Taproot's Gift with Stephen Richards

Talk Toomey with Joshua Toomey

Stephen Richards of Taproot joins Nu Pod this week to do an Audio Autopsy on their debut, Gift. Ro and Joshua get all the details and the behind the scenes of making the record. Stephen tells the story of System Of A Down helping get the band a record deal, selecting Ulrich Wild to produce and being on tour with Papa Roach when the album was released. He then tells a stroy of "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named" buying multiple copies of the album and driving over them. The guys dive into the album and go track by track. Stephen discusses the name "Taproot" and it not pigeonholing the band into just one style. The "Again and Again" video shoot is dissected. Did Disturbed get inspiration from "Emotional Times"? Taproot played European festivals with Linkin Park and Deftones. Stephen talks about being big into Bone Thugs and rap when he became the singer for the band. The story behind "1 Nite Stand" is bananas. Toomey can't pronounce "Mentobe"! What is the "Gift"? They really wanted the "Deftones snare" and he thinks they got it on "Dragged Down". The story behind"He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named" (Fred Durst) is told and the history with the band. Did "Nookie" have a similar formula to Taproot? The guys finish off the episode talking about the new Taproot release, SC\SSRS.