http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/etoday/story.html?id=0efe9a48-fe42-4f93-856f-0d8571121903&k=94641
08-09-07
After
a
decade
and
a
half
of
changes,
band
leader
is
almost
Famous
Wes
Scantlin's
group's
name
is
Mudd
--
and
he
likes
it
that
way
Published: Thursday,
August
09,
2007
Persistence
pays
off.
Wes
Scantlin
knows.
Through
15
years
of
changes
--
of
personnel,
of
recording
situations
--
Scantlin
has
been
the
leader
of
Puddle
of
Mudd.
He
has
held
the
Kansas
City
band
together,
bringing
in
new
musicians
as
others
left,
going
from
small
labels
to
higher
profile
ones,
giving
out
demo
tapes
to
anyone
who
would
listen
until
Fred
Durst
of
Limp
Bizkit
heard
a
tape
and
became
Puddle
of
Mudd's
savior,
signing
them
to
his
new
label,
Flawless.
Now,
with
"Famous,"
a
song
co-written
and
produced
in
Vancouver
by
Brian
Howes,
leading
off
a
soon-to-be-released
album,
Scantlin
can
see
where
his
persistence
has
taken
him.
"I
can
honestly
say
this
is
the
funnest
time
I've
ever
had,"
he
says.
"I've
been
doing
this
for
a
while;
there's
a
lot
of
pluses
going
on
right
now."
Scantlin
has
a
relatively
stable
band
of
Doug
Ardito,
Christian
Stone
and
Ryan
Yerdon
and
"Famous"
is
getting
radio
play.
(CFOX
locally).
"The
response
from
the
fans
has
been
incredible,"
he
says.
"People
are
loving
the
song.
"For
me,
personally,
one
of
the
hardest
things
has
been
to
teach
the
new
members
the
songs.
That's
been
the
trickiest
part.
"A
lot
of
the
new
members
didn't
have
much
to
do
with
the
writing
of
the
new
album."
That
was
more
Scantlin's
responsibility.
From
40
to
50
songs,
he
and
people
such
as
Howes
whittled
until
an
album
took
shape.
"He
produced
a
couple
of
songs
for
the
album,"
Scantlin
says
of
Howes.
"I
love
him
and
miss
him.
He's
a
clever
guy."