Human Clay featured assorted ballads, soothing and melodic, yet interspersed with energetic and fast-paced compositions. The tone of Human Clay, which was released on October 1, 1999, evoked an uplifting atmosphere, in direct contrast to Creed ’s original, My Own Prison. They retired to their newly acquired hideaway, and set to work on Human Clay, their second album. The members of the band collectively invested a portion of the royalties from My Own Prison to acquire a parcel of land, away from urbana and city life, where they might relax and find inspiration for future creative endeavors. ” Each of the single releases from My Own Prison attained number one hit status on BillboardRock Radio. The album, which sold more than four million copies, went into successive releases, and other hits emerged -including “Tom, ” “What ’s This Life For? ” and “One. The title song became a hit single, and by November 22 reached number two on the rock-track chart of most-played hits. Songwriters Tremonti and Stapp published their own works through Tremonti/Stapp Music of BMI, while a secondary publisher, Wind-up ’s Dwight Frye Music, assumed the administrative functions for the pair.Ĭreed released My Own Prison on August 26, 1997, on the Wind-up label, and the album had moved halfway up the Billboard 200 chart less in than three months. ”Another song on the album, “What ’s This Life For? ” was a collaborative effort by Stapp and Tremonti, the result of their reflection on the suicides of two mutual friends. Despite the bitter undertone of the song, it brought him to an epiphany about self-determination, as he wrote “No time for mourning, Ain ’t got no time, So I held my head up high …. Most notably he wrote “My Own Prison, ” which became the title track of the debut album, in contemplation of the difficulties he courted by his own choices in life. The members of the neophyte group invested their own money, a modest $6,000, into recording My Own Prison, an album that featured an assortment of songs, written by Stapp during the months after he abandoned his education and wandered aimlessly in search of a purpose. It was, in fact, his lack of general prudence that inspired much of his music. After performing poorly in school due to lack of interest, he abandoned his pre-law studies at Florida State University, job-hopped, and lived in his car for lack of income.
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Stapp himself was on the rebound from a series of injudicious career decisions and minor catastrophes. Between the four of them, before uniting to form their band, the future Creed members shucked oysters, fry cooked, and washed dishes to earn a living. Before long the two musicians recruited drummer Phillips and bassist Marshall from among the ample m élange of otherwise unskilled workers in north Florida. Released My Own Prison, 1997 Human Clay, 1999 produced and performed (with others) soundtrack for film Scream 3 performed at Woodstock ’99.Īwards: Rock Artist of the Year, Billboard magazine songwriting award for “My Own Prison, ” by Scott Stapp and Mark Tremonti, BMI Pop Music Awards, 1999.Īddresses: Record company -Wind-up Records, 72 Madison Avenue, 8 th Floor, New York, NY 10016 e-mail: įrom Orlando, Florida.
Members include Brian Marshall (born April 24, 1973), bass Scott Phillips (born February 22, 1973), drums Scott Stapp (born August 8, 1973, in Orlando, FL one son, Jagger), vocals Mark Tremonti (born on April 18, 1974), guitar. Creed uses its website not only to promote songs, concerts, and albums, but for mutual correspondence between its fans and the band members.Ĭreed originated in Tallahassee in 1995 with a chance meeting between Stapp and Tremonti, two former schoolmates For the Record … They record and perform without gimmicks, and mind the business operations of their band, relying extensively on the Internet for communications as well as for advertising. The band eschews conglomerate involvement, relying instead on writing and self-publishing their own songs and touring incessantly to popularize their music. ” Creed ’s “formula ” for success -if indeed they have one -is embodied in their independence from corporate ties. The four musicians are clean-cut and wholesome and qualify easily as “the boys next door. The band, led by vocalist Scott Stapp, features Mark Tremonti on guitar, Brian Marshall on bass, and Scott Phillips on drums. Creed is a modern rock band of grassroots troubadours that performs highly inspirational music with a message, within the lines of a simple and unaffected genre called “new-era ” rock.
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