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10-06-04

Music News For October 6, 2004

Oct 6, 2004 3:12 pm US/Eastern
Music news compiled by Westwood One

Puddle’s Powerful Experience

Puddle Of Mudd’s recent trip to play for America’s troops left the band with an experience they’ll never forget. The band agreed to take part after learning the troops had requested them to play. Singer Wes Scantlin told us, “Everybody was a little scared and it sounded a little funky, a little dicey and sketchy when we first heard about it.” But the band decided to go, and they played in Germany and Kuwait. “Everything looked real familiar cause we had seen it on the news,” said Scantlin. “It was like stepping into a CNN movie.” The group visited military hospitals, one of Saddam Hussein’s palaces, and took part in autograph signings while there. One soldier in particular, Sgt. Pepper, presented the band with a bronze star he received after getting injured in a car bombing. As for the shows, Scantlin says, “They’ve got like four or five tanks around the stage and this one tank had the flamethrowers…and everybody had their AR-15’s, their M-16’s, and their weapons. And the…women soldiers, it was crazy. I’ve never seen a bunch of pretty good-looking girls walking around with AR-15’s and 9MM’s. It was really kind of sexy.” The band filmed footage of the trip that they plan to use in an upcoming DVD release.