  lo-pro is the self-titled debut album of lo-pro, released on september 30, 2003."staind's lewis makes lo-pro look like chopped liver, but it's all love - group released self-titled debut tuesday" mtv.com. oct 3, 2003."lo-pro coming this tuesday" melodic.net. sep 28, 2003. it had one single in "sunday" which garnered considerable radio play upon release. throughout 2003 and 2004, lo-pro toured with groups like staind and three days grace in promotion of the album before being dropped from their record label. ==background== singer pete murray and guitarist neil godfrey had previously played together in the band ultraspank. after releasing 2 albums in 1998 and 2000, the band split up in 2001. burned out and disillusioned, everyone parted ways to do their own thing. however, murray and godfrey eventually got back together with making music. godfrey summed it up as: during the spank progression pete m. had always been doing his best to record stuff, keeping up on technology updates. by the end of that time he was getting really good with pro-tools. so i think about 2 or 3 weeks went by and i'd been playing my guitar. i called up pete and said i had some ideas to lay down.the spank guys were all going in different directions. with the pressures of the industry gone and the freedom to do anything i wanted, we started writing songs. the result was so refreshing in the fact that we could record ourselves and make these great sounding recordings we could listen to."interview with neil godfrey for a college magazine in late 2005" posted to the lo-pro message board on nov 6, 2005. the demos they created in these sessions were the starting point for the album. eventually, they were able to gain the attention of aaron lewis, lead singer of the band staind, and was signed to his vanity label, "413 records", through [[geffe
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