P.O.D. DISCUSSES GOOD AND BAD OF CORPORATE MUSIC

P.O.D. recently stopped in at Times Square in New York City for an appearance for a snowboard event to promote a diet drink, Diet Mountain Dew, but the band has a mixed feeling about the corporate world and the music world.

The event was to have featured the band teaching Olympic Gold Medalist Hannah Teter some drum licks and a performance by the band, and in return Teter was scheduled to teach the boys some snowboarding tips. P.O.D. vocalist talked about the event, held in the middle of Times Square on Wednesday.

“I don’t know. Maybe they were trying to put something together where maybe she teaches us how to snowboard and we teach her how to make some music, but that might just be all talk. You know what I mean? But this whole thing came about, they actually wanted us to play at some point, but I don’t think that was going to be able to happen, so they asked if we would just come and hang out. We happened to be in New York to shoot our video ‘Light’s Out,’ a few days ago so we just stuck around instead of going home, hung out in NYC for a few days so we could stick around for this.”

The band also contemplated being involved in some of these corporate events, while at the same time counting on the corporate side of the music business to help the band reach fans and sell records.

“The music scene, basically is dead, unless the bands start running it again and the fans start running it and the groups and the people that love music and have a say in music start running things again. Stay away from all the corporate side of stuff and the business side of stuff. That’s something that we learned in fourteen years. We’re still going through all of this. We’re part of a major label. You have to deal with all the poli-tricks and all the business. We’re trying to keep our heads above waters with album sales, which is…we’re doing stuff like this. We want to be out in the public’s eye, we want to let people know that P.O.D. is still hanging around. It’s because of the loyalty of our fanbase that allows us to do things like this and stick around, because they’re paying attention. Obviously we have a loyal fanbase and all these other companies, they’re seeing that, they’re seeing the movement that’s being made from the War

P.O.D. wrapped up shooting their new video for “Lights Out,” and they’ll enter into rehearsals for their forthcoming tour dubbed, The Warriors Tour II “Guilty by Association.”