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Certainly it’s in the early stages, but can you comment at all about this solo record you might be doing?

Well, I’m a songwriter, and I’ve got a ton of material sitting around and I just wanna get it recorded. I dunno, I’ve got a couple of guys that I’m working with. Eric Friedman and Garrett Whitlock. Eric Friedman on guitar, he plays guitar on the Creed tours with me; pretty much the little brother I never had. I’ve been real close with him for years now. He’s a real talented player. We get together and record all the demos. And Garrett Whitlock used to play in a band called Submersed. He’s a great drummer. And I’ll be singing and playing guitar. So it will be an experiment but we’ll see how it works out.

How would it be positioned in terms of what Creed and Alter Bridge are doing?

We put together about five songs at this point. Mostly melody driven; some heavier stuff. It’s tuned down a little lower ‘cause I’ve got a lower voice. So everything’s down at least a whole step. A lot of stuff’s tuned down to C, so that lends to a nice heavy guitar sound. But we’ll see. It’s not all gonna be heavy. It’s either gonna be heavy or melodic, one of the two. Probably a mixture of both.