Dave Derby of The Dambuilders talks about the importance of college radio | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: Something specific I really want to ask you about too,

0:02 Speaker 1: is something that I am very passionate about is college radio.

0:07 Speaker 1: And I feel like I'm curious to get your thoughts

0:10 Speaker 1: on how on the role that college radio, you know,

0:13 Speaker 1: especially in a place like Boston, which has you know,

0:16 Speaker 1: just a lot of obviously an incredible music scene, and

0:19 Speaker 1: a big part of that is is college radio in Boston.

0:22 Speaker 1: But I'm curious about the role of college radio in

0:25 Speaker 1: helping the dam Builders in the beginning. Obviously you were

0:28 Speaker 1: getting exposure, you know, on MTV. Like I said, I

0:31 Speaker 1: remember seeing the video for Shrine, but also at college radio.

0:34 Speaker 1: I feel like that's part of part of a big

0:36 Speaker 1: part right of the dam builders escension.

0:39 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, And I am super passionate about

0:44 Speaker 2: college radio myself. You know, I Boston, being in Boston

0:50 Speaker 2: in the nineties, especially like you know, pre internet era,

0:53 Speaker 2: like college radio was just a thing where you know,

0:55 Speaker 2: I just remember like planning my days around shows that

1:00 Speaker 2: we're on different stations and just you know, switching from

1:03 Speaker 2: from station to station, you know, like n B R

1:07 Speaker 2: and e R S and hr B and uh, you know,

1:11 Speaker 2: all all the stations there, VBC, but uh, you know,

1:18 Speaker 2: so that was a huge thing. Another thing, and also yeah,

1:21 Speaker 2: n b R like we one thing that will be

1:27 Speaker 2: kind of tv D in terms.

1:28 Speaker 3: Of how how we release it, but we're definitely gonna

1:32 Speaker 3: there's some rarities that we have, like live radio performances

1:37 Speaker 3: where you know, the band used to like we used

1:41 Speaker 3: to you know, we used.

1:42 Speaker 2: To write songs sometimes like right before the show or

1:47 Speaker 2: even on the moment, and there there's some there's some

1:51 Speaker 2: really cool nineties dam Builders performances that we were planning

1:57 Speaker 2: to release in some form and so those are all

2:01 Speaker 2: about Collegrado Colladrated for us was like you know, it

2:04 Speaker 2: was and I think this is very true, like back

2:07 Speaker 2: back in the nineties, it was like, you know, it

2:10 Speaker 2: was like going into the studio was like prepping something

2:12 Speaker 2: for the studios. Like the chance to be live on

2:15 Speaker 2: the radio was just such an important thing. And in

2:18 Speaker 2: Boston people you know, even before you know bands would

2:22 Speaker 2: release like vinyl or CDs, they just do, you know,

2:26 Speaker 2: radio tapes and kind of take them around and you know,

2:29 Speaker 2: and I just remember loving radio tapes. I don't know

2:34 Speaker 2: if they were ever even actually released by by you know,

2:37 Speaker 2: some local bands in Boston's and then just a whole

2:42 Speaker 2: other thing about college radio, just just since you mentioned it.

2:44 Speaker 2: I mean, this is just like so just for fun.

2:47 Speaker 2: One other thing that I'm doing with with some old

2:51 Speaker 2: friends is starting a band that is is actually a

2:56 Speaker 2: cover band that is totally devote devoted to really like

3:02 Speaker 2: mid to late eighties college radio in America before it

3:06 Speaker 2: was called indie. Yeah, so it's just like kind of

3:09 Speaker 2: trying to capture and that's when I went to college,

3:12 Speaker 2: and that's you know, I still have this like memory

3:15 Speaker 2: of hearing like Husker Do for the first time and

3:16 Speaker 2: stuff like that. So that's so we're only playing songs

3:20 Speaker 2: from that that era and it's just so fun. Yeah,

3:24 Speaker 2: it's like a time capsule. Oh that's wild.

3:27 Speaker 1: Wow, that's so cool.

3:29 Speaker 2: Yeah, I see that as a real celebration to college radio.

3:32 Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean college radio was just such a

3:36 Speaker 2: such a huge thing to us, and it's still kind

3:38 Speaker 2: of it still is. Yeah, Yeah, it's still so vibrant.

3:43 Speaker 2: I mean, yeah in New York, the New York area,

3:46 Speaker 2: the FUV things just really fun and you know, FMU

3:49 Speaker 2: like people are super into those stations and you know,

3:53 Speaker 2: just kind of still really important. And the folks who

3:56 Speaker 2: are DJs are really kind of super important too. I think,

4:00 Speaker 2: you know, sustaining any scene that definitely dreamed in New

4:03 Speaker 2: York scene

4:03 Speaker 1: As well, oh, no doubt, no doubt,