When the band announced the “Summer of ’99” Tour, singer Scott Stapp said, “Well, I have to say that I didn’t know that anything would happen beyond the cruises. I was kind of looking at it as, ‘Let’s feel it out. Let’s see how the cruises go. And then let’s make some decisions after that.’ But I think that once we got together and did a [photo shoot], the managers were kind of saying, ‘All right. Here’s this opportunity. Let’s do this. Let’s do that,’ it definitely made me feel comfortable enough to pull the trigger, if you will, on moving forward with that.”

And, how crazy is this – Stapp said he “had hesitation” about committing to a tour because, “I had a solo record that was probably the most arduous labor of love that felt like everything in the world that could possibly come against me getting this record done, in every area of my life, so I was, like, ‘Man, I wanna promote this record.’ And so, after having some long conversations with management and then getting together with the guys and feeling their vibe with the cruises, I realized that they all can live together. [Creed guitarist Mark Tremonti] is doing [select shows and recordings with] the [Frank] Sinatra thing, and they’ve got other things, I’m sure, that they’re gonna be releasing. And so it just helps everything else. But, again, I’m really looking forward to seeing how this initial positivity translates into the dynamic of the band, because I tell you what — if we can get our hearts and our spirits and our minds back to where we were as a unit in ’94, ’95, ’96, I tell you, we may just go out there, when the time is right, and write the best Creed album we’ve ever done. That’s where my heart is. And so we’ll see what happens.”