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Wed. July 31.2002 2:50 PM EDT |
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Creed: Higher Than EverScott Stapp and company fire bullets, explain the band’s symbolism, and celebrate their team spirit. by Steevin Smith |
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Scott Stapp (VH1) |
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Creed fans everywhere were shocked when Scott Stapp was involved in a car accident that forced the postponement of the tour behind the band's hit album, Weathered. With the help of a trainer, the singer is ready again to rock through all the
VH1: How are you feeling after your accident, Scott? Ready to get up there again? Scott Stapp: We've come a long way; we're back on tour a month earlier than we planned because I worked real hard with our trainer to get my back in shape. I have my good days and my bad days; it's just something I've got to live with.You just move on. VH1: You had a torn disk. Is it true that after you got hit, you went and helped the person in the car that hit you? Stapp: I pushed that car off the road. VH1: The video for "Bullets" was done by Vision Scape [developers of such video games as "Seablade" and "Twisted Metal 4"]. Mark, you're holding an axe. When I saw the video I was like, "Why is he holding an axe? Oh yeah he plays guitar." Mark Tremonti: Yeah, man, symbolism. VH1: Scott, you've got two swords because you're rocking the drums. Scott Phillips: Yup. VH1: And Scott you've got wings. Weren't they originally scripted to be big, metallic wings, like an archangel? You said no, right? Stapp: I wanted it to look more earthy. More real, more of my heritage. I kind of wanted the American Indian vibe ... and it was starting to look a little sci-fi. And so we pulled back on that and just made it look more real. There's a lot of symbolism in that video. And we can't divulge everything. But we spent a lot of time thinking about it. VH1: What's the symbolism about? Stapp: It's about a lot of things. You know, bullets are words - that's about as much as I can give you on the song. Just like I'm firing bullets right now. That's what the song was. It was firing back at all the words that have been fired at the band. At the time I wrote the song, it was just a way to fight back. VH1: I will forever associate your song "Higher" with that sci-fi cartoon with Matt Damon ["Higher" was used in a trailer for the animated film "Titan AE"]. There was a guitar solo with this ship taking off and you guys in the background. It was great. It encompassed the sound of the band. Stapp: We like to call our sound anthemic rock. I mean, we're a big-sounding rock band. We wanted to play in front of large crowds, and so when we would write songs, we imagined them being big songs for just masses of people. And I can't think of any other way you would want it if you were in a rock band. I mean, you want to play in front of a hundred thousand people. That's what it's all about. VH1: And Mark, you've said that you wanted to write songs that were going to be played 20 years from now on rock radio. Tremonti: Yeah, definitely. That's a good judgment of a good song is if you can ask yourself, "Will this song be played 20 years from now? Does it have a lasting sound to it?" VH1: How did you develop Creed's signature guitar style? Tremonti: The band is a melting pot of different ideas, and we just had to make it sound as big as possible with one guitar and everybody's different styles melting together. It just came out that way. We all help form the way the music's gonna to be. Stapp: I think he's being a little bit too humble. Mark spends a lot of time on his guitar sound. He spends hours and hours and hours a day playing guitar, and adding stuff to his racks and, you know, tweaking things. He's hearing stuff that no one else can hear to get his sound the way it is. It's cool that he gave Scott and I some props in helping him develop that. And in a way we did, because we taught him to turn the bass up and the treble down. Early on he was the metal riff-meister. VH1: And there's nothing wrong with that. Would you all consider yourself an indie-rock band? Tremonti: I guess so, 'cause we're on an independent label [Wind-up Records is distributed by major-label powerhouse BMG - ed.]. Stapp: It kind of changes when you become successful. When we were nobody and fighting our way to the top, it was cool - we were indie and cool and different. And now that it has such mass appeal and it's crossed so many boundaries, people don't remember that we are still that small band on an indie label and, and that's the true definition of what an indie band is. So, we are an indie band. We'll always be proud of that. We never compromise for anybody, and we always did it the way we wanted to do it. And no one can ever take that away from us. |
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