Over a three-month period we just kind of shot songs back and forth. How did you go about choosing the other songs on the record? I know you said some of these were songs that you played live. So I think itвЂ™s going to be good, it should be a fun little run. And for the consumerвЂ™s dollar, itвЂ™s a lot of bands and a lot of hours for your buck. ThereвЂ™s a lot of bands that we came up with over the years and have known for a while. How do you feel about being back on the road again?Д®xcited. WeвЂ™ll play one or two and then the rest will be all our Puddle songs and our hits over the years. WeвЂ™ll just treat it like any other record. Do you plan on playing a lot of these cover tracks or are you going to bring back more of your old stuff? I know youвЂ™re going to be on the Rock Allegiance Tour soon with Papa Roach and Buckcherry. We just got the crazy idea to continue recording songs until we had a whole record. So itвЂ™s not really something we set out to do, it just kind of happened as we went along. We were just bouncing songs off each other via email and we weeded that down to 15, and then we weeded that down to the 11 that you hear on the record. One thing led to another, and we were having fun and ended up compiling this list of 30 songs. So we just toyed with the idea of doing a couple of covers that weвЂ™ve been doing live in out set forever. We were so frustrated with the last team that we just needed a break to concentrate on getting things back up and running. They were all four album deals so after our fourth record, it was time to get a new team in place that was going to continue with this so far. It was a process of where we needed to take some time off and our management and record label contracts came up.

Despite the success of 'Psycho,' something was missing, and when Phillips and Scantlin reconnected earlier this year, all the prior tension hadmelted away and their chemistry was rediscovered.GUITAR WORLD: What made you guys want to release a covers album? Volume 4 is a homecoming for Phillips, who left the band shortly into the recording process for Famous. No chaser required - unless, like Scantlin and guitarist Paul Phillips, you opt for a cold, frosty one. Keeping in that tradition, the new album goes down like the smoothest shot you'll ever take. 2 Rock Band of the Year, where they finished second only to the Foo Fighters. Propelled by 'Psycho,' the album cemented Puddle of Mudd's status as bona-fide hit makers, and earned them industry accolades including Billboard's No. Case in point, 'Psycho,' the smash single from the band's 2007 release Famous that rationalizes a relationship with, 'maybe I'm the one, who is, a schizophrenic psycho.'ДЇamous, like both albums before it, was certified Gold after selling more than 500,000 copies in America alone. On Volume 4, Scantlin does deliver the same savvy lyrics that fans have come to expect since the band's multi-platinum debut, Come Clean, weaving subtle innuendo and not-so-subtle lyrical wordplay around vocal hooks so thick, they even seem to make life's more sour realities easier to swallow. 'He doesn't do the David Lee Roth thing, where he delivers the same lines every night, he's completely off-the-cuff.' 'Wes is constantly adjusting to the vibe in the room, throwing his flavor in there and constantly trying to make people laugh,' explains bassist Doug Ardito. Wes Scantlin is custom-made for the new millennium, a rock star without the pretense, and a frontman whose spontaneity propels his offstage personality as much as it does his onstage delivery. Their major label debut вЂCome CleanвЂ™ has sold over five million copies.ДЄsk Puddle of Mudd frontman Wes Scantlin about the writing and recording of the album Volume 4: Songs in the Key of Love & Hate, and he responds with the same spirit of carefree wanderlust that defines his band: 'It's all easy peezy, dude, no big deal at all.' The band has sold over 7 million albums and has a string of No.1 mainstream rock singles in the US. Puddle Of Mudd is an American post- grunge band from Kansas City, Missouri.

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