Griffin and the Gargoyles

Griffin and the Gargoyles is St. Louis’ premier high-energy party and dance band. Recently awarded “best cover band” by the St. Louis Riverfront Times, musicianship and style is the reason Griffin and the Gargoyles has played to packed houses for many years. Their extensive play-list and freshness keeps the crowds coming back for more.

Griffin and the Gargoyles easily provides the widest variety of music in the St. Louis area and depending on the venue or crowd can play everything from Usher and Lady Gaga to Frank Sinatra, Elvis, The Temptations and everything in between.

Griffin and the Gargoyles plays classics from every generation including today’s hits. They perform everything from classic rock, 80’s retro and hair music, hip hop and dance, pop, alternative, funk, R&B, disco, standards and swing, country, and oldies. The band plays what you and the crowd want to hear. Griffin and the Gargoyles likes to mix it up so that everyone has a good time.

If requested, Griffin and the Gargoyles are able to play an entire night of one genre, such as dance or rock, or can mix and match to your tastes.  The members of Griffin and the Gargoyles have been mainstays of the St. Louis and national music scene for years. They have played in groups such as Gargoyle Reign, Gargoyle Lounge, Cavo, Girls Night Out, the Mark Arbogast Band, Silver Bullet Tribute to Bob Seger, Magnolia Summer, Mind Over Soul and Pilot.

Griffin and the Gargoyles has shared the stage with The O’Jays, Nelly, and Karmin, to name a few. They have played for The St. Louis Cardinals, Anheuser Busch, St. Louis University, Pfizer, IBM, The St. Louis Zoo, Rawlings, Young Variety Club, the YMCA, Ameristar, Harrah’s and Argosy Casinos, Wells Fargo Advisors, and The United Way among many others.  Griffin and the Gargoyles are available for clubs, weddings, private parties, corporate events, as well as public and community events big and small.

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BRIAN ADAMS

Summer of 69

AEROSMITH

Walk this Way

ALL AMERICAN REJECTS

Gives You Hell
Dirty Little Secret

LOUIS ARMSTRONG

What a Wonderful World

ATARIS

Boys of Summer

BAD COMPANY

Feel Like Making Love

BEASTIE BOYS

Girls

BEATLES

All My Loving
I Saw Her Standing There
Ob la di, ob la da (Life Goes On)
Lady Madonna
Pennylane
When I'm 64
Twist and Shout
Hey Jude

BEE GEES

To Love Somebody

BELL BIV DEVOE

(That girl is) Poison

HARRY BELLEFONTE

Day O (Banana Boat Song)

CHUCK BERRY

No Particular Place to Go

BIG N' RICH

Save a Horse Ride a Cowboy
Lost in the Moment

BLACK CROWES

Jealous Again

BLINK 182

All the Small Things

BLOODHOUND GANG

The Bad Touch (Discovery Channel)

BLUR

Song #2 (Woo Hoo)

BON JOVI

You Give Love a Bad Name

BROOKS N' DUNN

Boot Scootin' Boogie

GARTH BROOKS

Friends in Low Places

BOBBY BROWN

My Prerogative

JAMES BROWN

I Feel Good (I Got You)

ZAC BROWN BAND

Chicken Fried

BUCKCHERRY

Crazy Bitch

JIMMY BUFFET

Margaritaville

JOHNNY CASH

Ring of Fire
Folsom Prison Blues

CAKE

I will Survive

CAMEO

Word Up

RAY CHARLES

Georgia on My Mind

CHEAP TRICK

I Want You to Want Me

CHUBBY CHECKER

The Twist

KENNY CHESNEY

Me and You

ERIC CLAPTON

Layla (Unplugged Version)
Wonderful Tonight

JOE COCKER

Leave Your Hat On

COLDPLAY

Yellow

NAT KIND COLE

Unforgettable

COMMODORES

Brick House
Easy (Like Sunday Morning)

SAM COOK

You Send Me

JOHN COUGAR (MELLENCAMP)

Jack and Diane
Pink Houses

COUNTING CROWS

Mr. Jones

CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL

Down on the Corner
Have You Ever Seen the Rain?
Proud Mary

JIM CROCE

Bad, Bad Leroy Brown

CUPID

Cupid Shuffle

DEF LEPPARD

Pour Some Sugar on Me

GAVIN DEGRAW

I Don't Wanna Be

NEAL DIAMOND

Sweet Caroline

DIGITAL UNDERGROUND

Humpty Dance

DOORS

Light my fire

CARL DOUGLASS

-Kunk Fu Fighting

BOB DYLAN

Knocking on Heavens Door

EAGLES

Desperado

EARTH, WIND AND FIRE

September

ELVIS

Can't Help Falling in Love
Little Sister
Don't be Cruel
Teddy Bear
Jailhouse Rock
Suspicious Minds
A Little Less Conversation
Return to Sender

EMINEM

Without Me

EVERCLEAR

Santa Monica

FASTBALL

Out of My Head

FINGER ELEVEN

Paralyzer

FIVE FOR FIGHTING

Superman

FLO RIDA

Low

FOUNDATIONS

Build Me Up Buttercup

FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE

Stacie's Mom

FOUR TOPS

Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch
Same Old Song

FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD

Relax

FRANZ FERDINAND

Take Me Out

FREE

Alright Now

PETER GABRIEL

Sledgehammer

GEORGIA SATELLITES

Keep Your Hands to Yourself

GIN BLOSSOMS

Hey Jealousy

GNARLS BARKLEY

Crazy

GREAT WHITE

Once Bitten, Twice Shy

AL GREEN

Lets Stay Together

GREENDAY

Holiday

DOBIE GREY

Drift away

THE GUESS WHO

American Woman

HEARTLAND

I Loved Her first

JIMI HENDRIX

Purple Haze

HOUSE OF PAIN

Jump Around

HUEY LEWIS AND THE NEWS

Some Kind of Wonderful

INXS

Pretty Vegas

MICHAEL JACKSON

Billie Jean

JAMES

Laid

JET

Are You Gonna Be My Girl
Cold Hard Bitch

BILLY JOEL

Piano Man
Only the Good Die Young

ELTON JOHN

Crocodile Rock
Daniel
Tiny Dancer

JANIS JOPLIN

Bobby McGee

TOM JONES

It's Not Unusual

JOURNEY

Don't Stop Believing

KC AND THE SUNSHINE BAND

Shake Your Booty

KID ROCK

All Summer Long

THE KILLERS

Mr. Brightside, Somebody Told Me

BEN E KING

Stand By Me

KINGS OF LEON

Sex on Fire

JOHN LENNON

Imagine

LIL' JON

Get Low

LIT

My Own Worst Enemy

LITTLE RIVER BAND

Lady

KENNY LOGGINS

Footloose

LOOKING GLASS

Brandy

LOS LONELY BOYS

Heaven

LYNYRD SKYNYRD

Sweet Home Alabama
Gimmie 3 Steps
Simple Man

BARRY MANILOW

Mandy

BOB MARLEY

No Woman No Cry
Three Little Birds
One Love

MAROON 5

Makes Me Wonder
Harder to Breathe
This Love

EDWIN MCCAIN

I'll Be

DON MCCLEAN

American Pie

STEVE MILLER

The Joker

MODERN ENGLISH

Melt with you

THE MONKEES

I'm a Believer
Daydream Believer

VAN MORRISON

Brown Eyed Girl
Moondance

MORRIS DAY AND THE TIME

Jungle Love

JASON MRAZ

I'm Yours

NELLY

Shake Your Tailfeather
-It's Getting Hot in Here

WILLIE NELSON

Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain

NEW RADICALS

You Get What You Give

NICKLEBACK

Figured You Out

NIRVANA

Smells Like Teen Spirit

THE OHIO PLAYERS

Love Rollercoaster

ROY ORBISON

Pretty Woman

OTIS DAY AND THE KNIGHTS

Shout

OUTKAST

Hey Ya

TOM PETTY

Mary Jane's Last Dance

WILSON PICKETT

Mustang Sally
Land of 1,000 Dancer
Midnight Hour

PLAIN WHITE T'S

Hey There Delilah

POISON

Talk Dirty to Me
Every Rose has its' Thorn

DANIEL POWTER

Bad Day

PRINCE

Kiss
Pussy Control

RASCAL FLATS

Life is a Highway
God Bless the Broken Road

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE

Killing in the Name

RAMONES

Sedated

OTIS REDDING

(Sittin' on the) Dock of the Bay

RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS

Under the Bridge

R.E.M.

It's the End of the World (and I Feel Fine)

RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS

You've Lost that Loving Feeling

THE ROMANTICS

What I Like About You

RUN DMC

It's Tricky

CARLOS SANTANA

Smooth

SAM AND DAVE

Soul Man

BOB SEGER

Old Time Rock n' Roll
Still the Same

SEMISONIC

Closing Time

BRIAN SETZER

Jump, Jive and Wail

SEVEN MARY THREE

Cumbersome

PAUL SIMON

50 Ways to Leave Your Lover

FRANK SINATRA

The Way You Look Tonight
Fly Me to the Moon
Summer Wind

SIR MIX A LOT

Baby Got Back

SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE

Everyday People

SOFT CELL

-Tainted Love

RICK SPRINGFIELD

Jessie's Girl

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Thunder Road

SQUEEZE

Tempted

STEELERS WHEEL

Stuck in the Middle with You

STEPPENWOLF

Born to be Wild

ROD STEWART

Have I Told You Lately
This Old Heart of Mine

SUBLIME

Santeria
What I got

TEMPTATIONS

My girl

THREE DOG NIGHT

Joy to the World (Jeremiah was a Bullfrog)

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE

Sexyback
What Goes Around Comes Around

TOADIES

Possom Kingdom

TONE LOC

Wild Thing

TRAIN

Drops of Jupiter

TUPAC AND DR. DRE

California Love

TURTLES

Happy Together

TOMMY TUTONE

Jenny, Jenny (867-5309)

U2

One
All I Want is You
The Sweetest Thing
Angel of Harlem

UNCLE CRACKER

Follow Me

USHER

Yeah

FRANKIE VALLIE

You're too Good to be True (Can't Take my Eyes Off of You)

THE VIOLENT FEMMES

Blister in the Sun

WAR

Low Rider

WEEZER

Beverly Hills

THE WHITE STRIPES

7 Nation Army

WILD CHERRY

Play that Funky Music (White Boy)

BILL WITHERS

Aint No Sunshine
Lean on Me

STEVIE WONDER

Signed, Sealed Delivered
Superstition
I Just Called to Say I Love You

3 DOORS DOWN

Kryptonite

50 CENT

In Da Club

STANDARDS/COCKTAIL HOUR SONGS

It Had to Be You
The Way You Look Tonight
What a Wonderful World
Georgia on My Mind
Summer Wind
Fly Me to the Moon
Unforgettable
As Time Goes By
Moonglow
I'm in the Mood for Love
The Nearness of You
Till There Was You
That's All
Smile
These Foolish Things
You Send Me

SEASONAL

Merry Xmas Baby
Here Comes Santa Clause
Auld Lang Syne
Monster Mash
Horah / Hava Nagila