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While I congratulate the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC) on the success of their concert this past Monday, I was a bit dismayed by the sentiments expressed by two HCC members regarding the sale of tickets to non-Harvard students (News, “Dispatch Performs in Sanders,” Oct. 23). Given the show’s quick sellout and the limited number of seats in Sanders Theater, it is quite likely that many interested Harvard students were unable to obtain tickets to the show...
...were available to Harvard students and the general public alike. According to the estimates of HCC member Luke R. Long ’03, approximately 10 percent of ticket sales went to non-Harvard students. Given the Undergraduate Council’s $5,000 allocation to help fund the Dispatch concert, that works out to approximately $500 of termbill revenue being spent on subsidizing ticket purchases for non-Harvard students...
Though they no longer classify thier music as “tri-vocal funkcoustic instrument-swap groove,” Dispatch still cling to the three-frontman style that gained them that label. Braddigan is more than just a drummer, lending his voice and guitar playing skills to many of the tracks. Similarly, Chetro and Repete also “instrument-sawp” during any given show, ensuring that each song will have a sound and feel slightly different from the one before it. “When you try to categorize [our music], it doesn?...
Because all three member of Dispatch sing and play a variety of instruments, it would be harder for them to fall into the trap that causes tension in many bands, namely the lead-singer-vs.-back-up-guys rut. Not only do Braddigon, Chetro and Repete each write some of the Dispatch tunes, but each of them is also involved with separate solo projects, an outlet for more individual creativity. “I don’t think any of us would let the others [take the spotlight],” affirmed Chetro, “we?...
...Because Dispatch have been together for so long, much of the material for their songs naturally stems from their shared experiences. Their most widely recognized song, “The General,” is about a grandfatherly commanding officer who frees his soldiers from their responsibilities; the backstory being that Chad’s grandfather, who served in WWII, used to admire Dispatch when they first started out. The band had to make a tough decsion to continue recording the song when Chad’s grandfather passed away and subsequently added a recording of the war veteran speaking...