[Icedmofo]

Not to add fuel to this fire, but:

It's also entirely possible that you all are looking at the extremes as far as possibilities are concerned. Either he is a sell out or he isn't.

It's far more likely (imo) that it's sort of a gray area in between.

Did he do it for money? Possibly.

If, for the sake of argument, he did, no one has gone further and asked why?

Isn't it entirely possible that since (as is well known) Alter Bridge owed a lot of money after the production of Blackbird and the tour that they decided to take a break from AB and do the Creed thing so they could get up enough money to continue AB in the first place?

It's entirely possible that Tremonti invested a huge amount of his own money and lost a lot of it through Alter Bridge. Let's face it, this kind of music isn't as popular as it once was and Alter Bridge doesn't have the best marketing going for them, so it's all word of mouth. If their expenses are on par or exceeding their income then they very well may have needed to do Creed just to be able to financially continue to do the thing they love.

I personally don't consider that to be selling out. If tremonti did the creed tour so he could buy himself a ferrari, sure.

Making a sacrifice to do music you may not enjoy as much to make some money to be able to continue the music you do is not selling out in my opinion.

Just food for thought.