CREED RISES AGAIN! Five Things You May (Or May Not) Have Wanted To Know About Scott Stapp

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I just spent 17 minutes of my life reading a six-page feature about Creed from the new issue of Details. Why? Because I COULDN'T STOP! Anyway, this profile, which coincides with the October release of Creed's reunion album, Full Circle, taught me much I did not know. And now I will pay it forward by teaching you (but you should definitely read the whole thing...it's worth it).

1.) When singer Scott Stapp was a young dude he moved to Tallahassee, Florida from his native Orlando. Why? Because that's where Doors frontman Jim Morrison is from. Why else?

2.) Evangelical Christians "pilloried" the band for contributing to soundtracks for films like Scream 3 and Halloween H20. Truth.

3.) These days Scott Stapp is off the sauce, save for some special-occasion wine here and there, but uses famed hangover helper Pedialyte to cure him of dehydration from time to time.

4.) Creed broke up after Stapp went on an admittedly Hall Of Fame-worthy bender that landed him (literally) on a canopy set up to catch bird poop, four stories below the Miami hotel room he was staying in. After "hearing voices" he was sure were inviting him to a party downstairs, Stapp opted for the express elevator... off his balcony.

5.) Creed reunited in perhaps the most Creedy of places under the most Creedtastic circumstances: Stapp was due to be singing the "Star Spangled Banner" at a college bowl game in Orlando, Florida. He had guitarist Mark Tremonti meet him at the "Elvis suite" in the Hard Rock Hotel and said, simply, ''Hey, man, looking back, if I hurt you in any way, forgive me, brah, I apologize." Tender, brahs.

Watch Creed's brand-new video, "Rain," and watch the video that started it all, "Higher."

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