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      100% ORIGINAL HIGH QUALITY 1970 ORIGINAL

     HARD FUZZ-ROCK UNDERGROUND PSYCH CLASSIC

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               THE GROUNDHOGS

    THANK CHRIST FOR THE BOMB

                                      

                   USA - LIBERTY - LST 7644

TOP COPY! rare by the day....

Getting hard to find... here, a high end quality sound 1970 first printing ...with grainy/textured gatefold cover ... the real deal from over 45 years ago...

Driven by magic fingers guitarist and vocalist Tony (TS) McPhee, the GROUNDHOGS played a brand of melodic heavy blues, that at times had more conventional song structions and other times moved into prog/psych teritory, and in either case the Groundhogs tore it up with their nearly unparralled playing. The hand picked guitar notes sounded like they were made just for the song, the drums are often all over the place making use of every available part of the instrument. Amazing vocals. It’s all about what the heavy trio did with McPhee’s songs, (like “Strange Town”, or the inspirational “Split Part 2”) in showing what the Groundhogs were all about. To hear them in such moments is to hear musicians in full exploratory flight, McPhee’s guitar playing and the free-roaming bass and drumming setting them on the same paths as Cream, and The Jimi Hendrix Experience...Thank Christ for the Bomb was the first Groundhogs album to indicate that the group had a lifespan longer than the British blues boom suggested. It was also the first in the sequence of semi-conceptual masterpieces that the group cut following their decision to abandon the staggering bluesrock of their earlier works and pursue the socially aware, prog-inflected bent that culminated with 1972's seminal Who Will Save The World? album. They were rewarded with their first ever Top Ten hit and purchasers were rewarded with an album that still packs a visceral punch in and around Tony McPhee's dark, doom-laden lyrics. With the exception of the truly magisterial title track, the nine tracks err on the side of brevity. Only one song, the semi-acoustic "Garden," strays over the five-minute mark, while four more barely touch three-and-one-half minutes. Yet the overall sense of the album is almost bulldozing, and it is surely no coincidence that, engineering alongside McPhee's self-production, Martin Birch came to the Groundhogs fresh from Deep Purple in Rock and wore that experience firmly on his sleeve. Volume and dynamics aside, there are few points of comparison between the two albums -- if the Groundhogs have any direct kin, it would have to be either the similarly to a better-organized Edgar Broughton Band. But, just as Deep Purple was advancing the cause of heavy rock by proving that you didn't need to be heavy all the time, so Thank Christ for the Bomb shifts between light and dark, introspection and outspokenness, loud and, era, louder. Even the acoustic guitars can make your ears bleed when they feel like it and, although the anti-war sentiments of "Thank Christ for the Bomb" seem an over-wordy echo of Purple's similarly themed "Child in Time," it is no less effective for it. Elements of Thank Christ for the Bomb still has the ability to chill, thrill, and kill any doubts that such long-windiness might evoke, while the truths that were evident to McPhee in 1970 aren't too far from reality today.

Strange Town Darkness is No Friend Soldier Thank Christ For The Bomb Ship On The Ocean Garden Status People Rich Man, Poor Man Eccentric Man

              

 

CONDITION: The cover: rated: Thick matte gatefold cover is "EX" (excellent)  very solid/stiff and well preserved (46 years old!) ...the cream colored matte textured gatefold normally shows shelf wear quite easily - here in NICE collectible copy...no split seams, no bends, no writing = no problems and quite collectible ...

The vinyl: Rated: near M-  play graded here with M- clean audio no distracting surface problems ...  both Liberty labels are clean

            

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!

 

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