Over the previous decade or so, Wes Scantlin has turn into a strolling punchline, due to his quite a few arrests and onstage meltdowns. Nonetheless, the Puddle of Mudd frontman insists his actions usually are not as unhealthy as media headlines make them out to be.
Simply up to now few years alone, Scantlin has been arrested for trespassing, pepper-balled by a SWAT workforce, and arrested for felony home violence, amongst different authorized points. Earlier this yr, he blamed an ex-bandmate for slipping him roofies in explaining a disastrous present at Daytona Bike Week.
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Now, in a brand new interview with SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk (as transcribed by Blabbermouth), the Puddle of Mudd singer-guitarist says his troubles have been blown out of proportion.
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“[My] most important objective [is] simply [to] keep out of hassle,” Scantlin informed Trunk when requested about his run-ins with the regulation. “And I actually severely don’t actually try this a lot flawed issues. I actually simply don’t. However I’m like an enormous fish within the little pond. I name myself a Christmas dinner trophy for the Poppo. I ponder what number of instances they’ve defined that they arrested me at their Christmas dinner, at Christmas day. I’m telling you, man. I’m only a massive, large trophy.”
He continued, “I’ve made some errors, however at sure factors I may breathe within the flawed route and get cuffed and slammed in a dungeon. Shoot, man. It’s bizarre. My complete factor, my complete motto is flip round and run to your life as quick as you probably can, man. I’m speaking about possibly like a girlfriend or one thing [not the police]. In the event that they hit the ‘psycho wall,’ as I name it — flip round and run… Anyone’s gotta go down, they usually often choose me, ’trigger I’m the trophy. However my motto is flip round and run as quick as you may and simply run.”
As for his revolving door of bandmates over time, Scantlin hopes the present Puddle of Mudd lineup — Michael Anthony Grajewski on bass, Miles Schon (son of Journey’s Neal Schon) on guitar, and Jon Smith on drums — will stick round for some time.
“Proper now all the pieces’s stable, and I pray to God that nobody leaves me once more,” mentioned Scantlin. “Please, expensive God above, don’t let any of those folks depart. It’s exhausting to make — the transitions are a ache within the butt.”
Puddle of Mudd have a smattering of tour dates scheduled all through the summer time, with tickets to pick exhibits accessible right here. They’re out in assist of the brand new album, Kiss the Machine, which arrived in Might of this yr.