In a latest interview on the Mark and Me podcast, guitarist Mark Tremonti mirrored on a few of Creed’s largest errors.
“Seeing the file gross sales… When the proprietor of the file label would name you and say, ‘We bought this many information 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 file label was making lots of of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} promoting information with Creed and Evanescence and all of the bands that that they had occurring on the time. We had been going by way of enterprise managers and managers and file labels and brokers.”
“When it turns into this huge profitable machine, you bought to look at your again as a result of there’s lots of improper folks that received 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 lots of unhealthy errors alongside the way in which as a result of once you’re a younger school child, who’s now a profitable skilled musician, you signal unhealthy contracts. You simply wish to be good. You don’t wish to, ‘Hey why does this contract say this?’ You’re identical to, ‘Oh, I admire you even writing up this contract’ and also you signal silly issues. So I want I might return and smack my youthful self.”
