I guess Fred Durst in the late 90s and early 2000s had a pretty big ego. His band was selling millions of records and he was named Senior Vice President of A&R at Interscope in 1999. Durst was looking to sign the next hot nu-metal act. Eventually, he found Staind, which was a big success, but there was another band he was betting on that ended up giving him the cold shoulder.
That band was Taproot. Actually, Taproot sent Durst a demo and Durst was working on signing them. I guess the negotiations took too long and the band weren't feeling it and they eventually signed with Atlantic Records. The rumor was that System of A Down helped facilitate the Atlantic deal and because Durst was so mad, he got SOAD kicked off the Family Values tour in 1999. Durst also left a very angry voicemail to a member of Taproot's cellphone. Said cellphone voicemail surfaced not too long ago:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KbCp6RbeJs[/youtube]
Oh, Fred.
Also, if you're still wondering which band was Taproot (so did we), we looked it up:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwi0v6WNYaY[/youtube]
