As part of Commander Venus, Conor Oberst saw the band’s second album The Uneventful Vacation released to acclaim by Wind-up Records in 1997. The album would grow the band’s audience and set the scene for Oberst’s leap to begin Bright Eyes the following year, the band with which he’s only ever broadened his musical appeal and enjoyed subsequent international success.
However, while on Wind-up, Oberst very nearly played a part in ending the career of his future labelmates before they’d even had a chance to be heard. It seems that – speaking to producer Justin Richmond on the Broken Record podcast – the work of the early Creed didn’t exactly meet with Oberst’s favour.
