If you’re looking for other musicians’ opinions on the artistic output of Creed and its members, then we’ve got not one but two options for you.
To start with the positive, guitarist Mark Tremonti says that Robert Plant is a fan of his Frank Sinatra covers album, which he released in 2022.
During an interview with music YouTube personality Rick Beato, Tremonti shares that he has a connection to Plant through a friend who does security for the Led Zeppelin legend.
“I pick up my phone and it’s my buddy,” Tremonti recalls. “He’s like, ‘I gotta tell you, I was taking Robert to Bonnaroo and I played him your Frank Sinatra CD and he loved it.'”
“I’m like, ‘What? Robert Plant listened to my Sinatra thing?'” Tremonti continues.
Tremonti adds that he tried to get a quote from Plant to help promote the album. While he never got one, he’s happy “just to know that Robert Plant listened to it and enjoyed it.”
Meanwhile, on the other side of the critical spectrum, Conor Oberst of the indie band Bright Eyes actually discouraged his old label from signing Creed when they were a new band.
In the ’90s, Oberst was signed to the label Wind-up Records, which would go on to release Creed’s 1997 debut, My Own Prison, and their subsequent records, including 1999’s RIAA Diamond-certified Human Clay.
However, as Oberst tells the Broken Record podcast, he thought Creed sounded like “a really bad Pearl Jam” after the label founders played their music for him. The founders, however, disagreed, and likened Scott Stapp to the “new Jim Morrison.”
“Sure enough they put it out and it’s, like, the biggest thing in the world,” Oberst says. “So, another reason not to ever trust my commercial judgment.”
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