What sucks is that we weren't told immediately what his problems were. We were just told he had lyringitys. Not that he had friggin tumors!
And that little thing about the medication answers that question of why he was looking a bit pudgy for a while.
The way I'm interpreting this from Scott (though this is only my opinion and I may be wrong), Flip and Tru maybe
aren't doing the AB thing for the love of music and fans, but love of the fans' money.
I don't mean to say that they're doing it for greed, don't get me wrong, but perhaps a lot of Stapp's problems with his voice was part of "what wasn't working out" during the process of getting ready for the 4th Creed album. We know now why Scott wanted to take things slower and tour a bit less. Just my
H-D