Whatever Info I Can Dig Up.
Scott Stapp - Vocals
Birhtdate: August 8, 1973
From: Orlando, Florida
Nickname: Scootie
Influences: Old U2, Led Zeppelin, and the Doors
Favorite Bands: Faith No More, Tool, Kings X
Mark Tremonti - Guitar
Birthdate: February 18, 1975
From: Detroit Michigan / Orlando Florida
Nickname: Brutus
Equipment: Gibson LesPaul plain-top classic, Gibson LesPaul lyte-neck Standard and Kahler Pro Tremelo guitars with Mesa Boogie Rectifier Amps
Influence: Blackflag, Bad Brains, Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, SOD, Soundgarden and Celtic Frost
Favorite Bands: Soundgarden, Metallica, Blackflag
Scott Phillips - Drums
Birthdate: February 22,1973
From: Madison Florida
Nickname: Flip
Equipment: Premier Drums, Zildjian Cymbols, DW & Gibralter Hardware and Remo Heads
Influences: Soundgarden, Rush, Living Color, Tool
Favorite Bands: Living Color, Tool, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin
Brian Marshall - Bass
Birthdate: Arpil 24, 1973
From: Fort Walton Beach Florida
Nickname: Willie
Equipment: Fender p-lyte standard guitars and Trace Elliot Amps
Influences: Led Zeppelin and Rush
Favorite Band: Faith No More
Creed has come a long way from where they started. They formed in 95 as just a garage band in thier hometown of Talahasse Florida. They played all around the bars and clubs in town, making a good name for themselves. The band released a demo version of the now 4x platinum album "My Own Prison". The album was called "The Blue Collar Records" version of "MOP". The band gained much success in Florida and got a shot at a new record label out of N.Y. called Wind-Up records. They were looking for thier first band and Creed was the first to venture along. "Creed is Wind-Up and Wind-Up is Creed" said Mark Tremonti, the guitar player for the band.
The label took a big risk as did the band and it has paid off for both 100x over. When the Official release of "MOP" went out in 97 the band had a lot of followers already but they also had a lot of skeptics. It was thought that the hard rock, seattle grunge sound was dead and that Creed would not get very far, well now after three years and thier second cd later they are proving those sceptics very wrong. They toured all throught most of 97 to 99 before heading into the studio to start on thier 2nd album. During 98 Scott Stapp and his Now Ex wife Hillary had a son, Jagger, which was a huge inspiration to the way Scott saw things. Then in 99 the band got the biggest break of thier short career, they were a co-headliner at the Woodstock 99 festival. That got them a huge amount of exposure heading in to record thier new cd. When the band came out in 99 and relased thier new vision, entitled "Human Clay" the first song to hit the airwaves was "Higher".
The song has had enough success the band made a video for it. The band is also taking a production role as they are the producers of the Scream 3 soundtrack that is released in january 2000. They have two songs on the soundtrack, "What If" from "HC" and a new song just for the album, "Is This The End". There has been a lot of controversy over whether they are a christain band or not. Scott Stapp was raised in a christian home so he was very schooled in the bible, but at 17 years old he left to find what he believed, not what others had forced him to think. That is where he gets such soul searching lyrics, he has a real close relationship with God, and that is a focal point of some of his writing but it is not the only subject he tackles. He asks the listener to get what they can out of his words, he wants to make you think for yourself and decide what you think is right. So on that, you decide, whatever they are to you, because the world is beginning to know what the word Creed really means.
