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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: Bags on August 03, 2004, 10:43:00 am
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I just love this...it's the Velvet Revolver of the Christian rock crowd.
Alter Bridge (http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000590924) is basically Creed without Scott Stapp (or Sapp as I like to call him]...but without his drama, what fun is to be had? I'm thinking this is one of the "DC fly-over" shows that won't cause the shedding of too many tears from Boardies. ;)
Here are Alter Bridge's North American tour dates:
Sept. 23: Pontiac, Mich. (Clutch Cargo's)
Sept. 25: Cleveland (Odeon)
Sept. 26: Indianapolis (Murat Centre)
Sept. 28: Minneapolis (Quest)
Oct. 1: Chicago (House of Blues)
Oct. 2: Milwaukee (the Rave)
Oct. 4: Toronto (Guvernment)
Oct. 5: Allentown, Pa. (Crocodile Rock)
Oct. 7: New York (Irving Plaza)
Oct. 8: Boston (Avalon)
Oct. 9: Philadelphia (Electric Factory)
Oct. 12: Pittsburgh (Rock Club)
Oct. 13: Norfolk, Va. (NorVa)
Oct. 15: Myrtle Beach, S.C. (House of Blues)
Oct. 16: Atlanta (Roxy)
Oct. 17: New Orleans (Voodoo Music Festival)
Oct. 21: San Antonio (Sunset Station)
Oct. 22: Houston (Verizon Wireless Theater)
Oct. 23: Dallas (Gypsy Ballroom)
In related news, the first solo single from Creed frontman Scott Stapp, "Relearn Love," will debut today (Aug. 2) on AOL Music. The cut is drawn from the album "Passion of the Christ: Songs," due Aug. 31 via Wind-Up.
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they arent coming to Baltimore or DC? thats AWFUL!!
they should tour with Audioslave and the Revolver band. call it the "interchangeable lead singer tour"
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They could add Ian Ass-berry and the Doors to that list...call it Scabstock.
Originally posted by sonickteam2:
they arent coming to Baltimore or DC? thats AWFUL!!
they should tour with Audioslave and the Revolver band. call it the "interchangeable lead singer tour"
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Originally posted by chaz:
[QB] They could add Ian Ass-berry and the Doors to that list...call it Scabstock.
Ian Asbury does a mean Jim Morrison impersonation. I saw them in Colorado last fall and thought it was a decent show. There was even a thunderstorm in the distance as they played "Riders on the Storm".
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Originally posted by helicon1:
Ian Asbury does a mean Jim Morrison impersonation. I saw them in Colorado last fall and thought it was a decent show. There was even a thunderstorm in the distance as they played "Riders on the Storm".
The key word here is impersonation.
Me - not interested in the slightest.
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Originally posted by chaz:
They could add Ian Ass-berry and the Doors to that list...call it Scabstock.
Or perhaps Stabscott? :eek:
(To you authority types: IT'S A JOKE!!!)
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Hmmmm, and I just noticed: Alter Bridge
Alter, Altar...? Think it means anything?
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Originally posted by sonickteam2:
they arent coming to Baltimore or DC? thats AWFUL!!
they should tour with Audioslave and the Revolver band. call it the "interchangeable lead singer tour"
Well they are playing on the Mickey and Amelia show..if you wanna count that!!!
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Originally posted by jmascis:
Originally posted by sonickteam2:
they arent coming to Baltimore or DC? thats AWFUL!!
they should tour with Audioslave and the Revolver band. call it the "interchangeable lead singer tour"
Well they are playing on the Mickey and Amelia show..if you wanna count that!!! [/b]
You gotta listen to the show to win passes/tickets to that event. Good luck with that!
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Originally posted by Bagalicious Tangster:
Hmmmm, and I just noticed: Alter Bridge
Alter, Altar...? Think it means anything?
It was the first thing I noted, and didn't read anything after that. Puke.
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<img src="http://www.mtv.com/bands/s/stapp_scott/news_feature_080904/images/main2.jpg" alt=" - " />
Scott Stapp Breaks His Silence As If Anyone Cares but For a Chuckle (http://www.mtv.com/bands/s/stapp_scott/news_feature_080904/)
â?? by Joe D'Angelo
Two months ago, Scott Stapp refused to talk to MTV News. When Mark Tremonti and Scott Phillips announced the breakup of Creed from Tremonti's Orlando, Florida, home, Stapp bagged on telling his side of the story just days before the interview was to take place. He says now that he didn't feel the breakup should have even been revealed.
As Stapp prepares to demonstrate what he can do apart from the guys he's called friends and bandmates for the past decade, with his first solo offering, the single "Relearn Love," and a full album on the horizon, the singer opens up about what really happened on the last Creed tour, the ailments that almost ended his music career, starting over, and why he's not ready to turn off the lights on Creed just yet.
Stapp: We were the most successful band in the world for the last eight years. There wasn't even any contest. I don't mean to sound arrogant â?? I'm not an arrogant person, and I never thought we were better than anyone. I think I was perceived that way because of our lack of experience. I came across as this pious, holier-than-thou person.
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A friend of mine said that 98 rock was on when he was at work and Alter Bridge was being interviewed. Apparently, they will be touring for like 18 months, and said on air that they will stop in this area. Whatever the hell that means, and like anyone cares.
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Quick Spins
Wednesday, August 18, 2004; Page C05
The Washington Post
ONE DAY REMAINS
Alter Bridge
Creed lead singer Scott Stapp is one of hard rock's crankiest and most peculiarly messianic frontmen, and that's saying a lot. His ponderousness had always been Creed's main problem -- that and the fact that the band was never very good. It disbanded late last year and essentially re-formed a brief time later under the aegis of guitarist and songwriter Mark Tremonti, who retrieved the band's original bassist and drummer and recruited a new lead singer with the distressingly un-metal name of Myles Kennedy. Though he sings in a higher register, Kennedy bears a modest vocal resemblance to Stapp, and he has absorbed the singer's better traits -- the distinct phrasing, the thundering authoritativeness -- as impressively as if he had learned them in a Berlitz course. Thanks to him, the band, now called Alter Bridge, has basically managed to make a Stapp-era Creed record without the added bother of having Stapp actually there. Against all logic, this works pretty nicely.
Though Tremonti and Co. don't try very hard to distance themselves from their old band, "One Day Remains" is comparatively fast and light, and many of the tracks manage to shrug off the funereal air that dogged Creed to the last. "Remains" has its share of clunkers (Stapp, whatever his flaws, would never have tolerated the so-wrong-it's-almost-right "Metalingus"), but it's a fine opening salvo in the War of the Would-Be Creeds, sure to intensify when Stapp releases his upcoming solo debut. He'll be hard-pressed to come up with anything as good as Alter Bridge's lead single, "Open Your Eyes." With its familiar compound of sludgy verses and an uplifting killer chorus, it's the best song Creed hasn't done in years.
-- Allison Stewart
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its all a scam to make a reunion tour which would make them more money.