Creed played here years ago.  I think maybe their 1st or second single was starting to climb the charts.  The concert didn't sell worth a damn so if you went there with two labels from bottles of Surge (which was also new and trying to be pushed at the time) you could get a ticket.

I've always thought it was funny that they couldn't sell tickets to a pretty small venue then, but 6 months later they were pretty much the biggest band in the world.

I met Scott Stapp that night and he was kind of a dick, but I was introduced to the band The Gandharvas who were opening the show.  They were a good band, and fed me beer all night (the guys from Fuel were also pretty cool).  So it was all good.

^This

I heard somewhere just the other day that he's going on tour and going to play all or most of "Let Love Rule" to celebrate the album's 20th anniversary.

^They initially started using the writers because their label said they had to.
I think specifically that John Kalodner dude.

Why Tyler wouldn't want to even try to write with Perry now, I have no idea though.

"We need a new pressing of Rhiad.  Where are the masters?"

"They're being examined by top men."

"But.."

"TOP MEN"