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SP: Okay my first question is, I don’t mean to pry but I don’t suppose you happen to have 6 fingers on your right hand?

BC: *laughs* No, I am looking for the 6-fingered man!


SP: I thought that would be a good way to start off.

BC: Great way to start it. In the airport in New York they were showing that little guy that says "Inconceivable!" so we were just talking about The Princess Bride yesterday.


SP: Best movie ever!

BC: It’s awesome.


SP: More seriously, you’re a musician now, what did you see yourself doing when you were in high school?

BC: I don’t know if I saw myself doing anything in particular. I loved sports and knew I wanted to be an athlete as much as I could.


SP: Lacrosse!

BC: So college was more about playing sports than playing music. And at the end of college, it kind of came around.


SP: Well that leads right into my next question, when you guys came together at Middlebury.do you remember how you met and how you discovered your mutual talents and everything?

BC: Yeah it kind of slowly unfolded, it was pretty funny. I had gone off my junior fall to do an introduction project, I was doing a lot of environmental studies classes and I took a semester off to go and work in Arizona. And when I came back, a friend of mine told me about this kid who he knew who was a soccer player and instead of playing soccer, he just played a ton of guitar. And so he gave me a call and it was Pete and he was like "Yeah I play the guitar," and I was like "Far out! Why don’t you just come over?" So he stopped what he was doing and came over and we jammed for a couple of hours and just really hit it off so he and I were playing kind of in a little acoustic duo for the entire spring and summer. And he and Chad had also met, Pete had played at Chad’s frat orientation, Chad had played at the halfway point in New York at little bit, playing for like 100 frat students each year and Pete played music at their little frat party and Chad said "Hey, I like your music" and so he and Pete started jamming. So Pete was sort of in two different projects. And that summer Pete and I started to record a little tape demo out here in Colorado so he came out and did that and then he flew back to the East coast and met up with Chad and recorded a couple of songs in New York. He had been working on both of us to kinda, to just quit the other projects and come together as the three of us but it just didn’t seem like it made any sense.


SP: Really?

BC: Cause all three of us were guitar players and all three of us were singers. So it was kind of weird trying to figure out who was gonna do what because were all gonna be doing the same thing.


SP: Oh, right.

BC: But finally we just tried it and pulled our voices together and they sounded really good and I gave the drums a chance.


SP: Yeah, how did you come about playing the drums?

BC: After about a year, well we played together for my entire senior year, the three of us just acoustic stuff, like we didn’t play any electric stuff and we got really bored, sorta like coffee shop music. Nothing to rock out. We were all big fans of Pearl Jam and Nirvana and Sound Garden, some heavier and bands and wanted to play with that energy and didn’t meet anybody at school that played those instruments so about mid-way through the year I started playing the drums a little bit on of Pete’s friend’s drum kit and Pete’s older brother gave Pete a bass to practice on. We just by necessity started figuring out the instruments ourselves. I don’t know man, I guess I was just an air-drummer growing up so I could jump on the drums and figure them out and the other two guys would play bass and they started swapping back and forth and that’s kind of how we got going on that.


SP: Wow. That’s so weird, you all started off doing the same thing and figured out a way to become this awesome band.

BC: It was funny cause Pete and I brought, his buddy had a drum set in storage and told us where we could go pick it up and we brought that up to Middlebury and a little PA system that we bought and Chad didn’t know about either and we just showed up and unloaded the car and Chad’s eyes were huge, like "What am I getting myself into?" It didn’t have a drum seat, you know it just had the drums so I used this old speaker and I didn’t have drum sticks we just went down to the art center and got those really nice hangers and stole two of them and broke the wooden dials off. We were a grass roots band! It was pretty funny.


SP: That’s awesome! Alright, so your music deviates a lot from the typical sounds heard today. Songs like Past the Falls and Seasons Movement III are really atmosphere in their musical nature. Where do you draw your inspiration from when creating not only these songs, but the sounds within them?

BC: That’s a good question. I think between the three of us we always thought that we could hear where we grew up in each other’s songs. I think its really true, like Pete having grown up alongside either a lake or the ocean his entire life. I mean, the water has definitely... his lyrics.


SP: Yeah you can definitely tell that.

BC: Yeah, I mean it’s there, it’s in kinda his artistry. I think my growing up in the West also has a bit of an effect on the songs that I’ve written – lyrically, and just the way they feel. But I love having like, Seasons or Past the Falls both have like kind of a real open air to them because the chords that I used have a lot of 3rd strings ringing throughout and I just like that, I kinda like having a real consistent thing running throughout a song. Some of my favorite artists have done that a lot, like Peter Gabriel. I think it just gives you a lot of, it gives everyone who is listening something that they can really sink their teeth into. I don’t really intentionally do it that way, I’m just drawn to it so, I don’t know but that’s a good question.


SP: Yeah Seasons is one of my favorite songs actually.

BC: That’s a really... I wrote that as part of my senior work at Middlebury.


SP: Right, on your senior project...

BC: Have you heard any of the other, have you heard the senior project with any of the other guitar-flute pieces?


SP: Yeah I have.

BC: They’re all kinda part of the same thing.


SP: Yeah, I thought that they sort of were.

BC: I thinking about putting a record together of instrumental music.


SP: Really?

BC: Yeah.


SP: Wow, well make sure you keep me updated about that! Alright, moving on to another song question. On occasion you’ve explained that Walk With You was first sung to a bunch of cows in Colorado? Is there any truth behind this? Or could you elaborate on that or the actual inspiration for the song?

BC:*laughs* It’s mostly true, it was for a bunch of cows in Arizona. When I went down my junior year I met these ranchers in Arizona who were really really cool and so I went back that summer after I had gone to Middlebury. So in the fall I was in Arizona, spring I was at Middlebury, and then in the summer I went back to Arizona to work on that ranch. I was there for 6-8 weeks and I just played my guitar every night. It was the coolest place because we didn’t have any electricity, it was just solar-powered. So when the sun came up, we would wake up, when the sun went down, we would go to sleep. Eat when you wanted to eat and when you wanted to play the guitar you’d play the guitar and otherwise you were just horseback-riding or taking care of the cows or something. I wrote Walk With You kinda for the couple that I was working for because they both had lived in Phoenix and had these six-figure jobs working in ad agencies and had a Mercedes and very materialistic lives and they just hated it. So they sold all of it and gave up everything they had and went to this little ranch that was absolutely beautiful but really hard to run. So I just thought that was really cool that they both kinda decided that with each other they were just not gonna have all that other stuff and go ranch in Arizona.


SP: That’s a really amazing thing.

BC: Yeah I think it’s a really, it’s a cool song. I think anybody can kind of read into it what they need to. I mean a lot of my faith plays itself out a lot in that song as well, you know that I think in life it’s really important to just let go and know that God has a plan for what you’re doing, which makes it a little bit easier to figure out or a little bit more anxiety-free to figure out where you’re headed.


SP: Yeah, I can definitely see that. Alright, do you have any pre-show rituals?

BC: Pre-show rituals... Let’s see here. Yeah I usually quote Top Gun lines to myself and visualize that I’m Iceman and it works for about the first maybe 3/4 of the movie but then I find out that it’s cooler to be Maverick so then I switch to visualizing that I’m Maverick.


SP: Nice, that’ll pump you up!

BC: Yeah and every now and then if I have to I can just pop right into The Princess Bride.


SP: Yes! Yes, that’s definitely the perfect thing to do.

BC: Yeah I can be the Dread Pirate Roberts!


SP: Perfect! Alright next question, the internet has been a major force in spreading the Dispatch sound. Online music is slowly becoming a major force to be reckoned with and as we have seen in the news it is starting to scare the major labels. Where do you see the music industry heading with the coming of this new online revolution? And do you ever think that there will be a time where the major labels are no longer needed or proved to be an obsolete idea?

BC: Hmmm...


SP: Interesting question.

BC: Yeah D, you’ve got some good ones! I think, yeah there’s no doubt that every year more and more people are using the internet not just for music, but for all of their commercial needs or whatever. I’d say probably in the next 5-10 years there’s gonna be a huge shift not away from the idea of an album entirely but I do know that it’s going to be more singles-driven. That people could, a band could go record three songs let’s say and put them on their website and make them available for download for 75 cents a song. And that people at home can then go, "Okay, I want two of those three songs, I don’t like the third one. And then I’m gonna go to another band and buy two songs." And you can download your own album basically paying for whatever you want to hear and not having to deal with songs you don’t like. And I also think that a third part about the internet aside from that, and at some point in the next 6 months to a year I think we’re going to do this, all of the bootleg shows that we’ve recorded since we’ve started, we probably have 2 or 3 hundred DAT tapes. I think we’re gonna hire a company to create a server for us and just upload every single thing that we’ve ever recorded. And do it like a fan club where if people wanna pay 5 bucks a month they can have unlimited access to everything we’ve ever done.


SP: Wow.

BC: So live shows, rare mixes, re-mixes, stuff that didn’t necessarily make it onto a record can be available to people who want to find it.


SP: Wow, people would go nuts over that.

BC: Yeah, I think it’d be cool, kind of like internet just gives you the opportunity to put up your archives and if people are interested they can go find it and if they’re not interested, that don’t even have to even know it exists.


SP: Yeah!

BC: As far as major labels being rendered totally obsolete at some point, I don’t see that happening because they have so much money and so much political power right now that I can see them doing what they’re trying to do right now. It’s gonna be hard for them to, I don’t there will be as many of them and that they will have as much control as they do now but I definitely think that if a label wants to stay viable they’re just gonna have to literally buy up Sean Fanning and his ideas and make universal... create some sort of internet presence.


SP: Right, they’re gonna have to buy into the internet more.

BC: Well they’re trying to right now I just don’t think they’re doing a good job of it.


SP: Right, but they’re not going to go away.

BC: They’re not going to go away. But I think the greatest thing hopefully is that the internet is going to sway people away from horribly stale radio into the opportunity, kinda just like Napster did, for people to just find quality music. That would be a beautiful thing, I would love to see that happen because I can’t stand the fact that we don’t really have access to radio just because a record label hasn’t payed our way to get on the airwaves.


SP: Right, I’m sure that’s really really frustrating.

BC: Yeah, but Chicago for us was really cool.


SP: Right exactly, for that exact reason.

BC: So maybe somewhere someone will pick up the smallness of that you know.


SP: Right, it might take a while but hopefully it will spread.

BC: Yeah, and if not though we know that our fans are pretty tech-savvy and they can spread the word on the internet and so other people pick up.


SP: Right, it’s amazing that you guys have come this far without the radio, without any of that. That’s definitely something to be proud of.

BC: Yeah, pretty psyched. I mean last night I saw Jack Johnson...


SP: Yeah, I watched that, on Letterman?

BC: On Letterman! I just couldn’t believe it!


SP: I know I watched that too, it was a rerun.

BC: I mean how cool is that, that guys is just one of the greatest guys, I mean just so laid-back and really talented but at the same time, we can’t get on Letterman. There’s no way. Even if we’re headlining Central Park and Jack supporting us, we can’t do that.


SP: Right, you still can’t do that. That’s frustrating.

BC: Yeah but it’s kinda cool to know that we’re doing it on our own.


SP: It is! Alright so the Dispatch fan base demographic has shifted over the last 2 years from mainly college age to include a younger age category. With this change came a lot of growth. How do you feel about the young fans and the increase in size?

BC: I think it’s great! I mean, the more people that enjoy our music and find meaning in it the better. I’m not that psyched when I look on... I don’t know Star6 isn’t really a good barometer of our fan base because so many people are just like so excited that they can stir up controversy by making a post and then watching everyone kind of go nuts about it.


SP: Right, we’ve had problems with that.

BC: It’s stupid but it just comes with the territory. But I think it’s hard for older fans to wanna come to shows where they feel overrun by 15 and 16 year olds. So I wish there was a way to kinda balance that out a little bit it so that everybody who’s into our music would just be like "Yeah it’s a great live experience and people are good to each other, it’s not that big of a deal." But I kind of feel like it’s gotten into like this... you know kids getting drunk for the first time and that’s tough you know, there’s nothing we can do about it but I wish it was different.


SP: Sorta comes with the territory...

BC: Yeah it does, but I’m just really happy to know that we have more people smiling and enjoying our music and that our influence just goes a little bit further.


SP: Exactly, and take what comes with that.

BC: Yeah!


SP: Alright here are some fun questions for you. If you could back in time and change one thing, what would it be?

BC: On a song?


SP: No, on anything. Go back in time and change anything.

BC: Oh that’s a little better. Well recently it’d be that USA beat Germany in the frickin’ World Cup. Ahhh, just kills me.


SP: Oh I know! I watched that.

BC: Sickest game! Oh my gosh, I’m so proud of them though.


SP: They made it way farther than anyone thought that they would anyway.

BC: Oh no kidding. So I’m gonna have two different answers for that, that’s my athletic one and this is my music one: I wish that Bob Marley was still alive. I think he was one of the most unique contributors of all time to the realm of music.


SP: Yes. I watching the VH1 Behind the Music on him last night.

BC: Oh really?


SP: Yeah it was on, I caught the end of it.

BC: I haven’t seen that.


SP: Yeah I know, I was really happy, I never watch TV and I flipped the channel and there it was!

BC: That had to be way cool.


SP: Yeah, he was definitely an innovator in music.

BC: Yeah, huge innovator. And then on more of a global scale, let’s if there’s something I could change... I don’t know, man, this is just not even possible but if I could I would go back and try to eliminate the possibility of something like World War II from happening. It’s just one of those huge deals of violence, I think we should just kind of shake that idea that a political struggle should just become more of a military struggle. I wish that that wasn’t...


SP: The only way out.

BC: Yeah, I wish that wasn’t the deal.


SP: Well those are definitely worthy things of changing.

BC: Yeah World Cup Soccer, Bob Marley, and World War II!


SP: Yeah those are good answers! So along the same lines, if you could meet one person throughout history, who would it be?

BC: Oh, Jesus, no question. I think the more I’ve researched that guy the more I’m just amazed. I mean it kind of bums me out that Christians have kind of a built-in stereotype. I think the media has really pigeon-holed us but it’s really incredible because a lot of people are growing up in a Christian society or whatever a "Christian Society" is in Western civilization and they think they know who Jesus is and what Christians are all about and it’s just absolutely remarkable when you dig in and find out a little more about his life and who he was as a person. So I just wish that there wasn’t two thousand years between where we are now and the legacy that he left. I would love to, I mean there’s never been another person who has had such of an influence on civilization at all, period.


SP: Yeah that’s completely true.

BC: It’s just incredible, I mean wherever you look...


SP: ...there he is. So what’s in your CD player right now?

BC: What’s in my CD player right now? Do I have a CD player? *laughs* We’ll pop it open and we’ll see. This is going to be a funny answer because they’re all CDs that I’ve never listened to before.


SP: Oh, that’s good!

BC: Alright, let’s see here... are you ready?


SP: Yeah.

BC: Alright, I’m just going to answer this truthfully!


SP: Okay!

BC: Biota Bondo... these are all bands that our booking agent represents so I pop in the CDs and see what... a guy named Jim White. Dave Matthews, the Lillywhites... the Lillywhite sessions.


SP: Oh nice, are you a Dave fan?

BC: Yeah. Let’s see what is this... Nancy Griffith with the London Symphony Orchestra. And this is... Live, the band Live.


SP: Oh nice, what CD?

BC: It has stars all over it, I don’t know.


SP: Oh, I don’t know which one that is.

BC: But so a couple of those I don’t even have a clue what they are.


SP: Alright, that works.

BC: I’ve been listening to Pearl Jam’s "No... Uh-oh.... *slight break while Brad sneezes and blows his nose... his allergies were acting up* Okay! I’ve been listening a lot to Pearl Jam’s "No Code."


SP: Oh I love that CD!

BC: Yeah, it’s awesome! And the new P.O.D. record "Satellite."


SP: Oh I’ve never listened to them. So what’s your favorite book?

BC: Favorite book...


SP: Besides The Princess Bride.

BC: Obviously. Ummm, golly...


SP: Any ideas?

BC: Well off the top of my head I’d say The Bible, but that’s not really fantasy reading. I mean The Bible is probably my favorite book because it’s the one that I spend kind of repetitive going back to whereas I don’t really grab one book and read it three times if I like the story. But I would say that... golly, I absolutely loved... I’m starting to read the Tolkien books because of all the hype around The Fellowship of the Rings.


SP: Oh really?

BC: Yeah and that is just some of the most amazing writing.


SP: Yeah it is, I read those a long time ago.

BC: Yeah, or the Chronicles of Narnia? C.S. Lewis?


SP: Oh I love those!

BC: Yeah you could say my favorite authors are C.S. Lewis and J.R. Tolkien.


SP: Nice, that works.

BC: And the old hairy dudes that wrote The Bible.


SP: Interesting answers again! Alright, here’s some more questions on Dispatch. Instrumentation is imperative in making a group’s sound unique. What sort would you add to the Dispatch sound if you could; not necessarily in the way of performers, but rather in the instruments themselves?

BC: Gosh, like a really really good reggae-keyboard player would be incredible. I don’t like just flat-out keyboards because I think they sound kind of cheesy but really good old-school keyboard players are just incredible. You don’t really notice them that much, but they just make a huge difference.


SP: That’d be cool.

BC: That would be cool. What else... I’d just love to have another percussion player with us. So a really cool developed percussion section that you might find with Paul Simon or Carlos Santana, that would be cool.


SP: Well you had, I can’t remember his name, guesting with you in New York and Boston...

BC: Guitar player?


SP: The percussionist.

BC: Oh, the percussion player. Ray, yeah, Ray Dejesus. Yeah he’s very cool.


SP: Alright, so what’s on a lot of people’s minds right now is the recent new that Dispatch will be going on hiatus until 2003. Can you guys us some insight into the reasons you decided to do this?

BC: Yeah, definitely. This is a really important part of the interview I think.


SP: Yeah it is.

BC: The three of us have spent so much time together, I mean kind of living in each other’s lives. Really for the last 7 years, just imagine spending 7 years of your life with two other people. Imagine that those two... Imagine you’re a painter and that you’re working with two other people and every canvas that you paint on, everyone has to work together. It’s really really difficult to share the same art and feel that that’s the only outlet that you have. That’s one reason why we’re going to take some time off because each one of us has so much undeveloped, personal material that we want to get cracking on. Pete’s done an incredible job, he’s got a second solo album that will come out sometime soon. And Chad’s has about 40 or 50 songs that he hasn’t even played for us that he’s going to use for his first solo project and I’ve got a lot of stuff up my sleeve that I’d like to do in the next six to nine months. So creatively, it’s just time for each one of us to kind of have our own chances to just have total control over. Our greatest strength is that we work together on Dispatch projects and our greatest weakness is that we work together. Because we all, well also, we all play the same instruments and we don’t have kind of our own little series of influence. So, that’s kind of a creative answer. As far as the lifestyle... we’re exhausted. It’s just not fun to not have a roof anywhere, sort of living out of a duffel bag. I mean it may look exciting and it is exciting at times to be up on stage and to have those moments, have those moments of just... it’s amazing connecting with a crowd and having five thousand people jumping up and down but less than probably one percent of those people have even any idea who you are off the stage. And so there’s this kind of strange loneliness that grows in the midst of all that attention and excitement that you realize that no one really knows who you are, and you don’t have a home and don’t really have a family or a community that you are engaged with really, so I think each one of us really wants to spend as much time as we can while we’re on hiatus with our family and just connect with a community and living somewhere and having a bed and a desk and living a little bit.


SP: That’s understandable.

BC: That’s frickin’ huge! And then also, just from kind of like a career standpoint, we’re not totally sure that this is what we want to do. I mean, its pretty exciting to have this opportunity in front of us but it’s pretty daunting also to think, "Wow if we did this for another five or ten years it would change the path of our lives to the point where we couldn’t really come back." I would like to have more of a stable lifestyle at some point so that I can settle down and have a family someday. I would never want to have my wife and kids on a tour bus. Maybe just for like a month or two out of the year. We’re just all of a sudden at the point where we want our lives back and if we’re going to continue to play as Dispatch or to push our music careers forward as individuals or collectively it’s going to be a totally different style. I bet we would do... I don’t know maybe two or three months of touring as opposed to twelve months. Or we would record probably, record records in a different way...as opposed to recording over six months we’d probably just knock it out in six weeks. Just take a lot more time to live, to live independently. And so we just maybe don’t feel like we’re in each other’s hair as much. It’s been a really interesting ride and it’s been just an amazing life lesson to understand that relationships and friendships are so much more important. I mean we’ve had a lot of offers to kind of... to go, to go for it and to get a huge chunk of money up front and to just have MTV and the radio and kind of the world at our fingertips and it created such a strain on our relationships that the band almost broke up. You know, I mean it was just so difficult when we were really starting to experience success, understanding how the three of us were going to deal with that. I mean they would just do anything and offer you anything in order to almost drive a wedge between the three of us, you know?


SP: Yeah, that’s not what you want.

BC: Yeah and we just realized that, golly you know, we better get through this and kinda put up some walls to defend each other and to defend ourselves against this crazy temptation and hopefully get through it. And taking the spring off was huge because even though we had such a wonderful fall tour and the tour bus and the dream crew and the shows, we just weren’t enjoying it the way we should’ve because we were really burned out. So we took a bunch of months off and we wanted to put at least these shows together, the two in Boston and the one in New York and the one here in Colorado and know that if this was going to be kind of a slowing down of Dispatch that we go out with a huge bang. And we ended up playing these shows and we’re enjoying ourselves! Enjoying it for what it was.

SP: Yeah, it seemed like you guys were having a ton of fun up there.

BC: Yeah! We are really hopeful that after six or nine months we’ll have figured out a way to strike a balance between our personal lives and just the crazy cool phonetic traveling dream that is Dispatch and I think that we’re capable of doing that but right now the only way to make that possible is to walk away from it. Feel like we have control again and our friendships are intact right now and I’m so proud of that and if at some point we decide to walk away from Dispatch in order to kind of preserve the beauty of the story, the fact that the three of us are still like brothers, it’s a miracle. We’ve been through so much together and we’ve had some of the most unique and exciting experiences together and we’ve also been way down in the dumps with each other, I mean it’s been really hard for us creatively, philosophically, and emotionally in a world of three people. We’re very different people but together we just know that we’ve just created something so we’re trying to preserve it ultimately rather than go the industry route. I’m really hopeful but knowing the three of us are okay with each other, I don’t care what happens. That was the goal, that we would enjoy everything that we did together and when it became more business than friendship then we needed to kind of reevaluate.


SP: Right, cause that ultimately is the most important thing, your friendship.

BC: Yeah, definitely.


SP: So are you working on solo stuff now?

BC: I have a couple of projects that I’m actually trying to work on before I do anything personal like Alice in Chains, when the lead singer Layne Staley passed away I realized that with Brett Eliason, Pearl Jam’s sound guy who helped us with the live record and the DVD, that I had an opportunity to create something positive around that and right now I’m working on trying to organize a benefit record. I’m going out and finding bands who have been influenced by Alice in Chains who would be willing to record a Chains cover and send it in and we’d create a huge compilation record and call it "Break the Chains" and the benefit would be that all the money that we would raise would go either to drug rehabilitation clinics in Seattle and to drug prevention awareness. There are lots and lots of very high-profile artists out there who would be into it and I just think it would be really cool to bring positivity out of a pretty sad and dark story. We wouldn’t be glorifying his life, we would be glorifying his music and saying, "Hey, take a quick look at this story and you know, be careful." Even Layne Staley, it’s just you know, gosh I just have never seen anything so awful as seeing a best friend waste away. I think people need to find out about his life for what it was and also learn from it rather than just kind of closing the door. So if I can get that off the ground, that’ll probably be a pretty cool little project over the next six or nine months. And at the same time I think I’m gonna try and help out some bands, one that you’re aware of in particular, The Lost Trailers. I think I’m going to help them record a record. I just love producing and I love working in the studio and I think I’m going to try to help some friends get some of that stuff done and then in the process just start writing songs again and take time to kind of let my own creativity come back out because I haven’t played much guitar in the past two years and that’s just not my style. Somethin’s comin’!


SP: I can tell you’re really excited to have all this time to yourself again.

BC: Yeah! And I’m gonna go become sort of a world traveler Deirdre. Goin’ to Costa Rica in August and then I’m going to Fiji in September, coming back for a wedding and then I think I’m going to New Zealand. So I’m gonna spend some time doin’ that stuff.


SP: Wow, that’s some amazing world traveling there.

BC: Yeah, I’ve always wanted to do this.


SP: Alright, I think that’s all the questions I have for you. Do you guys ever check out SpatchPatch? Do you ever?

BC: Yeah I think I’ve checked it out probably seven or eight times, the last time was probably a month ago. I thought it was amazing. You guys have more info at that site, if I want to learn something about the band, I’ll go there! I mean if I’ve forgotten what my favorite cereal is, I’ll go there.


SP: Yes, yes we’ll have all that information for you. Anything else you’d like to tell the fan community?

BC: Yeah, I know there’s a lot of questions as to what’s going on with the DVD and when the project is going coming out.


SP: Yeah, I was going to ask about that.

BC: So I’ll give you a little more information about that. We decided to delay it because of the CD that we’re going to include and we wanted to include a CD because we’ve got these really cool re-mixes of "Bang Bang," they’re incredible -- like Beastie Boy drum root remixes of songs. Really funky cool. And we’ll have live versions of "One Truth" and "Gasoline Dreams" and a new song called "Stinkin’ Like a Fat Old Pig."


SP: Yeah, what is that all about??

BC: *laughs* I can’t tell you! There’s other songs like "Mayday" and "Walk With You" we have live versions that weren’t included on Gut the Van, so we thought about including those. So it’s basically going to be a collection of really cool remixes of songs that people haven’t heard before. And the DVD is going to be on shelves with CDs. It’s not going to be like on the DVD rack in the back of Best Buy or something. It’s going to be packed in such a way that it’s going to look like... have you seen like Ben Harper’s little box set? With the canvas cover?


SP: No, I haven’t but...

BC: Or maybe like the Bob Marley re-masters? They’re like CDs but they’re like double thick. But that’s what it’s going to be like, it’s going to be the dimensions of a CD box but probably two to three times as thick and it’s going to unfold and open up so it will have the DVD on one side and the CD on the other. And we’re going through Universal distribution, which is huge. That’s probably going to be the easiest thing of Dispatch to find, period.


SP: Yeah, and that’s kind of funny.

BC: It is, it’s gonna be in all the stores everywhere. So we’re just taking the time to set it up right because now that we’re working with a record label on the distribution side it takes like 8 or 10 weeks to set up. Right now we have all the screenings lined up between July 18th and August 8th and then the DVD should be coming out mid to late August.


SP: Okay, and for the DVD screenings a lot of people have been asking if you guys will be performing? I understand that Rich Price will be there, right?

BC: Price is going to be at I think all the shows and I’m going to be at all the shows and so he and I will be playing a bunch of music together. And then there will probably be two or three shows where Chad or Pete or Chad and Pete will be there. But there aren’t going to be any shows where Dispatch plays like a set of music. But when we play in Austin and Houston and Toronto, places we’ve never been before, I’ll probably jump up on stage and play three or four Dispatch songs and then Rich will probably play three of four of his songs and then we’ll just be playing together. Let me give you the layout too because I haven’t seen all the dates on the website yet so let me just tell you where we’re going to be and you can say that SpatchPatch has the info!

# July 18th - New York @ Irving Plaza
# July 19th - Portland Maine @ State Theater
# July 20th - Boston @ The Avalon
# July 21st - Burlington, VT @ The Higher Ground
# July 22nd - Toronto @ I think it’s called the 279 Club
# July 24th - Chicago @ The Park West
# July 25th - Philadelphia @ TLA
# July 28th- D.C.
# July 29th - Atlanta @ The Variety Playhouse
# August 1st - Austin Texas @ Stubb’s Bar-B-Q
# August 3rd - Houston Texas @
# August 5th - LA @ The Knitting Factory
# August 6th - San Francisco @ The Great American Music Hall
# August 8th - Denver @ The Gothic Theater

So it’s a series run of DVD premiers and the sneak previews are gonna be cool, so tell people to come on out.


SP: Yeah, alright!

BC: Yeah alright, Deirdre!


SP: Alright, thank you so so so much Brad.

BC: Very important info! And anytime you want to know anything else just give me a call.


SP: I will. Thank you again Brad!