The Gringos

The idea for The Gringos was the success of Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. Jim Miller thought it would be cool if the group he was playing in could do a TJB song for the up coming high school talent show. The leader of that group jokingly said “What will you call the group, The Gringos?” And the rest as they say... was only the beginning.


The band evolved into a powerful hard rock horn band and established itself in the New England area in the early 70’s and by 1975 had produced their own independent album and released it on their own label Leer Records, the same label they record on today.
In ‘78 The Gringos signed with the UA (United Artist) label and their production was overseen by Snuff Garrett and a young songwriter/producer, Steven Dorff. But the UA label was sold as the album was released, and the album was sent straight to the “cut out” bin in record stores with no distribution. By January of 1980, the band decided it was time to call it quits; half of the members staying on Cape Cod, and the other half moving back to Arizona and California.
With the onset of the pandemic and everyone being locked down, the band began meeting daily. First via telephone conference calls, then via Zoom video. The band figured out how to begin recording the many songs that had been left undeveloped and unfinished from their vast catalog of music. The music you hear today was part of those years ago songs and the emotions still flow from the six remaining original members.