Robert Griffin

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by Eugene Chadbourne
There is a batch of performers named Robert Griffin, many of them rockers. This one hails from Cleveland and should not be confused with Bob Griffin from Milwaukee, a member of The Bodeans. Griffin of Cleveland can be considered remarkable for how early his entry into the professional music world took place, somewhere between 12 and 14 years of age depending on which pimple-counter is supplying the details. Give a year, take a year, the Dark was a band of teenyboppers whose 1984 recording of the patient "I Can Wait" has been included in at least one collection of garage rock from Cleveland.



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