http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/music/stories/MYSA092807.WK.puddle.256a33c.html
09-27-07
They're
the
band
all
the
frat
boys,
knuckleheads
and
drunk
tattooed
hotties
love.
It's
a
void
that
alt-rockers
(and
former
platinum-selling
stars)
Puddle
of
Mudd
seem
all
too
happy
to
fill
with
Nirvana-inspired
songs
—
from
the
sensitive
"Blurry"
to
the
obnoxiously
catchy
"She
Hates
Me."
Or
the
crowd-pleasing,
spanking
naughtiness
of
"Control."
Critics
be
damned,
they're
a
guilty
pleasure.
"Listen,
if
you're
going
to
come
to
a
rock
'n'
roll
concert,
man,
just
have
a
good
time,
man,"
lead
singer
Wes
Scantlin
told
the
Hackensack
(N.J.)
Record.
"Why
would
you
want
to
come
and
have
a
(bad)
time?
Come
and
have
a
great
time.
Score
up
some
kick-ass
memories.
Walk
away
and
feel
inspired
if
you're
inspired.
Maybe
you'll
hook
up
with
a
chick,
maybe
you'll
find
your
wife
or
maybe
you'll
find
your
best
friend
there;
I
don't
know."
Puddle
of
Mudd
performs
at
Sunset
Station
on
Wednesday
with
Saliva
and
Deepfield.
Expect
a
roaring
good
time
from
the
Kansas
City
headliners,
who
broke
onto
the
scene
with
"Come
Clean"
in
2001.
A
new
album,
"Famous,"
is
due
Oct.
9.
The
title
track
is
at
No.
29
on
Billboard's
Hot
Modern
Rock
Tracks
chart.
It's
a
hard-driving,
stripper's-pole
anthem,
closer
to
Three
Doors
Down
and
Nickelback
than
the
good-time,
middle-finger
salute
of
"She
Hates
Me."
"It's
still
Puddle
of
Mudd,
man,"
Scantlin
said
in
the
same
interview
about
the
long-awaited
album.
The
hit
single
"Famous"
is
less
Kurt
Cobain
than
it
is
Robin
Zander
on
a
Johnny
Rotten
bender.
"I'm
always
going
to
be
singing.
I'm
always
going
to
be
trying
to
give
everybody
as
many
emotions
as
I
possibly
can
and
all
the
haunting
melodies.
I'm
trying
to
crawl
under
people's
skin
and
stay
there
forever."
Saliva
returns
with
its
new
album
"Blood
Stained
Love
Story."
Critics'
darlings
they're
not,
but
fans
of
love
songs
of
the
bludgeoning
metal
and
rap-rock
variety
totally
love
this
band.
Saliva's
frontman,
Josey
Scott,
gets
it.
The
Lubbock
Avalanche-Journal
reported
that
the
singer
recently
introduced
the
new
song
"Starting
Over"
like
this:
"This
song
is
about
falling
in
love,
being
in
love
and
getting
your
face
kicked
in
by
love,"
Scott
said.
The
band
broke
out
of
Memphis
with
the
rock
radio
hit
"Always."
Since
then,
they've
grown
up
some.
"Every
single
song
on
the
record
is
pretty
much
about
that,"
Saliva
drummer
Paul
Crosby
told
the
Springfield
News-Leader.
"Divorce,
break-ups,
people
getting
sober,
people
not
being
sober
—
the
whole
nine."
Opening
act
Deepfield,
which
opened
last
month's
"This
Is
for
the
Soldiers"
concert
headlined
by
Drowning
Pool,
hails
from
South
Carolina
and
is
promoting
its
latest
modern
rock
album,
"Archetypes
and
Repetition."
Like
Nickelback,
this
is
the
brooding
side
of
modern
rock.
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