The future of P.O.D.

Bakura82 · Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 5:32 am Post subject: The future of P.O.D.

Check this link out...
http://www.t3ministries.com/news/music/archives/2003_02.php#000101

*sighs*

I hope they continue to rock the party. I think they will, but it sucks that Marcos is leaving. All well, things move on and things change.
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Stryper · Joined: 14 Sep 2002 Posts: 5306 Location: LV 426

How can he do that ?? Mad

Anyway Marcos isn't a second Slash, replacing him shouldn't be that hard but he wrote good songs and he had his own style. P.O.D won't sound the same with a new guitarist, simply copying Marcos' style would be poor.

Bakura82 · Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 5:54 am Post subject:

Stryper · Joined: 14 Sep 2002 Posts: 5306 Location: LV 426

They have the same problem like Limp Bizkit after Wes Borland left the band. He also had his very own style.
Maybe P.O.D will never be as successful as before.
P.O.D had this mix of heavy chords and clean parts. There cannot be a heavy distorted guitar during the whole song, this would suck.

Bakura82 · Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 4:43 pm Post subject:

Naw. They will continue to rock, no doubt. They are too good of an influence to fail. Smile

Lint Biskquit, well... yeah.. lol.

POD rocks the party!

I can't wait until I hear the new lead single for the Matrix Reloaded sound track.

Nice.
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Stryper · Joined: 14 Sep 2002 Posts: 5306 Location: LV 426

Quote by Marcos:

"The guitarist said P.O.D. is not as righteous as their reputation. "The thing that's really bugging me out is the e-mail is portrayed all holy and sh--," he said of the letter, which ended with: "Please continue to keep P.O.D. and Marcos in your prayers. All our love is yours. Be blessed."

"As soon as I left, they started talking sh-- behind my back," he said. "It's very, very shady. I have friends defending me on the Web site, and every time they put something up in defense of me, it gets deleted. I'm like, 'What? This is not fair, dude.' ... Then I found out they had another guitar player already. I was like, 'Whoa.' They've been plotting this for a long time."

I always thought P.O.D were a good example of Christians but maybe they aren't that good. After all even Stryper had problems with alcohol and stuff. That's simply the life of a rock star. Sex,drugs,rock'n roll...... Mad

Supposing Marcos is telling the truth and not just trying to drag his old band down, then they've just lost me as a fan. I don't need christian messages wrapped up in hypocrisy. Maybe all the other christian bands aren't really christian, after all it's a huge market and christian bands also make a lot of money. I wouldn't be surprised if Sonny owned an apartment in Hollywood with a Testarossa in his garage.

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1470028/20030219/pod.jhtml?headlines=true

Kalleria · Moderator Joined: 14 Aug 2001 Posts: 3641 Location: Tampa

From that interview, Marcos doesnt seem like a very nice, Christian guy at all.

I think I might kick out a member of my Christian band if they started up another nonchristian musical group. Not to mention he said "it needs to be about the music" when it really needs to be about Jesus and their ministry to teens for Jesus.

There are lots of things wrong in that article.

I can say that I know one other band who went through a break up with an original member. This would be the Newsboys. I also know that the guy 'chosing' to leave was actually being kicked out. And that the reason for him leaving was to 'pursue other things', but the real truth behind it is much different and would defame the singers name. Personally I think their tactful way of handling it was much better than just outright telling everything. This ex member is still remembered fondly by the fans, and now he's back home, supposedly doing better, and speaking out about what happened, and how he fixed it.

I kinda think it's to Marcos' shame that he didnt let their press release stand as is. Now, he's not only calling their character into play, but also his. With MTV they might not have much to say, but with Christians it'll definately be discussed.
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Stryper · Joined: 14 Sep 2002 Posts: 5306 Location: LV 426

No, I think P.O.D are not very christian.
After all they backstabbed Marcos and behaved like real jerks.
I see no reason why he should lie about his former band. Maybe P.O.D are all about making money. I mean their little empire grows and grows. they have their own lable and sign their own bands. I cannot believe that it's not about greed. When you are that rich you become greedy.
And just because Marcos started an "unchristian" band... Uh, that's really a crime. Like he said his other band is only about having fun and stuff.
Maybe he got bored cause P.O.D are maybe hypocritical.
But maybe it's the other way around and Marcos is the "bad guy" while P.O.D are the good guys, the whole thing is confusing and disappointing.
I hadn't anyone of them expected to behave in such a way. Sad

Bakura82 · Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2003 5:35 pm Post subject:

Frederik, I pretty much agree with Tara at the moment for many reasons. First of all, you are bases all you knowledge off an MTV interview and a site that is bent on branding POD a satanic band because they have funny have and use a Tinity symbol.

Wait until the facts come out. They always will. If they truly are just a front, then I will be smashing my CD's with you. Simple as that. We don't
know yet though.

Now please, as I said in my e-mail, please don't believe everything you read right off the back. MOST everything on the net is biased and/or blatant lies. You must take everything with a grain of salt and look at it from many angles. This is logical, reasonable, fair, and just. So calm down.

You must have said "maybe" 30 times by now. Well that is the problem. You don't know and I don't know. Until we do, relax.
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Stryper · Joined: 14 Sep 2002 Posts: 5306 Location: LV 426

Okay Esteban, I agree with you that this guy who wrote this stuff about POD is a jerk, but I cannot believe that he made up the quotes from the POD members.
i mean they use foul language, instead of f....ing they simply say frigging.
And Sonny doesn't repent having smoked dope in his former times. I mean that's really not okay. What are the fans supposed to think about him ? He used drugs and doesn't repent it, but thinks it was the best time of his life. Come on, that's simply impossible what he does.
He was also asked wether they (POD) drink,cuss or use drugs and he replied that this aren't even issues...
I mean what are issues to him when not things like drugs and stuff ??
And you cannot deny their rastafarian influences. Rastafari is all about smoking dope and not about christianity.
And why do they play this song from Bob Marley live ?
It's clearly against God. I mean sometimes I think they have no own brain to think about what they do.... Rolling Eyes

"We sick an' tired of your bulls--- game,
Die and go to heaven in Jesus name.
We know when we understand:
Almighty God is a living man.
You can fool some people sometimes,
But you can't fool all the people all the time.
And now we've seen the light (What you gonna do?),
We gonna stand up for our rights! (Yeah, yeah, yeah!)
Now, where is that in scripture? Chapter and Verse. . .?"

Bakura82 · Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 7:59 am Post subject:

I have NO idea if Sonny repents from his past. NO IDEA. I will base NOTHING off what you saw on those sites because all of it was put there for the purpose of misinforming people like you... and it worked.

The only POD member that I have seen cuss thus far is Marcos in that interview with MTV. You know what though, I know PLENTY of Christians that cuss all the time also. They need t be taght it it wrong, but when you grow up a certain way, it is hard to get rid of that. So as my friends try and better themselves, I expect mistakes. I will treat POD no different.

Drinking is not wrong and I have no reason to say that POD does drugs. That is just idiotic to me. Christian radio scrutinizes all the music they play. If POD wasn't what they say they are, they WOULD NOT be on Christian radio at all.

I don't deny that they have been influenced by JAMAICAN ROOTS, but I just because you have JAMAICAN AND REGGAE ROOTS doesn't mean you follow Rasta. Yeah, they say Jah. So does everyother Reggae artist and islander. That is how they speak. Would is be right for me to call them sinful for this?

Absolutely not.
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Bakura82 · Last edited by Bakura82 on Fri Feb 21, 2003 9:19 am; edited 2 times in total

Rastafari and its Supposed Influence on Christian Music

We have read a lot of lies and misinformation, now let us share some truth. PLEASE READ the links along with everthing below as it will give you A LOT of insight into all of this and you will not have to be confused anymore. Let's base things on facts now, okay.

FAQ: Rasta's beliefs and Marijuana as a Holy Sacrament
URL: http://www.christafari.com/faq/78da33310400009b0066/detail.html
Ex-Rastafarian Mark Mohr answers this question at the web site of his Christian raggae band, Christafari.

Stryper · Joined: 14 Sep 2002 Posts: 5306 Location: LV 426

To be honest this whole Rastafari thing doesn't interest me a bit. I mean they can do whatever they want to, they can smoke pot or not. I don't care and I also don't like Raggae music. Many POD songs like "set your eyes to Zion" or "Without Jah nothing" are simply bothering me.

Bakura82 · Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 9:17 am Post subject:

Stryper · Joined: 14 Sep 2002 Posts: 5306 Location: LV 426

I only care about wether POD are real or fake, this is the only thing which interests me cause if they're fake I'll trash my cds.
I don't wanna know all this stuff about Rastafari and whatever.
Even if this Rastafari thing is okay, doesn't mean that POD are okay. It's all relative.