(What People are Saying…)
Still Standing: Just saw them at the Music Box. They were great! Really a tight band. They did justice to every song they sang. Good harmonies, and super musicians. Greg Grandillo is special on lead guitar.
Cleveland Musicians Reunion – the Party
Still Standing was outstanding at the recent Cleveland Musicians REUNION. You sounded great and YOU GUYS GOT CHOPS!
F A N T A S T I C !!!!!!!!
My new favorite band! Great seeing you guys last night at the Italian club! Fantastic!
These guys are a great fun band.
You’ll love these guys! Nice to see a band that looks like they’re enjoying themselves!
“Still Standing” playing Earth, Wind and Fire’s “That’s The Way Of The World” last night at Rock Creek Kitchen and Bar. 3/24/23. They really do this tune justice!!
· Last night was the latest in my recent series of trips to hear former musical associates who are still playing. I had stopped doing that long ago, even before the pandemic, because of hearing problems I was developing, and other reasons.
But when things opened up again, after the pandemic’s first few phases (and after we’d had Covid ourselves), I decided we should get out and hear these people, whose work, after all, I had found compelling enough to make me want to work with them in the first place.
So, last night it was Greg Grandillo (guitar and vocals) with Still Standing, four long-time veterans of the music scene, all still as good as they ever were. The band – which also includes Jim Mass (bass and vocals), Jimmy Miragliotta (keyboards and vocals), and Tony Mazzone (drums and vocals) – plays cover songs ranging from rock and blues to R&B and funk, giving them their own twist.
Greg has always been one of my favorite guitarists in this area. I first heard him in 1967, at a club called Ciro’s (at Cedar and Fairmount, where Bruegger’s Bagels is now), in a band called the Chosen Few. He later played in Rainbow Canyon and other bands. In the late ‘70s we worked together on some recording projects of mine (when I was known as Baxter Shadowfield). We didn’t work together long, really, but the material we did was some of my most meaningful work, and some of my best, and Greg contributed a lot to that.