Creed Guitarist Mark Tremonti Shares Band’s Future Plans

One of the most successful tours of the year belongs to Creed who reunited for their first dates on the road in 12 years. Creed guitarist Mark Tremonti appeared recently on “Trunk Nation with Eddie Trunk” via SiriusXM and discussed the band’s plans beyond the current tour.

“This is something we all hope we can just continue to do,” Tremonti said. “Now we have to just do a lot of pre-planning. We already had to do a lot of pre-planning when it was just Alter Bridge. With me, it was Alter Bridge and the Sinatra band, but now Creed has become such a force in our careers, we have to just now add one more element to that balance.”

Tremonti continued: “We tour with Creed through the end of the year this year. I’ve been trying to push the guys to be able to do a New Year’s show this year, ’cause that would be a fun way to end this year out. We haven’t played Vegas this whole year, for some reason, so Vegas would be perfect for New Year’s for Creed. So I really want that to happen. And then in December, I’ll be performing the Sinatra shows, doing the charitable shows in December, and then in January, I’ll head off to Europe with Tremonti. And that’s for two months. And then I’ll come back home and hit the studio in March with Alter Bridge. And after that is kind of where it becomes a question mark as to do we do a short Creed run. I’ve gotta keep pushing the Tremonti album as much as I can. That’s the biggest risk I face, is the Tremonti album getting gobbled up by Creed. So it’s definitely a delicate balance.”

Tremonti was then asked if Creed might consider writing new music. “We’ve talked about it,” he said. “We know that the big driver for this tour was just the fact that we’ve been gone for so long. Everybody wants to come see it. But in the future, we’re gonna need to have, year after year if we’re doing this, people are gonna wanna hear new music and people have been asking about it. And I know most people would be happy just to hear the stuff that is already out there, but we’re active songwriters — I know I’m an active songwriter. I love creating. I’d be bored just doing the same thing. But at this point I’ve got, like I said, four different bands, so I’m pretty satisfied with where I’m at. But I also wanna put out new music. Right now as I’m writing, I’m writing an Alter Bridge record, and then every now and then I’ll hear a song that sounds like it could be a Creed song and I’ll set that aside. So it’s kind of see what happens.”