1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: Here in the WBZ newsroom, Drew maholland joining you and 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:05,200 Speaker 1: I have a great special guest in the house today, 3 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:09,920 Speaker 1: Chadwick Stokes, musician, great local artist around here. And it's 4 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:11,880 Speaker 1: a big weekend for you. It is the Calling All 5 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 1: Crows Benefit weekend. We're pushing like two decades of this 6 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:15,880 Speaker 1: now unbelievable work. 7 00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:17,880 Speaker 2: Thank you, thank it's good to be with you. 8 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:20,880 Speaker 1: Tell me a little bit about the weekend festivities. You 9 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:22,560 Speaker 1: guys tend to put a different spin on it, and 10 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:24,919 Speaker 1: this year is no different. A little bit of some changes. 11 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, we're doing We're basically doing all protest music from 12 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:36,280 Speaker 2: from from different bands I've been in. But we're also 13 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:41,879 Speaker 2: combined that with on all requests set. So we've been 14 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:45,600 Speaker 2: we've been fielding requests for the last couple of months. 15 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 1: You know. I saw you post that online of course 16 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 1: and some of the fan sites and everything. I said, 17 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 1: Oh boy, Chad, when you open your music up to request, 18 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 1: when you talk about the Dispatch, the State Radio catalog, 19 00:00:57,120 --> 00:01:00,960 Speaker 1: the pintos, you have opened up a cannon worms in 20 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:01,959 Speaker 1: some ways, am I right? 21 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:06,399 Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, it's it's it's more prep than the than 22 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 2: the usual show, because it means Uh, it means I 23 00:01:09,319 --> 00:01:11,640 Speaker 2: gotta stay loyal to to what people want to hear, 24 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 2: and a lot of it is songs I haven't heard, 25 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:14,679 Speaker 2: I haven't played in a while. 26 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:17,760 Speaker 1: The uh, that must be really flattering though in some way, right, 27 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:19,199 Speaker 1: I mean, I know you're one of those guys who's 28 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 1: always looking at the next project and you like to 29 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 1: get on and play the new songs that are you're 30 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:25,319 Speaker 1: feeling at the moment. But it is it must be 31 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:28,039 Speaker 1: flattering to hear people, you know, you know, Indian Moon 32 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 1: is my favorite song of all time, and you know 33 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:31,119 Speaker 1: some of the stuff like that, right. 34 00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:33,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's really it's cool and and some 35 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 2: of these, uh you know a lot of the requests 36 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:39,520 Speaker 2: are pretty state radio heavy, and you know, it's been 37 00:01:39,720 --> 00:01:42,559 Speaker 2: it's been years since we played and since I played 38 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:45,120 Speaker 2: those songs, so it's it's it's cool that you know 39 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:47,840 Speaker 2: when we played back then that it uh, you know, 40 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 2: sunk in enough with people that that's the stuff they 41 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 2: really want to hear. 42 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 1: People loved that Bad Man, and they've loved all of 43 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:55,680 Speaker 1: your projects, of course, and you get all all sorts 44 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 1: of stuff going on. But uh so, anyway, this so 45 00:01:57,680 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 1: the it's really a whole weekend of events right starting for. 46 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 2: Yes, Friday is like a VIP night in Cambridge where 47 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:10,519 Speaker 2: we're gonna I'm working. I've been working on the Rock 48 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:13,080 Speaker 2: Opera nineteen seventy two, so we're going to be doing 49 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:16,640 Speaker 2: a few songs from that. And then on Saturday we 50 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:22,119 Speaker 2: have a service project with Reproductive Equity Now and that's 51 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:26,840 Speaker 2: at the Cambridge Community Center at eleven o'clock eleven am. 52 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:31,120 Speaker 2: And then the show at Sanders Theater that night. 53 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 1: And that's a new venue for you too. I remember 54 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:35,240 Speaker 1: in years past it was the House of Blues. 55 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:37,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, we always, I feel like we always get a 56 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 2: new spot. We've probably done the Paradise once or twice, 57 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 2: but typically we kind of kind of move it around 58 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:47,240 Speaker 2: so that there's a new feel and a kind of 59 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:48,480 Speaker 2: a new theme of the year. 60 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 1: And you always tell me this event does not work 61 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:52,919 Speaker 1: without your wife Sybil. 62 00:02:54,320 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, these the brains and the bron behind the 63 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:05,960 Speaker 2: whole thing. So she's been working real hard and then 64 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:09,800 Speaker 2: the whole con All Crows team and our management just 65 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 2: to get this, you know, make this a special one. 66 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 2: Just a lot of planning and getting people out, but 67 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:17,919 Speaker 2: it's a you know, it's a good year for for 68 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:20,600 Speaker 2: for protest songs, because there's a lot from old songs 69 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 2: that are echoing here as we as we live here 70 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:24,080 Speaker 2: in the future. 71 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 1: No doubt, I was going to say that it is 72 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 1: a let's call it, a chaotic time in the world. 73 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:31,080 Speaker 1: And I know this week this weekend for you is 74 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 1: I know it's your way of giving back. But also 75 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 1: when you see these people come together you do the 76 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 1: service projects, people come out and support the show and 77 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 1: just get into really whatever version of the show you 78 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:44,160 Speaker 1: want to do, it must in some way be very 79 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:47,040 Speaker 1: rewarding for you too, just to see with all that 80 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 1: chaos going on the world, this community come together. 81 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:51,680 Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, this community means so much to us. 82 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:56,400 Speaker 2: It's always been our touchstone. And you know, year after 83 00:03:56,480 --> 00:03:59,720 Speaker 2: year many of the same people come out. So it's 84 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 2: just a it's a wonderful way to connect and and 85 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:05,640 Speaker 2: see everyone and and kind of thank everyone and just 86 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 2: and being be together. You know, a lot of what 87 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:11,000 Speaker 2: we lack these days is just being in community with 88 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 2: each other and listening to each other. And so it's nice. 89 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:16,800 Speaker 2: And it's also when you when you feel that angst 90 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:19,039 Speaker 2: to the pain of what's happening in the world, it's 91 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:21,640 Speaker 2: it's nice to be around people who care and and 92 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 2: who are talking to each other about how can we 93 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:24,320 Speaker 2: do better? 94 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:27,160 Speaker 1: Yep, no doubt. And you played the No Kings this year. 95 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 1: What was that experience like? 96 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:31,400 Speaker 2: That was? That was? That was wild? It was Yeah, 97 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 2: it was just so much energy at the Common and 98 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:37,800 Speaker 2: it really felt like, you know, one of those huge 99 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:40,479 Speaker 2: rallies of the sixties or something. It was like, you know, 100 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 2: there's so much too, so much to protest, so much 101 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:47,479 Speaker 2: to come into community for. It was wild to be there, 102 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:49,680 Speaker 2: and a lot of energy, a lot of uh, you know, 103 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 2: amazing to be with shell Wou and fabulous speakers and 104 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 2: mcs and and just like felt like there's no other 105 00:04:57,120 --> 00:04:59,200 Speaker 2: place you'd want to be. So that that was that 106 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:02,480 Speaker 2: was great to kind feel that like Boston showing up. 107 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:04,840 Speaker 1: Awesome fans of yours will not let me get out 108 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:07,919 Speaker 1: of this without asking you. The plans for whether it 109 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 1: be dispatch, the Pinto's state radio. You got to put 110 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:13,560 Speaker 1: in there, what are the plans going forward here? Summer plans, 111 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:15,440 Speaker 1: year ahead? What else you got? 112 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 2: It's the Rock Opera is kind of taking the nineteen 113 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,279 Speaker 2: seventy two is taking on a life of its own. 114 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:25,320 Speaker 2: So we are, we're gonna be we're gonna be playing 115 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:28,039 Speaker 2: at there's gonna be maybe just a just a handful 116 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:32,600 Speaker 2: of dispatch shows, but but pretty few and far between, 117 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:36,479 Speaker 2: and most of my energy and our energies going into 118 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:39,680 Speaker 2: the rock opera as we will most likely be in 119 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 2: a theater here in Boston in the fall, like almost 120 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:44,000 Speaker 2: every night. 121 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:46,160 Speaker 1: All right, little teaser there. 122 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:49,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, just and really, uh, the whole the whole 123 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 2: stage world is a real new world to us, you know, 124 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:55,039 Speaker 2: in terms of you know, that theater world. So it's 125 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:57,720 Speaker 2: where you where you're every night, you're doing the same 126 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:01,360 Speaker 2: show and you're fine tuning the show and you know, 127 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:04,440 Speaker 2: we'll have to have an understudy or two in case 128 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:06,800 Speaker 2: someone gets sick, you know, all this stuff that we 129 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:09,400 Speaker 2: never think about when you're just in a rock band. Yeah. 130 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:11,680 Speaker 1: I remember when Springsteen did Broadway. He said that was 131 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:14,599 Speaker 1: the strangest thing because you know, it's like you used 132 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 1: to have pretty eclectic set lists and different show every night, 133 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:19,359 Speaker 1: and broad Broadway was not that. 134 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:23,040 Speaker 2: No, No, it's so I saw that show was fabulous. 135 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:25,800 Speaker 2: I did too, and yeah, yeah, it's a it's a 136 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 2: different world. So it's but it's fun and it's with 137 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 2: like my old friends, some from high school or even 138 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 2: elementary school who are in the cast, and super fun 139 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:37,880 Speaker 2: and feels very kind of novel just because it's the 140 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,719 Speaker 2: idea and the telling one story, you know, over the 141 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:44,920 Speaker 2: course of an hour and a half is not something 142 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:46,799 Speaker 2: we usually do. So it's it's cool. 143 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:49,880 Speaker 1: Great, awesome man. Well, Chad Stokes, thank you so much 144 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 1: for the time. As always, you're always very generous to 145 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:54,839 Speaker 1: here to us here at WBZ News Radio. We appreciate 146 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:57,839 Speaker 1: it as always. Have a great calling all crows weekend right. 147 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:00,600 Speaker 2: All right, thanks to good to talk to you, Dwick. 148 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:03,839 Speaker 1: Stokes of the band Dispatch, State Radio, the Pintos and 149 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:06,400 Speaker 1: the Man behind the Rock Oper nineteen seventy two. I'm 150 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:09,400 Speaker 1: Drew Maholland in the WZ Newsroom.