It`s getting late here so I haven`t got time to invest 1000 words and two hours of my time to writing a blog, unlike what so many
people think I still have a job and I have to get out of bed really early to do it.
And not forgetting team Tremonti/Philips who provided the metallic rhythm to the song, it really is one of the best pieces of air guitar in the history of hard rock.
people think I still have a job and I have to get out of bed really early to do it.
But I got enough time for a cup of tea and a choc chip cookie, so I thought I would quickly put in a good word for a song from well known and recently reformed US post-grunge band Creed.
Creed have always had an army of critics bagging them despite reaching the stratosphere of commercial success with the three albums they released in the late 90`s and early 2000`s.
The first one, `My Own Prison`, despite being labelled by many grunge purists as being Pearl Jam plagiarism, is truly one of the best rock albums of the 90`s hands down.
Lead vocalist Scott Stapp has a naturally similar voice to that of Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam, but in Stapp`s defence, I have never thought he is deliberately taking off Vedder.
The fact is that Stapp may have a deep and croaky voice like Vedder, but it is better and more powerful by a mile, albeit very distinctive and occasionally a little irritating.
But his passion was always there. I will post a review of `My Own Prison` and the mega-
successful 'Human Clay' another time, but the third installment from the band `Weathered`, minus the original bassist Brian Marshall and now as a studio 3-piece, has a truly remarkable grunge-metal power ballad on it called `One Last Breath`, which at the time could have been a bit of a self observation by Stapp of the tension in Creed
which resulted in the band breaking up in 2004.
which resulted in the band breaking up in 2004.
Guitarist Mark Tremonti had already layed down some killer riffs on Creed`s first two albums, but now he had to fill the bassist breach as well in the absence of the now departed Brian Marshall.
Scott Philips is the band`s sturdy drummer. Creed have always been seen to be a bit of a born again christian band, certainly there is a lot of religious metaphors in Stapp`s lyrics, but as Tremonti has always been only too keen to point out there is a big difference between spirituality and religion.
Creed he believes is not a christian rock band, it`s a rock band which has a lot of spiritual themes.
Whatever Creed is, they are a very successful band, they recently reformed and made a new album called `Full Circle`, which I admit I haven`t listened to yet, the years between 2004 and 2009 saw a new band form from the ashes of Creed minus the singer Scott Stapp, called Alter Bridge, which sound wise had a lot of similarities to Creed, and a rather fruitless solo career from the Creed-less Stapp.
As I was getting to earlier, the song `One Last Breath`, off the album `Weathered`, is a masterpiece of post grunge rock which had a totally way out there video clip to go with it.
The lyrics of the song paint a story of someone who is suicidal and feels that `six feet ain't so far down`. The power vocal
chorus to the song, which is sung by Stapp with heartfelt intensity, is unnerving but inspirational all in one.
chorus to the song, which is sung by Stapp with heartfelt intensity, is unnerving but inspirational all in one.
And not forgetting team Tremonti/Philips who provided the metallic rhythm to the song, it really is one of the best pieces of air guitar in the history of hard rock.
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