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Creed just set off on its summer tour, and the group sent us a ton of photos from the road to document everything from the band killing it on stage to chilling on motorcycles, everywhere from Austin to Ontario. Check out these updates from bassist Brian Marshall and his wife, Donna.

Creed has officially kicked off its 2010 Full Circle tour this summer! To begin, we would like to thank all of the fans and local crews who have made this tour so memorable over the last few weeks. The first stop was in Nashville, where we began writing a few songs at Black Bird Studio. We then began rehearsal at S.I.R. and performed our first small concert as a benefit for the flood victims of Nashville.

Nashville Hard Rock

After Nashville, we headed to Bristow, Virginia, where we awaited the delivery of our custom Creed-themed chopper.

The bike is to be given away to one lucky fan along with one of Mark's custom-painted PRS guitars on Christmas Eve. Go to creed2010.com to sign up and win!

Scotty couldn't resist taking it for a ride.

+ Check out more photos of Creed on the road after the jump!

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(Credit: Andrew Hetherington, Details)

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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Maybe you love Creed and have the lyrics to "With Arms Wide Open" as your yearbook quote. Maybe you hate Creed and you have a T-shirt that looks like the Ghostbusters logo, but instead of a ghost being crossed out it's Scott Stapp. Maybe you are neither here nor there on the matter (probably the healthiest option). Regardless of how you feel about Creed, their mid-90's success, their mid-00's breakup and their late-'09 reunion, you have to say that the version of the band as rendered in this video is the most palatable (or genuine). Just some fairly buff dudes in tank tops, jamming, hugging, performing amongst flames; it is the Creediest of Creed videos.

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In the same way that it's understood that soap operas will have absurd story lines, people expect music videos to be over-the-top dramatic. Bands are generally in the business of communicating really big feelings, and super evocative music videos certainly help to accomplish that goal. And while a person can only handle so much slo-mo and so many sunset mountainsides, it's those unchecked melodramas that really stick in our minds, spawning everything from torrid one-night stands to Scott Stapp's career.

Last week Cage's "I Never Knew You" reminded us just how much a well-executed video can quicken the pulse. As usual, that got us to thinking... Which other videos reach down your throat, grab you by the heart and hand pump it until you think you're gonna pass out? What are the most compelling videos of all-time? In Buzzworthy's slightly comprehensive list below, you'll find the gut-wrenchingest, unflinchingest (and sometimes cheesiest) videos in recent history, so get close to the Kleenex. This list is not recommended for the infirm or the elderly.

The Cheesiest
+ Creed, "With Arms Wide Open" -- It's hard to believe that this video is actually for real. Watching it again now, I keep expecting a "Wipe that s$#* up" overdub to kick in and relieve the insane self-indulgence. Notoriously wack frontman Scott Stapp literally dodges asteroids at sunset and stands on a mountain with his arms spread, as the cameras circle, as if carried by slow motion eagles.

+ Chicago, "You're The Inspiration" -- Can I get away with describing this video as "difficult to watch?" Handily out-sapping those inscrutable Japanese karaoke videos, it's easier to eat a whole brick of cream cheese than it is to watch this video all the way through. That being said, definitely watch it.

The Saddest
+ Soul Asylum, "Runaway Train" -- The '90s invented that thing where tough-looking dudes enjoy music by standing around looking really sad and tuned out. It's no Toni Braxton "Un-Break My Heart," but this Soul Asylum video does help the grungers get into character with a sad slideshow of missing children.

+ R.E.M., "Everybody Hurts" -- Hold on! Stop! Everybody hit your breaks! Get up! Get out of your cars! Come on! Put on your little hats! Come on, do it! Dooo it! Come onnn! Little hats! Put your hands over your hearts! Sad break! Saaad break! Awww! (See also: Radiohead's amazing "Just").

The Scariest
+ Depeche Mode, "Wrong" -- Chicago will clog your arteries, but Depeche Mode will stop your heart. This terrifying video combines the edgy uncertainty of Radiohead's "Karma Police" with the supernatural creepiness of UNKLE's "Rabbit In Your Headlights," and comes out with one of the most disturbing videos I've ever seen.

+ The Fray, "Never Say Never" -- An everyday urban cityscape becomes a furious war-zone in The Fray's metaphorical new video. The violence of the uprising represents -- wait for it, wait for it -- the pain of a break-up! DRAMA!

The Darkest
+ Pearl Jam, "Jeremy" -- If you've been taking your MTV regularly like you're supposed to, you know that Pearl Jam recently released a never-before-seen director's cut of "Jeremy," with a much more explicit finish. See what all of Eddie Vedder's diabolical glares were really leading up to in one of grunge's darkest anthems.

+ Kanye West, "Flashing Lights" -- Don't be fooled by the muscle car, the thong-clad bikini girl or the Miami sunset. Don't be fooled by the cheery title, either. In this dead-serious drama, former Playboy playmate, Rita G, isn't stroking Kanye's ego... She's dispatching it to hell.

The Sexiest / Most Cinematic
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Hai, u guys! Hopefully you can read this post. You see, I've been crying all morn, and the tears just keep dripping onto my keyboard, and now I don't know if my words are coming out right ... Wahh ... Anyway, in case you haven't heard: CREED MAY BE REUNITING!

Can you handle it??!! Can you believe it??!!

Do you even know who Creed is?

Just in case, lemme refresh your memory: Creed was a really popular band in the late '90s and early 2000s. They won a Grammy in 2001 for their power ballad  "With Arms Wide Open", provided snooze-ic for the WWE, were vaguely Christian Rock (ehhhh, sorta), sold almost 30 million albums (almost before the iPod was even invented!) and then crashed and burned into in the form of a nasTAYcious and bitter breakup in 2004. I mean, things got SO bad and SO sucky that the band's own fans ended up suing them over some performance of epically sucktacular magnitude.

Creed's main problem, of course, was lead singer Scott Stapp (architect of those aforementioned crappy performances), and his love of most things alcoholic and generally illegal. Fellow band members Mark Tremonti, Brian Marshall and Scott Phillips were so frustrated with Stapp's antics, they ditched him, formed another group -- Alter Bridge (they do that sorta-creepy "sorry about the drugs" Celebrity Rehab 2 video that's always on VH1) --  and tried to make a success of their new Franken-band, Creed 2.0.

Fast forward to 2008, and now it seems that the Alter Bridge boys are looking to get Stapp back on Creed's tour bus after their current lead singer, Myles Kennedy, is rumored to be in talks to fill Robert Plant's shoes on next year's Led Zeppelin tour. (Still following?) Tremonti wants us all to know that whatever they decide about the reunion, it will all be "for the good of the band" (cough cough: bank account).

Apparently Creed hasn't gotten the memo that people are more interested in Spaghetti Cat these days than washed-up, dried-out angsty alt-ers.

This whole "recession thingy" everyone's talking about must be pretty bad after all if the "worst band in the world" (it's official!) thinks it's comeback tour time. Either that, or the end of days is truly nigh.

And with that, more crying, and R.E.M.'s "It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)"

P.S.: This happened too.

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