Mark Tremonti Celebrates Christmas, Looks Ahead to Creed Reunion

A few years in the past, a Christmas album helmed by Mark Tremonti may need appeared loopy, however following the discharge of final yr’s Mark Tremonti Sings Frank Sinatra, it makes quite a lot of sense.

“Once we put out the Sinatra album, quite a lot of people have been like, ‘You already know, it seems like it’s best to do a Christmas document,'” Tremonti informed Chuck Armstrong on Wednesday evening’s Loudwire Nights (Dec. 13). “Humorous sufficient, that is the rationale why I felt like I might do [the Sinatra album], as a result of I used to be singing karaoke at Christmas events. I’d sing these items.”

Tremonti admitted that it was due to his love for Christmas music that he really went down the rabbit gap with Sinatra within the first place.

“I really like Christmas music,” he stated. “A few of my greatest recollections in life are from Christmas rising up, being at my grandparents’ home and enjoying Christmas music with all of my cousins.”

Along with that love, Tremonti shared that there was an influential voice in his life that pushed him to make the brand new document, Mark Tremonti Christmas Classics New & Outdated.

“My father informed me I ought to write a Christmas track years in the past. I am like, yeah, you’ll be able to’t try this within the rock and roll world. This does not actually work until you are Twisted Sister or King Diamond performing some metallic model, so I assumed this was an ideal alternative. I feel that Sinatra opened the doorways that I might do that document. It was quite a lot of enjoyable.”

From Christmas to Creed

Along with celebrating the vacations, Tremonti can also be looking forward to 2024 as Creed put together for his or her first reunion in a number of years, which incorporates two sold-out Creed Cruises and a rising land-based tour, too.

Whereas it looks as if there’s extra on the horizon for the band, Tremonti wasn’t fast to expose an excessive amount of data.

“There are positively bulletins that may occur as issues type of roll out,” he stated, with a slight smile on his face. “It is simply an thrilling time. We’re making an attempt to pack in as a lot as we will into the yr as a result of we have now to be very conscious that Alter Bridge wants to return out with a brand new document. We come out with a document each three years.”

Their seventh studio album, Pawns & Kings, got here out in 2022, so Tremonti admitted that he and the Alter Bridge guys need to keep on that schedule. On prime of that, he revealed that he is additionally engaged on his subsequent solo document underneath the Tremonti title.

“I am going into the studio in February, so proper now, I am spinning all of those plates,” he stated. And with a little bit of a chuckle in his voice, he added, “I ought to be writing my document proper now, however I am singing Christmas songs.”

Tremonti’s Favourite Christmas Presents

With Christmas proper across the nook, Chuck needed to ask Tremonti about a few of his favourite items he is acquired through the years — each as a child and as an grownup.

“The very best presents I obtained have been these GoDaiKin Transformers,” he answered rapidly. “When [my parents] would go to the mall, I would at all times run off to the malls in Detroit and so they had these gigantic toys. I beloved Transformers once I was a child and these GoDaiKin Transformers have been these gigantic variations. And it is humorous, I nonetheless have them.”

Although Tremonti nonetheless appreciates his Transformers, as an grownup, his tastes have shifted a bit bit.

“Pinball is my huge present,” he informed Chuck. “The James Bond sixtieth anniversary [pinball machine], I gave myself an early Christmas current this yr.”

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Subsequent to the brand new Bond machine in Tremonti’s residence stands a Venom machine, too.

“I did the soundtrack for that,” he defined in regards to the Venom pinball machine.

“I did the music for it. I feel it is a loopy nice machine … Once I did my final document deal, I stated, ‘Hey, let’s guarantee that this music is license-free to be used in pinball.’ And so they stated, ‘Alright, no matter.’ So I obtained to load it up with my music.”

What Else Did Mark Tremonti Talk about on Loudwire Nights?

• Why his first Christmas album is not his final: “Hopefully I can do a quantity two.”
• What it is like enjoying Christmas songs dwell and the way he fashions Sinatra’s touring type in some methods
• What it was like writing an unique Christmas track

Take heed to the Full Interview within the Podcast Participant Under

Mark Tremonti joined Loudwire Nights on Wednesday, Dec. 14; the present replays on-line right here, and you may tune in dwell each weeknight at 7PM ET or on the Loudwire app; you may as well see if the present is offered in your native radio station and hearken to interviews on-demand. Stream Mark Tremonti Christmas Classics New & Outdated at this location and keep up-to-date with every little thing happening in Tremonti’s world right here.