Hoggin the page biography of groundhogs day
Hoggin' The Page - The Groundhogs' Classic Years by Martyn Hanson with Foreword by Captain Sensible "Tony McPhee is an absolute genius the Groundhogs' were a.!
| 1963-2004 |
| The Story of The Groundhogs |
Welcome to the Groundhogs Archive, this is not going to be a static site but a developing archive of the band through the last 41 years.
At present we have a short biography of the band, a list of major collaborations, listing of past Groundhog band members and a history of Tony McPhees moustache etc.
Hoggin' The Page.
called 'About Face'.
In the early 1960s Tony(TS) McPhee was working for Post Office Telephones and joined his work mate John Cruickshank's band, which was then called 'The Dollarbills'.
Neither liking the name or the 'pop' music they played, 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 track on John Lee Hooker's album 'House of the Blues'.
Tony and the band played all of the gigs on the blossoming blues circuit and then backed Hooker on the final week of his first British tour. John