Alter Bridge Stand Up for America!

Posted Jun 22nd 2006 11:01AM by TMZ Staff

While Scott Stapp has been busy confessing his sins, his former Creed bandmates in Alter Bridge having been kicking some butt. And not just on stage. (Well- at least their road crew has.)

According to a statement posted on their official website, the boys from the Alter Bridge crew took umbrage at what they felt was some anti-American slurring by the lead singer of the band Living Things. That band's singer reportedly had some vile words for our fair nation that didn't sit well with one of Alter Bridge's roadies. After the nasty rant, as noted on their site, the roadie proudly pointed over toward guitarist Mark Tremonti's gear, which was decorated with American flag.

The Living Things reportedly claim that the crew and one of the Alter Bridge band members joined an ensuing fracas, but Alter Bridge say the crew alone handled things. The band explained their side of the story on their official website:

"After The Opening Band members charged, our crew member was forced to defend himself. Another member of our crew was forced to protect Alter Bridge's equipment, as one of The Opening Band members went straight for Mark's guitar rig in attempt to pull out cables and render the equipment incapable of playing the show that night."

Alter Bridge further explained in the statement that they don't mind differing political views being expressed, but the statements that night were "simply ignorant, offensive, and unacceptable. Alter Bridge and our crew stood up for America that night."

Standing up for Old Glory - Toby Keith would be proud.

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1. AMERICAN DOES F%@#ING SUCK! you selfish bastards, why don't you have some more of your own men killed in the pursuit of oil.

Posted at 1:10PM on Jun 22nd 2006 by Lindsay

2. america is the worst country I've ever been too. Your war on terrorism is really working... send some more troops i'm sure they'd love to die in the pursuit of oil. Hang your heads in shame for your hated country.

Posted at 1:12PM on Jun 22nd 2006 by Lindsay

3. Standing up for America? It sounded as if the crew members were standing up for their equipment. Remember the Stratocaster!

And to Lindsay: wipe the froth off your mouth, relax, and perhaps write a rational thought that is in some ways relevant to the article?

Posted at 2:57PM on Jun 22nd 2006 by Dave

4. Agreed Dave.

Frankly, if you do not like America, who is chaining you down to this "hated country". Do not like how oil is being procured? Stop driving. Ignorant hypocrates love to bitch for the sake of bitching, but when their own actions are being evaluated, how much do their actions match their "morals"?

Posted at 3:52PM on Jun 22nd 2006 by meg

5. of course the guys in alter bridge relied on the their roadies to do the heavy lifting. the guys in the living things would have kicked the a.b.'s punk a**. creed /alter bridge suck, always have, and now they show what p***** they are to boot.

Posted at 2:51PM on Jun 23rd 2006 by felipe robertis

6. i am an american and sad to say it... im dissapointed in my country... dissapointed in blood for oil...dissapointed that we have people who think being pro life and pro war makes sence. christain facists....

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in. Ursula LeGuin

Whether it's gays or blacks or jews or whatever you hate,(which is just about everything that isnt you) If its human it's everything that you are and does everything you do and is as stupid and fallable and greedy and gossipy and deviant and nasty and deceiving and lieing and cheating and all that s--t humans do.And if you think because your a Bible beating christian with a fury hating God thats set on damnation and he--fire for everyone but your weird community who lives by a book you don't even understand or have full complete knowledge of condsidering it has been altered and added and subtracted by kings and dictators from its orginal format written on 3 continents (africa,asia,europe) by over 150 authors from noblemen to fisherman *pant pant pant* So with all this in mind,if you had any ounce of common intelligence and self reflection you would just shut the he--l up and eat your cereal!

---sketch and if you wanna argue politics ill gladly do it with you.. hell when i travel abroad i tell people im from canada beacuse of how ashamed i am of what is going on in our name. and believe me i did everything i could ot stop it but they just dont listen... hell ask dick and bush about haliburton building mass immigrant detention centers aka interim camps aka concentration camps. how the government got away with 9/11 and guantanamo with dumb hicks following in blind patriotism im dumbfounded.....NO MORE BLEEDING CHURCH OF HATE....NO MORE CHRISTAIN FACIST STATE!!!!!!!!

Posted at 6:23PM on Jun 23rd 2006 by sketch

7. actually come to think of it id rather be safe. then have the us turn into absolute chaos the way that other countrys are. i take back what i said, im just getting fed up with abuse of power, and i hated creed so yeah.. but when it comes down to it. i need to shut up before i make more of an idiot of myself.

Posted at 10:34PM on Jun 23rd 2006 by sketch

8. I am sorry for my rash and ignorant comments, and although I apologize for the manner in which I said them I do not apologize for my ideas, I just hope that as Americans you may think outside the box and not allow yourselves to be mentally controlled by the media and politicians.
Travel abroad, read and talk with people whose ideas differ from you, you will soon come to learn that being American does not put you on a pedistal as you may think and that the ideals and manner in which your country runs are in many cases shameful. Good luck.

Posted at 3:51PM on Jun 26th 2006 by Lindsay

9. The shame is that some Americans have to go overseas to criticize their own country (think also Dixie Chicks, sundry American celebrities). Compare these losers to Linda Ronstadt. She dedicated a song to Michael Moore of 9/11 fame. Half the crowd booed and half the crowd cheered, but at least she had the guts to do it in her own country before a paying audience.

Lindsay -- nice follow ups. If I read you correctly, you seem to credit American attitudes to mental control by the media and politicians. Let me say, (a), if you saw the mainstream media from this side of the fence, you'd realize that they are the last ones to put America on a pedestal, and (b), only half the politicians put America on a pedestal -- the rest probably agree with you. By the way, therein lies one of my criticisms of the American two party system. I think there's merit in some of the European multiparty systems.

Posted at 2:46AM on Aug 14th 2006 by tm19