Creed Makes Good On L.A. Show After Two Postponements

10/21/2002 4:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Mark Armstrong

(10/21/02, 4 p.m. ET) -- Creed played the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday (October 20), finally making good on a date that had been postponed twice.

The Florida band had first rescheduled a series of tour dates in July, after frontman Scott Stapp was injured in a car accident. The L.A. appearance had been re-set for October 8, but was postponed again only hours before the show, when Stapp was struck with acute laryngitis due to the swelling of his vocal cords.

"It's good to be back on stage. It's good to be back in Los Angeles, California," the singer said several songs into the concert, to a roar of crowd approval. "Thank you so much for waiting."

Wearing a white long-sleeved button-down shirt untucked over leather pants and motorcycle boots, Stapp talked a few times between songs about the band and its bond with the audience. The set drew greatly from the group's 2001 album Weathered, along with hit numbers from 1999's Human Clay and 1997's My Own Prison.

Though the show wasn't a sellout, with empty seats in the area's highest level up near the rafters, fans below were charged-up believers--especially those packing the general admission floor, raising hands and pumping fists for anthems including "Who's Got My Back," "Hide," "Stand Here With Me," "With Arms Wide Open," and "One." The end of the show featured the band's current single, "Don't Stop Dancing," and the one-two punch of more anthems in "Higher" and "My Sacrifice."

Creed is scheduled to play Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, near San Francisco on Wednesday (October 23) and Cox Arena at San Diego State University in San Diego on Friday (October 25).

-- Darryl Morden, Los Angeles

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