In a recent interview on the Mark and Me podcast, guitarist Mark Tremonti reflected on some of Creed’s biggest mistakes.
“Seeing the record sales… When the owner of the record label would call you and say, ‘We sold this many records this week’ and they’re all excited about it, gets you excited but with success, comes stress,” Tremonti said of the band’s early years.
“The record label was making hundreds of millions of dollars selling records with Creed and Evanescence and all the bands that they had going on at the time. We were going through business managers and managers and record labels and agents.”
“When it turns into this big successful machine, you got to watch your back because there’s a lot of wrong people that got drawn to that. A lot of people were coming around that are no longer with us anymore, that were detrimental to our careers,” Tremonti explained.
“We’ve made a lot of bad mistakes along the way because when you’re a young college kid, who is now a successful professional musician, you sign bad contracts. You just want to be nice. You don’t want to, ‘Hey why does this contract say this?’ You’re just like, ‘Oh, I appreciate you even writing up this contract’ and you sign stupid things. So I wish I could go back and smack my younger self.”
