Word: chetro
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...their seats as the band urged them to clap along to crowd pleasers like “Bang, Bang,” “Small Change,” “Bats in the Belfry” and “The General.” Chetro, donning a black Rage Against the Machine t-shirt and a head full of the happiest blond curls ever, enchanted listeners with his smooth reggae-influenced vocals, while Braddigan provided intricate drum solos à la The Who’s Keith Moon and Repete pounded out bass lines soulful enough...
With a hectic tour schedule on the horizon and the Nov. 6 release of their latest album, Gut the Van, a live compilation of many popular Dispatch songs, Braddigon, Chetro and Repete are not looking to slow down any time soon. Armed with a growing fan base and the word-of-mouth popularity that landed them an opportunity to play the FleetBoston Pavilion last June, Dispatch are an up-and-coming phenomenon with enough pull to get students all too concerned with grades to stay out way past their bedtimes. Longtime Dispatch fan Kerry M. Houlihan...
...began to grow strong and devout. “Sometimes before a show people will come up to us and tell us that they drove from Pennsylvania to see us. That kind of thing first started happening when we played the Middle East again and again” said Chetro. Though they remember the Central Square venue as being “like a dungeon and really gritty,” Chetro acknowledged that when trying to get the music to the people,“that’s just how you do it. We were psyched...
Comenting on the turn that many Internet trading sites have begun taking, Chetro added, “It makes sense that they’re going towards some sort of subscription-based infrastructure. We got to know Napster really well and found that CD sales actually went up. It was a resurgence of our music and of independent music in general and not just the big poppy N’ Sync-to-Creed spectrum...
...they like to call their “D-Team.” ‘Reps’ across the country can log onto the Dispatch website and report on anything from ticket sales to album sales and the growth of the band’s local following. Chetro admits that the administration needed to maintain the D-Team on the band’s side of things have, at times, fallen by the wayside, which if nothing else is a testament to the loyalty of fans who have been following Dispatch since...