Gryphon was one of the more unusual of the folk-rock groups to come out of England in the 1970s, mostly because they didn't confine their musical genre-melding to folk-rock. Spawned at the Royal College of Music, they started out making a name for themselves in folk-rock, but their classical training and their approach to composition, recording, and performance soon took them into the much bigger field of progressive rock, and eventually had them playing gigs in front of arena-size audiences.
Classed as "medieval folk-rock" the band were the closest to being a cult band that was around in the early seventies.At the peak of their popularity they did support tours with the band Yes and were seen as influential to such acts as Kate Bush and The Amazing Blondel.
In a readers poll Red Queen to Gryphon Three came out as the most popular release for the band closely followed by Midnight Mushrumps. Being a unique sound in this field of endevour Gryphon will be a much sort out band for such connoisseurs.
