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PhillyTR

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the real

About Me

Bill’s Superman speech from Kill Bill

As you know, I’m quite keen on comic books. Especially the ones about superheroes. I find the whole mythology surrounding superheroes fascinating.
Take my favorite superhero, Superman. Not a great comic book. Not particularly well-drawn. But the mythology… The mythology is not only great, it’s unique.
Now, a staple of the superhero mythology is, there’s the superhero and there’s the alter ego. Batman is actually Bruce Wayne, Spider-Man is actually Peter Parker. When that character wakes up in the morning, he’s Peter Parker. He has to put on a costume to become Spider-Man. And it is in that characteristic Superman stands alone.
Superman didn’t become Superman. Superman was born Superman. When Superman wakes up in the morning, he’s Superman. His alter ego is Clark Kent. His outfit with the big red “S” - that’s the blanket he was wrapped in as a baby when the Kents found him. Those are his clothes. What Kent wears - the glasses, the business suit - that’s the costume. That’s the costume Superman wears to blend in with us.
Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent? He’s weak… He’s unsure of himself… He’s a coward.
Clark Kent is Superman’s critique on the whole human race.
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Frank Outlaw

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.


My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/28/2005
Band Website: taprootmusic.com
Band Members: Stephen-Vocals
Mike-Guitar
Phil-Bass
Jarrod-Drums

Influences: One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle. -Henry David Thoreau

I started off musically listening to bands like Iron Maiden, Metallica, Megadeth, and Guns N Roses. I also grew up during the 80's so I still have a place in my heart for Hair Metal bands like Poison, Skid Row and Bon Jovi. Power ballads are amazing. The biggest change for me though came with Korn's first album...the vibe of that record is amazing. I was immediately blown away. My all time favorite album is Blood Sugar Sex Magic by The Red Hot Chili Peppers. There is so much good stuff on that album. I don't credit any one person or band with influencing my style (I wouldn't want to insult them), but players I just love hearing are Flea, Les Claypool, Stuart Zender (of Jamiroquai fame, new band Leroi), Victor Wooten, P-Nut, Robert Trujillo, Ryan Martinie...many more I'm sure, but that's just off the top of my head.

Type of Label: None

My Blog

Taproot Gydget

I'm not too familiar with these widget things yet, but here's a Taproot one that's pretty cool. You get our new song, read our myspace blog, and probably a bunch of other cool stuff I'm still trying ...
Posted by PhillyTR on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:57:00 PST

Happy Holidays!

Also check out the Taproot MySpace page...for a limited time you can download "Birthday-Acoustic" and "Who's to Say" (and I'll add "Stay Away" in the next day or so...")...
Posted by PhillyTR on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 10:29:00 PST

Announcement!

As you are all aware, we have been working extremely hard and are in the final stages of finishing up our new album. All of the recording is finished, the album is getting mixed as we speak, and we'r...
Posted by PhillyTR on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:12:00 PST

Drums and bass finished!

Jarrod and I are officially finished recording! (Unofficially I might have some touch ups to do) Most of Mike's stuff is finished other than some possible sprinkles, and Stephen has lots of vocals lef...
Posted by PhillyTR on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:05:00 PST

TaprooTube Contest this Tuesday

NAME THAT SONG CONTEST! Sometime tomorrow on TaprooTube Tuesday, I will be putting up two videos on our TaprooTube Channel. In these videos, Jarrod and Stephen will be playing some cover songs, and ...
Posted by PhillyTR on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 01:40:00 PST

Full version of NEW SONG on TaprooTube Tuesday 2/6/2007

Welcome to another TAPROOTUBE TUESDAY New this week: Finally you get to hear a complete version of a new song. I put a clip of this up a while ago, it's from when we played the Machine Shop in ...
Posted by PhillyTR on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 07:05:00 PST

My UFC Picks (results posted)

To most people, this weekend is all about the Superbowl. For me, we have The Ultimate Fighting Championships. UFC 67: All or Nothing is on tonight on Pay Per View and I have to say I'm pretty exc...
Posted by PhillyTR on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 04:11:00 PST

Early Taproot on TaprooTube Tuesday

Welcome to another TAPROOTUBE TUESDAY New this week: I found a couple of Taproot performances from way back in the day before we were even signed to a major label. The first two videos are from...
Posted by PhillyTR on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 03:12:00 PST

TWO new song clips this week!!

Sorry about the delay, TAPROOTUBE TUESDAY is on a Wednesday this week. New this week: Two, count them, TWO NEW CLIPS THIS WEEK!! The first is me recording a bass track for a new song, a...
Posted by PhillyTR on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 08:37:00 PST

Compare Album vs. Demos

I put up the album versions of the songs Poem, Calling, When, and I Will Not Fall For You on the Taproot MySpace Page and put up the demo versions of those songs here on my page. Thought some of you m...
Posted by PhillyTR on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 06:45:00 PST