Raw Energy was a group of companies that promoted a variety of products, which included albums, that were released in numerous formats and traditionally distributed in 23 countries, as well as events, tours, merchandise, videos and radio programs. There were many generous and truly wonderful people who helped Raw Energy grow and succeed, after being initially launched by founder Graeme Boyce in a
small apartment on Barrington Avenue in Toronto while still working at RPM Weekly, including John Stewart (who cashed in his bonds and dropped all his life savings in order for us to record the King Apparatus demo at Grant Avenue Studios), RJ Guha, Chris Black, Gerry Lacousiere (and all his peeps at A&M, esp Dave Porter and Debbie Brennan), Linda Cook, Amy Hershenhoren, Drew Gauley, Victor Page (and his entire crew, esp Matt Smallwood), the guys and gals at both Black Mark and Shock Records, and of course all the band members, their parents - who really made it all possible - and each of their friends who turned dreams into reality, as well as the engineers and producers in the studios, the graphic artists, and the sound technicians at live shows, not to mention the writers in the press, radio station programmers and DJs, and the countless people working in stores around the world who - for ten years - took our product out of boxes each week and put them onto shelves.
