Comparisons have a tendency to be inevitable in rock music, so here is Scott Stapp’s response to being known as an “Eddie Vedder rip-off” again within the day.

When Creed and plenty of different rock bands turned in style within the late ’90s, they had been typically accused of driving the coattails of the Seattle grunge bands that dominated the style a number of years prior. Dubbed “post-grunge,” many of those teams had been impressed by Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains, however created songs that had been barely extra common in sound.

Stapp, specifically, was criticized at instances for having the same vocal type to Vedder.

“I doubt I’m the only one who heard Creed’s My Own Prison on the radio and thought, ‘Cool, a new Pearl Jam song.’ I was surprised to find out that the Eddie Vedder voice belonged to Scott Stapp of the Tallahassee rock band, Creed,” a 1997 Sun Sentinel overview of My Own Prison learn, although the remainder of the article was rather more complimentary than another publications had been.

“Hey, they said the same thing about Darius Rucker. He was the Eddie Vedder rip-off before they called me the Eddie Vedder rip-off. I felt like I was in good company, and I was honored by the compliment,” Stapp assured in a new interview with Guitar World.

Guitarist Mark Tremonti acknowledged that they were fans of the grunge bands that reigned earlier in the decade, but asserted that they weren’t trying to emulate them.

“When we came out with My Own Prison, it was the moodiest song on the radio. I think that kind of set us apart,” he said. “We were fans of a lot of the grunge bands, but I don’t think we ever tried to fall in line with them. We were just doing our own thing.”

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Tremonti denied that the heavier nature of their 1999 album Human Clay had something to do with the criticism they obtained for sounding like their grunge predecessors. Instead, he described it because of all the stress they obtained from their label and the media to keep away from a sophomore stoop.

“When Human Clay came out, that was a band trying to fight and survive,” he recalled, with Stapp including that the file spawned 4 No. 1 songs, together with “With Arms Wide Open” and the ever-popular “Higher.”