Our second concert is a rather short one. Clocking in at a little less than 15 minutes, it's too short to be a full concert and too long to be one of the nightly Roundtable picks. But The Groundhogs were one of the truly great power trios to emerge from the late 1960's and achieve critical success throughout the early 1970's. This set also comes from 1974 right around the time between "Thank Christ For The Bomb" and "Who Will Save The World?"

The Groundhogs had a reputation all through the 60's as one of the great heavy blues bands. By the time of this concert, they had become a three-piece, almost Power Trio but their bottom line was still heavy blues. They've often been mistaken for early Heavy Metal but, aside from the 3-piece lineup they don't have much in common with the Heavy Metal bands we've come to know over the years.

Here they are, also from The Paris Theater and also for a radio-only audience at The BBC in 1974.

My suggestion is to play both very loud and invite the neighbors.