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Elias Fund The Elias Fund is a non-profit organization set up firstly to get Elias's sons to collage in america.  Below is the flyer I made for the cause:   THE ELIAS FUND The Elias Fund was founded in order to help the people of Zimbabwe- particularly those in section 17, which has suffered crisis upon crisis in the past 10 years. The first focus of the Elias fund is to help Elias’ two sons -Honest and Manuel- to go to collage in America, where they can truly change the course of their lives and the lives of others in section 17. After completing this short-term goal, the Elias Fund hopes to see the worst AIDS infected area of Africa (it is about 50% more infected than any other part of Africa) through its current famine and into a new age. By 2005 it is estimated that one million children in Zimbabwe will be left orphaned, homeless, and starving because their families have all died.   Please help us start this movement to relieve the people of Zimbabwe-   “Our sole desire in the Elias Fund is to do all we can to prevent ourselves from being the generation that stood by while an entire continent silently passed away.”      ~www.eliasfund.org   For more information please visit http://www.eliasfund.org   or my elias fund site http://eliasfund.tripod.com

Dispatch is-- -made up of three guys who met at middleburry college. They are all extremely talented and--though its not necessary to know this to love them and their music, they're gorgeous!!!!!   they are:  brad (often-braddigan) pete ( sometimes-repete) chad (was once-chetro) (bizzlegan                              peckle                                chetras) -brad -the smart, converse wearing, outdoorsy surfer guy-    Braddigan's Site -pete-hip, individual, wedged poof guy- Pete's Site -chad -the political,  blonde curly haired guy (yum) State Radio Chad's new band's site -the first and only band to ever shut down Storrow Drive outside the Hatch Shell.   (we are obsessed and in love with them all, specially brad and pete, but hey chad is hottttt!!!) Dispatch Official Site          SpatchPatch < A fan's guide to everything Dispatch!   << veery funkky dre!   i am obsessed with these sketches from spatchpatch!     now- GO! www.spatchpatch.com awesome man DISPATCH         OVERVIEW:  Dispatch is three--Chad Urmston, Brad Corrigan, and Pete Heimbold.  Three band mates, three front men. They have been writing, performing, and recording together since 1995, when they first began spreading their funk and reggae influenced pop tunes to private academies and colleges throughout the northeast. DISPATCH has released five albums to date, and have sold nearly 200,000 copies, all without being signed to a record company.  Their fourth album, Who Are We Living For?, debuted at #17 on Billboard Magazine's top selling internet releases in its first week.  Rolling Stone Magazine listed the album as one of the top ten releases of 2000.  Most of the high intensity recording featured on the album was captured at Bearsville Studios (New York), in the presence of their long-time producer/engineer Jack Gauthier, with the exception of three tracks recorded at London Bridge Studios (Seattle) with Rick Parashar of Pearl Jam and Blind Melon.

The Last Dispatch This is the saddest picture in the world! It is their final bow at their final concert. But Dispatch will not RIP. Not if the fans have anything to say about it! When All Points Bullitian (The CD/DVD of the final concert) comes out we're gonna rock every music store in the country, and break some more records! "THE LIST IS LONG, WE ARE MANY STRONG, THE CEILINGS ARE COMING DOWN!" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   YOU HAVE TO GO! IT RAISES $$$ FOR THE ELIAS FUND-NOT TO METION IT WILL BE AN AWESOME KICKASS MOVIE THAT BRITA, KRISTEN, HALEY, and HANNAH WILL BE ABLE TO BE SEEN IN! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ heres the setlist from the last concert! Here We Go Open Up Time Served Cover This Passerby Riddle Bang Bang Bulletholes Ride a Tear Two Coins Past the Falls Mayday Fallin Flying Horses Bridges Spades Hey Hey Walk With You Headlights Elias Lightning Carry You Even Mission Bats Outloud The General (played because of extreme protest from the fans)   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   "Thanks for giving us the chance to play for you, to be Dispatch. You all confirmed what we always thought was true, that Dispatch isn't about 3 guys playing music anymore. This band is yours." - Chad "July 31st, 2004 is a day I will never forget. It was a day to celebrate the love of music. Everyone was welcome, young and old from all around the world, clapping, singing and dancing. The Hatch concert demonstrated the sheer power of peace and togetherness among 110,000 people. We were all sharing the beauty of life, music, and the pure joy of being alive." - Pete "Huge thanks to all of you who have hung with us over all the years... you have become our family and given us more than we could have ever asked for or imagined -- and then this epic show at the Hatch?! Thanks for driving, flying, hitching, sailing, riding the rails... or whatever you guys had to do to get there. Now keep the music playing, play it loud, and make your own... Dispatch is and will forever be in your hands--" - Brad ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~     Almost 1000 lbs. Of canned food was collected for ROCK FOR A REMEDY, a non-profit charity that supporting the Greater Boston Food Bank. (The addmission to the Hatch Show was to bring some canned goods) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   Only extremely loosly related to the topic- but we can only make 7 paragraphs per page, so i decided this fits into this one The Top 10: The top 10: {once again stolen from www.spatchpatch,com (hey, at least we're honest about it!) but it really is a great site}   Top 10 Reasons Why The Hiatus is a Good thing 1. So we can learn the lyrics to gasoline dreams. 2. Everyone needs 6 months toponder the fact that Chad changes his haristyle every tour. Why the hell!? 3. We all plan to lock ourselves in our houses for the rest of 2002 just to watch Under the Radar anyways! 4. Let us break it down for all those math buffs. Currently Dispatch operates like this at a show.... Pete - a good 500% Chetro - a solid 500% Braddigan - a whopping 500% Totaling at a good - 1500% So if you figure...by taking a break, these percentages will multiply by 10! Hence the next dispatch show will be composed of 15,000% of pure energy. Thats a lot of energy man. 5. It gives us more chances to even use the word HIATUS I mean because it is a kick ass word that certainly is not used enough! 6. When dispatch returns we can refer to everything before 2003 as pre-hiatus. hence, dividing their history in to 2 parts for easy conversation and reminising. 7. Hiatus spelled backwards is Sutaih....ironic...I don't think so. 8. Hiatus is such a bad word, it sounds like a disease. Lucky for us fans hiatus is a short break, not a deadly disease. 9. Since Burton wont be at the merch table, birddog crazed fanatics will start a huge game of find the burton and the wheres burton? game will sweep the nation! 10. You wont have to miss out on special events (i.e. thanksgiving, sex, parties) for a dispatch show. ** Special thanks to Tom aka ScrapperRecords! Submitted By JoAnna "From Maine"   TOP 10 REASONS WHY DISPATCH IS BREAKING UP 1. My orthodontist's brother is dating brad's aunt's orthodontist and that'swhat she said so it must be true. 2. I've never seen them on TRL 3. My palm reader predicted it 4. Too much hotness for one music group 5. If you play the general backwards and really slowly it says that chetro is really dead. They've been using holographic images for the past year and the machine just broke. 6. N'Sync actually asked Pete to become the sixth member of the group and he accepted the invitation. 7. The band is sick of all their "fans" screaming for Burton, they are just jealous of him I suppose. 8. They can't agree on whether to have Diet Pepsi Lemon Twist or Diet Coke Lemon Twist as the dressing room beverage of choice 9. Braddigan and Repete are rather distraught over the loss of Chetro's dreds. Lets be honest the band just has not been the same since. 10. Pete's solo career has gone to his head and he is demanding his own dressing room backstage at shows and wants to travel in his own personal tour bus. NOTE:Dispatch is not really breaking up. At least not for any of these reasons ;) (Special Thanks to Jon P. And Mike D.) Submitted By JoAnna "From Maine"   Top 10 Things you hear at a Dispatch Concert other than the Music 1. Damn those two guys at the merch table are hot! 2. This music is GREAT! 3. I think the lead singer is wicked hot. 4. FREE BIRD!!!!!!!!!!!!! 5. Play the General! 6. A dollar for the stickers? 7. Can I get a setlist? 8. Do you know the band? 9. Pass that Shit. 10. Is this Guster? Submitted By JoAnna "From Maine"

State Radio State Inspector Gunship Politico ^^State Radio Music The lead singer of State Radio is Chad Stokes Urmston- yes, also one of the boys from Dispatch. Dont get ur panites in a bunch though- the sound is totally different. You wouldnt even know he was in both band if i didn't just say it.  State Radio is a rock band. Brian Sayers plays drums. what else is there to say? they kick some serious butt! www.stateradio.com Chad quotes: "Keep the rock alive- everlove for Wimpy" "what a spiritual begining for such a ...er..crude song" "rockin the narrows"

Apollo Sunshine       they have so many cool doodahs   one day.... one a few different days,,,, the men of Apollo Sunshine were born.... in the form of human babies... they immediately heard things... and reacted to them.... and grew larger and thought many more things.... and learned how to let their fingers move for themselves... and then thought very little... and let it all flow thru... and.... you remember everything they are doing.. because it all comes from inside of you... and you've known it all along.... Apollo Sunshine is YOUR band.....   Apollo Sunshine General Info Member Since June 10, 2004 Band Website apollosunshine.com Band Members Jeremy - Jesse - Sam - Sean Influences Feelings.... Thoughts... Impulses... Weed... Our Family... Brian Schreck... Sounds Like FUN, SEX, HAPPINESS, BELLS ..... Record Label SpinART Type of Label Indie       Apollo Sunshine: L-R Jesse Gallagher, Sam Cohen, Jeremy Black Boston's Apollo Sunshine has been likened to the Flaming Lips, the Elephant 6 collective, the Kinks, Queen, They Might Be Giants, and Beck. None of these bands really sound alike, so which one really describes Apollo's sound? The answer is all of them, and none. While Apollo Sunshine's music may be remniscent of any of these bands at any given moment, the strength of their debut album, Katonah, lies in a sound that is very much their own. Apollo Sunshine is a trio: Jesse Gallagher (vocals, bass, keyboards), Sam Cohen (guitar, vocals, pedal steel), and Jeremy Black (drums/percussion), who met while attending college in Boston and are now in their early 20s. Katonah was recorded (with the help of their former college professor Andy Edelstein) after a year of playing shows in the Boston area (including a residency at TT the Bear's) and on the East Coast (Macrock in VA, and opening for the likes of Piebald, the French Kicks, Mink Lungs, the Mooney Suzuki, and Sahara Hotnights.) The album is an epic of sorts, a bizarre pop opera that takes the framework of simple, straightforward rock songs and expands it into a kaleidoscope of sound. Katonah was released on October 7th, 2003.

Roots Down Below!!! About Roots Down Below: Roots Down Below has been together since its formation in late Jan. 2003. The band brings to the table an interesting serving of musical styles that include Reggae, Hip-Hop, Rock, Funk,and R & B. Although the band is relatively new, the group has managed to cover a lot of ground together. They have played over 200 shows, created loads of music, and released two CDs (One EP 2004, One LP 2004). The band is currently booking college shows, working on their 2nd EP, and playing in major competitions (Emergenza Festival) Winning a original music competition on cape cod MA PIXY 102.9fm. Oh yeah, they are also spreading the message of peace, love, and respect towards all!!!       Roots Down Below General Info Member Since November 1, 2004 Band Website EMAIL THE BAND ROOTSDOWNBELOW@hotmail.com Band Members Dan Allen = Vocals Brandon Eardley = Guitar, Vocals Aaron Small = Bass Patrick Golarz = Drums Galan " g-spot" Latham = sound and stage management and producer ROOTS DOWN BELOW WANTS TO PLAY YOUR COLLEGE PLEASE EMAIL THE BAND @ ROOTSDOWNBELOW@HOTMAIL.COM or call us 508 430 7137 or If you want to help spread music and start a revolution print out our press kit and burn a cd and give it to student activities or you programming comittee at your school. CHECK OUT OUR PRESS KIT ONLINE View Roots Down Below's EPK Influences We were all raised on different types of music, we all have different roots. We all share different musical influences. So we come together blending our styles. Remember that scene in Good Will Hunting when Ben Affleck's character tells Matt Damon's character that because of his genius, he's sitting on a winning lottery ticket? Well, Roots Down Below might just be the Good Will Hunting of the local music scene. The "roots" of RDB is in a mixture of Ska, Reggae, Hip Hop, and R&B. The result is a hodge-podge of sound that is undeniably groovalicious. Combine a dynamic stage show and a tangible confidence in their music, and they seem to have what it takes to bust them outta this clambake. There is no single thing that stands out about RDB, there are several things. Individually, they are some of the most talented musicians around at their respective instruments. As a unit, they create a vibe and energy that feels real, spontaneous, and fresh. RDB's live show setlist combines originals and covers. Whether painting a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with ska-rock strokes, or revving up a reggae standard with their trademark energy, RDB handles cover tunes the right way - they make it their own. They inject them with surprising twists, leaving the listener eager to find out what's around the next curve. On this night, they paid proper homage to one of their more obvious influences, Bob Marley, whose 60th birthday passed this weekend. RDB's original music combines their varied influences and can swing from the frantic energy of ska to the softer reflections of R&B. Like much Reggae and classic R&B, RDB preaches peace and equality. As noble as that is, it's when RDB turn their focus inward, on emotion -- that's when they, and especially frontman Dan Allen, shine. Allen stretches and alternates between their various styles of music with ease, but his smooth, affective tone lends itself to the more emotional side of the music. He displays the versatility of a well-trained vocalist - ranging from the perfect pitch and clarity of a high school musical crooner, to the guttural roar of a hard rock screamer. In the context of RDB's original style, however, his inflections definitely reflect the influence of, and the love for, the roots of reggae and ska.

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GUSTER!!! Questions often asked of us: Q: Do you guys have any pre-show rituals? A: Yes. Q: How do you guys write your songs? A: We write about what we know. We're stenographers...we transcribe life and put a little melody under it.* Q: Are you guys a Christian band? A:Rather than answer this one with a simple yes/no, we suggest you check the following sources for clues: 1) Brian's last name -- "Rosenworcel." 2) Any photo of Ryan where you can see his profile. 3) The Guster Backstage Contract Rider, where we stipify that "the dressing room must be furnished with plenty of borscht, noodle kugels, potato latkes, gefilte fish and homemade rugulah for dessert." Q: do you guys name your instruments? A: yes Q: You guys seem to be on the road all the time. What do the insides of your refrigerators look like? A: Thankfully, we maintain digital fridge-cams so we can check the progress of our perishables from the bus and know what we're coming home to. Click here to take a peek inside Guster's personal refrigerators    (the clicky thing doesn't work. Sorry! --mr. j) Q: Okay, say you guys are on the road and you finish playing a show and your shirt is drenched with sweat. Where do you put that shirt? Please give individual answers. A: Adam will hang the shirt in the dressing room or the hotel room until it dries. Sometimes he clips it in the window of the van and leaves it flapping as we drive. Ryan will wear the shirt to bed and when he wakes up in the morning it is usually dry, and good to wear again that night. If it has been a particularly sweaty show, Ryan might shove the wet shirt into his laundry bag and worry about it later. Unable to come up with a suitable solution for this problem, Brian will begin playing gigs topless this fall. Q: What kind of music do you guys listen to while on the road? A:There are very few records that all three of us agree on. But here are some selections currently in the collective Guster CD player: Stevie Wonder: Songs In The Key Of Life Lambchop: What Another Man Spills Tortoise: TNT The Smiths: Meat Is Murder Grandaddy: The Sophtware Slump Q: How can I get my hands on some classic "GUS" merchandise? A: For those of you confused here, our band used to be called GUS, while we were in college at Tufts University, but we changed it in 1995. There are some GUS stickers and shirts locked away in the Guster archives basement in Somerville, Massachusetts, but you can't have any of them. Now and then a GUS - 'Parachute' disc makes an appearance at Disc Diggers (used records) in Somerville for a respectable $3.99. * Coincidentally, this is also how Tenacious D writes their songs.     GUSTER IS... Adam is from New Jersey. He plays guitar and sings. When he was in high school, he played bass in the band Royal Flush, who had a killer cover of "Magic Carpet Ride." Adam also appeared in a math book: look at this!!! its him behind kerry!!! this isn't photoshopped               Ryan is the oldest Guster. He plays guitar and sings. Ryan is from Texas.       Brian is the youngest Guster. He plays the drums with his hands, and sometimes with sticks. Brian hails from West Hartford, Connecticut and graduated from Tufts with a degree in American Studies. In high school, he was in a band called Toejamb.                                       www.guster.com

Articles- Cult band reunites for its believers Dispatch's final concert draws fan interest from around the globe By Lauren Smiley, Globe Correspondent  |  July 30, 2004Knowing the saying about all good things, Dispatch fans had accepted the band's end. It didn't seem to matter that the underground kingdom of fans had kept mushrooming, that the albums had kept selling at a rate of about 1,500 a week, on a par with sales from when the band was together. Dispatch was over: The October 2002 "Late Late Show With Craig Kilborn" was the last gig. The band's beloved Chad Urmston, Brad Corrigan, and Pete Heimbold had moved on to solo acts and other groups. Then, in February, the e-mail dropped: There would be one last show.Details were filled in: The Hatch Shell. July 31. Free.So began the pilgrimage -- the legions of fans ranging from high schoolers to late 20-somethings who discovered the band in the mid- to late-1990s when it was just starting to play New England prep schools and weddings, colleges and bar mitzvahs. Some label the fans the Abercrombie crowd: hacky-sackers whose CD collections include Jack Johnson and O.A.R. They're all part of what the band feels is more a phenomenon than your everyday fan base, proof that a band can make it without signing to a record label looking to pigeonhole music that defies categorization.Ask the band the reason for this last concert, and the word "closure" inevitably comes up. Its 22-year-old manager, Steve Bursky, said: "It's not the right thing to do, to just disappear and be the band that no one knows what happened to."Now that the mystery's over, fans are traversing the globe to seize their last chance, including one guy from the United Arab Emirates, another from South Africa, 10 people on a boat from Barcelona (or so their e-mail said). The folks on the Dispatch music.com message board started a collection to fly in a fanfrom London. And that's just part of the foreign contingent. Fleets of fans will fly in from Reno, drive from Kentucky, trek from Santa Cruz and Seattle; some arrived for the sold-out warm-up show at the Somerville Theatre last night. A sergeant deployed in South Korea e-mailed organizers for posters, bummed that he couldn't make the show.Pete Touhill, 18, and 17 friends will hit the road at 3 a.m. tomorrow from New Jersey, clad in custom-made concert T-shirts in two "old school" minivans. Michael Westbom, 19, of Windsor, Vt., invites anyone to meet him and 18 pals at the Cumberland Farms convenience store at 7:30 a.m. Ian Morrow from Chattanooga, Tenn., will crash at the Government Center Holiday Inn with a Melissa, Kim, Mel, and Chris -- all of whom he met on the band's message board. "It's going to be incredible," he said. "Oh my God, it's going to be the most intense show ever." .For their last Dispatch, a return to band's musical roots By Dorian Block, Globe Correspondent  |  July 25, 2004 After eight years, Dispatch will say goodbye where it first said hello. ''We played in so many little no-named rooms in Boston," band member Brad Corrigan said. ''That's how we got our start. We thought that would be a great place to honor our fans in the end." The three-member band, known for its colorful mix of funk, rock, and reggae, and even more so for resisting mainstream label offers -- yet selling more than 350,000 records -- will perform in a final free concert this Saturday at the Hatch Shell. Corrigan, Chad Urmston, and Pete Heimbold, the three friends from Middlebury College, are a Boston music circuit success story. Their first gig -- the band was then called One Fell Swoop -- was at Emily's in the Financial District, where they squeezed their equipment into a corner of a bar that had no stage. They moved from there to Bill's Bar, The Tam, Harpers Ferry, Central Square's The Middle East, and then The Somerville Theatre. They played each place until crowds grew so large they were forced to set their sights on larger venues -- all the way to New York's Roseland Ballroom and Central Park's Summer Stage. In 2002, after a final performance on the ''Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn," the college friends split, each pursuing individual music careers. The more their band grew, they said, the more strained their friendships became. But while they have traveled the world, they never abandoned their roots. Urmston, 28, who grew up in Sherborn, lives in on the second floor of a Victorian house in Brighton. He still takes the T and frequents the Middle East. Heimbold, 28, who now lives in New York, is looking forward to visiting the clubs on Lansdowne Street when he returns to town. Corrigan, 29, a former Cambridge resident who now lives in Colorado, hit up his favorite ice cream spot, Christina's in Inman Square, on a recent trip to Boston. He walked along the Esplanade to the Hatch Shell and said he imagined the vast grassy space filled with the band's fans. ''It was pretty intense to be there and literally feel the kids there. It's going to be crazy. I can't wait to see how many people converge on Boston." Urmston said he is too nervous to imagine the scene. ''Fans are the only reason that I've done it and am still in," Urmston said. ''I never wanted to be aloof with them where it becomes just noise, applause, and camera flashes, and rise above fan base. We wanted to remain immersed in our fan base and watch our family grow." He said he hopes he will never lose that direct contact with fans. Michael Etzel, 20, the band's de facto archivist, was among the group's most fervent fans when he began downloading recordings of their performances from the Internet for fellow fans to watch for free. Dispatch saw his work and invited him to take a more official role recording the group's history. ''For me it was a band I grew up with," said Etzel, now a student at Harvard University. ''They really got me into the Boston music scene." At its height, the band was still accessible enough that fans were able to feel a part of a community. In the past few months, fans have met across the country in parks and stadiums, passing out stickers to advertise the end of the Dispatch journey. Just as the convention attendees leave Boston, it is estimated that anywhere from 50,000 to 100,000 Dispatch fans from all over the world will descend on the Hatch Shell. Urmston, the most political of the group, has campaigned for the Democratic Party with his new band State Radio. He dreams of attracting some of the convention's most recognizable politicians to the concert. As Corrigan joked, [Senator] ''John Kerry sitting in with us on the bongos, playing 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow,' now that is a vision." All three band members independently said they are most looking forward to playing ''The General," an antiwar song that has grown somewhat into the Dispatch anthem. ''The crowd really responds to it and we love playing it," Heimbold said. ''They just erupt," said Corrigan. ''We are going to play a really long set. I figure here's our chance, we better deliver everything." Dispatch's final concert, ''Nectarfest," will take place at 5 p.m. Saturday at the Hatch Shell. It is free and open to the public. For more information go to www.dispatchmusic.com   110,000 Attend Dispatch's Farewell Show In Boston Tuesday, August 03, 2004 The three members of the renowned underground rock band Dispatch, Chad Urmston, Pete Francis and Brad Corrigan wouldn’t have believed it themselves had they not seen it with their own eyes. The outfit’s free farewell show this past Saturday, July 31st, expected to bring down 40-50,000 fans, drew an astounding 110,000 to the DCR Hatch Shell in their native Boston, forcing local authorities to shut down all major thoroughfares around the venue. The show now proves to be one of the largest independent music events in history. The Last Dispatch, as it was dubbed by the band, kicked off just before dusk and saw the group and a small handful of musician friends through an uninterrupted three and a half hour set, spanning their eight year career. Loyal fans from all corners of the globe were in attendance to see the final performance of their favorite band. A caravan of 150 cars filming their road adventures as a gift to Dispatch drove in from the west coast and included fans from Alaska to Nevada. Dispatch lovers from Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Portugal, the UK, Ireland, Scotland, Sweden, Spain, Indonesia, Italy, United Arab Emirates and Canada also poured in for the concert that could not be missed. Aforementioned band member Pete Francis said of the turnout and the experience as a whole, “It exceeded all of our expectations,” as fellow bandmate Brad Corrigan added, “It was wonderful to have 110,000 members of our family along with us.” Band manager and owner of Foundations Music, Steve Bursky says, “A turnout like this is unprecedented for a band that has operated completely under the radar. Dispatch has survived and thrived entirely through grassroots support. In these days of music industry consolidation, this is an incredible feat.” In October 2004, Foundations Records/Universal will release a DVD/CD tentatively titled The Last Dispatch. The release will chronicle this momentous and historical musical event with behind the scenes footage, interviews with the band, incredible concert cinematography and much more. Dispatch goes out on top at giant farewell show By Steve Morse, Globe Staff  |  August 2, 2004No one knew what to expect at Saturday's wild-card farewell gig by local indie-rock heroes Dispatch. The band had printed 12,000 T-shirts -- a number some friends thought was way too high -- but they all sold within two hours, snapped up by a ravenous young crowd that had arrived at the crack of dawn to stake out turf for this free concert billed as "The Last Dispatch.            Fans came to the Hatch Shell from as far away as Australia, Portugal, Italy, and Mexico, prompting Dispatch member Chad Urmston to exclaim onstage, "We don't know what to say except, `How the [heck] did you get here?' " The band members dedicated a song ("Bats in the Belfry") to fans who climbed into trees for a better view, and they constantly thanked the crowd for coming.Dispatch told the fans they were "100,000 strong." Sponsoring radio station WBOS said 75,000, and a State Police rep said "at least 60,000." However many, it was a staggering turnout. Dispatch, which has enjoyed a word-of-mouth popularity and Internet presence that exploded before the mainstream noticed ("The Establishment never knew what to do with us," Urmston said), had never played to a crowd of more than 9,000 before. But the band went out on top with a 3 1/2-hour show that rivaled Bruce Springsteen in terms of length. The group took no breaks, staying out in the hot afternoon sun playing song after song as guests from guitarist Phil Keggy (a master musician) to keyboardist Paul Tillotson sat in.It was all taped for a DVD to come out in October. And the filmmakers at this so-called Nectarfest (Nantucket Nectars helped coordinate it) caught an eyeful of action: There was more crowd-surfing than expected, and a few times the fans let fly with hundreds of empty water bottles across the grounds. The scene was reminiscent of a mini-Woodstock, though the crowd, which became so big that Storrow Drive was closed down, dispersed quietly.Dispatch provided them with an engaging range of music, from Phish-flavored rock ("Bulletholes") and reggae-tinged tracks (notably the new song "Ride a Tear" by Pete Heimbold, also known as Pete Francis) to the percussive Afropop of "Elias," the mellow "Carry You," the space-rock of "Lightning," and late-set peaks of "Mission" and "Outloud," which had a touch of Bob Marley's "Stir It Up" woven in. The songs were carried by a lyrical honesty that was as true as Dispatch's steady mission of doing all this for the pure joy of it, never for commercial gain.Several times the crowd broke into heartfelt chants of "Don't break up! Don't break up!" The three Dispatch members -- Urmston, Heimbold, and underrated singer Brad Corrigan -- are now pursuing other projects, but you can bet they heard the crowd's chant. "I got the chills," Corrigan said later backstage. "I felt like I was at a World Cup soccer game. It's just unbelievable to have a crowd love you that much."  Feature: Dispatch calls it quits By Pat Nason UPI Hollywood Reporter Published 8/2/2004 8:32 PM LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- The independent, unsigned band Dispatch has called it quits after an eight-year run during which it achieved more prosperity than most bands are able to manage with the benefit of record deals.The band's three members -- Chad Urmston, Pete Francis and Brad Corrigan -- threw a farewell concert at their native Boston's Hatch Memorial Shell Saturday evening, attracting 110,000 people, according to an estimate published on the Boston Globe's Web site, Boston.com. Following a week in which Boston was coping with the disruptive aspects of hosting the Democratic National Convention, local authorities had to shut down major thoroughfares around the concert.Organizers had said before the show they were hoping 40,000 to 50,000 fans would show up for the free concert, which was called The Final Dispatch.During their eight years, Urmston, Francis and Corrigan played their blend of rock, reggae and funk free of the media glare that typically accompanies top-selling rock bands. That kind of hype tends to be a byproduct of something else the band has done without -- the support system that comes with signing to a major label.Doing it their way, Dispatch developed a fan base that bought hundreds of thousands of CDs, millions of dollars worth of merchandise and enough concert tickets to transform the band from a struggling startup to a sell-out attraction at such venues as Roseland, Central Park, Fleet Boston Pavilion, Orpheum and The Fillmore.In an interview with United Press International, Corrigan said the farewell concert might not be the last time the band plays together, but it will take a special occasion to bring them back together again."If we feel kind of a healthy opportunity to write music for a film or to go overseas and play music or to play charity gigs, we'd love that," he said. "As far as being a touring band that gives its life to what we do, Dispatch is finished in that regard."Despite their prosperity, Urmston said band members did not live the prototypical lives of rich rock stars."One of the reasons we've been able to do OK is that every cent we got we poured back into the band," he said. "When we were getting supposedly big money -- record-label-type money, when we played Roseland or the Orpheum or the Fillmore -- even at that time we threw every cent of that into making a DVD, so we never really saw that much money, but we kept investing it in ourselves to just keep the ball rolling."Francis said the band did try in its earliest days to get connected with record labels, but without success. They worked around that by taking their music directly to as many people as they could."We'd get up early and play at an assembly at a prep school, sit there and sell our CDs and get back in the van," he said.There were some experiences common to bands that Dispatch was unable to avoid -- including personal, creative and professional differences that can step on creative impulses and throw up barriers to prosperity."As we kept on playing through the years, our friendship started falling apart," said Urmston. "We just didn't want to ever feel like we were faking it. A big part of this band is that we've known each other so long we feel like we're brothers. The downside was overshadowing the good."Part of the problem, said Corrigan, is that each member of Dispatch had strong feelings about his own music -- and each had the talent to back up an unyielding fidelity to his own musical vision."Very few bands have three lead personalities and three creators that share the same canvas," he said, "and you just can't keep that up forever."Urmston suggested that the personal conflicts helped keep the band independent of major labels."Sort of late in the game, the record companies came to us -- they sort of flocked to us," he said. "It was just too late. We had the foresight to know the last thing we wanted to do was bring a whole lot of advance money and the contractual world to what was already sort of dysfunctional. If they had caught us a year or two earlier when things had more promise, we may have considered something."In the end, Urmston said he was pleased that Dispatch went wire-to-wire without "the man" -- the tag rock musicians give to most authority figures of any kind."The Man" will get his crack at sharing in the wealth in October, when Foundations Records/Universal will release a DVD/CD chronicling the farewell concert. Plans call for the package to include behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with the band.Ironically, as the band packs up its road gear for the last time, it also is announcing a deal with a major label."Universal is picking up our back catalog to do distribution for us," said Corrigan.For Dispatch, it is like having the best of all possible worlds."We could have had this (label deal) five years ago," he said. "It wouldn't have killed us, but it would have been different."--

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