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| Volume 11, No. 43 |
July 28-3, 2010 |
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| Puddle of Mudd
Makes good at Club 101 | | By Shane Weller | | 
Last time multiplatinum rock band Puddle of Mudd was set to tour through the borderland, it was with Nickelback last year. That concert was cancelled, but not before Puddle of Mudd frontman Wes Scantlin told What’s Up about his love of touring.
“It humbles me quite a bit to be on the road,” he said. “I’m just happy to see the fans again. It’s been a few years, to get back out here and see everybody smiling at these shows.”
This time around Puddle of Mudd is playing Club 101, and the group is making new tour memories with fellow touring acts Meriweather and Deep Field.
The band is continuing its success and gaining new ground with its newest LP, “Famous.” Album tracks like “Psycho” and the title track have already reached No. 1 on both the U.S. Modern Rock chart and U.S Mainstream Rock chart.
The front man will be bringing a secret weapon with him on tour, in the form of his favorite guitar.
“It’s my Les Paul Gibson,” he said. “Les Pauls are my favorite – me and Les Paul actually have the same birthday on June 9. I got the most ultimate Les Paul guitar you can ever imagine having; at the head stock he signed it with a silver Sharpie, and there’s only like 100 made and I got it on my birthday on June 9 in Kansas City, where I’m from.”
But that’s not all. This dude has really pimped it out. The guitar is a collage of tour memories and battle scars. Wes explains the eclectic collection.
“It’s just crazy lookin’,” he said. “It looks like it’s been through 60 wars … It looks like it’s been in a fire and there are coins on it and it’s got like film from a camera that was chucked at my head in Europe, when we were playing with KoRn. It has a lot of the little parts inside the little throwaway cameras, in the pick-up parts. It’s just insane, dude. I don’t want to give any more information about it because I’ve been working on it for four or five years. I’m getting ready to send it to ’em and tell ’em like, ‘This is how I’m rolling! I love Les Paul so can I have my own Wes Paul?’”
It is still unknown if Wes has made the pitch to Les Paul Guitars, but maybe if you chuck something at his head at Club 101, you might become a part of history.
Editor’s Note: What’s Up does not condone the chucking of objects at frontpersons’ heads.
Puddle of Mudd
with Meriwether and Deep Field
Club 101, 3233 N. Mesa
Wednesday, April 30 – 7 p.m.
$22 plus service charges
Tickets available at Club 101, All That Music,
Up and Running and www.Ticketbully.com
For info call 544-2101
Comments or questions about this story? E-mail Secret@whatsuppub.com
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