Creed Contributes To Memory Of Sevendust Fan

05/22/2002 10:00 AM, Yahoo! Music
Jerry Armor

(5/22/02, 10 a.m. ET) -- Members of Creed have donated an autographed guitar and set of drumsticks to an auction being held to raise funds for the family of a devout Sevendust fan who died of cancer earlier this year.

Fourteen-year-old Cameron Gallion attended as many Sevendust shows as he could, despite his ongoing cancer treatments, and ultimately developed a strong friendship with the Atlanta group. He can even be seen in the video for "Praise," a single from Sevendust's 2001 album Animosity.

The auction also includes autographed drumsticks from Sevendust drummer Morgan Rose and a bass inscribed by Coal Chamber's Rayna Rose. Proceeds will be put toward the outstanding medical bills still to be paid by Gallion's family.

Creed frontman Scott Stapp tells LAUNCH that being able to give back is important to him, both through his band's With Arms Wide Open Foundation and elsewhere.

"Money doesn’t bring happiness--definitely helps--but, money doesn’t make you happy," he says. "And so, being able to make other people happy and help other people now that we can through the foundation, through other foundations we want to get involved with, through our other friends who are entertainers who have a cause or something that we believe in and want to get behind, just being able to be there knowing that being a part and giving what we can and doing whatever is doing good for somebody--It’s good to be in that position."

For more information on the auction, go to Sevendust's official website (sevendust.com). Donations to the fund can be sent to: Cameron Gallion Fund, P.O. Box 990, Fernandina Beach, Florida, 32035.

-- Neal Weiss, Los Angeles

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