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Dispatch

Shred: Okay it’s 10:00 Sunday night right here on 104.1 WBCN Boston, time for Boston Emissions. Tonight dispatch playing live in the BCN studios. We’re not sure if we get two or three of the members but they’re at the door so someone should probably let them in.

Shred: Dispatch going to be playing live in the WBCN studios, that’ll be happening sometime around 11 o’clock. The band is playing two shows at the Fleet Boston Pavilion on this Friday and Saturday night. Here’s one of the bands that’s going to be opening for them along with Strangefolk, this is The Kickovers from their Osaka CD and a band that also played live in the BCN studios, this one is called "Grounded" from The Kickovers.

*Grounded from the Kickovers played*

Shred: The Kickovers, warming up for Dispatch *laughs* on Saturday night at the Fleet Boston Pavillion, one of the two nights *laughs* that they’re doing – Everybody’s gasping because everybody in Dispatch and their entourage are in the studio with me now, not tuning their instruments or anything but watching the Western Conference Championship game in the NBA, so there you go. Yes we have a little TV here in the BCN studios, but it doesn’t get cable which kinda sucks. Also, oh yeah the Kickovers, like I said, playing with dispatch on Saturday. They’ll be playing live it the WBCN studios in about 45 minutes or so.

Shred: Well past 11 o’clock so sorry we’re a little delayed, we’ve been teasing the fact that we’re gonna have the Band Dispatch play live for you in the BCN studios, we’l that’s been cancelled, sorry. No, they’re all right here and they’re ready to play for you live in the BCN studios just like we have been talking about all night so would you please welcome Dispatch live on WBCN.

Brad (with British accent): 'Allo love.

Chad (with British accent): 'Allo.

Brad (with British accent): 'Allo then. Cheers mates, thanks for waitin'!

Chad (with British accent): Right.

Pete: How you doin?

Brad (with British accent): Peter.

Pete: I'm doin' great. We're gonna...

Brad (with British accent): Can you do it with the accent man? Fantastic!

Pete (with British accent): With an accent... don’t have one of those things.

Brad (with British accent): Play a bloody song will you?

Pete: We goin' right into it?

Chad: Aye.

Brad: This next song is the second...

Chad: second song

Brad: ...second song on our third album.

Pete: Alright, it's a tune called bullet holes.

*Bullet Holes* (acoustic)

Shred: Dispatch!

Pete: Alright!

Brad: Alright!

Shred: Live on WBCN - Boston Emissions. Why don’t you guys play that, you know, musical chairs thing...

Pete: Musical chairs, alright...

Shred: ...right now because they you can set up for the next song. One of the things that happens at a Dispatch show is they change around and reconfigure and play all sorts of... everybody plays everybody else’s instruments and since there’s only two acoustic guitars here tonight, they’re just reconfiguring microphones. But we do have Brad, Chad, and Pete...

Brad: and Shred!

Shred: And Dispatch! Live in the WBCN Studios. Chad, I love that shirt, the PawSox 1977 AAA Baseball. I’m all about the minor leagues, love it.

Brad: Chad, were you alive then?

Chad: Yes, I was one years old.

Brad: One years, dang.

Pete: What a, what a year.

Brad: What a fan you must have been.

Shred: Also, remember, speak right into those microphones.

Pete (louder): What a year!

Brad (louder): What a fan you must have been!

Shred: Okay, Brad, you don’t have to speak that much into the microphone!

Brad: What a fan... sorry.

Shred: Okay, we’ve got all these little scribbling marks, questions on pieces of paper, things that I wanted to ask you. I went to your website, dispatchmusic.com, and I don’t know what’s wrong with it or if it’s something with my computer but it was almost like a porno site that you go to and you click on and it just keeps on... windows keep popping up and popping up and I couldn’t access any of the information that I wanted to about, like, bio, tour dates... It would keep on popping up the DVD window and then it would pop up the tour date window and it just set me in this cycle and I’m like, "That’s okay.. I’m just gonna hang out with them and talk stuff; I don’t need to see the website."

Brad: Well, we like to throw a lot at you. We throw a lot of darts just to see if any of ‘em stick.

Shred: Those pop-up windows stick! I mean, you got the one pop-up window that’s about the DVD release... I mean, do you know if there’s problems with your website? Or is it just problems with my computer?

Brad: Well we’ve never even...Chad have you ever seen the website before?

Chad: I didn’t know we had a website.

Brad: Yeah, there you have it.

Shred: You have a website! As a matter of fact I think your likeness is on there.

Chad: I’ll have to check it out

Shred: You should really take a look at these things.

Brad: Chad you’d love it, man, you just hit ‘Return’ a lot.

Pete: Worldwideweb...

Chad: ‘Enter’

Pete: That’s weird, I thought it usually worked, I don’t know. It can be troublesome, most computers, you know.

Shred: Right, I mean, I’m not the most computer savvy person out there. You guys came from Chicago... was that not last night, but Friday night?

Brad: Friday night.

Pete: Yeah, we had a great gig in downtown Chicago. It was our biggest gig, it was I think 8,000 people.

Shred: Did you play a venue there?

Pete: It was just an outdoor festival for The Zone, radio station out there, 94.7 I think, is that right fellas?

Brad: Yes indeed.

Shred: Oh yeah, you know if they’re listenin’ out there, they’ll tune us in.

Brad: It’s the only place we’ve really gotten rotation and they kinda tested us out a couple months ago and now we’ve bumped up to heavy rotation. So it’s a brand new format, I guess they’re trying out a bunch of independent music.

Shred: And they invited... they flew you out and invited you to come play the festival?

Dispatch: Yes.

Shred: Who else was playing the festival?

Pete: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Sensefield.

Shred: Oh right. Well that’s an interesting...

Brad: It was awesome.

Shred: That’s an interesting bill for you guys to be on.

Pete: Yeah it was cool.

Shred: I mean, was there any sense, and now, have you played Chicago before on tour?

Brad: Couple times but much smaller rooms.

Pete: I mean the Metro and the Vic.

Shred: But the Metro is pretty big

Pete: Yeah, I think it’s 1100.

Brad: Those are amazing places to play.

Pete: Cool room.

Shred: Yeah, and at the Metro you’re right next to Rigley Field.

Brad: Yeah, such a great town.

Pete: It was awesome.

Brad: Such a great town...

Shred: So this one, you basically just flew out there for that, it was like a one-off radio festival and then you guys flew back in and all of you flew back in and thank you very much for coming tonight Pete, I heard that there was a chance that you might have to go to New York City.

Pete: Yep, no I made it. I’m psyched to be here.

Chad: It’s good to have you hear, man.

Pete: Charlie!

Brad: On be half of Chad and I and the rest of the band, we’d like to thank you for coming.

Pete: I didn’t know we were going right into a song there so...

Brad: You did great, man!

Pete: Did I? Okay we went right into it. Okay, good.

Brad: I’d like to thank Milwaukee, Chicago, and Providence for having me today. It was, it was great.

Pete: Oh, they flew you right in?

Brad: Yeah, the mayor met me in each, it was great.

Shred: You mean that was your flight route?

Brad: Train, plane, train, bus.

Shred: No automobile?

Brad: No, that’s comin’ later. I mean, after this we’re gonna automobile it for a while.

Shred: You’d be part of a movie... Steve Martin and John Candy.*

Pete: That’s a great movie. You’re going the wrong way!

Brad: You’re going the wrong way! What??

Shred: Don’t get your hand caught in between those pillows! Alright, well how does it feel.. I mean, you guys are, you’re on the radio in Chicago, but how does it feel to be such a kind of, like, large band? I mean, you’re playing two shows, pretty much should sellout at FleetBoston Pavilion, that’s like 9000 tickets. And to be really largely ignored by the radio? *laughs* "Feelin’ really good Shred... thank you very much for asking."

Brad: Shred! Shred you want us to really answer that?

Shred: Isn’t that just I mean..the only...

Brad: Well it’s cool that we’ve done it without radio I guess, but it’d be nice to get acknowledged at some point. That’s why Chicago was a pretty cool moment for us, you know.

Shred: Okay.

Brad: So, I don’t know, we just looked at touring as something that we could control. We knew we could book gigs and play, but we never knew if we could get radio support without being on a label. So...

Shred: Right.

Brad: ...we just kinda kept doing it.

Shred: Even if you’re on a label though, a lot of the bands don’t get radio support.

Brad: Yeah, there’s no guarantee really anywhere.

Shred: I mean, there’s a lot of the bands that, and I mean I think I want to go into that a little bit later on but there’s a lot of bands that maybe you get into and stuff that maybe don’t get the radio support that build phenomenal live followings. I mean, it could be anybody, as big as Phish or even, you know, smaller than that. So I mean, to me it’s kind of like you’re in a control position as you say because that’s the thing that you can control– touring, you can control recording your records, you can control selling your records because you don’t have a label that gives you all those, that is dictating all this to you. You’re dictating it to everyone, even to your fans.

Pete: I guess what we’re hoping too is that other radio stations get involved ‘cause I thought what The Zone was doing was really cool, playing a lot of good music. And we always felt that our records were recorded well, so you know, maybe at some point radio will pick it up.

Shred: Yeah, right, maybe...

Brad: Shred!

Shred: Keep the dream alive, Pete!

Brad: Hey, do you know anyone at BCN? Shred, do you know anyone at BCN?

Shred: Yeah, you’re on the radio right now aren’t ya?

Pete: Yeah Boston!

Brad: What’s up! Sunday Sunday Sunday!

Chad: Monster Truck...

Shred: Let’s have you play another song. This is one that Brad’s gonna take...

Brad: I’d like to congratulate England and Sweden on a great game today. Look at that goal!

Pete: Look at that goal!

Shred: Are we gonna have to turn off the TV guys?

*Prince of Spades with Alice in Chains "Rooster" cover*

Shred: WBCN with Dispatch performing live in the BCN Studios. Really Brad I thought it was gonna be Chad that did the "Rooster" thing and not you.

Brad: Oh.

Shred: I thought he was the big Alice in Chains...

Brad: We, gosh, whoever gets to it first!

Chad: I just sing Jerry’s part in the back, it’s all good.

Shred: Alright well Dispatch performing live in the BCN studios. You have two shows coming up June 7th and 8th. Both shows are on sale or did one show get...kind of taken...

Brad: The first show

Shred: ...is it sold out? pretty much?

Brad: I think it’s close enough that they’re not selling any more tickets.

Shred: Right, right.

Brad: The second show there are definitely some seats left.

Shred: Okay, and that’s this Friday night and Saturday night. You guys have been together exactly how long?

Pete: Seven years

Shred: man...

Brad: Seven long fat years.

Chad: Long years.

Brad: Seven lean years and seven fat years.

Pete: Still to go...

Shred: For a little while there, I don’t know maybe a year or so ago, there was talk about you guys...I mean it just started coming up real quick. I mean, did you guys feel like it came up real quick? I mean, seven years and then all of a sudden - Bam! "Wow, we’re playing to a hell of a lot more people now." And I mean, but that, to me after seven years wouldn’t seem quick because you’d been doing it for seven years but then all of a sudden in six months you went from playing, I don’t know, smaller venues to much bigger ones.

Pete: Yeah, it definitely happened fast. I think it was, we did a lot of touring of the schools -- high schools, you know we would play morning assemblies, we would play all the frat parties, weddings, and then I think it just kind of spread word of mouth and then we were lucky to be, you know, right when Napster was really big and so music was spreading. We went out to Pomona College and played a Halloween party.** We’d never been out there and a thousand people showed up singing a bunch of the songs, and so it was really kind of weird occurrences like that.

Brad: It was good timing, definitely.

Shred: So basically the free music exchange really helped you guys.

Brad: It was huge for us. And that was the closest thing we could get to radio. If people wanted to hear our music, they could go to Napster and find it.

Shred: Right.

Brad: So you know, we became good buddies with Sean Fanning*** and while there were plenty of flaws in his system, it was kind of a cool step towards just quality music rising to the top.

Shred: Is that, I mean, essentially do you attribute a lot of your rise to Napster? I mean, was there any other sort of things that came into play? Other than a lot of hard working and touring? Finally?

Brad: Well our booking agent I’d say had a lot to do with it too, I mean we we’re lucky enough to have kind of residency gigs here at The Middle East and in New York at The Wetlands but we couldn’t get ourselves booked, you know, across the country even though we knew we had pockets of fans. So once we got with our booking agent he just put us on really good tours and got in front of all those people and we were able to kinda step over a lot of the smaller gigs once we proved that we had a good fan base out there.

Shred: Yeah, and I mean it’s a tremendous fan base now. Is it all the way across the United States essentially? Or is there still, like in Demoins, Iowa, still doesn’t know who the hell you guys are.

Brad: Yeah, we haven’t done that much in the midwest. Actually, Madison was awesome, Chicago...

Chad: Minneapolis was great.

Brad: Minneapolis, First Ave.

Shred: First Avenue, right.

Pete: Great room.

Brad: But San Fran, Los Angeles, sold out the Fillmore, sold out the House of Blues.

Shred: And essentially is this like a network that people are plugging into? I mean every band in Boston right now is like, "How the hell did they do it? What did they do? What’s their secret?"

Chad: I think, well, especially in Boston you just sort of grow it locally and then you just, you know, build it from there and I think we gotta hand it to The Middle East for letting us sort of have sort of a residency there, you know play like once a month.

Brad: Guys like Gamelan/the Avalon... they were our best promoters, you know. We didn’t have a booking agent and they just plugged us in whenever we could play in town.

Shred: I beat Andrew Stall every day...

Brad: Andrew! What up Andrew? It’s Brad, remember me?

Shred: ...on the roller hockey court...every single day I go and beat him up, every day.

Brad: Yeah, they were awesome to us.

Shred: And you used to be the band "One Fell Swoop" and that was basically when you guys were all in Middlebury College together?

Dispatch: Yep.

Shred: And you played down here significantly. You played Harper’s Ferry a lot...

Brad: Emily’s, little-known Emily’s.

Shred: To me, it sort of solidified for you guys when you played the hometown gig at Avalon in between Christmas and New Years.

Brad: Oh yeah!

Shred: It was like, "Oh my god, what is going on here?" Because essentially, school’s out! School’s not in. You know maybe the kids are coming back home for vacation, for christmas vacation and stuff. But that was I mean, everybody had said "Oh, this band’s got a college fan base. When these college kids go home, it’ll dry up." And you guys booked that show, and I was at that show, and I was just like "Whoa."

Brad: We were like that too, man. That was our first time getting headline. We were floored.

Shred: And it was at Avalon.

Brad: Yeah, we had opening there a couple of times, you know playing at like 6:00.

Shred: Essentially you had opened for Pat McGee and The Samples there?

Brad: Two different times.

Shred: Right, and that also helped out your fan base. And right now you’re giving it right back to Pat McGee Band by having him open up at the FleetBoston on the first sold-out night. And that’s great, that you know you’re able to give that back to Pat after you know, well I think that you handed him a hand as well with the Avalon show that you played with them and also The Samples, you know and then I think that that’s where people were like, "Oh my God... is this band... I mean, can we get this band to headline?" I guess maybe the people over at ClearChannel or whatever, they like took a chance and it was a slam dunk...unlike Shaq.

Brad: Well the first time we went West we went with G. Love and played some really sweet rooms and the promoters just kinda gave us their ear after that. I mean, there have been a lot of bands that have helped us out that we were really fired up to play with.

Shred: Right, yea there’s another great guy who maybe doesn’t sell a lot of records but still has a tremendous live following.

Brad: Yeah, definitely.

Shred: Can you tell us about some of the experiences because for a little while there you guys, and I think I got off the track, for a little while you guys were kind of breaking up... not breaking up... you know maybe there was a point where, "Well maybe we wont talk with each other for a little while and let the dust clear and figure it out."

Brad: We spend so much time in a van or a bus, you know. I mean the last six or seven years of our lives have been... they’ve been good but at the same time you kind of wonder where they’ve gone. So each one of us at times have just needed to get some fresh air, either do our own music project or just get away.

Shred: Right.

Brad: We don’t see our families as much as we’d like to. We’re not really "home" ever. So it’s been... it’s been tough, but it’s been good.

Shred: Now the only one of... Pete you released a solo record.

Pete: Yeah I did.

Shred: But you’re the only one to basically step out and say, "Alright, here’s my solo record." And do some dates around that as well, do some live shows.

Pete: Yep.

Brad: There’s some more Pete Francis coming in the fall!

Pete: It’s great I think that we all love playing with a lot of different musicians, recording in different studios and I think that our progression as a band will probably be something like the way Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, the way they go off and do projects and then come together. I think that we always had trouble, the three of us, being put into a formula that might exist at a record company and we just really wanted to stick by our own schedule. And so I think that we’re just pretty proud of being independent and playing the rooms that we’ve played.

Shred: Oh yeah, and I mean now, look at those rooms! Can you give me an idea what it’s been like talking with some of the major labels that you’ve been talking with because I know that they’ve been hitting you with a barrage of different stuff that you’re just like, "I don’t know, man, we’re just a rock band."

Brad: Get in there Chad...

Chad: I think, we had those meetings and we’re floored by walking into the Sony building and the whole, you know, all our favorite records on the wall. But it just never seemed to, you know... We met with a lot of different people from the biggies and their vision never synced up with ours so it just never made sense for us to do anything but stay to our own path.

Shred: Were they asking things of you? I mean, some of things, the rumors that I heard were essentially like, "You guys haven’t written a hit song." Yet, you go to one of your shows and everybody’s singing your songs! So I mean, I don’t get that myself.

Pete: Yeah, I think that we felt and we still do feel that the songs on our records are radio-worthy. And it’s obvious with songs, for instance "The General," I mean I think if the radio picked that up and played it, people would want to know what song that was.

Shred: Right.

Pete: And we wanted to stick by that because we felt like we really wanted to show the progression of our band where at the beginning we were sort of learning how to record, to sing, and all that and if we had sort of glossed over that and had the big producer and all that come in, and other musicians, I don’t know if people would have seen how our band progressed. Meaning that, you look at our records and you can say, "Okay, in a way it’s sort of like the way the Beatles, you know their records were sort of simple at the beginning and then they evolved." I think that’s what we wanted to show as well.

Shred: I think though by whatever... I don’t know if labels were actually waving money at you saying, "Alright, sign with us but we want these kind of concessions" or not, but by building up what you guys have built up and your own fan base and this going from Boston all the way out to California or whatever with great markets in there, then obviously you’re gonna bring a whole lot more to a record label and the ball’s gonna be, even though you want something from them maybe that they can achieve for you like radio – a single to get pushed on radio, ball’s still kind of in your court, though, because you can do this and you survive off of this band. On your terms.

Brad: I think we really did... what Pete was saying was really crucial because we never, we’ve had so many different influences and three of us write, all three of us sing and play each other’s instruments and I think on the first couple of records there’s a lot of kinda, a lot of other people sat in and played the instruments we couldn’t for instance and then when we started to figure out our own instruments we got a bit of a style emerged from all those influences. So all those records were so critical and at the same time we have the leverage now if we’re ever in a situation where we meet the right team of people at a label, we at least have a track record and we have a sound and we have a fan base and they’re not going to be trying to reinvent us. I just don’t know if we need it.

Shred: In a certain way they might have to kinda reinvent you a little bit because you don’t have something on the radio so once you do hit radio or MTV or whatever mainstream media then a whole new doors opens with that much more people.

Brad: I don’t know if we’re ever really gonna go... I mean, it’s gonna be a backdoor deal. What’s going on in Chicago was so unbelievable to us. I mean, we met with the president of ABC, runs a couple of stations in Chicago and the program directors and they told us how it just kind of seeped in through the son of the programming director’s friends’ and it’s now one of the, I guess they do their researching deal where they call out and we’ve asked them, they’ve been playing us for four months and we wanted them to play other songs! Cuz it’s the same thing.

Shred: "Come on, move on, we’ve got another single on there I know it!"

Brad: Yeah!

Shred: "We’re gonna come out with a video real soon!"

Brad: So, they’re just, they’re fired up that people are really reacting to it we’ll just, we’ll see if we can fan that fire a little bit.

Shred: Right.

Brad: Our DVD is going through a major label because we want the distribution and the promotion. And that’s going to be awesome, and there will be a CD of some kind of funky-cool remixes in there and some audio stuff.

Shred: I didn’t understand that the DVD was going through major distribution and who is it going through?

Chad: That’s a good question.

Brad: At this time I don’t think we’re allowed to go public with that?

Shred: Okay, okay. But essentially you do feel like major distribution is being lined up for the DVD, which I mean, that’s kind of strange.

Chad: Yeah.

Brad: It’ll be on the shelves though with a CD in it. There’s like an 8 or 9 song disc and a DVD and it’ll be in the same package on the shelves with the rest of our stuff. But it is kind of ironic that our film of the history of the band is going to be the easiest thing to find. You’re not going to be able to find our records as readily, but I mean, it’s getting better.

Shred: And it’s going to be called Under the Radar?

Brad: Under the Radar.

Pete: *spookily* Under the Radar...

Shred: Do you guys want to switch around and do another song? Cause we’re starting to run out of time here.

Brad: I gotta go, yeah I’ll see ya.

Shred: There’s only two switches that need to be made here. Okay well Dispatch is with us on Boston Emissions tonight playing live and talking with them right now in the BCN studios. All set? And they’re going to play another song right now. Dispatch live on WBCN.

Chad: Are you ready kid?

Pete: Ready, I’m all set. All ready.

*Open Up* (acoustic)

Shred: Oh yeah, Dispatch live in the WBCN studios on Boston Emissions. We’re pretty much running out of time and... just about out of time. Just got a couple of more questions, where are all the band members living these days? Are you all in New England? Pete, do you live in New York?

Pete: I live in New York City, downtown, right near Washington Square Park.

Shred: Oh wow. Okay, okay.

Pete: Right, I’ll be playing out there..

Shred: Right, I’ll be playing there with Jacko.

Pete: I’ll be playing a couple of shows out there the 25th and 26th at House of Blues, so if anybody’s around come down to that.

Shred: Alright.

Pete: Yea I’m psyched, playing a few more dates at the end of the month.

Shred: And then Brad and Chad, do you still live local? New England?

Brad: Denver, Colorado, go Avalanche.

Shred: What? Get out of here.

Brad: No, man. I’m sorry about your Bruins.

Shred: Speak into the microphone.

Brad (louder): I’m sorry about your Bruins, you guys have a phenomenal team.

Shred: Yeah, whatever... ass kissin’. You guys are gone seven-nothin in game seven.

Brad: Say hello to Raymond Borque.

Shred: You did mention that you sent out a song to Ray Bourque.

Brad: I don’t know if we got him a CD, but we’re working on it.

Shred: You should, you should, you should definitely get him a CD. And Chad?

Chad: I live in Sherborn, Massachusetts.

Brad: We know Chad

Chad: It’s sort of just, it’s bustling in the same way that New York City is.

Shred: So you, you have the mailing address, you have the P.O. Box.

Chad: Yes.

Brad: Chad has his own zip code.

Chad: This is true.

Shred: And then, the last question I wanted to ask you this evening, do you know of any famous people who are Dispatch fans that you’ve met along the way?

Chad: Oh! Me! Me!

Pete: I do!

Brad: Natalie Portman.

Pete: Yes...

*clapping*

Shred: And that totally made your day, yeah?

Chad: Of course.

Brad: Totally did.

Shred: And have you met her?

Brad: Yeah.

Shred: Oh, there you go, did she come to a show?

Pete: She organized the show at Harvard.

Brad: Yeah, she ran the concert commission over there.

Shred: Wow.

Brad: Yeah, we were pretty psyched.

Shred: Nice, so that’s the most famous so far?

Chad: Ummm

Brad: Ummm let’s see here... oh oh! Julia Roberts. Chad gave a CD to Julia Roberts.

Shred: He gave...

Brad: I gave one to Claudia Schiffer! I gave one to Claudia Schiffer in New York City, that was my peak.

Pete: I don’t think that they’re fans.

Chad: We gave one to Tom Green.

Brad: Tom Green, on our way to Seattle, before he swam through the lake.

Shred: He ate it though, thought it was food. Okay well Friday and Saturday night! Friday night it’s Pat McGee Band and Chauncey, pretty much sold out, FleetBoston Pavilion. Saturday night tickets on sale as I speak, Strangefolk and The Kickovers playing those shows. I mean, you picked a very interesting and diverse pairing each night. You’ve got one sort of jam-rock band and one rock band, or punk-pop band. So nice job with that, I mean obviously you guys wanna see diversity and everybody does.

Brad: We’re tryin’.

Shred: Okay, well best of luck to you and thank you for dropping by BCN studios.

Chad: Thanks for having us.

Shred: Alright, Dispatch and that is Boston Emissions for this evening, thank you very much. Did we wanna give away some of those CDs?

Brad: Sure!

Shred: Well we’ve got some Dispatch CDs so if you’re just tunin’ in your radio and you don’t really know about this band and you wanna pick up one of their CDs then we’ve got ‘em for ya. The WBCN contest line. Well thank you very much. Yes they are, see they’re ringing off the hook. Thank you for listening to Boston Emissions tonight. Dispatch!

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* reference to the 1987 movie Planes, Trains & Automobiles with Steve Martin and John Candy

** This show was at the Pomona College Ball Room on October 27th 2000.

*** Sean Fanning is the creator of Napster. On April 3rd, 2001 Dispatch did a special free show in support of the Napster Senate Hearings at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C.