MARK TREMONTI Talks About His Career Uncertainty Even As CREED Was Pumping Out Hits

Creed was simply probably the most profitable onerous rock acts of the late ’90s and early 2000s. The three albums from their authentic run – My Personal Jail from 1997, Human Clay from 1999, and Weathered from 2001 – have offered over a collective 22 million copies in the USA alone. They’d hits like “Torn”, “Larger”, and “With Arms Huge Open”. Regardless of all that success, guitarist Mark Tremonti revealed that he nonetheless felt like he and the band have been continually on the best way out.

In an interview with Rick Beato, Tremonti stated he by no means felt like he was going to be okay util Alter Bridge‘s 2010 album AB III. Tremonti additionally touched on file executives doubting whether or not Creed may duplicate the success of their My Personal Jail singles, and the primary time that he realized simply how massive “Larger” was going to be.

“The dangerous factor in regards to the early a part of our profession is that everyone was doubting us your complete time. I felt like I used to be combating survival my whole profession, up till our third Alter Bridge file. I felt like each file I put out, each single I put out, my profession might be over, someone else goes to take my job, proper?”

‘So, with ‘My Personal Jail’, we got here out with that single, and so they’re like, ‘Oh, you are going to be a one-hit-wonder.’ And we got here out with, I feel, ‘Torn’ subsequent, and that went primary. We’re like, ‘All proper, we’re not a one-hit surprise.’ Then they’re like, ‘You are going to have a sophomore hunch on the subsequent file.’ Nicely, thanks.”

He continued: “So, that, I feel that made us work more durable. After which, I keep in mind listening to ‘Larger within the studio, and [thought], ‘That seems like successful music to me.’ I keep in mind precisely the place I used to be once I heard it on the radio. I used to be at Havertys, the furnishings retailer, shopping for furnishings for my first house, and I am leaving with my spouse. And the DJ [on the radio] was like, ‘Creed has come again with this, seems like successful to me!’ I used to be like, ‘Sure! thank God! We will dwell one other day.’ After which, in fact, ‘Arms Huge Open’ did very well.”

Creed lately introduced their 2025 Summer season of ’99 Tour that includes 3 Doors Down, Daughtry, Mammoth WVH, and Huge Wreck. Get these dates under. Tickets are available here.

7/9 Lexington, KY Rupp Enviornment (w/ 3 Doorways Down & Mammoth WVH)
7/11 Syracuse, NY Empower Federal Credit score Union Amphitheater at Lakeview (w/ 3 Doorways Down & Mammoth WVH)
7/12 Camden, NJ Freedom Mortgage Pavilion (w/ 3 Doorways Down)
7/15 Wantagh, NY Northwell at Jones Seashore Theater (w/ Daughtry & Mammoth WVH)
7/16 Scranton, PA The Pavilion at Montage Mountain (w/ Daughtry & Mammoth WVH)
7/20 Columbus, OH Schottenstein Middle (w/ 3 Doorways Down & Mammoth WVH)
7/22 Hartford, CT Xfinity Theatre (w/ 3 Doorways Down & Mammoth WVH)
7/24 Charleston, SC Credit score One Stadium (w/ 3 Doorways Down & Mammoth WVH)
7/26 New Orleans, LA Smoothie King Middle (w/ 3 Doorways Down & Mammoth WVH)
7/27 Memphis, TN FedExForum (w/ 3 Doorways Down & Mammoth WVH)
7/29 Wichita, KS INTRUST Financial institution Enviornment (w/ Daughtry & Mammoth WVH)
8/1 Lincoln, NE Pinnacle Financial institution Enviornment (w/ Daughtry & Mammoth WVH)
8/2 Ridgedale, MO Thunder Ridge Nature Enviornment (w/ Daughtry & Mammoth WVH)
8/4 Albuquerque, NM Isleta Amphitheater (w/ Daughtry & Mammoth WVH)
8/6 Chula Vista, CA North Island Credit score Union Amphitheatre (w/ Daughtry & Mammoth WVH)
8/7 Palm Desert, CA Acrisure Enviornment at Larger Palm Springs (w/ 3 Doorways Down & Mammoth WVH)
8/9 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre (w/ 3 Doorways Down & Mammoth WVH)
8/10 Stateline, NV Lake Tahoe Out of doors Enviornment at Harveys (w/ 3 Doorways Down & Mammoth WVH) (Not a Stay Nation date)
8/13 Ridgefield, WA RV Inn Model Resorts Amphitheater (w/ 3 Doorways Down & Mammoth WVH)
8/14 Auburn, WA White River Amphitheatre (w/ 3 Doorways Down & Mammoth WVH)
8/16 Vancouver, BC Rogers Enviornment (w/ Huge Wreck & Mammoth WVH)
8/19 Edmonton, AB Rogers Place (w/ Huge Wreck & Mammoth WVH)
8/20 Calgary, AB Scotiabank Saddledome (w/ Huge Wreck & Mammoth WVH)