Creed’s Scott Stapp has a lot to say in a new interview with GQ.
Stapp, who is now sober and part of the supergroup Art of Anarchy, takes a look back at Creed’s success as a band. While they scored huge hits like “Higher” and “With Arms Wide Open” the Creed frontman has some regrets.
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One of Stapp’s many regrets is the band’s music video for “Higher”. In the video, he struts in a tank top and tight leather pants and says the video hasn’t held up. “Sometimes I cringe when I see it,” Stapp admitted. “Like, ‘What was I thinking? Look at those pants.’”
The interview takes a turn when Stapp admits that he had a conversation with the ghost of former Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland, who died in December 2015 from a drug overdose.
Weiland was part of the inception of Stapp’s current band Art of Anarchy. Before he passed, he wrote the lyrics and sang some vocals for the band’s debut album but dropped out afterwards.
Following Weiland’s death, Stapp rented the exact tour bus in which Weiland died in and according to Stapp, he felt like he spoke with Weiland’s ghost.
“All of a sudden, it was almost like Weiland speaking to me from the grave, man,” Stapp revealed. “It was a very weird feeling that I felt. I remember being in the bathroom, looking in the mirror, on the bus, and really feeling like I could hear or feel him saying, ‘Dude, this could have been you. And this could be you if you continue that path. Don’t do what I did. Don’t go down that road.’ And, literally, I’m having this moment,” he said about the incident.
