Debuting at #2 on the US Charts Creed are back together???

Didn’t they break up…? Wait a second… let’s go back a few years… to good old 1995. Let’s see if I can paint you a picture of the times: John Howard had just become Liberal lead getting ready to battle Paul Keating for the federal election, Bob Dylan went on tour with Patti Smith, OJ Simpson tries on a black leather gloves in a court house, Microsoft releases Windows 95, Michael Jackson decides to make a giant rock statue of himself and Bill Clinton gets his… actually we’ll leave that one.

However in Tallahassee, Florida a band by the name of Creed is about to unleash a new generation of Rock music that will pour down just as Korn or Linkin Park did for their genre of music… Bands such as Nickelback, Saving Abel and Daughtry have jumped on the Creed bandwagon and never looked back. Rehashing that deep country soul voice from the influences of Eddie Vedder – sorry, Layne Staley – actually I think it was Jim Morrison – no no no, that Johnny Cash made us love so much. Quality shred guitar and a nice fat bass sound accompanied by a fat rock drum sound. Gets me all excited just thinking about those days.

Ask anyone who has ever been in a band… it’s not like being in a relationship. It’s like being in 3-6 relationships and instead of sex you play gigs and buy instruments… Each band practice is different then the next, with band members in all kinds of fun and interesting moods. There’s:

• The classic working late and tired band member;
• The turn your amp up to 11 band friend;
• The coming in hungover band mate;
• The stoner muso who constantly wants to jam on acid groovy band mate (VERY BAD IDEA);
• The I just broke up with my girlfriend musician;
• The let’s hurry up and get everything done in one rehearsal band leader;
• or even the classic I just want to jam and never play the set muso…

…Nevertheless, it’s a very difficult thing to do and clearly as bands come and go like Australian Basketball teams. Add 35 million albums sold, a Grammy, a couple of triple platinum albums, world tours, plane trips, record company pressure, band farts and other odd smells… the stress would be enough for any band to call it quits…

Creed in a paragraph:
First they were huge, then the bass player quit, then Creed did another album that was just as huge. Then the band broke up, then the singer Scott Strap went solo. Then the bass player re-formed with the guitarist and drummer (that would be Mark Tremonti, Scott Phillips and Brian Marshall), grabbed a new singer Myles Kennedy (you might remember him from Rock Star with Mark Walburg who replaced Walburg as lead singer at the end of the movie) and formed AlterBridge. Then both the solo career of Scott Strap ended and Alterbridge had called it a day… which brings us full circle to Creed Reforming. A very suitable name for the album and one of their strongest releases to date, keeping that heavy rock edge they made so famous strong and healthy… Not a bad effort for a band that has more highs and lows then Amy Winehouse on a Saturday night (sorry I couldn’t help myself). Nevertheless I think you will find after watching this clip with all the press and all the rumours their new single Overcome says a lot about how passionate their fans are to see them back in action and the how strong the band’s friendship really is. After all they did start the band in highschool, just like the Deftones.

Let’s face it… you can never be to sure what the boys from Tallahassee Florida might do next…. Check the video out!