Mark Tremonti Thinks Creed Needs to Write New Music to Keep Fan Interest
Creed’s recent reunion last year must have been a really big deal to, I don’t know, people who peaked in high school and graduated in 2002? I can’t quite understand who would be so excited about a Creed reunion, but apparently there’s a subsection of the population who are really, really into the song “Higher.” For those people who are really down for a Creed reunion show, I imagine they’re pretty content to hear “My Own Prison,” “Higher,” “With Arms Wide Open,” and “Torn” and then make their way to the parking lot to beat the traffic. But Mark Tremonti seems to think they’re not going to hold fan interest without writing some new music.
In a recent interview with MTV VJ turned radio DJ Matt Pinfield for Los Angeles radio station KLOS (that was transcribed by Blabbermouth), Pinfield asked Mark Tremonti if Creed had any intention of writing new music, and he seemed to think it was rather necessary:
“Yeah. Just us coming back together after so long was kind of the big driver to get people to come to the shows [on the first reunion tour in 2024]. But as we keep doing it, we’re gonna need to introduce new music to keep saying, ‘Hey, we’re touring, supporting this new EP or this new record.’ So we’ve all talked about it, and we just have to make the time and figure out… We’re all spinning plates right now. Scott’s [Stapp, CREED singer] got his new [solo] record out. I’ve got my new [TREMONTI] record coming out. We got an ALTER BRIDGE record we’re gonna record [in 2025]. And then new CREED music, to try to start planting those seeds and get those things going. It just all can’t happen at one time. We’ve gotta put everything in its place.”
Do you really need new music to attract an audience to what is, essentially, a nostalgia act? To give you an example, when Jane’s Addiction was still touring, before they imploded, they were playing sets entirely of music from the 80s and 90s, despite having put out albums in the 2000s and 2010s. Nobody had any interest in listening to anything they’d done since Kettle Whistle, and they still filled up fairly large arenas. That’s just the way it is with 80s and 90s nostalgia acts. I don’t really think they need more music to attract an audience. I think Godsmack has the right idea: stop making new music and just play the hits.
