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It amazes me this band gets hardly any recognition

I agree. Basically, punk killed them the same way that Nirvana killed the hair metal movement. Before punk, Foghat, Head East, all the southern boogie bands, etc. were the only places to go for straight ahead rock. "I Just Want to Make Love to You" is a great single, and "Slow Ride" is incredible. Not sure that "Fool for the City" is so good. Anyway, I'm about to source the bit on "Spinal Tap." Geogre 16:24, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
The article states: "The group remained popular during the disco era, but after the emergence of punk rock, the band no longer had a substantial audience, and they stopped performing live in 1980 but continued recording for some time after."
Does this work chronologically? I think of punk as coming somewhat before disco ... 76-77, with disco reaching its heyday a bit later, 77-78.
That's one of the hard questions. Punk can be dated to 1974 with Television and Ramones and Talking Heads at CBGB's. However, I was really working with punk-era and disco-era. Both of these were lags. These are imprecise terms by their nature, but disco in the US was 1976-1979. Punk in the US as an era is really kicking off (so far as the public is aware) 1979-1981. The performers were ahead of the public. The reason that I made this kind of "mistake" is that the point I was trying to make was that the power and rock of punk drained away the audience for this strong rock, whereas disco never could have. I.e. the people who listened to Foghat wouldn't have been siphoned off by Donna Summer, but they definitely would by Joe Strummer. Still, I have no objections to changing the dates or modifying the prose. Geogre 15:20, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Foghat is also mentoned in several that 70s' show episodes, and in the prom episode there is a band playing Slow ride (SØX.)


[edit] 'British'

Altered the link "England|British" to "United Kingdom|British". Important not to confuse 'England', 'Britain' etc. as Great Britain is made up of 3 countries, and linking the word Britain to 'England' would cause offence to any Welsh or Scots, as well as confusing the meaning, something which I spend a lot of time fixing on articles. Grunners 19:17, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. Just a sloppy link on my part, although I do think these guys were from England. Geogre 15:20, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Isn;t norther Ireland a country that is part of England. If not, then WTF id Northern Ireland.--Dr who1975 04:12, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] origin of the name

What is the origin of the name foghat? (I am thinking of Bender's color choice of foghat grey). --WhiteDragon 13:19, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

It is, I believe, a hat. On the cover of "Fool for the City," the man with a fishing pole fishing in the sewers is wearing a fog hat. It is a yellow slicker hat that is lower on the sides than the front and back. Imagine the pulled down "Napoleon" hat but made out of yellow raincoat, with no bill. It's a hat that a lighthouse keeper would stereotypically wear. (I wonder if Wiktionary has the word?) Geogre 13:05, 5 January 2007 (UTC)