http://watchmojo.com/music/blog/?p=1224
09-11-07
Puddle
of
Mudd
are
ready
to
be
“Famous”
again
“Psycho”
sample
stream
(available
on
iTunes
on
9/18!)
“It’s
about
passion
and
writing
music
that
connects
with
other
people
and
somehow
heals
them.
I
really
want
to
try
to
crawl
under
peoples’
skin
and
at
the
same
time
make
some
kick-ass
rock
‘n
roll
music,”
says
Puddle
Of
Mudd
frontman
Wesley
Scantlin
about
his
band’s
imminent
third
album,
Famous.
After
their
2001
debut,
Come
Clean,
sold
over
5
million
copies
and
spawned
no
less
than
4
radio
hits
(including
“Blurry”,
the
most
played
song
of
2002);
and
their
gold-certified
follow-up
Life
On
Display,
Puddle
Of
Mudd
were
able
to
step
back
a
little
to
create
Famous
(scheduled
for
a
July
24th
release).
“We
had
a
lot
of
time
to
write
and
then
make
the
record,
as
opposed
to
our
second
record
where
we
were
writing
while
we
were
recording,”
explains
bassist
Douglas
Ardito.
“This
time
we
had
time
to
live
life
and
have
experiences
to
talk
about.”
After
demo-ing
songs
“in
some
crazy
little
apartment
with
an
isolation
booth
in
the
middle
of
Hollywood”,
Famous
was
recorded
in
Los
Angeles
and
Colorado
with
former
Black
Flag
drummer
Bill
Stevenson
(Rise
Against,
MXPX
etc.)
producing.
For
all
their
platinum
albums,
awards
and
sold-out
shows,
Puddle
Of
Mudd
have
retained
their
organic
approach
to
songwriting,
usually
starting
with
Wesley
at
home
with
an
acoustic
guitar.
“If
it
sounds
good
and
it
makes
your
skin
goose
bump-up
then
you’re
probably
onto
something,”
he
mulls.
“Have
you
ever
heard
those
lyrics
by
Nine
Inch
Nails:
‘I
just
made
you
up
to
hurt
myself’?”
he
continues,
laughing.
“That’s
kinda
how
it
is
for
songwriters
I
think:
you
almost
create
drama
in
your
life
just
to
get
some
good
inspiration!
Anything
that
irks
you
a
little
bit,
for
some
weird
and
unknown
reason,
is
good
for
really
passionate
songs.
I
write
a
lot
of
the
stuff,
but
it’s
like
a
team
–
everybody’s
got
their
inspiration
that
they
put
into
it.”
And
Puddle
Of
Mudd
now
have
fresh
inspiration
from
new
members
Christian
Stone
(ex-Campfire
Girls)
and
Ryan
Yerdon.
It
was
a
collaboration
between
Wesley
and
Christian
that,
in
bizarre
fashion,
produced
the
album’s
title,
Famous
-
the
name
of
a
song
they’d
written
together.
“Christian
went
home
to
Massachusetts
to
visit
his
family
for
Christmas
and
someone
showed
him
a
picture
of
his
[soldier]
brother
in
Iraq
with
this
tattoo
-
he
had
got
‘Livin’
On
Borrowed
Time’
tattooed
on
him,”
Douglas
explains.
“So,
unbeknownst
to
either
brother,
one
had
written
a
song
with
Wes
called
‘Living
On
Borrowed
Time’
and
then
the
other
had
tattooed
‘Living
On
Borrowed
Time’
on
his
chest!
So
it
was
kind
of
a
freaky
coincidence.”
“Livin’
On
Borrowed
Time”
once
again
displays
Puddle
Of
Mudd’s
sixth
sense
for
creating
anthemic
songs
that
are
at
once
optimistic
and
uneasy,
uplifting
yet
contemplative,
dramatic
but
never
without
humor.
Wesley’s
voice
retains
its
serrated
charm
but
is
more
versatile
than
ever,
able
to
shift
a
song’s
mood
with
sometimes
unexpected
inflections.
As
ever,
Puddle
Of
Mudd
are
single-minded
in
focusing
on
unpretentious
songcraft
and
accessible
lyrical
authenticity
over
fashion’s
fickle
demands
or
artsy
affectations.
“We’re
not
using
DJ
turntables
and
synths
and
all
that
stuff,”
Douglas
confirms.
“We’re
just
trying
to
pull
out
the
honesty
and
make
another
batch
of
great
songs
for
people
to
listen
to.”
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Website:
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on
MySpace:
http://www.myspace.com/puddleofmudd