Latest / Real. Guy. Pods. / Mt. Rockmore | Season 4 | Episode #402 - Creed
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- 1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,000 [BELL RINGING] 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:04,000 [BELL RINGING] 3 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:10,000 Breaking down the best four songs. 4 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:15,000 This, this, this is the rock. 5 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:16,000 Great evidence. 6 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:19,000 What kind of radio show is this? 7 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:22,000 Only the greatest kind of radio show. 8 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:24,000 It's Mount Rockmore. 9 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:29,000 Yeah, before career defining songs of any one particular rock artist, 10 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,000 the boy are we bringing it to you today, 100%. 11 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:35,000 Welcome you creed bombers, you crypties. 12 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:39,000 I guess that's a term now in fans of the unironically cool. 13 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:43,000 I am your host for this climb up Mount Rockmore as we pay tribute 14 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:47,000 to the four career defining songs of a clean cut, 15 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:52,000 earnest muscular rock band, I get kind of as a genre, 16 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:56,000 who became synonymous with unsophisticated, 17 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:00,000 unsalpha-wear pricks who love themselves a little too dearly. 18 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,000 What? Yeah, that sounds like almost every rock band in the late 90s. 19 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:05,000 Sure. 20 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:07,000 But the one we're going to talk about here today, 21 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:09,000 the one and only, creed. 22 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:13,000 Now, you may or may not know that last year the band creed 23 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:16,000 reunited to create a blast from the past 24 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:19,000 with the summer of '99 tour, 25 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:22,000 with bands like Three Dores Down, Dottry, 26 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:26,000 Mammoth Wolfgang Van Halen, and your headliner of course being creed. 27 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:31,000 More on that tour in just a second because if you missed the first round of it, 28 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:34,000 you're going to want to catch the second. 29 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:37,000 But first, just as a quick note, programming wise here, 30 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:39,000 we ended off Mount Rockmore's third season, 31 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:43,000 a couple years back with the four career defining songs of pop punk legends, 32 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:44,000 Green Day. 33 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:47,000 If you don't believe me, you can even ask Alexa or Google 34 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,000 to even play the Mount Rockmore of Love or Boy, 35 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:53,000 which really wrapped up season three, but also get this 36 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:57,000 our most listened two season debut from a week ago, 37 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,000 Metallica, the pre-black years. 38 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:06,000 You can find all of those additions of Mount Rockmore as we head into season four here. 39 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:12,000 Now, not one, but two big questions around the band creed these days. 40 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:13,000 One. 41 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,000 Are creed on their way back? 42 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:16,000 And two. 43 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:21,000 Why did half the country, which I think that might be being generous? 44 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,000 Why did half the country hate the band creed? 45 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:29,000 We'll dive into both of those questions throughout this climb up Mount Rockmore, 46 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:33,000 but it seems for the year plus, the past year plus, 47 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:37,000 the 90s chart toppers have been teasing something coming 48 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,000 that might just be bigger than a reunion tour. 49 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:43,000 In anticipation, we hear Mount Rockmore decided to determine 50 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:49,000 their four career defining songs, because creed delivered some timeless material 51 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,000 and doing so over the course of not one, not two, 52 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:56,000 but three studio albums before they split up in 2004. 53 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:58,000 And then they came back. 54 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:03,000 They returned in 2009 armed with a new album and the full circle record 55 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:06,000 gave us some new classics to add. 56 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:11,000 It's now been over ten years since creed were last recording together, 57 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:16,000 but their music remains to lift the spirits of athletes apparently. 58 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:20,000 Seems like that's some of the locker room motivational music, 59 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:24,000 or when you're coming out of the locker room or when you're out on the field to get motivated, 60 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:28,000 if you're starting quarterback or backup quarterback or just cut cousins, 61 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:34,000 supposedly creed gets you through whatever you need to get you pumped up. 62 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,000 Just think back for a second. 63 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:43,000 Creed had standouts like higher my sacrifice with arms wide open my own prison. 64 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:48,000 One, what's this life for overcome and plenty more, 65 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:54,000 but not all of those song titles are going to end up on the four career defining songs of creed 66 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:58,000 that we will chisel into the side of Mount Rockmore today. 67 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:05,000 Now I am fully 100% aware that I will not be able to satisfy every grouchy, 68 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:12,000 still wearing a wife beater fan who says this guy doesn't get the positive messages creed passed on to me when I needed it most. 69 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:20,000 Well listen, Kurt Cousins, I've been called worse and look with almost 30 years since the release of my own prison 70 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:25,000 and on the heels of that amazing worldwide rejuvenation tour. 71 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:29,000 Look, when it kicked off in 2024, the summer of 99 tour quickly became, 72 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:34,000 and I quote, one of the most anticipated tours of the summer according to USA today. 73 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:45,000 One of the hottest rock tickets of the year according to Billboard magazine and a return that quote may be something this industry has never seen according to poll star. 74 00:04:45,000 --> 00:05:02,000 To date, creed's Scott staff, Mark Tramani, Brian Marshall and Scott Phillips have performed over way for the numbers 60 sold out concerts throughout North America selling over 800,000 tickets 75 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:06,000 in breaking venue records in multiple markets. 76 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:14,000 And regardless of how you feel about them, with that kind of resume, there's absolutely no debate you deserve a play in. 77 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:16,000 Now, quick note about this play. 78 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:20,000 You may find this hard to believe at the onset, but that's very sarcastic. 79 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:23,000 This track focuses on the loss of a friend to suicide. 80 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:31,000 The song addresses the struggle to find happiness and your place in the world but ultimately urges the person to, hey, stick around. 81 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,000 Just stick around. 82 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:40,000 This power ballad became one of the bands first mainstream rock number one hits. 83 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:43,000 The music video was directed by Rama Mosley. 84 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:51,000 The official version of the video was filmed in Southern Los Angeles near Joshua Tree National Park, which I have no idea if that's still standing today after the fires. 85 00:05:51,000 --> 00:06:00,000 Mosley, who had a fascination with weather, looked to capture the power and mystery of it by pitting men against the forces of nature. 86 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,000 And get this as far as the lyrics go. 87 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:09,000 It is reportedly the only creed song to use profanity. 88 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,000 Yeah, what's this life for? 89 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:15,000 The play in on the Mount Rockmore of Creed. 90 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:30,000 (Music) 91 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:40,000 (Music) 92 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:55,000 They've known just what to do. The songs are lost because they could never find who's his life for. 93 00:06:55,000 --> 00:07:19,000 (Music) 94 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:32,000 (Music) 95 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:43,000 I see your soul, it's kind of grey. You see my heart, you look away. You see my wrist, I know your home. 96 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:58,000 I know your purpose on your plane, don't say I swear because you could never find who's his life for. 97 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:21,000 (Music) 98 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:36,000 Well, they hear it in the hall. Don't have to settle the score. 99 00:08:36,000 --> 00:09:03,000 Cause we all live under the rain, all the key. Well, they hear it in the hall. Don't have to settle no God damn score. 100 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:29,000 Cause we all live under the rain, all the key. Well, they hear it in the hall. Don't have to settle no God damn score. 101 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:54,000 Cause we all live under the rain, all the key. Well, they hear it in the hall. Don't have to settle no God damn score. 102 00:09:54,000 --> 00:10:08,000 Cause we all live under the rain, all the key. Well, they hear it in the hall. 103 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:14,000 Yeah, that one is just the plan. That's not even one of the carvings on the Mount Rock. 104 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:22,000 More Creed also performed what's this life for at the closing. It was their final song to their set at Woodstock 99. 105 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:32,000 And Robbie Krieger, guitarist for the doors, also played the song with the band. Well, guess what? Now, now it's time for the carving. 106 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:41,000 And to dad rockers all across this country, this goose bump inducing single was the one that first put Creed on that map. 107 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:50,000 Google has no recognition of it. There wasn't even GPS back then. But this song is about Scott Stapp coming to terms with his own bad decisions in life. 108 00:10:50,000 --> 00:11:02,000 After leaving home as a teenager, his quote in Billboard magazine, quote, it was my own fault that I did shitty in school that I got fired from my job that I was living in my car. I had to grow up. 109 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:13,000 So the first song on the Mount Rock more of Creed was a band's first ever single to be released. And the lead single to their debut album of the same name. 110 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:30,000 Because Creed singles were not initially sold in the United States. They were ineligible for the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. This single managed to peak at number 54 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Airplay Chart in March of 1998. 111 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:38,000 The song also managed to find success in the Billboard mainstream rock tracks chart as well as the modern rock tracks chart. 112 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:55,000 Where when modern rock was a thing? The song peaked at number two on the former for the week of November 8, 1997, where it would remain for nine consecutive weeks being kept off the top stop by touch, peel, and stand by days of the new. 113 00:11:55,000 --> 00:12:00,000 The song also finished at number two on the 1998 year end chart. 114 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:14,000 On that chart, the song managed to reach number seven for the week of April 18, 1998. It's time for the title track to my own prison called, "Will you figure it out, my own prison?" 115 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:34,000 The chorus and the song, "The Virgin's Is Now" no peel on the docket to the ages, my whole song. The walls cold and hair on the pitch made of steel. 116 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:48,000 Screams filled, no, no, I drop and deal. Silence now the sound, my breath the only motion around. 117 00:12:48,000 --> 00:13:01,000 Demons clutter in around, my face showing no emotion. Checkled by my sentence, expecting no return. 118 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:07,000 Here there is no pens, my skin begins to burn. 119 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:19,000 So will my ear, all by, I can make them broken, so my tone and blues are still bright. 120 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:33,000 Here I'm there, I'll get you, found in the sun, so there's some sound, so there's no, we don't need to move. 121 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:55,000 Here I thunder in the distance, see a vision of the cross. I feel the pain that was given on a set dear of loss. 122 00:13:55,000 --> 00:14:09,000 A lion roars in the darkness only he holds a key. A lion to free me from my burden and bring me life eternally. 123 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:29,000 So do bring there all of a sudden they won't end begging my head no time for more than a year no time. 124 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:51,000 No time for more than a year no time. Here I'm there, I'll get you, all by, I can make them broken, so there's no, we don't need to move. 125 00:14:51,000 --> 00:15:01,000 Here I'm there, I'll get you, found in the sun, so there's no, we don't need to move. 126 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:27,000 Here I'm there, I'll get you, all by, I can make them broken, so there's no, we don't need to move. 127 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:41,000 Here I'm there, I'll get you, found in the sun, so there's no, we don't need to move. 128 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:51,000 Here I'm there, I'll get you, all by, I can make them broken, so there's no, we don't need to move. 129 00:15:51,000 --> 00:16:09,000 Here I'm there, I'll get you, found in the sun, so there's no, we don't need to move. 130 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:23,000 Here I'm there, I'll get you, all by, I can make them broken, so there's no, we don't need to move. 131 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:33,000 Here I'm there, I'll get you, all by, I can make them broken, so there's no, we don't need to move. 132 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:45,000 Here I'm there, I'll get you, all by, I can make them broken, so there's no, we don't need to move. 133 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:53,000 Here I'm there, I'll get you, all by, I can make them broken, so there's no, we don't need to move. 134 00:16:53,000 --> 00:17:07,000 Ah, that one brings back to memories. First time you ever heard Creed, it was that song. The band originally demoed that song along with the rest of their songs at their producer John's house, which was called the kitchen studio in Tallahassee, Florida. 135 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:13,000 And then also criteria studios in Miami, Florida, six grand is what they had to do to produce their first songs. 136 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:23,000 Now during the original recording sessions, which were recorded analog directly to tape, the first song that was tracked was that one, my own prison. 137 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:38,000 The final cut from those sessions would appear on the blue collar records release of my own prison, but once the band was picked up and signed to wind up records, the song along with the entire album was remixed by Ron St. Germain at the long view farm recording studio in Massachusetts. 138 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:40,000 And that's what you heard on the radio. 139 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:54,000 On the way, the Creed song, the band knew they had written something special with however they did not know it would go on to become so successful and then stand the test of time. 140 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:58,000 Their words, not mine. That's next on Mount Rockmore. 141 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:26,000 [Music] 142 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:54,000 [Music] 143 00:18:54,000 --> 00:19:19,000 [Music] 144 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:46,000 [Music] 145 00:19:46,000 --> 00:20:13,000 [Music] 146 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:38,000 [Music] 147 00:20:38,000 --> 00:21:03,000 [Music] 148 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:28,000 [Music] 149 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:53,000 [Music] 150 00:21:53,000 --> 00:22:18,000 [Music] 151 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:28,000 [Music] 152 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:53,000 [Music] 153 00:22:53,000 --> 00:23:18,000 [Music] 154 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:43,000 [Music] 155 00:23:43,000 --> 00:24:08,000 [Music] 156 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:31,000 [Music] 157 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:59,000 [Music] 158 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:09,000 [Music] 159 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:34,000 [Music] 160 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:59,000 [Music] 161 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:20,000 [Music] 162 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:49,000 [Music] 163 00:26:49,000 --> 00:27:16,000 [Music] 164 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:43,000 [Music] 165 00:27:43,000 --> 00:28:06,000 [Music] 166 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:30,000 [Music] 167 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:55,000 [Music] 168 00:28:55,000 --> 00:29:10,000 [Music] 169 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:37,000 [Music] 170 00:29:37,000 --> 00:30:02,000 [Music] 171 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:27,000 [Music] 172 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:54,000 [Music] 173 00:30:54,000 --> 00:31:04,000 [Music] 174 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:14,000 [Music] 175 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:39,000 [Music] 176 00:31:39,000 --> 00:32:04,000 [Music] 177 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:31,000 [Music] 178 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:58,000 [Music] 179 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:25,000 [Music] 180 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:53,000 [Music] 181 00:33:53,000 --> 00:34:20,000 [Music] 182 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:38,000 [Music] 183 00:34:38,000 --> 00:35:05,000 [Music] 184 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:15,000 [Music] 185 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:25,000 [Music] 186 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:50,000 [Music] 187 00:35:50,000 --> 00:36:19,000 [Music] 188 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:29,000 [Music] 189 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:39,000 [Music] 190 00:36:39,000 --> 00:37:02,000 [Music] 191 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:27,000 [Music] 192 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:48,000 [Music] 193 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:58,000 [Music] 194 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:08,000 [Music] 195 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:28,000 [Music] 196 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:55,000 [Music] 197 00:38:55,000 --> 00:39:05,000 [Music] 198 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:25,000 [Music] 199 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:35,000 [Music] 200 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:45,000 [Music] 201 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:55,000 [Music] 202 00:39:55,000 --> 00:40:05,000 [Music] 203 00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:33,000 [Music] 204 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:43,000 [Music] 205 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:53,000 [Music] 206 00:40:53,000 --> 00:41:03,000 [Music] 207 00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:13,000 [Music] 208 00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:41,000 [Music] 209 00:41:41,000 --> 00:42:09,000 [Music] 210 00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:19,000 [Music] 211 00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:29,000 [Music] 212 00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:39,000 [Music] 213 00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:49,000 [Music] 214 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:59,000 [Music] 215 00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:09,000 [Music] 216 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:37,000 [Music] 217 00:43:37,000 --> 00:44:05,000 [Music] 218 00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:15,000 [Music] 219 00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:25,000 [Music] 220 00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:53,000 [Music] 221 00:44:53,000 --> 00:45:03,000 [Music] 222 00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:13,000 [Music] 223 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:23,000 [Music] 224 00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:33,000 [Music] 225 00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:43,000 [Music] 226 00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:53,000 [Music] 227 00:45:53,000 --> 00:46:03,000 [Music] 228 00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:13,000 [Music] 229 00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:17,000 [Music] 230 00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:27,000 [Music] 231 00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:37,000 [Music] 232 00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:57,000 [Music] 233 00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:23,000 [Music]