where is the love for GRYPHON?

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way back in the day when none of you were born but i was and so wz pashmina, gryphon were "famous" for being on all four BBC radio channels in the same week

their thing wz medieval instruments (viz SHAWM, SACKBUT and CRUMHORN) and medieval dance-forms, except to make PROG with

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 17 July 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

by the non-medieval magic of downloading i have discovered they are less exciting than i hoped

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 17 July 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

I LIKE GRYPHON

― Masked Gazza, Sunday, 17 July 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

=:D

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 17 July 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

do they make trippy mind blowing prog or stodgy boring prog?

and might they or might they not be compared to gentle giant?

― sir stephen melbourne, Sunday, 17 July 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

they are tweer and less "jazzy" than GG

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 17 July 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

I dig Gryphon, especially "Red Queen to the Gryphon Three." That's a pretty bad ass mix of medieval polyphony and rock. Good stuff.

James

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Sunday, 17 July 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

Gentle giant is more eclectic and hard rocking. Gryphon is more folky, less eclectic, and considerably less hardrocking. If you took a "medieval" break out of a Gentle Giant song and extended it into a full lenght song you'd have something similar to Gryphon. Early Gryphon is almost exclusively in a medieval/renaissance/early baroque vein but with some rock bombast. "Red Queen to the Gryphon Three" is a more pronounced fusion and entirely instrumental. The stuff thereafter is more conventionally pop.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Sunday, 17 July 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

Yes Red Queen to Gryphon Three is really good. It's like a rock symphony with four movements, and is somewhat programmatic.

― Telegram Sam, Monday, 18 July 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

Midnight Mushrumps is my favorite; They should never have allowed singing. Red Queen To Gryphon Three is the only one that received a proper issue in the US (on an LP); all 4 proper Gryphon albums were licensed in Japan, and sound great. There is also at least one Richard Harbey solo LP! More Crumhorn! Not really comparable to GG, IMHO. For fans of Tom Newman's Faerie Symphony...and some Mike Oldfield albums.

― SoHoLa (SoHoLa), Monday, 18 July 2005 04:08 (twenty years ago)

Looks like this lot are intent on a Gryphon revival...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 18 July 2005 10:11 (twenty years ago)

Sometimes the 70s just were crap

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 18 July 2005 10:15 (twenty years ago)

That reminds me, I saw a Third Ear Band album going cheep the other day - worth it or bollix?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 18 July 2005 10:15 (twenty years ago)

The latter, I'm afraid. Buy Pass The Distance by Simon Finn instead.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 18 July 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

i heard my first gryphon alb the other day - they're no comus

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Monday, 18 July 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)

I remember seeing Gryphon on Magpie. Come to think of it, I also remember seeing XTC on Magpie (Autumn 77, doing "Science Friction").

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 18 July 2005 11:07 (twenty years ago)

Tommy Boyd is a hip fellow when it comes to music. One night I 'phoned his old Talk Sport "Human Zoo" show and played "Kill Or Be Killed" by Bloodclat Gangsta Youth down the 'phone. He raved and thought it was the greatest record ever. "PUNK LIVES!" he exclaimed.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 18 July 2005 11:11 (twenty years ago)

Never heard Gryphon and I'm not entirely sure I'd like them, but Graeme Taylor is on the first few Albion Band records which are right nice in places. Was he in Spriguns of Tolgus too perhaps?

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 18 July 2005 11:11 (twenty years ago)

(x-post)Haha no, they tehpwnzriate Comus x 1,000,000,000 no returns, not least because they didn't sing much, ugh.

Plenty of luv for GRYPHON here, obv. I like "Red Queen to Gryphon Three" best, it's always a pleasure to sit & listen to all the little parts weaving in and out of one another. It is one of my favourite albums ever. I don't much care for "Treason", but I like the other stuff, incl Richard Harvey's library music albums just fine.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 18 July 2005 11:13 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

I'm currently in love with Red Queen To Gryphon Three and Midnight Mushrumps, they've just been reissued here actually. AND it seems they've reformed! Gryphon and Comus reformations in the same year - Gentle Giant next? Doubtful.

― Matt #2, Thursday, 1 May 2008 12:49 (seventeen years ago)

sackbut

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Thursday, 1 May 2008 13:23 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

Gryphon and Comus reformations in the same year - Gentle Giant next? Doubtful.

Righto I've now seen both Gryphon and Gentle Giant (well, 3 of them playing under the name of Three Friends) playing amazing shows this year. Comus next weekend but it seems you have to buy a weekend ticket for £80 or something, so no.

― Matt #2, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:23 (sixteen years ago)

four months pass...

I know no-one cares about Gryphon here apart from me, but anyway someone told me mainman Richard Harvey wrote the theme music for Gerry Anderson's 1980's attempt to recreate past glories, Terrahawks. And it's true!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyEvs5BXEGs

More Gryphon news as I get it...

― The people of Ork are marching upon us (Matt #2), Saturday, 31 October 2009 12:10 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

Sometimes I like to dance in my room to the sounds of GRYPHON

― Xerox of Fate, Thursday, 2 February 2012 16:42 (fourteen years ago)

ten months pass...

If you don't like "Ethelion" (the last track on Midnight Mushrumps) I dunno what to say to you.

― frogbs, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 20:19 (thirteen years ago)

i've been playing them a bunch lately.

― scott seward, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 22:47 (thirteen years ago)

one year passes...

"midnight mushrumps" or gtfo

― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 10 February 2014 11:09 (twelve years ago)

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