New music from Scott sooner than we thought???
 

I'm sooooo excited!!
Check this out!!


BEVERLY HILLS, California — People have been saying for years that Scott Stapp likes to write songs for Jesus, and they're right. The Creed singer has put together four songs for Mel Gibson's controversial new movie "The Passion of the Christ."

Walking the red carpet at music mogul Clive Davis' Grammy party on Saturday, Stapp said he's in talks with his label for permission to hand at least one of the tracks over to the actor/director. "Hopefully that goes through. He wants to do it real bad, and I do too," Stapp said.

They'd better hurry — the movie hits theaters February 25. "The Passion of the Christ," co-written and directed by Gibson, has become something of a hot-button topic with theologians for its interpretation of biblical events and has landed its star, Jim Caviezel ("The Thin Red Line," "Frequency"), on the cover of Newsweek.

"It's a controversial film, but you've got to look at it like any other book, like the 'Lord of the Rings,' " Stapp said. "It was made after three books, right? 'The Passion' is just another interpretation of a book."

The thing about Gibson's interpretation that has sparked the most controversy is what some are calling anti-Semitism with regards to its depiction of the Jewish role in the crucifixion. Stapp, who screened it last week, doesn't share those concerns.

"The way that they cut the film and the way that Mel is a brilliant director and a brilliant guy, I think he just told a story and there was no blame on any specific group. It was just the Romans, the Galileans, even his own people. It went all the way around.

"It has moments that make you want to cry," he added. "But, having the spiritual background I came from, the very last shot of the movie empowered me. And that's all I can tease you with."

"The Passion of the Christ" isn't the only reason Stapp's been writing music lately. He's making a solo album with help from hip-hop producer 7 Aurelius (Ja Rule, Tupac). "It's a combination of probably Creed, of course, meets Led Zeppelin, the Doors with a 'Uhh, kick your [speakers],' " he said of the material. "But I sing, I don't rap."

There is no release date set for the record, and Stapp wouldn't reveal who'll be backing him, though he did admit to one possibility. "Lenny Kravitz might play bass on my record. He lives down the street from me, so we'll see."

He said he's thinking about calling the record Ego Machine (a "playful" title "about the rock business"), and he was insistent that it would not spell the end of Creed.

"I dedicated 10 years of my life to Creed, and we're still together," he said. "Scott [Phillips] is a plus-two handicap. He's working on his golf game. And Mark [Tremonti] is producing and writing and doing kind of a heavy, guitar player's dream band, and we're all good friends. We love each other and we're just enjoying life right now."
Part of that enjoyment for him, Stapp hopes, will include taking a crack at acting. "I've been reading scripts for about eight years. You name the big directors and I'd kill to work with them. I'm just waiting for the right role. I'm being really selective. I don't want to look back later in my life and be like, 'Ah, I shouldn't have done that.' "



—Ryan J. Downey, with additional reporting by Gideon Yago

Here's the link to the article with another pic of Scott at the Grammys

Hey man I think that is awesome, that really inspires me and gives me new hope.
Sorry Scott bashers, but it appears Scott is on the right track. :cool:

And as my good friend Frankie says, You NEVER see Scott saying a bad word about his bandmates.
The man is a CLASS ACT :D
Did I say how excited I am?!?!?!?

Way fricken COOL. Thanks for the info, Jez!

Awesome News!!! Thanks for positing the info and the link, Stace. :D

I hope his song gets on the soundtrack. I'll have to buy that one ;).

Thanks Stace :D

It looks like we might hear a new song much sooner than we all thought. :bigjump:

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's such a relief, so good news!!!!!!!!!!!! :) ;)

I'm dying to wacth this frickin' movie. Now I'm dead (LOL! ;) ) to watch it with Stapp's tracks!!!!!!! hehehehe :jam:

Imagine Stapp singing Amazing Grace!!! That would totally rock! Bring the church down! :laugh:

And Mark's stuff is heavy! COOL!!! I don't like heavie heavy, but I'm excited. Mark's heavy is better than anyone else's heavy!

Me too, Dogstar. :)

I'm really looking forward to seeing the movie too and I'm with you Marcos, I'd love to hear Scott sing Amazing Grace. It's my favorite hymn/spiritual song.

Amazing Grace always makes me cry...such a doleful song but ohhhh soooo beautiful. And Scott has the perfect voice for that one :D.

that's cool stuff.

yep, Amazing Grace is trully inspired by God. Even the song itself is beautiful when played in any kind of instrument! Distorted guitar or piano, it's awesome!

this is awesome news, i hope they use one of his songs

lmao at "Ego Machine"

Thats cool :cool:
Thanks for the info Jez!
I've heard of this new movie that Mel Gibson is making! In fact my pastor was invited along with may others to meet Mel and see the movie and I think they even got to ask Mel questions and to give him imput directly about the movie as well :)

SCOTT SINGING AMAZING GRACE WOULD BE GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PAYGE

OMG THATS GREAT NEWS!!!! THANX FOR THE INFO JEZ!!!!!!! :D :D :D Looks like we will be hearing some scott stuff really really soon!!! :D N its great to c that creed arent breaking up, just as i thought all along. THey r juz doing solo albums. Scott is doing one, n i feel mark tremonti is doing something like troy stetina did to show his real guitar skills!!!:D ROCK ON!!!!!! :silly:

Just a note, Scott sang the opening line of Amazing Grace before the song "Unforgiven" at a concert in Philidelphia, PA - 3/5/98 ... if you have the bootleg, check it out :)

I was thinking the same thing, Steve. Hmmmm....maybe I should rip and "clip" it.

WOWW!!!! :stappchic :stappchic :stappchic

Isn't this GREAT news or what? I'm jumping up and down my chair :bounce:

That explains all his public appearances I guess!!! THNX FOR THE ULTIMATE GOOD NEWS JEZ!!! Oh girl YOU RULE!!!! :clap: :clap: :clap:

:thewave: :thewave:

PLEASE!!!!!!!! :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow:

Go ahead and make our day girl!!! ;)

This is all turning out pretty cool!

wow stace this is great news you always find the best interviews
and frankie to,yall are the best.
have a great friday. :)

Hmmmmmm.......
 

With all the speculation about the dude and what he was doing.....(wallowing was a word I saw mentioned on this board).....seems he might have been out of sight....but apparently very busy. I hope the legal technicalities can be worked out in time.....I'd be interested in hearing his contribution to a soundtrack. And Jez....very true...all of his comments about bandmates has been positive.....unlike some of the rumors surrounding what has been said by his bandmates regarding his status with the band.

The new stuff isn't Creed.....but it appears we have alot to look forward to in the next year. :D

Thank you oh resourceful information Queen. You rock Stace - I am almost giddy about all this - still a little annoyed we had to wonder for so long what was going on but I am really feeling reassured and calm now. He isn't fading off into the sunset as I had feared - this is just great great additional news

I feel the same way - reassured and calm.

Hey, you never know, six months from now we could all look back and be laughing at how worried we all were about the break-up. Time heals all wounds. (And my wounds were pretty deep when all the break-up rumours came out.) I've said it before - I'm still in denial!

I already posted this at the PIt on the thread about this interview....some on the thread there expressed uneasiness and said they were "not religious"...here were my thoughts...I might be the most religious fan Creed has, if you measure that sort of thing by posts about religion on the net, lol.

HELL YEAH! WHOO WHOO WHOO WHOO WHOO HOO!

:note: I knew it. I told ya. They're not over. Creed goes higher... :note:
Too bad there's no smiley of a guy doing flips and totall freakin' out. I'd paste them all over in here since that's what I'm feeling right now.


H-D :pant:

Oh yeah. And I want to see the movie too. It looks really good.

OMG Amazing Grace!!!! The thought of him singing it makes tears come to my eyes! I LOVE that song, and can't wait to hear this! I want to hear it now! Talk about soothing music, the voice of an angel singing that song.... (sigh) :D

Just one question, though:

The Passion is ready. Gibson already showed the movie to lots of people. Do you think there's time to insert Stapp tracks in it? Or am I wrong and they're just putting his tracks on the soundtrack album???

I would assume it's for the soundtrack, however I'm sure they can simply splice in a song to the credits. I highly doubt the music would be used within the movie itself as that would require a lot of re-editing.

that's what I was thinking. Thank you, Steve!!!

Btw, do you people still want Stapp singing Amazing Grace? I just downloaded the audio, but he sings only the first 2 lines of it. Then Mark's guitar kicks in.

"Ego Machine," how appropriate. LOL

Do you think he's already recorded those 4 songs for Mel or has he just written the lyrics. I'm guessing he's already been recording if the movie is out in uhh... lets see... 12 days or so.

I think your assumption is right, Ben. If a song or songs are going to be on the soundtrack, I think they would already be recorded too.

Ditto to everything in the quote above!! :cool:

thanks for the heads up

OMG!!! I haven't been on in a couple of days and this is what I come back to find!?!? I am SOOOOO excited, I can't stand it!

Stace - Thanks for the info (as usual)! I really hope his song(s) make it on the soundtrack. That would be awsome!

ABSOLUTELY!!!

i sure hope the release goes through so the songs make it on that soundtrack!! amazing grace (full version) would be so beautiful! ;)

Just the fact that Lenny might play base on the album will make every die-hard Lenny fan buy it!!