Happy 80th Birthday Creed Bratton (From The Office)
Happy 80th to IMO one of the best characters on The Office!
Did you know he was in a real band called The Grass Roots in the 1960’s? He mentioned it once in an aside on the show but I just assumed he was being Creed and bullshitting the camera but it was true. A couple years ago someone pointed this out to me and it’s great seeing him so young yet so recognizable.
One of my favorite Creed moments from the show:
Young Creed in The Grass Roots (striped blue sweater)
February 08, 2023, 09:13 PM
chbibc
Good stuff! I never knew that was him in the group.
"Every week, I’m supposed to take four hours and do a quality spot-check at the paper mill. And of course, the one year I blow it off, this happens."
----------------------- You can't fall off the floor.
February 08, 2023, 09:39 PM
bozman
Watch the series every night on Comedy Central. I think I know almost every word to every episode.
I am attached to the HR Department at work. I tell them all of the time that "The Office" is the greatest HR Training video series ever created.
The "Boz"
February 09, 2023, 07:42 AM
PASig
Even though he was more of a minor character compared to the main cast, I thought he was easily one of the top 5 characters on it.
February 09, 2023, 12:03 PM
Dzozer
Wow! Did not know that...
That's a pretty well known song too - for those of us born before 1980.
Happy Birthday Creed!
'veritas non verba magistri'
February 09, 2023, 12:09 PM
architect
quote:
Originally posted by bozman: Watch the series every night on Comedy Central. I think I know almost every word to every episode
I thought that too, right up until the trivia contest at my local whisky bar. It was, "What was the name of the geeky guy Michael rejected at the Job Fair?"
February 09, 2023, 12:18 PM
P250UA5
quote:
Originally posted by architect:
quote:
Originally posted by bozman: Watch the series every night on Comedy Central. I think I know almost every word to every episode
I thought that too, right up until the trivia contest at my local whisky bar. It was, "What was the name of the geeky guy Michael rejected at the Job Fair?"
It's our go-to 'white noise' show in the afternoon. We've probably seen it 2 or 3 times all the way through.
But, I'd have missed the above question as well.
The Enemy's gate is down.
February 09, 2023, 12:50 PM
erj_pilot
LOVED the Creed character in The Office! Side note…I am in the process of getting all the DVD’s for the entire series ripped and digitized so I’ll have the forever.
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
February 09, 2023, 12:55 PM
OttoSig
BOBODDY, BO...BODDY.
10 years to retirement! Just waiting!
February 09, 2023, 01:45 PM
jljones
quote:
Originally posted by OttoSig: BOBODDY, BO...BODDY.
What does the first B stand for? That’s right, BUSINESS. B..I...Z...N...E....S.
"It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it works out for them"
February 09, 2023, 03:40 PM
patw
^^^ I like it!
I enjoyed the episode when he met Holly and she asked what he did.
February 09, 2023, 05:34 PM
PASig
I was reading some more about his time with the Grass Roots and apparently they used a lot of studio musicians, etc. like the Wrecking Crew for their albums but played their own instruments live.
Creed Bratton apparently became disillusioned with this and pressed them to do more of their own songwriting and playing.
He was in the band from 1965-1969 and got kicked out, according to what I read:
“After a disastrous appearance at the Fillmore West in April 1969, a "slightly inebriated" Bratton was asked to leave the band…”
