About As Curious As It Can Be

Gryphon | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 3, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Hux Records
• ASIN: B000063580
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #101,606 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Renaissance Dance Medley

2. Midnight Mushrumps

3. Ethelion

4. Wallbanger

5. The Last Flash Of Gaberdine Tailor

6. Le Cambrioleur Est Dans Le Mouchoir

7. Ein Klein Heldenlben

8. Jigs

Editorial Reviews

This CD features two previously unreleased BBC concerts, recorded in 1974 & 1975. The booklet includes many rare photographs taken from the band's own archive, and the liner notes by Gryphon guitarist Graeme Taylor. 8 tracks. 2002.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "YOU sing, I've forgotten the words!", January 20, 2005

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Robert Carlberg (Seattle) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: About As Curious As It Can Be (Audio CD)

Amongst all of the musical experiments that flourished in the fecund 1970s, Gryphon was one of the brightest and most short-lived (1972-1977). With only five albums to their oeuvre it was all too easy to fall in love with them and still feel unrequited. Literally hundreds of British bands explored the territory between folk music and rock, but only ONE tried to knit Medieval instrumentation with progressive rock sensibilities. Perhaps the devilish difficulty involved frightened off any imitators?

For jilted lovers the arrival of two archival CDs nearly thirty years later (the other being "Glastonbury Carol") recorded in pristine sound by the BBC (and miraculously NOT erased following the broadcast!) was like manna from heaven. Most of the songs here are already familiar from the LPs, but enough different to delight even fans who've memorized the set. And there are a couple numbers on each disc which have never been heard before.

Humourous & insightful liner notes by Graeme Taylor, 4 rare photos and a collage of press clippings treat the eyes as well as the ears. Few archival discoveries have been as successful and welcome as these.