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	Fly Magazine-Band/Performers Archive Article
		Bands are making about the same as they made in the early '70s." Despite limited earnings with Gryphon, which formed as a classic rock band three years ago, Griffin says his solo acoustic route is much more profitable.
		Griffin says the band is looking to record tracks for its first release, Electric Nightmares, in the coming months, with a release date tentatively set for early 2003.
		Griffin describes the band formation in spring 1999 and the beginnings of his solo act in 1998 as sort of a rebirth after a 20-year professional music hiatus.
	www.flymagazine.net /archive_bands_article.cfm?id=00027ec9 (1120 words)

	Erick Griffin's Favorite Band Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This page list's my favorite bands, gives you some information on them, and allows you to access their hompages.
		Although they only have one CD out, with a new one on the way at the end of March 03, they have made their impact on the musical world and will continue to as long as they play.
		Recently they have lost their key bass player, but with a new replacement they are back on track and are having a Big summer tour.
	www.uwm.edu /People/griffine (376 words)

	Griffin, Merv
		Griffin's career as a television talk show host was associated from the beginning with that of Johnny Carson, the reigning "king of late night talk" from the 1960s through the 1980s.
		Griffin's first daytime talk show on NBC began the same day as Carson's reign on the Tonight show, and if Carson was consistently rated number one as national talk show host, Griffin was for significant periods of time clearly number two.
		Griffin, who came to New York to sign a record contract with RCA in the early 1950s, was subject to a series of other influences.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/G/htmlG/griffinmerv/griffinmerv.htm (879 words)

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		Griffin also said that the band is going to be featuring a lot of its new material at the concert this weekend.
		Griffin said he doesn't know why the band is so popular in the Midwest compared to the rest of the country, but he only attributes it to the fact that the band is from Milwaukee.
		Griffin said the band really didn't have any particular reason for releasing the double live album, which usually marks the height of a band's arrogance peak.
	www.bradley.edu /campusorg/scout/archives/041296/bodeans.html (930 words)

	Chris Griffin, jazz trumpeter in big-band era, dies at 89 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Griffin was a member of what critics called "The Biting Brass" trumpet threesome in Goodman's orchestra, playing alongside Harry James and Ziggy Elman.
		Griffin played with the orchestra from 1936 to 1939 and performed in the famous 1938 concert in Carnegie Hall.
		Born in Binghamton, N.Y., on Oct. 31, 1915, Griffin learned to play the horn at age 12 and moved to New York City as a teen to become a musician.
	tampabayalive.com /entertainment/stories/0506/050629griffen.shtml (249 words)

	Sid Griffin, MP3 Music Download at eMusic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Griffin soon joined a short-lived punk outfit called Death Wish, but in 1979 his musical taste took a turn to the sounds of the past, and he jumped ship to play guitar with a group called the Unclaimed, who specialized in '60s-style garage rock.
		While Griffin's musical enthusiasms continued to be rooted in the 1960s, he began to nurture a passionate interest in folk-rock and country-rock, in particular the sounds of the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers.
		As the band began negotiations for a release from their contract, Tom Stevens left the group, and after several gigs with a replacement bassist, Stephen McCarthy also turned in his notice, leading Griffin and his bandmates to dissolve the Long Ryders in 1988.
	www.emusic.com /artist/10563/10563614.html (852 words)

	Jimmy Griffin of pop group Bread dies in Franklin home - Thursday, 01/13/05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Griffin did not sing lead vocals on most of Bread's singles — that slot was occupied by David Gates — but his harmony vocals and guitar work were crucial elements in the band's soft rock success.
		Griffin wrote and sang lead on half of Bread's songs, his works were elbowed out by Gates' compositions when it came time to choose singles.
		Griffin left the band in 1973 and rejoined in 1976 before the group disbanded in a swirl of rancor and lawsuits.
	tennessean.com /obits/archives/05/01/64052547.shtml?Element_ID=64052547 (734 words)

	Bread's Jimmy Griffin Dies
		Griffin was born in Cincinnati on Aug. 10, 1943, and grew up in Memphis.
		In 1991, Griffin, Richard Mainegra and Rick Yancey (the latter two from the group Cymarron) formed the Remingtons and signed to the newly established RCA sub-label, BNA Records.
		Griffin is survived by his wife, Marti, daughter Alexis and son Jacob.
	billboard.com /bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000753001 (426 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When Johnny "Little Giant" Griffin was studying at Chicago's Du Sable High School, the famous band director Capt. Walter Dyett told the diminutive musician he had to play alto saxophone because he was too small to play tenor.
		Griffin was born April 24, 1928, in Chicago, and began studying clarinet in 1941.
		Griffin attacks standards, particularly war-horses such as "All the Things You Are" with ferocious strings of ideas.
	www.jchriss.com /bios/griffin.html (343 words)

	UIBands \| Peter Griffin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In addition to his conducting responsibilities at the University of Illinois, Dr. Griffin teaches conducting in the School of Music and is the coordinator of the Illini Marching Band Festival and the Illinois Superstate Concert Band Festival.
		Griffin also serves as head clinician and co-director of the Smith-Walbridge Drum Major Clinics and has served as a clinician, guest conductor, and adjudicator throughout the state of Illinois and numerous other states.
		Griffin served as head clinician of the University of New Hampshire Marching Band Clinic from 1999-2002, was co-producer/director of the pregame and halftime shows at the 1998 and 2000 Peach Bowl in Atlanta, Georgia, and has published articles in The Instrumentalist magazine, Band and Orchestra Product News and the National Band Association Journal.
	www.bands.uiuc.edu /people/Peter_Griffin.asp (243 words)

	CD Baby: GEORGE GRIFFIN: The Time Has Come (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Griffin talked about his career and his new CD just before he was set to perform at the release party for his new compact disc.
		Griffin, whose mother was a singer and dancer known as "Sweet Hazel," lived with his godparents in New Orleans until his mother moved from New York to Seattle.
		The piano player who was brought in, whom Griffin described as a "long hair," may have been able to read the music and play the right notes, but his playing was more appropriate for a classical performance or perhaps a Broadway play.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/ggriffin (3655 words)

	Welcome to Bands at Colorado State University! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Band Directors will be provided one complimentary parking pass, if desired.
		Membership is considered the highest honor achievable by American bandsmen; it recognized outstanding achievement in the field of concert bands.
		In February 1996, he was inducted into the University of Northern Colorado School of Music "Hall of Honor." This distinction was bestowed on only 18 alumni and faculty who have achieved greatness as musician, educators and humanitarians in the school's first 100 years.
	www.colostate.edu /dept/music/Events/HonorBand.htm (797 words)

	Band Bios
		When I listen to my favorite bands, I want to know if the album is going to take me to new places, or is the artist just going to go over the same old ground.
		Griffin says such playfulness led to a different kind of ambiance for the band.
		Subsequently, the band is good enough that his boss doesn't fire him when he is inevitably found out on stage.
	www.geocities.com /ezraletteslounge/bios.html (1883 words)

	CityBeat: Flight of the Griffin (2000-09-28)
		Even with Griffin's demure claim of a weakened memory, The Alarm reminiscence seems more the rule than the exception as he recounts at least a partial retelling of his musical history.
		Griffin, a native of Louisville, Ky., formed the Country-tinged Long Ryders in the early '80s, and ultimately relocated the band to the Los Angeles area, where it became associated with the so-called Paisley Underground, which also included the Dream Syndicate and Green on Red.
		Griffin's unabashed and vocally validated love of Gram Parsons at the time was as quaint and charmingly obscure as Parsons himself, and went relatively unnoticed.
	www.citybeat.com /2000-09-28/music.shtml (1486 words)

	Las Vegas Weekly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It's not the band's new single, "A Lifetime," which has garnered some airplay but has yet to become a smash; it's not even a song by the band, per se.
		Although his band has faded from the spotlight since their one huge hit, "Good," from their 1994 debut album, Griffin is more popular than ever, enjoying a healthy second career as an in-demand songwriter for artists from Day and Louis XIV to Cher and Paris Hilton.
		Griffin and his bandmates spent a long time dealing with bankruptcy court, trying to get their contract released.
	www.lasvegasweekly.com /2005/06/30/noise.html (550 words)

	Big Mike Griffin and the Unknown Blues Band Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As soon as I met Mike Griffin in person, it was clear that who ever first tacked the word "Big" onto his name really meant, "BIG." At 6' 10" and over 350 pounds, Griffin is a giant of a man and a "giant" on guitar.
		Griffin says that, early on, he was influenced by the late Mike Bloomfield and exposed to some of the finest guitarists Texas had to offer, including Freddie King and T-Bone Walker.
		During the song, Griffin got out of his chair and jumped off the stage to walk through the crowd, out the door and into the street, playing his custom-made guitar that he claimed was fashioned from his old kitchen table top.
	www.mnblues.com /review/bigmikeg-dp.html (541 words)

	NPR : Patty Griffin
		Singers -- and fans as well -- are drawn to Griffin's intimate portraits of the lonesome and often bitter characters she's able to bring to life so completely.
		Inskeep talks with Griffin in Studio 4A about her youth in Old Town, Maine, as the youngest of seven children and the inspiration provided by her mother, who would sing to her children throughout the rainy days.
		Griffin and her band also perform several songs from Impossible Dream, her latest CD.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1922088 (232 words)

	Griffin Musicians - Best Musicians in Griffin, Georgia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Finding the right Griffin musicians for your wedding, party, or event is absolutely key for everyone to have a good time.
		The Neons are Atlanta's Premier Party Dance Band and have electricfied audiences across the Southeast for over 12 years....
		We are a Variety Band that plays most types of music from jazz to classic rock, swing, nostalgia, latin,klezmer, dixiela...
	www.decidio.com /local-businesses/musicians-griffin-georgia-s49 (766 words)

	Johnny Griffin Interview
		Johnny Griffin won his "tough tenor" stripes in crack regiments like the Lionel Hampton big band, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, and the Thelonious Monk quartet.
		Griffin did not return to the States until 1978, when he was coaxed back for a guest appearance at fellow emigre Dexter Gordon's Carnegie Hall triumph.
		What are you doing with that alto?" I said, "What do you mean tenor?" She said, "You're playing tenor in the band." So I went back to Chicago and found an old Conn and rejoined the band.
	www.melmartin.com /html_pages/Interviews/griffin.html (3270 words)

	Griffin's Cigars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Each cigar receives a Griffin's band, applied manually, and is then individually placed in the packaging.
		The Griffin's Cigars are harvested in the Cibao Valley, the most fertile valley in the Dominican Republic.
		The Griffin's cigars are of the quality one would expect from the house of Davidoff, founded by the legendary Zino Davidoff.
	www.arotobacco.com /griffin's.html (390 words)

	The Big Band Arrangers
		Much of the music that we recall from the Big Band era, is remembered not just because of the melody of the music, or the interest of the Lyric, but also because of the beauty of the Arrangments used by the Big Bands.
		Not all of the "dance" and "society" bands of this era played Jazz, but it has been argued that those band's arrangers may have taken on the role of the Jazz musicians, by creating a form of improvisation, even if the performers were reading the charts.
		He was able to occasionally play in a band at just age 6, and spent a good deal of his childhood studying every instrument in the band as well as harmony, theory, composition.
	www.nfo.net /usa/arranger.html (11501 words)

	The Bands - Swingerhead and Merv Griffin's Coconut Club Orchestra
		The band are welcomed performers at the finest resorts in the country.
		In 1998, Merv Griffin, owner of the Beverly Hilton Hotel (Beverly Hills, California) launched something new- and something old: the Coconut Club, an updated version of the classic Cocoanut Grove, the glamorous nightclub that used to draw in the stars at the Ambassador Hotel.
		This band is still making a splash around the Los Angeles area and the West Coast with Merv Griffin and at special events he hosts.
	www.swingerhead.com /Bios/the_band.htm (999 words)

	BETTER THAN EZRA BIO
		We were able to spend as long as we wanted on the record, rather than have a time clock ticking away.
		We were able to explore a lot of tangents we normally wouldn't have been able to." Some of those tangents included experimenting with new instruments like the harmonium, which Griffin plays, and an unusual piece of equipment called an Optigon.
		That was one of the goals of the album, to approach it with that kind of naive attitude, but having the experience of a seasoned band.
	www.voxonline.com /alternative/better_than_ezra/bte2.htm (843 words)

	Nettwerk: Griffin House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As evidenced on his critically-acclaimed, Nettwerk debut album, Lost & Found, Griffin has taken the lessons he’s learned from such industry legends as Woody Guthrie and Bruce Springsteen, and applied them to a collection of music that instantly qualifies him as one of the most intriguing new songwriters to emerge in recent memory.
		Griffin House's label in Canada is Nettwerk Productions.
		Griffin House's label in the USA is Nettwerk America.
	www.nettwerk.com /artistpage.jsp?artist_id=1048&mode=bio (132 words)

	CMT.com : Patty Griffin : Sweet Harmony From Emmylou, Her Favorite Friends
		Griffin's set came last, yet she offered the fewest songs of anybody.
		She also brought her touring band, adding some electricity and vitality to the concert.
		If the so-called rehearsal was this satisfying to the ears of authentic music lovers, the rest of the cities on the tour are in for a fine evening of music.
	www.cmt.com /artists/news/1490142/08122004/patty_griffin.jhtml (674 words)

	TRUMPETER GRIFFIN DIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Griffin was an acclaimed member of BENNY GOODMAN's big band orchestra between 1936 and 1939, and played alongside HARRY JAMES and ZIGGY ELMAN.
		Griffin performed at the band's groundbreaking performance at New York City's Carnegie Hall - the first time swing music, which was a youth genre at the time, was performed at a classical venue.
		Griffin survived his wife HELEN, who died in 2000, and later became engaged to BARANGER, a jazz musician and arranger.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/trumpeter%20griffin%20dies (143 words)

	Ian Griffin & Casual Affair Cabaret Show Band
		The Casual Affair Show Band, formed by Ian Griffin - Britain's award winning keyboard player, has proved to be an outstanding success in the principality of Wales.
		The band was selected for a series of programmes on HTV Television under the banner of "Friday Night Live." The show featured many singers from Wales - the land of song.
		Engagements are usually confined to weekends but the band is always open to tempting offers.
	www.iangriffin.fsnet.co.uk /casualaffair.html (181 words)

	UnEarthed Archive :: News :: Griffin Singer Suffers Heart Attack, Band's Future 'unclear' ::. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Pete Beck, singer for the Norwegian metal act GRIFFIN, has suffered a heart attack, and is currently recovering at a local hospital.
		GRIFFIN's latest full-length album, "No Holds Barred", was recorded at Skansen Lydstudio in Trondheim, Norway under the co-production guidance of CHILDREN OF BODOM frontman Alexi Laiho.
		Prior to hooking up with FaceFront, GRIFFIN were signed to the French label Season Of Mist.
	www.unearthed.com /news/2004/04/0000030589.shtml (225 words)

	Big Mike Griffin & The Unknown Blues Band Live Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On this particular Saturday evening, guitarist Big Mike Griffin was making one of his regular South Florida appearances.
		Backed by bass player, Jer "Chili Sauce" Hoffman and drummer Johnny Bird, Griffin mixes his blues with some rock n' roll, soul and a touch of country-western to concoct his distinctive style.
		Surprisingly, Griffin told me that he has never made an appearance in the Twin Cities (actually in Minnesota or Wisconsin).
	www.mnblues.com /review/bigmikegriffin-dp10-00.html (515 words)

	T. Griffin Coraline - brooklyn, NY based Band :: Twin Cities Music Network
		Live, they use a small army of lo-fi loopers, toy samplers and walkmen to augment their acoustic instruments and recreate some of the deep sonic atmosphere from their recordings.
		All performances include T. Griffin and Catherine McRae and their landscape of samples and loops -- it's a duet with the force of a large, otherworldly band.
		Full band shows add horns, more strings and drums by the inimitable Bruce Cawdron to create a large band with the force of an orchestra.
	www.tcmusic.com /musician1731.html (208 words)

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