Following their highly successful “Summer of ’99” reunion tour, Creed kicked off their fall “Are You Ready?” tour on Saturday night (November 2nd) in Oklahoma City. The evening featured support from 3 Doors Down and Mammoth WVH, both of whom will be on board for most of the outing.
Singer Scott Stapp and company opened their 15-song set at the Paycom Center with “Bullets” off 2001’s Weathered, but then surprised fans with a performance of that album’s “Freedom Fighter” for the first time since 2002.
Favorites like “Torn,” “Are You Ready?,” and “My Own Prison” also highlighted the early part of the set. As he did during the summer tour, guitarist Mark Tremonti gifted a fan with a guitar at the end of “What If.” This time around, it was a young girl named Justice who had been watching the show while perched on her dad’s shoulders.
The main set closed with the classics “With Arms Wide Open” and Higher” (No. 1 on Consequence‘s list of the 50 greatest post-grunge songs). Creed then came out for an encore that included “One Last Breath” and the set-closer “My Sacrifice.”
3 Doors Down provided direct support for Creed, playing a 13-song set that featured chart-toppers like “When I’m Gone,” “Loser,” and “Kryptonite.” And Wolfgang Van Halen’s Mammoth WVH opened the evening with a six-song set evenly split between the albums Mammoth WVH and Mammoth II.
Creed’s “Are You Ready?” fall tour extends through a December 5th show in Orlando, Florida. After that, the band will play three New Year’s Eve gigs with Sevendust, including one in Durant, Oklahoma, and two in Las Vegas. Pick up tickets to Creed’s upcoming tour dates via Ticketmaster or StubHub, and see photos, video footage, and the setlist from their kickoff show in Oklahoma City below.
Creed Setlist:
Bullets
Freedom Fighter (first time since 2002)
Torn
Are You Ready?
Beautiful
My Own Prison
What If
Say I
Rain
One
What’s This Life For
With Arms Wide Open
Higher
Encore:
One Last Breath
My Sacrifice