3.blogspot.com
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