| Updated 3/25/08
"Time and Music are the two big mysteries.
When Andrew Griffin sits down behind the drums,
the alchemy begins and somthing turns into gold."
"Most drummers play the drums on songs. Andrew plays the songs on drums." Andrew Griffin is a drummer with many different sides. Whether he's playing rock, jazz, funk, or blues, Andrew plays for the song, and always in the pocket. Andrew works as a drummer, drum instructor, record producer and session musician. Andrew teaches private lessons at his East Bay Drummers' Studio in Oakland, California. The California Percussive Arts Society sponsored Andrew's drum clinic, Essentials of Funk Drumming, as part of their annual Oakland Day of Percussion. Andrew is a graduate of Berklee College of Music in Boston where he studied with drumming greats Kenwood Dennard , Joe Hunt, John Ramsey, and Gary Chaffee. Andrew has perfromed/recorded with: CAKE, Vince Welnick(Grateful Dead, Tubes, Todd Rundgren), Victor, Jonathan & Greg of Camper Van Beethoven, Kenny Margolis (keyboards Cracker), Jonathan Richman, Carole Pope (singer Rough Trade), Steven Yerkey, Ralph Carney (saxophone Tom Waits), Nate Query (bassist the Decemberists), Pete Escovedo (Grammy award winning Latin percussionist), Eric Holden (Bassist with Josh Groban, the Bodeans), Bruce Kaphan (of American Music Club), Chris Xefos (of King Missile), Jon Evans (bassist Tori Amos), Duane Jarvis (guitarist & co writer for Lucinda Williams), Jimmy Prescott (bassist G Love and Special Sauce), Darren Cassidy (bassist Cherry Poppin' Dadies), Bobby Lee Rogers (of Col. Bruce Hampton's Code Talkers), Herb Geller (alto Sax Jazz legend and Verve receding artist), Steve Fisk (producer Nirvana, Soundgarden, the Posies, Soul Coughing), the legendary Carol Fran (blues singer and vocalist formerly employed by Ray Charles)... Specialties: Electronic Drum Programming
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