On March 5, 2007, the band confirmed that they were in the process of recording their new album with producer Tim Patalan.Īccording to Philip Lipscomb's (bassist) MySpace blog, their new album Our Long Road Home is complete and will be released sometime in early 2008. On June 13, 2006, drummer Jarrod Montague, via Taproot's MySpace blog, confirmed the news. At the time, the album had sold 112,000 copies since its release. On May 23, 2006, it was reported that Taproot had parted ways with Atlantic Records, after disappointing sales of Blue-Sky Research. as headliners, and is notable for taking the then-unknown Flyleaf along as the opening act for the three bands. They also participated in the Fall Brawl Tour, which featured Staind and P.O.D. Prior to the headline tour, Taproot acted as direct support to Chevelle on their tour alongside 30 Seconds to Mars. The band headlined a major tour with Evans Blue and From Satellite to promote its release. The band's single "Calling" was used by the WWE as the theme song for the 2005 pay-per-view " Unforgiven." It debuted at #33 on the Billboard 200, with approximately 28,000 first week sales. Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins frontman) assisted in songwriting on the album, which was produced by Toby Wright. Returning from their break, the band released their third major album Blue-Sky Research on August 16, 2005. Welcome is Taproot's most successful album to date, almost achieving gold status, with approximately 475,000 copies sold.Īfter touring across the country on Disturbed's Music as a Weapon Tour, as well as a European tour, the band took a two-year break. The album's second single, "Mine", followed with more moderate success. Much of this was due to the success of the album's first single, "Poem", which shot to #5 on the Mainstream Rock charts. Considered to be a more melodic effort, the album debuted at #17 on the Billboard 200, selling over 51,000 copies in its first week of release. With the help of Ozzy Osbourne's son Jack, Taproot landed a spot on the second stage of the 20 Ozzfest tour.Īfter spending seven months in Los Angeles, the band released their second album Welcome on October 15, 2002. With the album's lead single "Again & Again" gaining heavy exposure through MTV2, the band's mainstream rise gained momentum. The band released their debut album Gift on June 27, 2000. Something More Than Nothing (1998), Mentobe (1998) and Upon Us (1999). Taproot later went on to independently release three albums. In retaliation, Durst also kicked System of a Down off the 1999 Family Values Tour, replacing them with Psycho Enhancer. He also put some blame on System of a Down, who assisted Taproot in securing the Atlantic deal. Durst heavily cursed the band on vocalist Stephen Richards' answering machine. However, after extended negotiations, Taproot looked elsewhere, where they finally landed a lucrative record deal with Atlantic Records. Impressed with their material, he offered to get them a recording contract through Interscope Records. In 1997, Taproot sent their demo to Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst.
They first found Phil, their current bass player, before finding J-rod, their current drummer, which worked well and is now their current line-up. The new band configuration worked out well but Dan was well into Madhops and returned to them leaving Steve and Mike to search out a few new musicians to take their place. Something More Than Nothing, called "Negative Rein4sment", in which Dan can also be heard busting a freestyle on). Taproot's future wasn't looking too bright until Steve stepped out from behind the drumkit and attempted the vocal duties, it turned out that Steve could sing quite well which brought Dan back into the fold to lay down the bass on some demo tracks (one of which included the song from Taproot's debut album. With no singer to front the band Dan left shortly after and formed Madhops. Things went well at the start but the band's line-up only lasted about 3–4 months when it was cut short by D-hauz leaving the band to join 20 Dead Flower Children after their original singer left the band. The band's first song was "Coma 99" which later went on to become a 20 Dead Flower Children song in a different version. The line-up then featured D-hauz on vocals, Mike on guitar, Dan on bass and Steve on drums. After a few conversations, the 4 members dissolved their current bands and got together to form the first incarnation of a band we now know as Taproot. One day these bands played a gig together and they both took an interest in each others' band. While another band called Skumbag featured Steve (now of Taproot) on drums and Mike (now of Taproot) on guitar. 1.6 Signing with Victory Records & Plead the Fifth (2010-present)īack in the mid 90's, a band called Cymonic Drive featured Dan (now in the band Madhops) on bass and Dennis AKA D-hauz (now ex-20 Dead Flower Children) on vocals.
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