文档介绍:7、Creed1:A Dynamic and Passionate2 Band
It's not easy to find a ess story as genuine as Creed's in popular culture these days, with all the carefully scripted3 rises to glory and the falls that inevitably follow careers built on hype4. If any late'90s band can claim to have ascended5 strictly on its own merits6, it's Creed, a Florida bred foursome7 that went from zero to sixty (or, more accurately, zero to nearly 4x Platinum) by virtue of bination of finger on the pulse songs and powerful live performances, rather than a raft of 8 hype.
“ With My Own Prison, I knew we had the talent to get a record deal and I knew we had songs good enough to get played on the radio, but I never had any expectations of reaching this many people,” says Creed's dynamic front man9, Scott Stapp. “ But when I think back, I can remember that Mark Tremonti definitely did. The very first time we went into a meeting at windup10,he said he'd be totally disappointed if the album didn't go triple platinum.”
Tremonti didn't have to suffer any pangs11 of regret. Creed was the first band in history to have four Number One Rock Radio singles from a debut album--a feat even more impressive in these days of love-'em-and-leave-'em, one hit the strength of their singles,including the crushing title track and the more pensive12“ What's This Life For”,Creed topped countless year end13 charts an