About sc\ssrs
Stephen Steele Richards
Stephen Steele Richards
Stephen Steele Richards
- Indecisive, reclusive wannabe Canadian with terrible tattoos, but a great, yet terrible sense of humor.. and seizures.. can't drive [nor work] until September now, if not longer.. check out my Custom\ze menu? [can always chip in with others.. think this is a clever and fun self GFM?! haha]
- Self taught Drums at 4y/o
- Self taught Guitar at 1
- Indecisive, reclusive wannabe Canadian with terrible tattoos, but a great, yet terrible sense of humor.. and seizures.. can't drive [nor work] until September now, if not longer.. check out my Custom\ze menu? [can always chip in with others.. think this is a clever and fun self GFM?! haha]
- Self taught Drums at 4y/o
- Self taught Guitar at 13y/o
- FORCED into Vocals at 17y/o
- Lead Songwriter/Vocalist/Guitarist/Drummer/Performer with TAPROOT
- Don't enjoy walks on the beach
- Pretending to attempt to make this GoDaddy page look professional and official.. oops
- Have worked with and performed with many well known artists, both studio and live
|TAPROOT|
Stephen Steele Richards
Stephen Steele Richards
- Co-founded TapRoot in 1995 as the drummer, but again FORCED into singing (debatable) after ours quit.. drummers are easier to find
- Gained a lot of attention as we decided to bring Detroit bands to Ann Arbor, MI instead of vice versa (safer too haha) to our home venue the Blind Pig..before I got us banned starting a riot.. oops
- Gained more
- Co-founded TapRoot in 1995 as the drummer, but again FORCED into singing (debatable) after ours quit.. drummers are easier to find
- Gained a lot of attention as we decided to bring Detroit bands to Ann Arbor, MI instead of vice versa (safer too haha) to our home venue the Blind Pig..before I got us banned starting a riot.. oops
- Gained more attention and support from Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit before pissing him off too.. oops
- Gained even more attention (\ see a trend here with gaining attention and "oops") opening for System of a Down and their management Velvet Hammer was impressed and interested to get us-
- Signed to Atlantic Records in 2000
- Released "Gift" debut and toured with Papa Roach, 2 Ozzfests, Deftones, Incubus, Linkin Park, Disturbed (..pissed them off too.. twice? .. oops again), .so many others (not pissing off I know of.. maybe Crazy Town?.. oops)
- Released "Welcome" our most successful album) in 2002 with nonstop play on MTV and radio with "Poem" and it was top 40 billboard
- I'm sick of typing, just click the TAPROOT link
Moving Forward
Stephen Steele Richards
Moving Forward
- The Loft studios in Saline, MI is Tim and Andy Patalan's baby (caught fire couple months ago.. I fought solo w/ coffee pots to slow down haha) and is where Tim and I produced |TAPROOT|'s "Plead the Fifth" and "The Episodes" albums (I won't ruin his legacy with "SC\SSRS" that he let me waste energy bills and speakers for 8 years, 3 hours
- The Loft studios in Saline, MI is Tim and Andy Patalan's baby (caught fire couple months ago.. I fought solo w/ coffee pots to slow down haha) and is where Tim and I produced |TAPROOT|'s "Plead the Fifth" and "The Episodes" albums (I won't ruin his legacy with "SC\SSRS" that he let me waste energy bills and speakers for 8 years, 3 hours a week at 5am on my own
- **My next chapter moving forward is to continue working in music production, writing and working with other artists based out of my second home, The Loft.
- Sick of typing, click The Loft link to see whatever else I wrote as bad as I text