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, is something that I am very passionate about is college radio. And I feel like I'm curious to get your thoughts on how on the role that college radio, you know, especially in a place like Boston, which has you know, just a lot of obviously an incredible music scene, and a big part of that is is college radio in Boston. But I'm curious about the role of college radio in helping the dam Builders in the beginning. Obviously you were getting exposure, you know, on MTV.

0:30 Speaker 1: Like I said, I remember seeing the video for Shrine, but also at college radio. I feel like that's part of part of a big part right of the dam builders escension.

0:39 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, And I am super passionate about college radio myself. You know, I Boston, being in Boston in the nineties, especially like you know, pre internet era, like college radio was just a thing where you know, I just remember like planning my days around shows that we're on different stations and just you know, switching from from station to station, you know, like n B R and e R S and hr B and uh, you know, all all the stations there, VBC, but uh, you know, so that was a huge thing.

1:19 Speaker 2: Another thing, and also yeah, n b R like we one thing that will be kind of tv D in terms.

1:28 Speaker 3: Of how how we release it, but we're definitely gonna there's some rarities that we have, like live radio performances where you know, the band used to like we used to you know, we used.

1:42 Speaker 2: To write songs sometimes like right before the show or even on the moment, and there there's some there's some really cool nineties dam Builders performances that we were planning to release in some form and so those are all about Collegrado Colladrated for us was like you know, it was and I think this is very true, like back back in the nineties, it was like, you know, it was like going into the studio was like prepping something for the studios. Like the chance to be live on the radio was just such an important thing.

2:18 Speaker 2: And in Boston people you know, even before you know bands would release like vinyl or CDs, they just do, you know, radio tapes and kind of take them around and you know, and I just remember loving radio tapes. I don't know if they were ever even actually released by by you know, some local bands in Boston's and then just a whole other thing about college radio, just just since you mentioned it. I mean, this is just like so just for fun. One other thing that I'm doing with with some old friends is starting a band that is is actually a cover band that is totally devote devoted to really like mid to late eighties college radio in America before it was called indie.

3:07 Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's just like kind of trying to capture and that's when I went to college, and that's you know, I still have this like memory of hearing like Husker Do for the first time and stuff like that. So that's so we're only playing songs from that that era and it's just so fun. Yeah, 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. But yeah, I mean college radio was just such a such a huge thing to us, and it's still kind of it still is. Yeah, Yeah, it's still so vibrant. I mean, yeah in New York, the New York area, the FUV things just really fun and you know, FMU like people are super into those stations and you know, just kind of still really important. And the folks who are DJs are really kind of super important too. I think, you know, sustaining any scene that definitely dreamed in New York scene

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