Creed Live In Concert Is Better Than Sex!
Dec 08 '00
Want an exhilarating rush? I got one at the Creed human clay concert at the Centurytell Center in Bossier City, Louisiana on November 25th...And I'm still in the clouds two weeks later...
I went with my twenty-five year old son and his best friend......which was fun experiencing the concert from a fresher and younger perspective. No one could tell I was the "mom" because Creed's music and style is ageless and timeless and has mystical power of bringing out the young in people. It's just great music regardless of age...(and I'm young of course!)...
The new Centurytell Center is a "no bad seats" stadium regardless of where you are seated. You could see the stage and view Creed completely from anywhere and included a large overhead video screen for close-ups of their show, if, you could take your eyes off the real Creed members for a second...and you can't!
Lead singer, Scott Stapp is as dynamic on stage live as soul is to his vocals. He somewhat reminds me of a new generation Steve Perry of Journey because of the quality and uniqueness of his voice, the feelings and convictions of his deliverance and the heart and soul that his vocal style brings to alternative music. Scott's vocals are in a class of it's own. He doesn't stand...his voice carries and moves his body physically over the stage like a road map going to Heaven...and his vocals move his audience right along with him even more so, lifting you up and carrying you away to only a place that Creed can take you.
Brian Marshall is the bassist, and reminded me Kiss bassist Gene Simmons somewhat, with his moves and grooves and his head banging, heart pounding bass licks that keep you moving right with him and wanting more.
Guitar-vocalist Mark Tremonti plays lead guitar to the point of no return in a class that can't be compared to anyone. He's the shier and more subdued member on stage, but worth watching and paying special attention to. He has a subtle playing style but can get vivaciously raunchy.
My favorite of Creed members is drummer Scott Phillips. This guy beats up a set of drums and Remo heads, goes through sticks song after song with more passion than possibly imagined. He's more than dynamic to listen and watch, more than enthralling and more than entertaining as he's spinning and twirling his sticks or throwing them in the air and catching them between licks while never missing a beat. Scott never stops a nanosecond to think...you can see it on his face...he just does instinctively.
Creed had great special effects with pyrotechs orchestrating shooting fire and colorful rockets in perfect synchronization of the dynamics of their music and ten foot tall flames of fire running horizontally across the width of the stage behind the drummer. The sound quality was awesome, crisp and loud enough to hear no matter where you might be in the stadium. There wasn't any distortion or equipment variables to mess up their mix...Just awesome sound. Plain and simple.
No one in the entire stadium sat down throughout the entire show, and no one dared leave a second to use the facilities or even get food, let alone another beer...You bought as many as you could carry to your seat so you didn't have to leave the Creed spectacular experience.
Creed's tour hosted all the songs from their human clay album and also their My Own Prison albums...
human clay album:
Are You Ready?
What If
Beautiful
Say I
Wrong Way
Faceless Man
Never Die
With Arms Wide Open
Higher
Wash Away Those Years
Inside Us All
My Own Prison:
Torn
Ode
My Own Prison
Pity For A Dime
In America
Illusion
Unforgiven
Sister
What's This Life For
One
Scott Stapp and Mark Tremonti write all their songs either separately or together. Creed started predominately as a Christian rock band in their early beginning, thus the name Creed which means "religion" and later evolving and metamorphosing into what we have today....great individualistic alternative = original Creed persona. Their manager and executive producer is Jeff Hanson who was the first club owner to book the band before becoming their producer. Believe it or not, many record labels turned Creed down until Wind-Up label took a chance on them, thus they are who they are today and have sold more than 13 million albums.
I'll give honorable mention that Creed took Group Of The Year and Song Of The Year at the MyVH1 Music Awards. They also took home the Rock Artist of the Year Award for the Billboard Music Awards for the third year in a row. Also, VH1 is running Creed: Behind The Music several times over the next couple of weeks in December. Don't miss seeing the inside scoop on them before seeing them in concert to give you a better appreciation of who they are and how far they've come.
You can go to Creed's web site for their tour dates, MP3 downloads of unpublished music, sheet music, lyrics and more, at: http://www.creed.com
If you get a chance to see Creed in a live concert.....DO IT!
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