Scott Comments On Tape

[creedlvr]

This was on excite.com - Entertainment News:

Stapp Says Sex Tape Was Meant to Sabotage


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Mar 1, 1:31 PM (ET)

By MARJORIE SZAROLETA

WASHINGTON (AP) - Scott Stapp thinks a recently released sex video showing him and Kid Rock with several strippers is meant to sabotage him.

"Obviously someone wants to hurt me and doesn't want me to be successful in my solo career," Stapp told AP Radio in a recent interview.

Stapp claims the tape, which was made in 1999, was stolen from him. He and Kid Rock have won a temporary court order preventing World Wide Red Light District from distributing the video or promoting any part of it.

Red Light, which sold the infamous Paris Hilton sex tape in 2004, had displayed a 40-second preview clip of the video on its Web site. The company has acknowledged that the tape came from a third party, but has denied that it was stolen.

[Rocketqueen]

i would say so but it no big deal

[Dogstar]

Heh, I have ABC overnight on, and they just mentioned how Stapp and Kid Rock have the temporary restraining order against the release of the tape. They showed clips of Kid Rock performing, but none of Creed.

[eusebioCBR]

Heh, I have ABC overnight on, and they just mentioned how Stapp and Kid Rock have the temporary restraining order against the release of the tape. They showed clips of Kid Rock performing, but none of Creed.
They probably heard Creed broke up, so are they not aware of Scotts solo status:confused:

[facelessmike]

Here's a little more:

http://www.azcentral.com/ent/celeb/articles/0301stapp.html

Stapp, 32, says the tape was made soon after he was divorced from Hillaree Burns.

He said he previously told his new wife about having a wild year and that she accepts the tape as part of his past.

"You think it's part of your rock 'n' roll memories," Stapp said. "I should have burned that tape

[titan9]

An article from E!Online:

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"Someone" Out to Get Stapp

Thu Mar 02, 8:08 PM ET


Scott Stapp doesn't think too highly of "someone."

The Associated Press released quotes Wednesday from an AP Radio interview in which the former Creed singer accuses "someone" of being behind the recent release of a sex tape.

"Obviously, someone wants to hurt me, and doesn't want me to be successful in my solo career," Stapp told AP Radio.

"Someone" could not be located for comment.

Kid Rock, who is seen along with Stapp in the sex tape entertaining female fans in a tour bus, was located for comment. He told AP that Stapp was "an idiot."

"The tape gets out--it's your tape--and you're [saying] someone's trying to sabotage your career?" Rock complained to the AP.

The solo career that the 32-year-old Stapp sees as being plundered by "someone" began in earnest with last November's release of The Great Divide. Whereas Creed moved tens of millions of CDs during its 1990s heyday, Stapp saw only 94,000 copies of The Great Divide ring up sales in its first week. It was not known if Stapp explained to AP Radio how, or if, "someone" put the kibosh on the album.

What rankled Rock was Stapp's theory on how the X-rated Internet home of the Paris Hilton vehicle, 1 Night in Paris, came into possession of a 1999 tape featuring him and Kid in the company of women, also known as "strippers," per the AP. According to Stapp: "Someone" stole it from him.

Red Light District, the self-described leader in the field of "hardcore gonzo video," has denied the footage was of the purloined variety. Rock, for one, has said he doesn't care how the company got the tape.

"[Stapp] is the idiot because it's out," Rock said, per AP. "I'm holding him responsible."

In court, however, Rock is battling Red Light District. On Feb. 21, he won a preliminary injunction barring the company from posting the tape on its sites, ScottStappSexTape.com and KidRockSexTape.com.

While Rock is mad--he says he never dabbles in homemade movies--Stapp is full of regret. If the "artist who's a Christian," as Stapp once identified himself, had to do it all over again, he told AP Radio, he would have "burned that tape."

But Stapp didn't destroy the footage--filmed when he was between marriages, he pointed out--because an evening spent entertaining female fans also known as strippers is something for the scrapbook.

"You think it's part of your rock 'n' roll memories," Stapp said, per the AP.

Of late, Stapp has been making new rock 'n' roll memories at a quick clip. Last December, the New York Daily News reported that an "apparently intoxicated" Stapp acted boorish during the taping of Spike TV's Casino Cinema. On Feb. 10, an "antagonistic" and newly married Stapp was stopped from boarding a Los Angeles flight to Hawaii, and arrested on suspicion of being drunk in a public place. There was no mention of "someone" being involved in either incident.

Stapp is due to be arraigned on the public intoxication charge next week.

Amid this drama, Stapp is on tour. And although he's not attempting to play arenas, he's having trouble selling tickets at smaller venues. At least that was how the Orlando Sentinel described the state of things at Stapp's Feb. 23 kick-off date at the Hard Rock Live in the singer's native Orlando, Florida.

The "hometown showcase...didn't draw enough fans to warrant opening the hall's upstairs balcony," Sentinel pop music critic Jim Abbott wrote.

Far from being downcast by the sex tape scandal, the struggling album, the upcoming court date, the machinations of "someone" or the bandaged right wrist that an insider told the newspaper was dinged up in a surfing excursion, Stapp was "chatty" with his audience, the Sentinel reported.

"I need this so bad," Stapp said, according to the newspaper.

Stapp is due back on the stage Thursday in Hartford, Connecticut.

That is, unless "someone" has other ideas.

[bilal]

"You think it's part of your rock 'n' roll memories," Stapp said, per the AP.


damn....................

[Dogstar]

Interesting...

[The Lithium]

Scott Stapp thinks a recently released sex video showing him and Kid Rock with several strippers is meant to sabotage him.
I don't get that. He made the tape himself, he chose to keep it. He's quite famous. This can't be a surpise for him!

Stapp claims the tape, which was made in 1999, was stolen from him.
Yes, but what I'd like to know is how the hell was it stolen?! If I had made a sex tape I would keep deep down in a locked wardrobe or something... I doubt someone broke into his house and stole it!

[HigherGirl]

I am probably going to be strung up by my toes for this....but...
with all the doubt on HOW the tape was stolen...

Is it POSSIBLE Stapp himself "released" the tape?
I know he just got married, But perhaps, as his wife said "It was in the past"..
so maybe he "accidentally " released it to gain publicity?
Seriously...can a sex tape REALLY ruin a rock stars career? We as the public expect these things to happen...Look and Pam and Tommy Lee...Paris hilton..we're their "careers" REALLY damaged by it, or we're they made more famous with all the gossip about it???

Just a thought...Please don't hate me...:(

[titan9]

I won't hate on your for saying that. It is possible, but I just don't believe Stapp would go so low as to do that. I'd think he wouldn't stoop that low, but you never know.

Also, it seems like the evidence, all that we've heard, points toward either Kiki or Hanson(or perhaps both). It makes sense that they'd want to do that to hurt Stapp's image even more.

[INDIGOSTEVE]

who is kiki?

[creedlvr]

I agree. With all the rest of the negative publicity he has gotten lately, I don't think he would have felt like he needed to add to it. Plus, even with all the "bad" stuff ... he still tries to save his reputation with his explanations. I just don't think this is the image he's trying to portray of himself.

[Dogstar]

I am probably going to be strung up by my toes for this....but...
with all the doubt on HOW the tape was stolen...

Is it POSSIBLE Stapp himself "released" the tape?
I know he just got married, But perhaps, as his wife said "It was in the past"..
so maybe he "accidentally " released it to gain publicity?
Seriously...can a sex tape REALLY ruin a rock stars career? We as the public expect these things to happen...Look and Pam and Tommy Lee...Paris hilton..we're their "careers" REALLY damaged by it, or we're they made more famous with all the gossip about it???

Just a thought...Please don't hate me...:(
I happen to agree with you. I know we really don't know what happened, but I'm thinking the not-so-hot ticket and CD sales might have had something to do with it. Just my cynical side showing, I guess. It's better to have your name in the headlines, no matter the reason, than not to.

[Trimontana]

I am probably going to be strung up by my toes for this....but...
with all the doubt on HOW the tape was stolen...

Is it POSSIBLE Stapp himself "released" the tape?
I know he just got married, But perhaps, as his wife said "It was in the past"..
so maybe he "accidentally " released it to gain publicity?
Seriously...can a sex tape REALLY ruin a rock stars career? We as the public expect these things to happen...Look and Pam and Tommy Lee...Paris hilton..we're their "careers" REALLY damaged by it, or we're they made more famous with all the gossip about it???

Just a thought...Please don't hate me...:(

I tought the same and i wanted to post it; but then i tought it wasn't a good idea cause some people would say something like: the Stapp basher again againsthim!!!.
It's really weird that if he had that tape under safe someone else could really get it so easily (whoever we are speculating about). If he really never wanted release that tape he would been more carefuly. So i think it's such a weird idea what you did say Higergirl. And btw, how come we can hate you?....never.

[HigherGirl]

well...either way, maybe you guys ARE right, this IS negative publicity..

I'm not a Scott hater, I love the guy still (Flashing back to Creed days..)
I just don't understand what's happening to him.. :(

[ABYanks]

He'll be fine dont worry

[JOEINHOUSTON]

If Scott did do that, he is more twisted than we ever imagined and deserves to never a sale a c.d. again. I don't think he did, however, because he knows a large portion of his fans are Christians and that kind of news would not sit well with them as I'm sure it does not sit well with many of us.

What's up with the Alter Bridge manager at the airport? Was he on the same flight as Scott? Are things that messed up between him and the boys from Alter Bridge that he thinks they had something to do with the tape? I was reading an interview with Alter Bridge where all the guys were saying they we the public know about 5% of what actually was happening and that basically Scott was a total nightmare in every way. All 3 of em, Flip, Mark, and Brian were just in total agreement that Scott was impossible to work with without getting into details and will NEVER work with him again. I think Scott needs to do all he can to make peace with the boys, and put it behind him. He talks like he has forgiven, but I'm not convinced. They have so many good memories. No matter what happened, they have and always will have a great legacy with Creed. Put the b.s. away, and move on, and in about 5 years, lets see a Creed reunion tour. :D

[nagpo]

lets see a Creed reunion tour. :D
not gonna happen. ever.

[ABYanks]

NEver,EverEverEverEverNEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverNEverEverEverNEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverNEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverNeverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEverEver

[creedlvr]

After seeing him in concert, Scott doesn't need a Creed reunion.

I used to think I REALLY wanted them to make peace and get back together. Now, I just don't like the way this whole thing happened and the terrible things that have been said would probably stick in my mind. I don't want Scott to go back to them.

He'll be great without them. He should keep moving forward, and not look back.

[JOEINHOUSTON]

After seeing him in concert, Scott doesn't need a Creed reunion.

I used to think I REALLY wanted them to make peace and get back together. Now, I just don't like the way this whole thing happened and the terrible things that have been said would probably stick in my mind. I don't want Scott to go back to them.

He'll be great without them. He should keep moving forward, and not look back.

Well, he at least should have used the power when he had it to make the guys sign over the Creed name to him like Axl Rose did.

[ABYanks]

no no no

[nagpo]

Well, he at least should have used the power when he had it to make the guys sign over the Creed name to him like Axl Rose did.
worst idea ever. its not creed without tremonti.
stapp plus tremonti = creed.

[The Lithium]

"Hey, new Creed record is out, it's a new band and a new song writer. But the same singer, though" - Something I never wish to say or hear...

[ABYanks]

itd be the same song writer too, being that stapp would be there

[JOEINHOUSTON]

I disagree. Taking nothing away from Tremonti, he is a great guitarist, and the Goneblind guys are not at as good as him, but 'Creed' would've prospered without him and Flip. Stapp dropped the ball when he didn't gain control of the 'Creed' name.

[nagpo]

I disagree. Taking nothing away from Tremonti, he is a great guitarist, and the Goneblind guys are not at as good as him, but 'Creed' would've prospered without him and Flip. Stapp dropped the ball when he didn't gain control of the 'Creed' name.
temonti did the music in creed. and stapp did most of the lyrics, FYI.

[ABYanks]

He didnt take the name because hes showing hes seperate, its him now, hes been the engine all along and now hes proving it.

[Creed7352]

he didn't take the name cause contractually he couldn't...and i'm sure he wanted to show it's just him now too.

i don't think creed would've done as well if there were other members in the band. creed was good because creed consisted of all four guys, mark, flip, brian, and scott...when brian left, it wasn't the same.

[Trimontana]

he didn't take the name cause contractually he couldn't...and i'm sure he wanted to show it's just him now too.

i don't think creed would've done as well if there were other members in the band. creed was good because creed consisted of all four guys, mark, flip, brian, and scott...when brian left, it wasn't the same.

True. Even i liked Brett very much, without Brian Creed wasn't completed.

[creedlvr]

I didn't miss him at all!

[johellion]

I wish Brian could have /or would have made them give up the name Creed .....Brian gave them the name in the first place!!!

[creedlvr]

I wish Brian could have /or would have made them give up the name Creed .....Brian gave them the name in the first place!!!
Well yes, he came from Maddox Creed and that's where they got the idea from, but together they decided on just ...........CREED. I believe that was after tossing around some other ideas.

[Bridge of Clay]

Well yes, he came from Maddox Creed and that's where they got the idea from, but together they decided on just ...........CREED. I believe that was after tossing around some other ideas.
I believe Brian had the naming rights though.

[The Lithium]

I wish Brian could have /or would have made them give up the name Creed .....Brian gave them the name in the first place!!!
Well, I can't agree with that, although I don't know the "true" story like you do. I think it shows a lot of growth and a lot of Brians personality that he didn't do anything like that and that he were happy to play with Mark and Flip again in AB. He seems like a very nice guy. He's been extremely friendly to me, the two times I've met him! Very calm and down to earth. (Like his bandmates as well). But there's something specially nice, carring and calm about Brian though. Can't really explane it...