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Well, I don't think Barry's completely wrong. I myself took a break from Creed between My Own Prison and Weathered, because lots of what made it to the radio from Human Clay turned me off (though I've since turned around on that material). I've also abandoned, to an extent, bands with which I had a heartfelt connection when I felt they were exhibiting a combination of laziness and soft deception; telling me an album's coming out for 3 years with no trace of it to date, for example, is the kind of thing that I don't like. But despite the tough times on tour, and despite what I would agree is an increasingly more processed sound (not that there's anything wrong with it in the least), I still think Creed is honest with its fans and tries its damnedest to mean something to the people who pay for the albums. So, I'm willing to let whatever problems they may or may not have slide, because they've yet to really, truly let me down.
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