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    Posted: December 05 2005 at 14:11

HI.

Can somebody recommend to me some good album by The Gryphon,please?
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Red Queen To Grypho Three

 

 

the first one is good too...  Gryphon - Gryphom (same title)



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I RECOMMEND YOU (IN ORDER) :

  1. RED QUEEN TO GRYPHON TREE
  2. RAINDANCE
  3. MIDNIGHT MUSHRUMPS
  4. GRYPHON
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Originally posted by ANDREW ANDREW wrote:

I RECOMMEND YOU (IN ORDER) :

  1. RED QUEEN TO GRYPHON TREE
  2. RAINDANCE
  3. MIDNIGHT MUSHRUMPS
  4. GRYPHON

Okay!! Who are these guys? Are they a current band? Or what?? Everyone is talking about them (nobody, I know personally ), but several people here! You have my interest! 
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Red Queen to Gryphon Three is awesome.

Raindance is good too.
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Thanks for your recommendation.I'll buy it because connection Renaissance and Rock music is very attractive for me.
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Red Queen To Gryphon Three is very good, but after this album they try to be more popy for the crowd.
its doesent work for them... 1978- no gryphon any more
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Originally posted by Greg H. Greg H. wrote:

Originally posted by ANDREW ANDREW wrote:

I RECOMMEND YOU (IN ORDER) :

  1. RED QUEEN TO GRYPHON TREE (1973)
  2. RAINDANCE (1974)
  3. MIDNIGHT MUSHRUMPS (1974)
  4. GRYPHON (1975)

Okay!! Who are these guys? Are they a current band? Or what?? Everyone is talking about them (nobody, I know personally ), but several people here! You have my interest! 
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To give a quick resume:

  • Gryphon - Their debut album, wholly acoustic, mostly short tracks. No bass, and no full drum kit. There's a mixture of traditional and original pieces, instrumental and vocal, all superbly played with a lot of humour and skill.
  • Midnight Mushrumps -  Album #2, and they've acquired a bassist. The first half is a gorgeous 19 minute piece originally written for a production of The Tempest (whence comes the title). Almost wholly instrumental, barring one traditional song. Drumkit and electric guitar feature on the closing track.
  • Red Queen to Gryphon 3 - their 5 star prog masterpiece! Wholly instrumental, and featuring electric keyboards and guitrars alongside the recorders and crumhorns. Ancient and modern, acoustic and electric, all blended into an album's worth of prog magnificence.
  • Raindance - A new bassist and a partial return to song oriented material, including a sprightly cover of the Beatles' Mother Nature's Son. A tad uneven, but the closing epic Eine Kleine Helbenleden makes up for any shortcomings.
  • Treason - the final album, after a long break. Proggy songs in the Yes/Strawbs vein, with some of their characteristic flourishes still intact. Spring Song is one of the great lost prog masterpieces, but the remainder of the album is only sporadically interesting (though to be fair the production doesn't help).

Albums 1 and 2, and albums 3 and 4, are available as 2 for 1 CDs and are well worth picking up. Compilations are a bit pointless, because you can get their entire output for the Transatlantic label on 2 mid price, well packaged CDs. There have also been some albums of previously unreleased material, but I haven't heard them.

I was lucky enough to see Gryphon on their final UK tour back in 1978, and damn fime they were too. No prog collection is complete without their first 4 albums.
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I wouldn't write off their final album too easily; it might not be up the the standard of the first four but it is still way above the capabilities of lesser mortals. Personally I love the track "Flash in the Pantry" with its amazing middle section of cleverly interlocking phrases on all sorts of instruments coming at you from all sides.

Gryphon used to tour with Yes in the mid 70's as a warm-up band, and as another member here has pointed out, got bigger cheers than Yes did!
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Originally posted by Syzygy Syzygy wrote:

Spring Song is one of the great lost prog masterpieces

Yes oh yes. I adore this song more and more every time I relisten to it! If ever I realised a dream of mine and presented a prog radio show this would be my opening track, methinks.
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The constant knocking of Raindance and the belief that its final epic track is all it has going for it really gets my goat (as we say here in England). Raindance is classic pastoral English prog from start to finish, more quiky and eclectic than the traditionally symphonic RQ2G3 and every bit as loveable

ALL HAIL RAINDANCE

I also love Treason too

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Let me add my endorsement for "Red Queen To Gryphon Three".

It's the first Gryphon I heard & is still the best.
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