2005 in review
last year was pretty wild for System Kid. it went by so fast. we accomplished several things over the course of a year:
- we recorded our 6 song demo EP. it was recorded in my house with the exception of the drums being recorded in a studio. the drum recordings were pretty terrible. i tried to mix the cd and got pretty far. i learned a lot. Ray ended up taking over and remixing it. it came out pretty good.
- we put on our first show ourselves in an old church in Etiwanda.
- we played a total of 12 shows in 2005, 3 of which were in Hollywood. our goal was to play there once by year's end. very cool.
- we had 10,418 internet plays of our songs last year.
- we got as high as 3rd place in our category (behind Aimee Mann) at music.download.com.
- we have about 235ish people on our mailing list. are you on it yet?
- we recorded our second 6 song EP called Stampede. Everything was recorded by us this time - even the drums. Ray mixed the entire EP and it turned out great for a non-multi-million-dollar studio setup.
- we sent out 50 press kits last year.
- we had at least 2 songs played on the radio - X103.9 FM - Wanderlust and Carry On.
- we were an editor's pick on music.download.com
- we were compared to Whitesnake in our download.com editor's review.
- the bass player of GWAR made a special appearance at our Plush Lounge show in Hollywood.
- Birthday Suit, the first song on the Stampede EP, was the exit music for a short film by Tiger Eye Productions called "Getting Lucky," which is running the festival circuit right now. it has real actors in it and everything...
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