Friday 27 September 2019

US Gryphon, 1975





These guys made one hard rock/basic rock album in 1975 and then disappeared.  Obviously they shouldn't be confused with the British (dragon) invasion of the same name.  Overall, the sound reminds me a lot of my favourite Ambush with a kind of highly competent DIY vibe and all the trappings of AOR and arena rock without the productionary excesses on the part of a gleeful producer or more likely stoned producer (cf. Phil Spector, Beatles' Let it Be).
Nothing progressive to see here, move on if that's what you want, maybe the oddball song called Controller:





Nonetheless very enjoyable for those who love this late seventies style of US hard rock (like me and Tom Hayes).





2 comments:

  1. https://www114.zippyshare.com/v/iIu5h2lD/file.html

    https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/jvh750

    To my utter amazement, I saw that this is the 1033rd post on this blog! I guess I was too busy writing posts to even notice the passing of that millenium earlier in the summer.....

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  2. PS
    A user just pointed out to me Tom Hayes' Quasar Light - Experience This is available by the artist's producer here
    https://archive.org/details/quasar-light-lenny-wiles_201805
    (for free)

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