Groundhogs - Cherry Red (Live at Leeds - 1971) video free download


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Uploaded: 2011/01/09

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

Comments

9 years ago

redman19585

Me too was indeed very lucky to see the Groundhogs LIVE. God knows why they did, but they came to my small town in Norway, Played on a small stage. But a great audience, and they gave us a Brilliant show. This was back in the -71 or something, I think. Seems to be forgetting bits these days.

9 years ago

tonyhendrix

I was very lucky to see the Groundhogs play in very small pubs in london through the 80's and 90's and as good as this gig was they just got better and better , First time was back in 85 in a very small pub in Fulham London called the Kings Head , Me and my mate had to drag our chins up from the floor , we were just blown away so much so that almost anytime the played gigs in London we would go ,must of seen them over 50 times ,and worth every penny 

10 years ago

fattwat1

SAW THEM AT LEAST TWICE LIVE IN THE 70s MAYBE THREE ALTHOUGH AT NEARLY 60 MY MEMORY IS NOT AS IT WAS BUT TONY AND THE BOYS WERE ALWAYS WORTH THE PRICE OF THE TICKET AND NEVER LET ME DOWN UNLIKE SOME THESE DAYS

11 years ago

john walkerdine

GODS OF REAL MUSIC

11 years ago

7echo

You are correct....and Mick gave Tony McPhee the tapes to make this album....so thanks Mick Jagger for letting us hear this marvelous band live!

11 years ago

Dave Smale

"Split" by the Groundhogs was only the 3rd LP I bought since rock caught my attention in 1971, but unfortunately, I never did get to see the band live when they came to Bristol. Great track, great LP and I believe at one time, drummer Ken Pustelnik used to live 5 minutes away from me in Bristol. I'd see this chap walking around Windmill Hill & think "he looks a lot like Ken Pustelnik" and later found out it was him! Small world.......

12 years ago

Roger Fletcher

Fantastic live version of a Grounhogs classic-saw them many times years ago at Malvern Winter Gardes-brilliant.

12 years ago

strat Phil

"hogwash" is my favorite but not the most technical or powerful

12 years ago

LondonDada

Original rock at its very best.. you're listening to pure music history in the making here.

12 years ago

PlayRightAway

This lot are tnredible, i saw them loads in the 70 s but they sound vital in 2011

12 years ago

hinknown unson

Been lovin' the Hogs since 1970...theys the best band nobody ever heard of.

12 years ago

Mooie Garage

This is so wild. Great stuff. Recorded on the Rolling Stones' mobile recording unit at the request of Jagger himself (he dug the 'hogs), if I'm not mistaken?

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