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I think you are going to be on a lot of band’s and artist’s radar shows and our crowds are the biggest that they’ve ever
with what you’re doing. I didn’t quite understand why Stuck been. We’ve always been kind of an underground band even
didn’t continue that momentum that you had going coming though we’ve had some really good radio airplay.
off of 2011’s Home School Valedictorian and now it makes
more sense. I really hope that you guys are able to regain The days of checking Billboard each week to see where you
that momentum and move forward. charted and how many copies of your album that you sold
I hope we do and I think it’s up to the radio stations to keep isn’t necessarily the gauge that it used to be to measure how
supporting us if we give them a song that they like and it’s successful an album is anymore.
up to the fans to keep supporting us, which they have been. Let me just tell you this; when I first started touring in 2006
It’s funny for us because we still see business going better and 2007, we would sell 200 to 300 CDs a night in small
than ever because our crowds at the live shows keep getting clubs and at shows and now we’re lucky if we sell fifteen.
bigger. On the Stuck record, we only had one song that went People are buying vinyl at the shows, but they don’t really
top ten, but the record company really didn’t help us at all; want the CD, they want the iTunes version or it’s streaming.
they just had their name behind it. I don’t look at the success I think the main way to gauge is who is coming out to the
of that record just on the charting singles from it. I look at shows. Now, don’t get me wrong, I always like having #1 hits,
the success at the fact that we’re out here playing headlining but I want that #1 hit to translate into more fans showing up
because that’s where I benefit the most.
I Get Around
I think you are going to be on a lot of band’s and artist’s radar shows and our crowds are the biggest that they’ve ever
with what you’re doing. I didn’t quite understand why Stuck been. We’ve always been kind of an underground band even
didn’t continue that momentum that you had going coming though we’ve had some really good radio airplay.
off of 2011’s Home School Valedictorian and now it makes
more sense. I really hope that you guys are able to regain The days of checking Billboard each week to see where you
that momentum and move forward. charted and how many copies of your album that you sold
I hope we do and I think it’s up to the radio stations to keep isn’t necessarily the gauge that it used to be to measure how
supporting us if we give them a song that they like and it’s successful an album is anymore.
up to the fans to keep supporting us, which they have been. Let me just tell you this; when I first started touring in 2006
It’s funny for us because we still see business going better and 2007, we would sell 200 to 300 CDs a night in small
than ever because our crowds at the live shows keep getting clubs and at shows and now we’re lucky if we sell fifteen.
bigger. On the Stuck record, we only had one song that went People are buying vinyl at the shows, but they don’t really
top ten, but the record company really didn’t help us at all; want the CD, they want the iTunes version or it’s streaming.
they just had their name behind it. I don’t look at the success I think the main way to gauge is who is coming out to the
of that record just on the charting singles from it. I look at shows. Now, don’t get me wrong, I always like having #1 hits,
the success at the fact that we’re out here playing headlining but I want that #1 hit to translate into more fans showing up
because that’s where I benefit the most.
I Get Around
