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The Artist Interrogations podcast. Hey, Mark. How's it going? Good. How about yourself?
Oh, man. I'm doing great. So it's gonna be a great time to get the chance to talk with you, really. I've been I've been I have this list here of, like, my dream interview guests, and you were on there. And I'm so glad I was able to get this opportunity today.
Oh, thank you. Yeah. Absolutely. You're I mean, you're a busy guy. You're in 3 different bands, Creed, Alter Bridge, your own band, Tremonti.
You also do the Frank Sinatra covers for crying out loud. Your your band Trimony coming out with that, new album, The End will show us, is it show us how or show us now? I think I wrote it down incorrectly. Show us show us how. Show us how.
January 10th. I played the track of a new music feature not that long ago. How do you switch your brain around to balance those completely different sounds with those groups? You know, it's just a lot of, staying on top of it. I gotta prepare for the next step as, as, you know, when I'm on the Creed tour, I'm singing in the dressing room, all the Sinatra stuff.
I just had a show Saturday. I got 3 more this week. And as I finish up those shows, I'll be putting on the guitar, relearning all this Tramonti stuff, and singing the Tramonti songs for the European tour in January, then hit the studio in March with Ultra Bridge. Just one thing to the next, but I'm blessed to be able to do what I love doing. That was a question I had for you was I know back in the, early days, I think you said you were working at Chili's.
And Yeah. Oh, yeah. And and you you gotta think, like, after all these years of being on the stage, you might get tired of it. But then when you think about those days of working at at at those restaurants and all that, you know, busting your butt to get where you are now, it's like you're almost sick of being on stage, but you feel guilty for feeling that way or, like, it's something You know, almost every night you're on stage, you appreciate it. You know, may maybe if you're have the flu or something, you get up, get on stage.
It's the only time you don't wanna be up there. But it's, I think the toughest thing ever is just traveling, you know, traveling and traveling. But, being on stage is is what why we do this, you know. Definitely. Definitely.
I would think that the whole traveling part in those cramped little beds on a bus or whatever, even like in a van, you know, that type of thing. It would be awful, but at the same time, the payout's worth it to see those fans screaming it for you. Absolutely. That's why we do it. Right.
Right. Well, I I really wanted to ask this because I just saw this recently. There's AI versions of every famous singer out there right now. Scott Stapp's certainly one of them. Do you know of the AI Scott Stapp being used?
And if so, do you ever mess with Scott by playing one of those AI generated songs? I you know, I just heard that pull up. I think there's, like, a Rudolph, the red nosed reindeer Christmas Scott staff out there. But it's, you know, it's it's funny, but I I didn't even see it before we left the tour, or else I would have showed it to him. I I I feel like he's well aware of all that stuff being put out there because it's it's so funny.
And that that Rudolph the red nosed reindeer is fantastic. It it would be funny if you guys, like, sort of made that a joke on stage as Creed just to, you know, put that out there, you know. Well, maybe I can maybe I can get him to come down next year for the Christmas show we do here and, have him have him sing that one. Definitely. Definitely.
The reason why I asked about that is because we have this weird song here that we often joke about with the listeners, and we play it on the air from this guy named, DJ Cumberbund and it's called Pants Feet and it's that Nickelback song where Chad says I like your pants around your feet. If he says it repeatedly, but then it cuts to the higher chorus from a minute ago. It has Macho Man Randy Savage in it and years ago we asked Scott if he's ever heard of it and he said no. So I was like, maybe now. Maybe he has heard it or something like that.
It's just a silly little thing we have here. Well, I love the fact that the Macho Man's in there. I used to have his, jacket from one of the Royal Rumbles. Oh, very cool. Where did you just get rid of it or what happened to it?
My buddy, Dale Thorborg has it now. He's, no. Actually, I might have bought it from Dale. He Dale was a wrestler in the WWE. He was the demon and he's a close dear friend of mine.
So either I either I bought it from him or sold it to him. But, I I did part ways with it a few years back just because it's, it's just kind of this big huge jacket with all these ruffles on it. It was taken up half my closet. So I'm like, you know, I did that. Let me get this to somebody who's who's really gonna frame it, put it on their wall.
No. I feel like that'd be something fun to wear on stage just to, you know, sort of put on the macho man outfit and see if anybody was wondering what what is what's Mark wearing up there? I I saw you guys in Salt Lake City at the Utah First Credit Union Amphitheater, and I chatting with Scott from Finger 11 prior to the show. But, you know, Creed has, to put it lightly, become almost a meme now, but a lot of guys my age, mid to late twenties, even into their thirties, are really now getting into Creed. They're being introduced.
Is it weird seeing the OG fans mixed with the young fans, you know, some fans even that grew up with you guys who are bringing their kids? Yeah. You know, we, Scott will ask the question a lot, how many people are seeing Creed for the first time tonight, and almost every hand goes up. It's it's we thought when we go back on this tour, we'd just be grabbing all those people that wanna relive their college years or whatnot, come out, see us who had seen us before. But, like you said, all the memes and whatnot, all the social media plugs have and all the sporting teams playing our songs as kind of their hype music has really ignited an entire new generation of fans, which we couldn't be happier about.
Definitely. Yeah. No. I love seeing the memes. I love seeing the guys online with, like, you know, their shirts off in the audience singing along to Scott.
And Scott seems like he's having a great time with it too. And, with these newer bands on the scene, with their original sound, we saw Avenge Sevenfold completely change up their sound with Life is But A Dream. Would you ever go towards a completely different sound with Tremonti? Or do you go with the whole, like, if it's not broke, don't fix it. This is what I want type of mentality?
No. I I try to always try to come up with unique stuff and not repeat myself as much as possible. But as far as, like, completely doing a 180, I got to do that with the Sinatra stuff. You know, that's that to me is like going in the exact opposite direction. So it's it's fun and satisfying to do those kind of things.
Right. The whole Frank Sinatra thing is very very cool. Like, I'm so jealous of people that can just, you know, who are musically talented like yourself. I mean, obviously, it took years of learning and stuff, but how did you find that you can just nail the Frank Sinatra sound? You know, I was singing, at Christmas.
My buddy had a karaoke stage at a Christmas party, and I was just singing along. And I was like, you know, these crooner type songs just feel feel good with my voice. My my vocal range is is lower so it kinda fit. And then I became obsessed with singing like Frank Sinatra and I was just like a when I was a young guitar player, I'd hear somebody else playing say, you know, I wanna play like that. I heard the song, the song is you that Frank Sinatra sang back in 43.
And I said, you know, I'm gonna try to sing along to this as best I can. And from there, I just went deeper into his catalog and, here we are now. I'm singing on stage with Frank Sinatra's band members and, doing it all for charity, and it's been the most satisfying thing I've ever done. Wow. That is that's really cool.
Yeah. I was I was listening to it last night because we had our, company Christmas party, and it was snowing downtown and all the lights above. And I'm like, you know what? Let me let me turn on Mark's Mark Tremonti Sinatra covers and sure enough, it was a whole vibe last night just listening to that whole album. I I even That's awesome.
I even got to my place. I was like, you know what? I'm gonna circle around the neighborhood. I can't get out of the car now. Like, we're in the middle of this whole thing.
Well well, thanks for thanks for spreading the word. You know, I'm trying to trying to get as many people in the seats in these shows as possible and raising as much money and awareness as possible for the, Down syndrome community with it. Definitely. Definitely. Are you aware of, like, these newer bands like Sleep Token, Bad Omen, Spirit Box, you know, like having these different sounds, I mean, especially Sleep Token, even people like Kim Dracula, for crying out loud, who's, like, John Relyss.
Are you liking this whole John Relyss approach to rock and metal nowadays? Yeah. I think it's great. I think, especially with the bands you mentioned, Sleep Token. I heard them when they, were first coming out, and, I was blown away.
I think everything about that band from the songwriting to the vocals to the drums to the everything is just it's just great. It's nice, moody. It's emotive. It's, mysterious and everything music should be. Yeah.
I had a very stupid moment not that long ago. Or and I no. I listened to I forgot what son it was off of one of the older albums from Tremonti and I complete it completely dawned on me years later, oh, this is Mark Tremonti from Creed, Alter Bridge, these different projects, this is his own band and hearing the end will show us how was, it's a great, great track. Looking at the lyrics and such, I mean, I was looking at the very beginning here like a passage to the cynic in me. Is this like just putting your emotions on, like I'm trying to figure out a way to ask this, like is this a way for you to because I know you're, like, generally an easygoing nice guy.
Do you put, like, your emotions into all the songwriting and then kinda just let that be your source of therapy? Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's, people might seem sunny on the outside, but, you know, they have all their their inner thoughts and their inner, battles they have with themselves. And that song is a perfect example of that.
But it's it's just a song about believing in something, you know, believing in bigger bigger things and trying to, but the the title track itself is pretty much saying that the end will show us how it means. You know, the end is the great clarifier. It's what will tell you, if the decisions you made in your life were correct or not. The only way to find out is in the end. Well, I honestly can't wait to hear the new album from you guys out January 10th.
The end will show us how. There have been a bunch of tracks you guys have released in Tremonti, especially, like I said, Take It With Me, which is one of my absolute favorite songs. Thank you, Mark. Big time for joining me today. Great.
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