Brian Griffin

Category: Music

  • Tour with Taylor Hicks

    I’ve had the great opportunity to tour with American Idol-winner Taylor Hicks this spring. Read a review of a recent show here. Taylor also joined the Jamie McLean Band on our upcoming live cd due out soon called “Live At Gibson”.

  • Thanks Fred!!

    The golf swing is my favorite…

  • BG’s Soul Party!

    Friday night! BG’s Soul Party! Featuring myself on drums, Meah Pace on vocals, Ben Mars on bass, Rich Hinman on guitar, Rob Gentry on keys and vocals and Jamie McLean on guitar and vocals. We will be playing on Friday October 14th at 1am at Rockwood Music Hall. We’ll be playing some Stax Favorites including…

  • Sunday Morning

    The new Jamie McLean Band EP “Sunday Morning” is now available! We had a blast making it. I played some different sounding percussion on this record. More shakers, metal crashing things, an empty key of beer, etc to help get some different “junk yard” sounds. John Popper from Blues Traveler plays on one of the…

  • I Been Low

    Here is a video from our show in Ridgefield CT the other night. This is the first song on our new EP “Sunday Morning” which will be out in a few weeks!

  • Jamie McLean Band acoustic video

    This is from an acoustic show we played in Fairfield CT the other night. This is a new blues-style song that will be on our new album which is coming out in September.

  • Fun Shows!

    I got to play a set with The Gregory Brothers yesterday. For those who dont know, they are internet celebs who are well known for their “Auto-Tune the News” videos on Youtube. Amazing talent in that band! Such creative people! I got to control all the video and backing tracks with Ableton live and the…

  • Zach Williams Recording!

    Had a beautiful recording experience with Zach Williams & The Bellow this past week! We took over Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2 for three days and recorded live with producer Charlie Peacock and Engineer Richie Biggs who were incredible to work with. Here is a short video from one of the songs that we recorded…

  • Video of the week…

    Check out this kid playing GREAT samba with his fingers.

  • June Update

    We had a great time touring down to New Orleans and back. Tracked with JMB at Piety Street Studios in New Orleans, with Ivan Neville, Terence Higgins, Anders Osborne, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band. Killer! These are my ludwigs that I used – featuring my newly acquired 60’s red white and blue sparkle 26″ marching…