In a new interview with Classic Rock, Myles Kennedy reflected on the success his bandmates have been experiencing with Creed with their awaited comeback.
The interviewer asked Kennedy if seeing the rest of Creed reunite with Scott Stapp felt ‘a bit like watching your wife go for dinner with an ex.’ “I think it would be disingenuous not to say that, initially, it’s kind of like… Yeah, that’s actually kind of a good analogy,” he approved and continued. “But when you step back and really look at the situation, especially for somebody like myself, I’m at a different place in life now than I was even ten years ago.”
“And, you know in a lot of ways, [Creed] were responsible for opening doors for Alter Bridge and all that. So it’s great that they’re back in that world again. It allows me to make more solo records, you know it’s… it’s all, good. I hope they make records, I hope they tour a lot more. There’s space for all that to co-exist,” Kennedy added.
Kennedy also has another reason to be happy about Creed’s success: it has allowed him to focus more on his new solo album, ‘The Art of Letting Go.’
“With the success they’re having with that, it kinda clears the lane really for the first time with me and any of the solo records,” Kennedy explains. “Instead of putting a record out and you go, ‘OK, you have, like, six months to tour this,’ and then you gotta go back and make a record or do another tour with one of the other bands, this is the first time where it’s like, ‘OK, you got a clear lane, now you can do this.’ You can hit each market X amount of times.”
Creed’s reunion tour continues Wednesday in Atlanta, and they will close out 2024 with a New Year’s Eve show in Las Vegas. Kennedy, meanwhile, is currently on tour in Europe and will begin a U.S. solo tour in January.
