Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images Creed‘s song “Higher” is one of the band’s signature hits, but Scott Stapp occasionally feels embarrassed about the track’s video.
“Sometimes I cringe when I see it,” Stapp tells GQ. “Like, ‘What was I thinking? Look at those pants.’”
The “Higher” video was nominated for Best Rock Video at the 2000 MTV VMAs, but it lost out to another relic of the late ’90s/early 2000s: Limp Bizkit‘s “Break Stuff.” Interestingly, that was the same year Rage Against the Machine‘s Tim Commerford famously climbed the stage’s tree-shaped backdrop in protest of Limp Bizkit’s win.
Stapp is now the frontman for Art of Anarchy, which also features ex-Guns N’ Roses guitarist Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal and Disturbed bassist John Moyer. The band’s first vocalist was the late Scott Weiland, who distanced himself from the project before passing away in December 2015.
In an eerie twist of fate, when Stapp was on a solo tour before joining Art of Anarchy, he rented what turned out to be the same tour bus in which Weiland died.
“All of a sudden, it was almost like Weiland speaking to me from the grave, man,” Stapp says. “It was a very weird feeling that I felt.”
Stapp continues: “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.”
Art of Anarchy is currently on tour in support of their first album with Stapp, The Madness.
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