Will Taggart is a guitarist and a former School of Rock All Star. In 2014, the episode "May Be the Last Time" of True Blood on HBO featured the song "Open the Gates" co-written by Taggart and Derrick Schneider. They created "Open the Gates" at the age of 14 while playing in the hard rock band Rapid Fire. Taggart was the lead guitarist of Rapid Fire, which performed at the 2010 Bamboozle Festival at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey.