While promoting his 2005 record The Great Divide, Scott Stapp would make an appearance
on the show Casino Cinema which was hosted by howard stern’s wife Beth Stern. A noticeably
drunk Stapp was pretty beligerant during the interview as you can see here. IT was following
the interview that Stern expressed his anger on his December 1, 2005 show according to
Marks Friggin.com telling his audience that Stapp reportedly told his girlfriend and i
quote “bimbos like her normally don’t go for him” and stern expressed his anger
that no one from the show seemed to throw scott off the show and referred to the crew
of the show as and i quote ‘maggots’ It was reported that after the appearance stapp
saw himself on tv and checked himself into rehab.
Limp Bizkit - Limp Bizkit and Creed were some of the most popular bands by the late 90’s
early 2000’s on both rock radio and MTV.
As reported by MTV at the 2000 incarnation of New York Station KROCK’s aptly titled
dysfunctional family picnic concert, Creed and Limp Bizkit traded barbs with one another
during their performances. Limp Bizkit would take to the stage an hour late,
Limp Bizkit’s label Interscope tried to do some damage control telling MTV there was
confusion over Limp's set time. Once limp bizkit took the stage things took a bizarre
turn when Durst launched into a rant against Creed frontman Scott Stapp telling the crowd
and i quote "I want to dedicate this next song to the
lead singer of Creed.... That guy is an egomaniac," "He's a f***ing punk, and he's backstage right
now acting like f***ing Michael Jackson. F** that motherf**er, and f** you too.... [RealVideo]
And if you want, there's going to be a booth with pillows and blankets for when Creed comes
on." Stapp addressed the comments during Creed’s
set telling the audience “It takes a lot more guts to say something to somebody than
from behind their backs." Following the show Durst appeared on MTV’s Total Request Live
and either jokingly or not told Carson Daily that he was presented with an anger management
manual from Creed’s camp. Here’s the interview with TRL talking about the feud. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kvvz...
Creed would end up putting out an official statement that read We are extremely disappointed
that Fred Durst has taken his personal feelings toward us public, considering we have never
met or spoken to him. We are more disappointed that Fred is manipulating the media and the
truth by using Creed as a scapegoat for his own immature and egotistical actions."
Creed’s camp contended that Durst made his comments out of anger over where Limp Bizkit
was
on the bill. According
to MTV limp Bizkit were set to play before STP, Ozzy and Creed with Creed’s statement
adding "He then refused to go on stage causing management from KROCK, Creed, Stone Temple
Pilots, and Ozzy Osbourne to spend nearly an hour trying to figure out how to get Limp
Bizkit to take the stage. Fred finally agreed to play only after he 'finished his dinner,'
having accomplished his obvious goal of delaying his set."
Creed would attack Durst again after a voice recording of Durst leaving harassing and threatening
voice mail for the band Taproot after they opted not to sign with his label Interscope.
I’ve done a whole video on the feud the link is down below. Creed wouldi issue another
statement calling Durst’s voice recording and i quote "vulgar comments and violent threats...
totally indicative of a mobster mentality" at TapRoot. Scott stapp would also challenge
durst to a boxing match for charity, but the challenge would go unaccepted from Durst’s
camp.
311 - It was during the promotion for his solo record The Great Divide in 2005 during
a tour stopover in Baltimore during thanksgiving weekend that STapp found himself staying at
the same hotel as the band 311. Stapp who was intoxicated according to reports was downing
shots and smashing glasses against the bar when he saw 311 frontman SA Martinez with
his wife sitting at a nearby table. Stapp proceeded to their table and started talking
dirty to Martinze’s wife who told him to stop it. 311 drummer Chad Sexton, who was
sitting at a nearby table attempted to intervene and while Stapp appeared to be about to apologize
he sucker punched the drummer and grazed Martinez’s wife. More punches would be thrown with STapp’s
girlfriend rushing over trying to stop the frontman from getting in anymore trouble.
Hotel security would kick the former Creed frontman off the premises and no charges would
be filed. -311! Chill brahs through and through: "We've preached positivity on every record
we've made. We don't have altercations like this ever. And we even wish Scott well," they
told Rolling Stone.
Creed Bandmates - Creed would dissolve in 2003 after the previous year’s tour saw
Stapp deal with substance abuse issues creating tensions within the band even resulting in
their own fans suing the group following a disastrous show in Chicago. As the band tried
to reassemble to work on what would be there fourth record in 2003 telling mtv "We had
gotten together two or three times and nothing happened," Tremonti explained. "We got our
instruments and played, but neither of us was taking it seriously. We were just running
in circles. There wasn't a vibe like on the previous records. It felt very joblike. We
knew that it would take us years to get a record out." Tremonti would add "It's not
fun to count on other people when they're not that focused," Tremonti said. "Scott wasn't
in the mindset that we were. He wasn't as focused on the current tour. He had 800 things
on his mind, and I think that distracted him from what we were doing."
Creed would reform in 2009. The ticket sales for the tour were slow with some being given
away for almost free. The band would release their fourth record full circle but in 2012
the band became inactive. Tremonti would reveal his other gig with his band Alter Bridge created
a wedbe between Stapp and the rest of his bandmates telling Kerrang
“I think Scott just thought that we’d get back together with Creed and we’d forget
about Alter Bridge. He doesn’t understand how hard we’ve worked to build Alter Bridge.
“I think he took all his frustrations out on me. We were having lunch in catering. He
was like, ‘Hey man, what are you doing in January,’ and I’m like, ‘I’m going
to the studio with Alter Bridge, we’ve talked about this.’ He’s like, ‘Really?’
From then on we didn’t speak. On tour. On stage. Didn’t speak.”
However in more recent year as Stapp’s mental health has been better he’s stated that
everything is good in Creed’s camp.