Creed Map Out Recording Plans for Third LP
By Joe D'Angelo
05/15/2001
Creed have begun molding the follow-up to 1999's Human Clay.
Frontman Scott Stapp and guitarist Mark Tremonti have written several songs
for the band's third album and will begin recording tracks in late June or
July, according to Creed's publicist. Though the group has yet to settle on a
title, the name Weathered is being considered.
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it" seems to be Creed's creed for the new
album, as John Kurzweg, who produced both Human Clay and its predecessor,
1997's My Own Prison, will be at the helm. Proper studios will once again be
forgone in favor of makeshift recording rooms, as the band will record the
new material in a rented house in Orlando. My Own Prison was recorded in
Kurzweg's Tallahassee, Fla., home, while work on the second album was done in
a rented wood cabin.
In January, Tremonti hinted that the new album would have the same attributes
as the group's other multi-platinum efforts, only more intense.
"It's gonna be more extreme on all extremities," Tremonti said. "The harder
stuff a little harder, the epic stuff a little more epic."
"You know it's all going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and
the best golfer out there is black!"
-Charles Barkley
"Don't play with me, cause you're playing with fire"
-Rolling Stones
"If I could run away, if I could be a star; Would it take too much to save
me? To love you for who you are?"
-Full Devil Jacket
"I fear maybe this is all just a game, our friends and our familes play too.
Harness the young and give some comfort to the old. Don't let my doubts
prove true. Draw me close and hold me near to you."
-Caedmons Call
"Frantic, Faction, Focus...The world breathes and out forms this
misconception we call man...But I don't know him...No, I don't know
him...Because he lies...SAY I "