Mark Tremonti recently talked about the criticism Creed got during its initial days.
Mark Tremonti recalls early Creed days
During a recent interview with Guitar Interactive Magazine, Mark Tremonti opened up on Creed’s early days. The guitarist said that people had no faith in the band, and kept telling them their fame would quickly fizzle out. (transcribed by Ultimate Guitar):
“No, throughout our early careers with Creed, we were always told that we were going to be either one-hit wonders or have one hit record, and everybody’s always telling us that it was impossible to do the things that we were going to do.”
“We were always kind of…I know I was always fighting for survival, and always just worried that one day I would not be able to write songs for a profession anymore. It always scared the hell out of me.”
“When we came out with the second record, when that first song came out, and the response to it was huge, that made me feel a little more secure in our career. It did very well.”
Tremonti then went on to continue that the disparaging comments carried on even after the second album’s release:
“People were saying, ‘Yeah, that will be your sophomore slump.’ The second record came out and did way better than the first record. Oh, yeah. In this business, the more success sometimes you have, the more you have people trying to say it’s not going to continue. So we had to fight and fight to stay alive back then.”
Creed kicked off its first tour in 12 years, “Summer Of ’99”, on July 17 at Resch Center in Green Bay, Wisconsin. With over 53 million albums sold worldwide, Creed remains one of modern rock’s most successful acts. Now, three decades later, Creed is bigger than ever in the music industry.
