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From: Joe Earles

 

Okay, let me lay a few things to rest right here and now:

 

My overall opinion of Creed:

I think that Creed is one of the best things to ever grace the face of rock music. Their music has become my surrogate religion filling voids in my life that spirituality has failed at filling while at the same time re-aligning my thought patterns toward traditional religion and keeping all things spiritual at the forefront of my conscious mind.  Scott Stapp writes lyrics on a level that few rock musicians have ever ascended to and has provided me with insight, challenge, comfort and a host of new things to think about (or at very least new ways to think about a lot of different things) through his lyrics and through his delivery.

 

My overall opinion of Scott Stapp:

Scott Stapp is extremely self-absorbed and in some ways delusional about his success. He wears fame like a pig wears a prom dress and might do well to make himself a little more visible so as to get over this "I can't leave my house" mentality he's cultivated over the past few years. Only now when he was looking at the possibility of doing career-ending damage to his voice has he started down the path of taking better care of it and I can only speculate that he has come to believe in at least some small way in the whole "Brooding Messiah" façade he exudes onstage.  He upstages the rest of the band and in a fashion shockingly incongruous to his personal life seems to feed off of being the center of attention on stage and in his media life.

 

For his musical talents and the absolute gift of songwriting God has bestowed upon Scott, I am truly and forever grateful, but I just get the feeling that Scott Stapp is one of those people who, if I ever had to endure spending time with him on a personal level, would be the type of person who  would give me the overwhelming urge to just smack him one just being in his presence. 

 

So to respond to what you said, yes. I will "attack" the things he says and offer my opinions on what he has to say just as long as I feel what I have to say is accurate and deserved. When and if he proves me wrong, gets down off that excessively paranoid high-horse of his and starts exercising a little bit of humility and pragmatism I'll stop looking at him with such a critical eye.  Is that all right with you? If not, your delete key is located to the right of your main enter key. Learn how to use it and STFU.

 

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