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CONCERT REVIEW: Scott Stapp an in-Creed-ulous sight
Daily O'Collegian September 30 2002
STILLWATER, Okla. -- To understand Creed lead singer Scott Stapp and his musical genius, the band must be seen live.
To most, the over-played and over-produced albums only serve as a catalyst for the real meaning behind the music.
Some call his lyrics wishy-washy or sentimental, and they sound like it on the radio.
But the true genius is seen on stage with pyrotechnics and an amazing stage production complete with video.
The band played to a sold-out crowd at the Ford Center in Oklahoma City on Saturday night, and by the time Creed took the stage, the crowd was eager from sitting through two hours of performances by Cinder, 12 Stones and Sevendust.
The most spectacular opening act was Sevendust. It seems the crowd waited especially long to hear the group.
Once Sevendust took stage the crowd went wild. The floor took on the feel of a mosh pit, with most concert-goers rocking out and letting the music take over.
Lead singer Lajon Witherspoon was clad in women's jeans complete with cut-out stars stitched in.
The crowd clincher came when the group performed "Angel's Son," written for the late Snot singer, Lynn Strait.
Once Creed took the stage, all hell broke loose. The first song, "Bullets," featured an all-out pyro show, complete with fireworks shooting back and forth during the chorus.
The band then moved into earlier work from its first two albums, such as "My Own Prison," "What If" and "What's This Life For," written from an actual suicide note of a close friend of the band.
It is on stage where the emotion of the words heard on the radio come full circle, and the crowd can see where Stapp is coming from in his own life and where the lyrics were formed.
Even when performing the songs for the umpteenth time, Stapp seemed in a daze, reliving the moment when the songs were written, especially on "With Arms Wide Open."
The final encore, "My Sacrifice," put the crowd into a frenzy as did "Higher," which was made to be a live song.
The one thing that has been scrapped is Stapp's Christ-like poses that were rampant in the "Human Clay" days.
The other missing factor was hand-to-hand contact with the audience. Stapp would just shake his fists and mouth, "Thank you so much," at the applause.
.Jonathan Wance