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Flagpole Magazine
October 23, 1991
Dashboard Saviors Sign a Deal
Someday, Everything’s Gonna Be Different
Oh, the hours that they've spent inside the coliseum,
dodging lions, and wasting time. Four-member band the
Dashboard Saviors have been playing around and beyond
Athens since September of 1983. Aside from having one
of the more excellent names in town the Saviors are also
blessed with four solid experienced musicians as well as
somebody at the front who can both think and write and
sing Saviors always play to steady crowds in Athens and
have (probably even larger) followings in West Vir
ginia and points further north and east. In the
summer of '91 the Saviors released a single on Bob
Mould's Singles Only Label (produced by Steve
Fallen), which contained songs “All Before," and
“Town " In January of 91 the Saviors played an
A then s shovs attended by Peter Jesperson, former
manager of the Replacements. Jesperson's im
pression of led to Twin Tone expressing an interest
in working on a full length album with the band.
Since that time the Saviors have sealed a deal with
Medium Coolflwtn Tone Records Recording for
the album began at John Keane's Hillcrest Studio
September 30th
The Saviors are: Todd McBride (vocals, lyrics,
guitar), Michael Gibson (lead guitar), Rob Veal
(bass), and John Crist (drums)
Here are some excerpts from interview with the
Saviors
Flagpole: Tell us about the deal with Twin Tone
McBride: Well, actually, it’s Medium Cool-s!ash-
Twm Tone, it’s a new label, organized within the last year or
so...they’ve still got Twin Tone but its been split up into
these like sort of specialized deals. They’ve got like a metal
label...the guy who manages that label is Peter
Jesperson who used to manage the Replacements.
FP: And he's the one who saw you playing
McBride: Yeah, yeah, he was here in town — I guess last
January
Crist (loudly): He DISCOVERED us. — Twin Tone still
pays for everything, I don’t know who gets like — the
copious profits from all of this, but...
FP: Your “big discovery" was that at a show here?
McBride: Yeah. Last January at the 40 Watt which won’t
give us a GIG, now...
Band: Ha-ha, ha.
FP: This was a friend of Peter Buck's.
McBride: Yeah a friend of Peter Buck's, he was in town
for a few days. Apparently, Pete didn’t really talk us up, he
just kmda snuck him in there we were giving a pretty good
show that night
FP: Did he come up and talk to you then?
McBride: Pete Buck brought him over after the show —
he was pretty excited about the show
Crist: Our manager, Lyn [Hofman], went over to Pete’s
house the next day to meet w;th Peter and Maggie — we’ll
just call Pete Buck “Pete" and Peter Jesperson "Peter,"
how's that 7 — so he went over there the next day and it was
like really cool because it w-as like his first “management"-
type meeting, and he was pretty excited...
FP: Had y'all already done the Singles Only single yet 7
Band: We had done it but it wasn't out yet.
McBride: It took a couple of, let’s just say, "mix-ups"
before that single came out
FP: How has the single done 7
Crist: It went into a second pressing which, apparently
only one other SOL [single] has done, so...I don't know if
they have better distribution now than the first
releases did...or if its just because we're just
PLAIN GOOD.
FP: What do you hope to see come out of this
upcoming project?
McBride: We’re not really expecting to make
anything, you know financially...
Gibson: The mam thing we're hoping for is to get
ah, distribution and, to get the record out in enough
places that we can make money on the road you
know, it’s kind of an advertising thing more than
the money Hopefully we’ll make some money
FP: When are you expecting it to come out 7
Crist: Basically, urn, late January or February
FP: And who is producing that 7
Band: Pete Buck.
FP: Tell us about the history of the band
Gibson: Me and John here are from West Virginia
we met in Huntington and I recruited him to piay
drums in a band
Crist: I wasn’t a drummer yet.
Gibson: He wasn’t a drummer yet. But we
created him We were playing up there in a band with Tim
Flannery, who’s also here in town., .and we came down here
because there was no place in West Virginia to play at that
time.
Crist: So Mike made rrie drop out of college and give up
my “scholarship "
Gibson: I’d already been kicked out of every college in the
state, so I kind of gave up my college career and so we
came down here, and, like, that band [Mourning Glory]
eventually broke up, and then I moved in with Todd cause
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