In a current interview on the Mark and Me podcast, guitarist Mark Tremonti mirrored on a few of Creed’s greatest errors.
“Seeing the report gross sales… When the proprietor of the report label would name you and say, ‘We bought this many data this week’ and so they’re all enthusiastic about it, will get you excited however with success, comes stress,” Tremonti mentioned of the band’s early years.
“The report label was making tons of of tens of millions of {dollars} promoting data with Creed and Evanescence and all of the bands that that they had occurring on the time. We had been going by means of enterprise managers and managers and report labels and brokers.”
“When it turns into this large profitable machine, you bought to look at your again as a result of there’s a number of mistaken those that obtained drawn to that. Lots of people had been coming round which might be now not with us anymore, that had been detrimental to our careers,” Tremonti defined.
“We’ve made a number of unhealthy errors alongside the best way as a result of whenever you’re a younger school child, who’s now a profitable skilled musician, you signal unhealthy contracts. You simply need to be good. You don’t need to, ‘Hey why does this contract say this?’ You’re identical to, ‘Oh, I recognize you even writing up this contract’ and also you signal silly issues. So I want I may return and smack my youthful self.”