Talk:Gryphon (band)

Electrified bassoon
I remember Brian Gulland's bassoon being almost festooned with microphones—maybe half a dozen. Does anyone have either a photo or a written description of this? - Jmabel | Talk 18:57, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

where to start?
which album shuld i listen to first if i want to learn more about them or start getting into them?--Sonjaaa 07:29, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

I suggest you leave the last two albums till last, because as good as they are, they are straight forward prog rock albums with only a handful of medieval overtones spattered here and there, but these by no means sets them apart from any of the other bands that were around at the time. Listen to Gryphon, Midnight Mushrumps & Red Queen To Gryphon Three first, so you can truly appreciate what made Gryphon one of the most unique and talented bands that ever exsisted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.202.240.221 (talk) 13:48, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Gryphon Reunion Concert, 6th June, 2009
(Rescued from the log.)

The reunion gig took place on Saturday 6th June 2009 to a packed Queen Elizabeth Hall with people from all over the world. The four original members - Richard Harvey, Brian Gulland, Graeme Taylor and Dave Oberle - opened the evening with a selection of songs and instrumentals from the first album Gryphon. They were then joined by Jon Davie (the final bass player who appeared on Treason) and a new member, the talented multi-instrumentalist and film/production music composer Graham Preskett for the rest of the evening.

The highlight for many was the epic Richard Harvey composition of about 20 minutes "Midnight Mushrumps" which had formed one side of the second album named after that track, which was followed by a standing ovation. Other highlights were the (supposedly) King Henry VIII-penned song "Pastime with Good Company" sung with gusto by Brian Gulland (originally recorded as an instrumental); the atmospheric "The Unquiet Grave" which had been reworked to change the sex of the deceased from female to male, enabling the song to become a duet between Dave Oberle taking the female part and Brian Gulland to add spooky vocals as the deceased male lover. There was a similar duet between the two on The Astrologer, where Brian played the Astrologer eager to take the fair maid upstairs and Dave being the fair maid who preferred to give up her crown piece rather than succumb to the Astrologer's charms.

Brian Gulland sang the sensitive "Ashes", accompanied by birdsong. This track had been recorded for the Raindance album but was - along with several other pieces - excluded from release version of the album by the record company (it subsequently appeared on The Collection II). For the album, the recording had been made outside the studio (Sawmills, near Fowey in Cornwall) with Brian standing back from a stereo pair of mics allowing natural birdsong to be captured along with the vocal: the effect was recreated on stage in the first-ever live performance of this piece.

Another highlight was he first public performance of "Juniper Suite" from Gryphon - the talents of Graham Preskett enabled the performance of this piece which had been created in the studio through overdubs. There were also exuberant performances of signature instrumentals "Estampie" and "Ethelion".

Brian Gulland had been persuaded to regrow his beard to take the part of "mad krumhorn player" which he reluctantly agreed to do with the proviso that it should be shaved at the end of the performance, in support of Water Aid. This it duly was (by an attractive female makeup artist) with musical accompaniment by Graeme Taylor (guitar) and Richard Harvey (clarinet) on the Taylor composed "Le Cambrioleur Est Dans Le Mouchoir" from Raindance.

As one encore, a medley from Red Queen To Gryphon Three - devised by Graeme Taylor and Brian Gulland from the "quirky bits" - was performed. The final tune was as the opening number; the first track ever recorded by the band, "Kemp's Jig" from Gryphon. After an absence of 32 years an ecstatic audience gave the band several standing ovations for a truly magical event.

(Rescued by Varlaam (talk) who, in over 30 years, has never seen so much information about this favourite band.)

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Red Queen To Gryphon Three article removed?
Hi, why doesn't the link to this Gryphon album show its own page anymore? It currently refers to this page, which I think isn't justified since the is at least from an artistic point of view it is a notable album. 89.205.129.127 (talk) 13:50, 8 May 2022 (UTC)


 * The discussion about that may be seen at Articles for deletion/Raindance (Gryphon album). All the band's albums were redirected to the band bio because of the lack of chart success and the lack of in-depth media coverage. If you can find two major in-depth reviews in WP:Reliable sources then you can re-establish the album article. Binksternet (talk) 15:56, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Searching for only a couple of seconds delivered two reviews for the album:
 * https://www.allmusic.com/album/red-queen-to-gryphon-three-mw0000245185
 * https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/40947/Gryphon-Red-Queen-To-Gryphon-Three/
 * The article for deletion link you referred to has been archived, and since the original page doesn't exist anymore, where do I go now to challenge the deletion of the album's article? (same person as the one who started this section btw) 85.144.202.148 (talk) 16:34, 18 May 2022 (UTC)