Dale Griffin
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Dale "Buffin" Griffin (born Terence Dale Griffin, 24 October 1948 in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire) was an English drummer and founding member of 1970s rock band, Mott the Hoople.
He continued with Pete "Overend" Watts and Morgan Fisher in the Mott successor British Lions until their demise around 1978. During the 1980s, Griffin produced albums for Hanoi Rocks and The Cult, among others (such as New Model Army), as well as a being the producer of numerous BBC Radio 1 John Peel sessions from 1983 to 1994. During this time he produced a session by the Smashing Pumpkins, which included the track "Girl Called Sandoz", which was featured on Pisces Iscariot (in the liner notes, Billy Corgan referred to Griffin as 'Mott The Nipple'). "Girl Named Sandoz" is a reference to Sandoz Laboratories, where LSD was invented. It was originally performed by The Animals.
Buffin also produced some early tracks for Nirvana which appeared on their Incesticide collection.
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