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Re: Creed tickets -just 75 cents- in Birmingham
Creed played here years ago. I think maybe their 1st or second single was starting to climb the charts. The concert didn't sell worth a damn so if you went there with two labels from bottles of Surge (which was also new and trying to be pushed at the time) you could get a ticket.
I've always thought it was funny that they couldn't sell tickets to a pretty small venue then, but 6 months later they were pretty much the biggest band in the world.
I met Scott Stapp that night and he was kind of a dick, but I was introduced to the band The Gandharvas who were opening the show. They were a good band, and fed me beer all night (the guys from Fuel were also pretty cool). So it was all good.
Re: Creed tickets -just 75 cents- in Birmingham
I hate to admit, that a few of their hit singles harken back to my youth, even though I wasn't a big fan then either.
Even if you are a diehard Creed fan, you have to admit that absolutely NO ONE was interested in a Creed reunion. They were a fleeting band, stuck firmly in their time.
Creed didn't even appeal to a real rock crowd, who are the diehards that will follow you forever (see GN'R). Creed appealed to the Limp Bizkit crowd, another group that recently found out how much the world was interested in their return, which was none.
Guns N' Roses, Faith No More & Alice In Chains are back from the 90's, and even the reaction to their return was 'modest' as best.
Do you really think the Creed's will make it? This was a last ditch effort to squeeze one more drop out of the orange. The irony is, radio is playing that new single of there's, whatever it's called Overcome or something, morning, noon & night... nobody cares.
Re: Creed tickets -just 75 cents- in Birmingham
Yeah. Most people have moved on to the Shinedown's and Nickleback's at this point.
The thing is, this is not a comment on melodic rock. I love me some melodic rock, but Creed was even bad at melodic rock. The only track I ever even remember liking was "What's This Life For", and that was probably only because subconsciously I was liking it for being in the closing credits to Halloween H2O in '98. There are better artists out there, even within their own genre.
Most of the best ones, are ones that have never even been discovered, and spend most of their time performing in Japan and/or releasing their music on German labels.
Chinese Democracy... hell, Black Gives Way To Blue make Creed look like a bunch of ___'s.
People have just moved on. When you hear Shinedown's "Second Chance" on the radio for the 50,00th time, you just think, "good song", and Creed comes across as yesterday's act. No timeless quality whatsoever.
In ten years, people will be saying the same thing about Shinedown, or more importantly Nickleback. Nickle... who? There will be some other artist, with a more updated sound, and people will be on to them.
Re: Creed tickets -just 75 cents- in Birmingham
That late 90s music did not hold up well. I am not the least bit surprised that these various reunions are imploding due to zero interest. That movement didn't die off because a new trend exploded and took its place. It died off because people quickly got sick of it.
Is this a record for lowest ticket prices ever? Buy one, get one free and Poison's 'buy a can of nacho cheese, get a free ticket' deals don't count.
