ARTISTdirect chat with P.O.D.

August 24, 2000

P.O.D. answers questions about their music and what is was like being a Christian band performing on the Ozzfest tour.

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ArtistDirect: All right everybody settle in! We're here with the guys from P.O.D live and direct from Ozzfest. If everyone's ready, we'll kick it.

Tra: I would like to put out to all the Warriors my deepest thanks, and appreciation for supporting us, and being there for us. For supporting P.O.D. and for fighting the good fight.

Zabet62: Being a Christian band, why would you play a concert like Ozzfest? Do you think the association with the other bands on this tour weakens the testimony your music has in the Christian music industry and with its audience? I've been a big fan of yours, and being a Christian, I would like to see your band in concert, but I wouldn't pay to see any of the other bands on this tour.

Tra: My answer to that is that when P.O.D. first got the gig we didn't want to limit ourselves to any one particular audience. We write music for everybody, and for P.O.D. our message is the message of love, and the message of love needs to go out to everybody, and not just one particular group of people. For us, it is more important to be an example to the world and to Christians too. A lot of our very dear and close friends that we love and cherish are not Christians, and P.O.D. doesn't write or play just for the body. P.O.D. loves and writes for everybody. We're just a band that loves God, and we love to play and do positive music for everybody. That's what we're about.

WickedOOK: Do you guys know when you will start working on the new album?

Tra: We are busy with a lot of stuff right now. Hopefully we'll start working on the album this spring, but right now it's not certain. We are doing some movie soundtracks and some other stuff I can't disclose now, but we will be working on the album hopefully in the spring. Hopefully we'll have something out by summer of next year.

Staticx: Is it uncomfortable for you guys to compete with negative bands like Marilyn Manson and Cradle of Filth?

Tra: Absolutely not! Beauty is what beauty does, and we are not intimidated, nor are we even swayed or anything, by any other band's agenda. We have an agenda as a band, and that is to be positive, and to give back something to the world that's positive and not negative. For us as a band, the things that these other bands do are not a surprise to us; we have seen it or been there before as individuals. P.O.D. doesn't come from a sheltered lifestyle. P.O.D. is from the city, and in San Diego, you see everything. We are close to the border, and there is lots of drugs and crime and stuff. Those bands do their thing, and P.O.D. does our thing. Music is about expression.

Loosehead: What band do you think is really going to make it big after Ozzfest?

Tra: Oh wow! That's a hard one! There are, musically, a lot of very talented bands on Ozzfest. One of the bands that I think would probably be good right now is Incubus. Musically, these guys are probably one of the most talented bands on Ozzfest.

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