#DISPATCH ROCK BAND FREE#

But he’s also pretty fond of Dispatch today, when it would take six months to reply to every fan at a jam-packed TD Garden. Manager Bursky remembers with fondness when they would answer every single fan e-mail personally. “You don’t make fans with radio hits, you make them by being loyal to people and taking the time to meet them at every show.” “Showing up early and staying late before gigs, meeting people, getting to know them, this is what we wanted to do on road,” Corrigan said from his home in Denver, where the band will rehearse this month before opening their 13-show tour with a three-night stand at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. While drummer/singer Brad Corrigan is equally blown away at the response, he knows quality time with fans in the ’90s at local club shows including Harper’s Ferry, the Middle East and the Paradise is paying dividends. I mean, we’re just a few dudes who met in college and started a band.” “When you have to add more Boston Garden shows to meet demand, it’s pretty amazing. “We didn’t see it coming,” singer/bassist Heimbold said from Manhattan, regarding the reunion he and Urmston dreamed up after reminiscing about how fun Dispatch used to be. But no one knew their reunion would be this big. Meanwhile, the fan base has thrived through file sharing, message boards and old-fashioned word of mouth. Since its Hatch Shell show, there have been solo projects, DVD releases and a handful of reunion charity shows, including a sold-out, three-night benefit for Zimbabwe at Madison Square Garden in 2007.

Turns out the band got there in six years by not doing a thing. “(Major labels) said stuff like, ‘In six weeks we can get you to a place where you could get on your own in six years.’ ” “We always felt like there were traps when the suits came with the money,” singer/guitarist Urmston said, strumming his guitar on his parents’ porch in Sherborn. But unlike most of their peers, the three weren’t going to continue with something they were no longer enjoying just for a paycheck. The band (Chadwick Stokes and Brad Corrigan) has performed their distinctive blend of indie folk-rock since their.

#DISPATCH ROCK BAND FREE#

They knew they were on the verge of big money and national fame - a free 2004 farewell-for-now show at the Hatch Shell drew more than 100,000 fans, to the surprise of many, including Boston police. It’s fitting to say that Dispatch had gotten into a groove when COVID-19 hit.

When tensions ran high in the band after a decade on the road, the guys decided to walk away. Right as the band was winding down, Napster was picking up and the band was exploding on the Web.” But Dispatch is one of the rare cases of a band who gets bigger after their active days. Pour Into You has an upbeat lively rhythm, I love it, but it speaks of pain. It’s a personal and global community commentary on many levels. The album title says a lot about the content of the album in general. “We came off the first and last national tour in 2001 playing to 1,000 and 2,000-seat houses. Dispatch have released a new single, Pour Into You from their upcoming album Break Our Fall.

“The industry never really believed in the band,” manager Steve Bursky said of the group that pioneered the laid-back hippie rock Jack Johnson popularized later.

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