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Scott Phillips
(October 2005 Issue)
Leaving Creed Behind There have been lots of changes for Scott Phillips since
MD featured him on the cover of the March '02 issue. Right around that time, Creed's Weathered
came
out, and the band did a long tour to support it. The group then
took a year off, and in July of 2003 Phillips' daughter was
born, which
he describes as "a huge life change - amazing."
When Creed got back together in the fall of that year to
work on their
fourth album, Scott admits, "It wasn't there. It felt contrived. That
passion we all once had seemed to have
fallen by the wayside. It was
time to make a change. Mark [Tremonti, guitarist] and I felt that we
wanted to go one way, and
Scott [Stapp, vocalist] wanted to go another."
Tremonti and Phillips decided almost immediately to begin a
new
project, and with the addition of original Creed bassist Brian Marshall
and singer Myles Kennedy, Alter Bridge was born.
"We wanted to get back
to heavier music," Phillips explains. "It seemed like in the latter
days of Creed, the focus shifted to
radio songs and not on what we felt
close to, which was hard rock. So the focus on our new project is on
having fun and
playing songs we want to play."
After not playing for about a year, Phillips had to work on his stamina and chops.
Even so, he is proud of One Day Remains,
which was released this past August. "There is a lot of cool stuff on
it,"
Scott says, "and a variety of tempos. Creed got locked into that
mid-tempo, not quite ballad, not quite rock song. This has a lot
of
variety."
Robyn Flans
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