With heavy touring in Scandinavia and Europe in 2000, the band took a much-needed break.
Zoot Suit Riot had sold over two million copies in the United States by the time the swing revival’s mainstream popularity had declined, finally slipping off the charts in January 2000. With their touring schedule finally coming to a close, the Daddies commenced work on their next studio album.
In 2000, he combined with Les Claypool of Primus (with whom he produced a track on the Primus album Antipop ) and Trey Anastasio of Phish to create the band Oysterhead .
INXS played as one of the headline acts at the Sydney 2000 Olympics
The band went on hiatus from 2000 to 2003, with Claypool later stating:
Nick Taylor quit the group, and was replaced by Warren’s brother, Bill Ham, while Randy Reader was replaced by Matt Betton. An album, later titled Unspoken Words , was recorded, but Capitol rejected the material due to the group’s waning popularity, and the recordings would go unreleased until 2000 when…
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participated in that year’s Warped Tour
Later that same year they released their self-titled debut album .
The band released the B-Sides and rarities collection Artifakt on its own “Ezra Dry Goods/Fudge” label in 2000. Artifakt was only sold online and at concerts. Tom Drummond, the band’s bassist, noted in 2002, “It’s basically an album full of rarities.”
2000 saw the Offspring release their sixth album, Conspiracy of One . The band intended to release the entire album online through their website to show their support for downloading music on the internet. However, under threat of legal action by Columbia through their parent company Sony, only the first…
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