Travis was 17 when producer Scott Litt signed him to his Geffen parented Outpost label. With then band mates Jesse Vest, Todd Whitener, and Matt Taul, Days Of The New's eponymous Orange album went on to sell over 1.5 million copies worldwide. The single, "Touch, Peel, and Stand" spent a record 17 weeks at number one on Billboard's active Rock Chart. Follow up singles "Shelf In The Room" and "Downtown" were also top forty hits. Days Of The New's breakout success culminated in a tour with Metallica and Jerry Cantrell in the summer of 1998. But by the end of the year the impact of DOTN's trajectory had shaken the band irreconcilably, and the four men split ways. Meeks returned to his Distillery Studios in Louisville to complete DOTN's follow up to the Orange album, while Vest, Whitener, and Taul went on to pursue their own muses, eventually forming Tantric with vocalist Hugo Ferreira.
