History Music / CreedBand

* EpicFail: [[http://lostmedia.wikia.com/wiki/Creed The last concert]] for their world tour celebrating ''Weathered'' was so bad that the fanbase sued the band ''and won'', costing them millions of dollars and contributing to their break up the falling year. It was a result of Scott, having recovered from a throat infection, ignoring the labels on his antibiotics and downing a bottle of whiskey right before the performance. As a result, he mumbled through five songs, got tired and literally tried to ''take a nap'' onstage during the middle of the concert, even laying down. It was so bad that officials put a stop to the concert immediately.

* TheAlcoholic: Stapp, to a notable degree.

* {{Jerkass}}: Stapp, to such a degree that the rest of the band now largely focuses on Music/AlterBridge, while he's, well, [[http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/27/creed-singer-scott-stapp-s-fall-from-grace-from-40-million-albums-sold-to-living-in-a-holiday-inn.html doing his own thing.]]

Over the next few years, [[FaceOfTheBand Scott Stapp]] let fame go to his head and got loopier and loopier in terms of antics. They split not long after "Weathered," their last album for 8 years.

* AlbumTitleDrop: The song "Say I" contains a reference to human clay, its album's title.

* EpicFail: [[http://lostmedia.wikia.com/wiki/Creed's_Infamous_2002_AllState_Stadium_Chicago_Performance_(Lost_Footage) The last concert]] for their world tour celebrating ''Weathered'' was so bad that the fanbase sued the band ''and won'', costing them millions of dollars and contributing to their break up the falling year. It was a result of Scott, having recovered from a throat infection, ignoring the labels on his antibiotics and downing a bottle of whiskey right before the performance. As a result, he mumbled through five songs, got tired and literally tried to ''take a nap'' onstage during the middle of the concert, even laying down. It was so bad that officials put a stop to the concert immediately.

* {{Yarling}}: Scott Stapp's method of singing, and consequently, one of the [[NotChristianRock many]], [[WalkingShirtlessScene many]] reasons people love to hate the band.

* CreatorBreakdown: Happened to Scott Stapp...repeatedly. At one point, the band was ''sued'' by concertgoers as Stapp was reportedly "so intoxicated/medicated that he was unable to sing the lyrics to a single Creed song." Eventually led to the souring of his relationship with the rest of the band, and Creed's (temporary) breakup in 2004. He may or may not have gotten better, depending on who you ask.

* NoIndoorVoice: Scott Stapp has a habit of bellowing rather loudly on even some of the softer songs. It's mostly {{Yarling}} but it occasionally approaches CarefulWithThatAxe levels of angst.

They reunited in 2009 and, surprisingly enough, still [[NoseYodeling sounded]] pretty [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZejtZI6JzY good]]. They did a short tour followed by a brand, spankin' new album that some music critics said heralded the end times.

* FollowTheLeader: Critics often accuse them of ripping off Music/PearlJam, especially Eddie Vedder's [[NoseYodeling style of singing]].

* NoIndoorVoice: Scott Stapp has a habit of bellowing rather loudly on even some of the softer songs. It's mostly NoseYodeling but it occasionally approaches CarefulWithThatAxe levels of angst.

3/4ths of the band would go on to form Music/AlterBridge, [[SurprisinglyImprovedSequel a much better accepted]] rock act. Stapp did a solo album and got in trouble with the cops before dropping off of the face of the earth for a while.

* CallBack: "FreedomFighter" has some spoken dialogue buried within the first verse, which quotes a lyric from "Wash Away Those Years".

** Whatever the case, you still gotta hand it to them. Getting music with a religious message on top 40 radio is rarely an easy task. [[WarHammer40k It'd take some kinda]] [[MemeticMutation tactical genius...]]
* DuelingMusicians: In the 2000s they were usually competing with {{Nickelback}} for hit songs on charts.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Most of their songs are around a 4, sometimes a 5. A few of their songs go a little heavier, with songs like 'Fear', 'Overcome', 'What If', and a few more going up to a 6 or 7. 'Bullets' is around an 8.

It goes without saying, YourMileageMayVary, but in their day they were huge.

* FollowTheLeader: Critics often accuse them of ripping off PearlJam, especially Eddie Vedder's [[NoseYodeling style of singing]].

** Most of the Christian influence seems to have been Scott Stapp's doing; when the rest of the band formed AlterBridge after Stapp left, the religious messages in the music were greatly downplayed.

3/4ths of the band would go on to form AlterBridge, [[SurprisinglyImprovedSequel a much better accepted]] rock act. Stapp did a solo album and got in trouble with the cops before dropping off of the face of the earth for a while.