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It's weird with Dashboard... They started out very underground and then the just sorta blew up. I only discovered them myself early last summer which was before the blowing up period. I was lucky to go to 2 solo shows in NYC this past May and the crowd was great. No 12 year old hard core wanna be punks. But then in September I went to a show in Lowell, MA and the crowd was so different. All crowd surfing punk kids. Personally I wanted them all to go away. But I guess thats what you get with more exposure these days.
The band doesn't really like that type of crowd. They hate the fact that these kids are crowdsurfing during there set. But what are ya gonna do?
I guess you can blame MTV and TRL et all.
As for me... Well, I'm 25 and as far away from punk as you can get. I'm sure some of those kids looked at me at that show wondering what the hell I was doing there. Wearing my Gap jeans and Ralph Lauren polo shirt.... Oh well, I'm there for the music, not the crap that surrounds it.
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