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THE ALMOST: Almost Time
When Underoath's second vocalist/drummer spends his down time making a solo pop/rock record, then forms another band to play live, he ends up with two extremely successful acts on his hands.     

“It’s such a cool feeling being on stage and playing ‘Amazing Because It Is,’ and there’s 600 to a 1,000 kids singing along to ‘Amazing Grace,’” says The Almost’s newest member, Dusty Redmon. Redmon joined up as second guitarist in Aaron Gillespie’s Underoath side-project, and moments like this one have signaled that he made the right choice.            
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“You know that a lot of those kids haven’t been to church in a while,” he continues. “To me, it’s like when U2 plays ‘40’ at the end of their set, and there’s 40,000 people singing Psalms 40. It’s hard for me not to believe that God is doing something in moments like that. It’s really encouraging.”            

Indeed. It is.            

But to many of the brightest and best minds in the music industry, the recent mainstream commercial and critical success of Underoath, and now Gillespie’s second band The Almost, comes as a bit of a surprise. Put simply, his two young enterprises have defied the limitations often experienced by outspoken Christians in the world of rock & roll.            

Underoath’s Define the Great Line debuted in June 2006 at No. 2 on the Billboard Album Chart and has effectively sold more than 360,000 copies. The March debut from The Almost, Southern Weather, promoted in a unique partnership between Tooth & Nail and Virgin Records, similarly leaped to No. 39 on the album sales chart, moving 29,000 copies its first week. The Almost’s video for lead single “Say This Sooner” quickly entered “Big 10” rotation on MTV, as the track became a Top 10 hit at Alternative Rock Radio by press time.  

YOUNG AND ASPIRING

And all of this because Gillespie fought off boredom during a lull in the recording of Define The Great Line by writing songs. The Clearwater, Fla.-native says, “When we do records, I have a lot of down time because I play drums and then wait to do vocals; so I have five weeks or so to do a whole lot of nothing. This year, I decided to use that time to write a record.”            

Gillespie had written two songs while Underoath was out on a tour with Thrice—“I Mostly Copy Other People” and “Never Say ‘I Told You So’”—which he recorded in New York City, playing all the instruments himself. Then, with five weeks off in the recording process, he says, “All of these songs were written with the intention of making a record.”            

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