Alter Bridge Tickets

Former Creed songwriter/ guitarist Mark Tremonti along with former Creed drummer Scott Phillips, original Creed bassist Brian Marshall and former Mayfield Four singer/ songwriter Myles Kennedy have joined together to become Alter Bridge. On the motivation behind creating the new band, Mark Tremonti says, "After all Creed achieved professionally, I felt that I needed to refocus on the goals that I had personally. One of those goals was to get back to my rock and roll roots. After Creed took a break, band-mate Scott Phillips and I started to jam together again and realized that we both shared the same vision and were surprisingly anxious to get back out there and start doing it again." The progress continued when original Creed bassist Brian Marshall, got a call from Tremonti. "When I got the call from Mark, I could tell by the tone of his voice that Alter Bridge was something that he was really excited about and I immediately knew that I wanted to be a part of it. He told me, ?Your bass playing matches the sound more than any other, you?re the guy.? It?s great to be working with those guys again, we haven?t skipped a beat," Marshall notes.

The name Alter Bridge comes from a long-standing bridge near Tremonti?s childhood home in Detroit, which was often regarded as a boundary to the children in surrounding neighborhoods. Beyond the bridge lied unchartered territory, therefore, the small bridge epitomized "choice" and "the unknown" for Tremonti. The landmark personifies the high level of excitement that is evoked from what is new, and ultimately unknown about the future for the band, because they are truly starting a new chapter in their lives. Tremonti notes, "It?s a new road ahead of us, but the essence of this band is organic and honest rock n? roll. It is all about fun, and if it weren?t, I doubt any of us would be committed to the new band to the level that we are." To further emphasize this point, and as a way of breaking Myles into the fold, they band went bungee jumping over a ledge from a 300-foot drop. As Phillips mentions, "This is representative of what is going on with the new band. Everything is a lot of fun for us."