Taproot's Gift with Stephen Richards

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.