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On behalf of the boys in ZED; I want to thank you for a great 2010! We began the year working on what started as a demo and eventually became our album the “Invitation”; which we wrote for the majority of 2009. We recorded all the tracks at our warehouse in Santa Clara, CA and took it to Juan Urteaga (Machine Head) at Trident Studios for mixing and mastering. The album was finally finished and released in April of 2010. Since its release on iTunes, Amazon, and a bunch of other online retailers, most notably bandcamp.com; we’ve heard from fans from literally all over the world. The album has been reviewed and favorably received internationally in the stoner rock underground. Such sites such as stonerrock.com (RIP) and especially Bill and crew at the Sodashop have been great new friends.
There have been many people behind the scenes who’ve been amazing and have lent their time and talent; most notably Bill Pennington and Blazing B studios for his amazing help with the ‘lunatics and liars’ video which we wrote, shot, edited and released this year. ZED was also a featured band this year on RoadRunner Records’ SignMeTo website, where we peakedat number 4 on the weekly rock charts. We met more than 2000 new friends and fans from around the world in 2010!
2010 was also a great year for shows. We started the year off at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz, where we returned to play more shows since. We did a series of awesome shows for BarbRocks. Later in the year, ZED did our first show with Mike Beard at the Avalon, opening the Adema show, with our friends and great local band Left of Christ. We returned to the Avalon again to support the Dreaming. We participated in the Your Music Magazine’s music Olympics. We played many fantastic shows in San Francisco and all around the Bay Area this year. It’s been a blast and we’re just getting started!
We’re excited about 2011 and we have a bunch of cool things planned! Those of you who’ve come to recent shows have surely noticed a bunch of new tunes we’ve been trying out for the next album and they are sounding GOOD! So it’s safe to say, you will most likely see a new recording from ZED in 2011. We feel that they are the next step up for us musically. We hope to finally see our fans outside of the Bay Area in the new year and hope to play in Southern California, Oregon and Washington in 2011.
Thanks again for a great year! Without you, there would be no us and we are grateful to be able to shareour music with you. Cheers and see you in 2011!
ROCK!
Peter and the boys in ZED
