================================================ Subject: Re: FW: Creed Interview from MTV.Com From: "Joe Earles" To: Date: Sat 16 Feb 2002 13:00:52 -0500 ================================================ This has got to be an old interview... They're talking about Human Clay a lot and well...neither Oleander nor Our Lady Peace are "new up-and-coming" bands at this point.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "]\[][G}{T§TÖ®]v[" To: Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 12:22 PM Subject: FW: Creed Interview from MTV.Com > Creed is spoiled, and they don't get to pick their singles. Red for > details. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: Creed Discussion > Sent: Saturday, October 23, 1999 2:41 AM > Subject: Creed Interview from MTV.Com > > I didnt know if this was posted already.... I just found this on MTV.com > > > MTV: You guys are on tour right now with "Human Clay." How has it been > going? > > Scott Stapp: It's been real hectic, but it's been cool, getting back into > the swing of being out on the road. It's real exciting, because we're in a > different position now than we were when we began our first tour to promote > "My Own Prison." We're starting in much bigger venues, arenas and theatres, > and it's amazing. Full-scale rock show. It's cool. > > MTV: What adjustments did you guys have to make for this tour because of the > larger sized venues, or did you have to make any? > > Scott: Just more lights and bigger stage stuff, but we had to rise to the > level of the show. We had to improve our show and make it more for your > money. We always want to try and keep our ticket prices down, and we fight > about that a lot. We want to give our fans the most we can give them for > what they pay, and we really feel like with Creed, Our Lady Peace, and > Oleander, right there alone is a strong bill. > > MTV: Did you guys have a say in that? 'Cause it is a killer bill. > > Scott: Yeah, we put it together. You know, we had a lot of bands submit > albums to us for the tour, and those were two bands that we like. Oleander > is a new and up-and-coming band in the same situation we were two years ago, > and we like their record. We like their music. Our Lady Peace has been > around a long time. I mean, you don't realize how many hits they have until > you go see them live. It's just like every other song you're like, "Oh, I > didn't know they did that." > > MTV: Your new album shows that you've grown, both in your sound and your > songwriting, since "My Own Prison." When you play live, how are your new > songs working out with your older ones? > > Scott: It's actually going really, really well. I think there's a couple > spots where the song order might need to change just a little bit, but right > now, it's flowing really well. I think we're doing seven or eight songs from > the old record, seven or eight songs from the new record, every night. So > we're playing a good hour and a half, hour and forty-five, trying to give as > much as we can. It was kind of a natural progression for us, and we did > definitely grow. It's a good thing. > > MTV: A lot of bands need more time to take a leap like that from their first > album to their next, you know, take a couple of years off to work at it, but > it seems like you guys just went right back in the studio and did it. > > Scott: We don't stop working. That's the thing about this band. We write > continuously, and "Human Clay" was written on the "My Own Prison" tour. The > tour was over, and we're like, "We've got all these new songs, let's make a > record. We're ready." "My Own Prison" was kind of old to us, so we went > right back in and punched it out. I don't know if we'll do that again. After > all this is said and done, we may need just a break, both mentally and > physically, from the whole rock machine. We are already writing songs for > the next record; we've got about five or six going in. But I think we may > just relax, drink some margaritas by the beach or something. [Laughs] > > MTV: How long are you guys planning on touring? You could easily stay on the > road for two years with this album. > > Scott: We're just taking each run as it comes. This is a seven-week tour, > and then I believe we go to Europe for a couple weeks, and then we're taking > off from December 15 until New Year's Eve. We're going to do a New Year's > Eve show in Lakeland [Florida]. Then we're pretty much taking all of January > off, just to recoup and relax. > > We're just going to keep going as long as our fans want us to tour. We're > not going to do it like we did with the last record, where we went out for > nine months at one time and never came home in nine months. But if we can go > out three weeks at a time, take a week off in between and just stay fresh, > then I think we'll want to be touring. > > MTV: You learned how not to tour last time around. > > Scott: [Laughs] Yeah, we did. We really did. > > MTV: Now, with "Human Clay," the album itself sounds live, like you went in > there and just played. > > Scott: Since the album was written in the live setting, on tour, that's what > we wanted. We wanted to capture what we were live on a record, but also to > put it together on a record, which I think we did. I think it flows real > cool, and there's some cool stuff in between songs, so it's like a good > record you can listen to and hear new sounds and things all the time. But to > capture that live feel was something that we wanted to do, and I think we > did. > > MTV: Even the tracklist itself, the order of the songs, it feels like a live > set. Was that something you guys put a lot of thought into, the order of the > songs? > > Scott: I think I did that in about fifteen minutes. [Laughs] I'm the set > list guy. That's what I'm good at, I think. I'm good at putting together set > lists and organizing songs for flow, and the guys kind of leave that up to > me 'cause they're always happy with it. So I whipped it out, and it probably > took about fifteen, twenty minutes, and they looked at it, and they were > like, "This is cool." So we went with it, and that's exactly how I > approached it. I said, "I want this record to be like I would play a set > live." That's how we did it on the first record, so we said, "Why fix it if > it isn't broken?" > > MTV: Did you guys know right off the bat that "Higher" was going to be the > first single? > > Scott: We're not a singles-oriented band. We write albums. We just kind of > turn the record in to the record company, and whatever. We all had our own > opinions on what the first single should be, but it seems that "Higher" was > the right choice, I guess. As far as we're concerned, just put out anything, > it doesn't matter. > > MTV: Right off the bat, that song just shot up to number one on rock radio. > How do you feel about that? > > Scott: We're kind of spoiled, man. I mean, it's our fifth one, and so it's > hard to get excited like we did on the first one, you know? I think we're > kind of getting in the mindset that everything we put out is going to be > number one, and I think we need to get knocked down. I really do. I think we > need to put out a song that maybe breaks the top twenty, so we can get > brought back down to Earth a little bit and realize that this doesn't happen > to everybody. I'm serious. I mean, we owe it all to radio. Radio made this > band, and we'll never forget that. > > To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: > http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp > To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp