Creed: Resurrected!

Wed Oct 5, 01:10 PM by

After months of speculation, website rumors, and VH1 news briefs, those lurid leather-bound throaty power poppers Creed are back and they aren’t taking no for an answer. With their new album “Lay With Me” dropping like it’s hot on December 25th, Creed sat down with LaunchCommit.com guest staffer Brett Foreman for a bit during their visit to Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3).

Brett Foreman: So guys, what brings you to the Expo?

Scott Stapp: Well we just finished recording with B-Man and decided to create some “steam,” if you will…

BF: Oh I will!

SS: … for our upcoming full-length record “Lay With Me.”

BF: You are of course referring to Barry Manilow, the producer of the record.

SS: Of course. We would not work with anyone else in the world.

BF: Ok. So why the time off? You guys called it quits in June of 2004 and here you are, more stylish and well-oiled than ever. To what should we owe this great big honor?

SS: Well as you know we mastered creating the three to four and a half minute three chord throaty power pop song structure and rode it to multi-platinumness…

BF: That is not a word.

SS: … and felt that we had nothing else to prove. I mean we were the best band in the world for what, four, ten years? That June I had a long bathtub session and Jesus told me that we had done enough.

BF: Christ!

SS: No, Lopez. He’s my personal bath boy; real talented, gentle, and actually pretty articulate too. So everything was going well in our lives and then another band comes up, steals are potion, and are reaping the benefits of literally hours of work that we already did!

BF: And that band is Nickelback.

SS: Precisely! I saw their ugly lead singer at a mall signing last week and told him to watch out; Papa Stapp is making a comeback.

BF: Don’t you think that this is a man who looks eerily like Jesus H. Christ? He does. I am telling you this.

SS: I told him about “Lay With Me” and do you know what he said?

BF: “More like ‘Gay With Me?’”

SS: No.

BF: He touched your leather?

SS: Metaphorically, yes.

BF: NO!

SS: I know!

BF: But he does really look like Jesus, no?

SS: Jesus would sell twice as many records as Nickelback.

BF: Moving on, tell me a little about the recording process of Lay With Me.

SS: Well first we decided which three chord progressions we would use in the choruses for the whole album. Then we told Timmy our drummer to be overly busy during each song. 32 minutes later Lay With Me was history! We’re currently working on our next record which should be finished by tomorrow.

At this point, Stapp rambled on about the next thirteen albums he planned on recording, including a concept project with members of Limp Bizkit and the Ying Yang Twins. Fearing only for my own sanity, I quietly slinked out of the room when he went to find the fanny pack which contained his newly handwritten version of the Bible.

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