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FROM THE EDITOR'S FLOOR: Saosin

Alternative Press - Rob Ortenzi on 9/1/09 @ 2:38 PM - altpress.com

Who's Jeremy Griffith?

Jeremy S.H. Griffith is one of many people Saosin worked with on In Search Of Solid Ground. But he's no stranger: The ex-college football player (he played nose guard at the University of Houston) is a long-time friend of the band who's mixed b-sides and songs on their Come Close DVD. On Ground, he came out to Los Angeles for three weeks and acted as a de facto vocal producer.

"We'd work on melodies together. Cove [Reber] would give us all of his ideas, and any lyrical ideas he had, and we would all just brainstorm," Griffith says. "Basically, it was as if I was producing the record and we had already gotten to vocals, and I was just walking them through the steps to improve it the best way I could."

Griffith first met Saosin through his former band, Moments In Grace. The Florida rockers worked with producer Brian McTernan and released an album, Moonlight Survived, on Atlantic Records in 2004--and toured with Anthony Green-era Saosin. Griffith ended up staying in touch with guitarist Beau Burchell, and soon found he had a fan in a young Reber.

"I actually saw [MIG] play [when I was] in high school," the Saosin vocalist says. "And then I joined Saosin and went and saw them again. I'm just a big fan of [Griffith's] work and what he's capable of doing in songs."

Griffith currently plays in the electro-tinged space-pop group Savio, but his main focus is his Florida-based recording studio. (He recently moved from Atlanta, where he was sharing space with Underoath/Chariot producer Matt Goldman, to be closer to family.) In fact, he says that he's "booked solid through November," working with acts such as the "Flaming Lips-ish" SUNBEARS! and recent AP&R Hometown Heroes honoree She Came From Above. Annie Zaleski

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