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I went to see the world's most hated bands party like it's 1999

I went to see the world's most hated bands party like it's 1999

Washington Post28-07-2025
EAST TROY, Wis. — In the spirit of full disclosure: I was once a Creed fan. I strummed and sang along to songs from 'My Own Prison' and 'Human Clay' but never quite mastered the tougher licks. So more than a quarter-century later — a few lifetimes removed from a teenage youth full of JNCO jeans and burned CDs — I traveled to an amphitheater outside Milwaukee to see if there's any joy to be drawn from nostalgia, or if this school of rock has simply curdled like Wisconsin dairy products in the summer sun.
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