[guitardude1985]

As a guitar player myself I feel I need to give my imput.

On all three creed albums, a majority of what mark played was very straightforward and fairly simple. Just read the tab books to all three albums and 90% of the meterial is bar chords on dropped d tunning. However, there are moments like the intro to what if and one last breath where it does get tricky. It's not until you see mark after shows or just practicing when you really see his almost or nearly virtuoso skill. What i'm trying to say without coming off as a arrogant jagoff is that during the time when the three creed albums were realesed mark was in between a lead and a rythym guitarist, or as how he decribed himself back then. Still though, mark has a incredeble rythym abilitie to create the flush, glimmering melodies he creates. It's not until now when he's really taking on to a lead guitarist.

However, I will say after listening to clips of all the songs on stapps album I do give those guys credentials as being guitarists that get the job done. All they are doing is playing what stapp and wind-up want them to produce. Comparing them to tremonti? Well not laugable, but inevitable. Remeber stapp was to mark tremonti as to layne stayley was to jerry cantrell. Those guitarists are in the place of what is now nearly a guitar god and so major stapp fans will think nothing of it major tremonti fans will feel kinda...should I say off centered. I'm not trying to speak for everybody but just My personal opioion.