KCRW-FM "Snap" Session 1987

The dB's
“Snap” Live Session

KCRW Studios

Santa Monica, CA

December 3, 1987

FM broadcast

    
Interviewer: Deirdre O'Donoghue (R.I.P.) Deirdre had an awesome radio voice and was a strong supporter of The dB’s.

BIG thanks to markp for the recording & TheCommish for the reup. I used Audacity to do some minor tweaking (noise reduction, etc.) But the torrent files as I received them were pretty amazing, compared to the crappy MP3 version I had for many years.

Fans of The dB’s seem to be split into two basic camps. Camp A believes the group wasn’t worth listening to after Chris left the band to pursue a solo career. Camp B believes the post-Chris, Peter-led dB’s made great albums and played great shows. Since I’m in the latter camp, I’ll be posting material from throughout The dB’s career. If you’re in Camp A, you might want to give this a listen, at least the abbreviated song-only set. It makes a good case that even without Chris (and even with a brand-new member, as with this session), The dB’s made compelling music.

Special highlight: Peter forgetting the words to “O Holy Night”!

New recruit Eric Peterson is the long guy with tall hair (Janiss Garza photo)

01 intro

02 Today Could Be the Day

03 banter

04 Change With The Changing Times

05 banter

06 Molly Says

07 Working For Somebody Else

08 banter and band introductions

09 This Is Where I Belong

10 White Train

11 banter

12 Amplifier > I'll Take You There

13 banter

14 Home For The Holidays

15 banter

16 O Holy Night

17 banter

18 Bonneville

19 banter

20 Spitting Into The Wind

21 She Got Soul

22 New Gun In Town

23 banter

24 Neverland

25 outro

FULL SESSION (with interviews):
MP3@320
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SONGS ONLY (very little chit-chat):

MP3@320 

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The dB's:

Peter Holsapple: guitar, vocals

Will Rigby: drums, backing vocals

Jeff Beninato: bass, vocals

Eric Peterson: second guitar

WELCOME TO MY UNOFFICIAL BLOG ABOUT THE dB's!

If you wanna talk about grave injustices in the realm of popular music, you can't get far without recounting the story of The dB's -- a truly fantastic combo from the Tar Heel state that deserved a LOT better than it got. The group made a handful of classic pop/rock albums that should be heard by all lovers of cool, compelling and intelligent music.

AND in June 2012, the original lineup released an album of new studio material for the first time in ... almost forever.
That alone justifies a fan blog like this.

This blog's debut made music news! Thanks to Fred Mills, dB's friend, fan, and superb music writer, the debut of The dB's Repercussion was featured in this Blurt magazine story about The dB's upcoming album. 

Amazing!

Coupla things about this blog:

1. IT'S UNOFFICIAL. If you want the official dB's site, go here: http://thedbs.com/index.html. I'm not trying to compete with the official site, just complement it. So I'm not going to repeat anything here that you can read there.

2. THE MAIN FOCUS OF THIS BLOG IS MUSIC: ROIOs (Recordings of Independent Origin). Yup, that means live shows, outtakes, demos. A secondary aspect of the blog (when I get to it) will be news, reviews and articles about the band.

3. THIS BLOG WILL FOCUS ON THE GROUP AS WELL AS ITS INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS as solo artists and collaborators. The solo work, side projects, collaborations, etc., that these guys have done is a compelling story in itself, and I'd like to tell it using ROIOs. Holsapple-Stamey, anyone?!?

4. NO COMMERCIALLY-RELEASED MATERIAL WILL BE POSTED HERE. Chris, Will, Gene and Peter never made the kind of money their music richly deserved, so I will not be doing anything to worsen that sucky situation. When it's warranted, I'll post links to the places where you can legitimately buy their music so the guys might actually realize a little extra revenue.

5. NEW POSTS EVERY FRIDAY. I plan to do at least one new post with fresh music every Friday by Noon EST. Over time, I'll also try to improve the look of the blog as I'm able -- but you gotta start somewhere, right?

6. LOSSY VS. LOSSLESS: I started the blog back when buying a load of memory on a big server was not cheap, so most of the posts in the early years are lossy MP3s. As server space became cheaper, and I sprang for a paid Dropbox account, I started posting more and more shares in lossless FLAC & WAV files. 

7. CONTRIBUTIONS ENCOURAGED. Got something that you think belongs here? Let me know and, if we can work it out, I'd be glad to post your stuff with full credit to you.

8. I HAVE ANOTHER LIFE AWAY FROM BLOGDOM. If you're trying to get in touch and don't hear back from me right away, that's just because I'm not online all the time. And even when I am online, I might be focusing on other stuff. I have a full-time job and a family with kids at home. But if I'm going to be offline for vacation, etc., I'll try to let folks know ahead of time.

THIS BLOG IS MEANT TO BE ENJOYED BY OLD & NEW FANS OF THE dB's ... SO ENJOY IT ALREADY!

Rob

P.S. - For the curious, my blog handle is Rob-in-Brevard in honor of where I live, which is Brevard, N.C. (not far from Asheville, for those who've heard of that great overgrown mountain town). Thus, "Rob in Brevard".