Mark Joseph: Not Your Father's Bono: Creed Singer Scott Stapp's Confession
If Stapp is something you can't bear reading about...here's the interesting bit
Given the task by Mel Gibson of producing a soundtrack CD to accompany his movie The Passion of The Christ, high on my list of artists to recruit were U2 and Creed, since they seemed to be especially outspoken about their admiration for the man from Galilee and Stapp didn't disappoint. After watching the film with us, he turned in a song, "Relearn Love," and also ensured that our CD was released on his label home, Wind-Up Records. I have no illusions that Wind Up's founder Alan Meltzer had any particular interest in the project, but rather that he was doing it to mollify his moneymaker, Scott Stapp.
But Bono was a different story. He had already been reached out to by someone else in Gibson's camp by the time I came on board and one day sent a letter to Mel, declining to participate. Although I could kick myself today for not asking to read it, I instead settled for asking Mel what it said as he read it across the room. Shaking his head, he said that Bono was declining and when I asked him why he matter-of-factly replied: "I guess he has something to lose."
I don't remember reading at the time U2 was asked for a song in Gibson's Passion movie.
If Stapp is something you can't bear reading about...here's the interesting bit
Given the task by Mel Gibson of producing a soundtrack CD to accompany his movie The Passion of The Christ, high on my list of artists to recruit were U2 and Creed, since they seemed to be especially outspoken about their admiration for the man from Galilee and Stapp didn't disappoint. After watching the film with us, he turned in a song, "Relearn Love," and also ensured that our CD was released on his label home, Wind-Up Records. I have no illusions that Wind Up's founder Alan Meltzer had any particular interest in the project, but rather that he was doing it to mollify his moneymaker, Scott Stapp.
But Bono was a different story. He had already been reached out to by someone else in Gibson's camp by the time I came on board and one day sent a letter to Mel, declining to participate. Although I could kick myself today for not asking to read it, I instead settled for asking Mel what it said as he read it across the room. Shaking his head, he said that Bono was declining and when I asked him why he matter-of-factly replied: "I guess he has something to lose."
I don't remember reading at the time U2 was asked for a song in Gibson's Passion movie.