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Oh, yeah, this album is something we did for fun that hopefully our fans will dig and get into, but it’s not something where we’re looking to sell a million records or have five singles or go on tour for two years. Now that this release is coming out in late August, will Puddle will go in and record an album of originals next year? Also, just the fact that the song had a vision, and it sounded like something we could do in our style, but still represent all their parts and all their harmonies correctly. I love that intro I think it’s amazingly haunting and cool. I love how the backup singer plays off Jagger and the chorus. We had a few Stones songs we were thinking of doing on there – I think we had three or four. You just released the album’s first single, The Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter.” What drew you to that track? There are a lot of takes on there that are one or two takes… I wanted that feel of a ’70s record on modern gear, and that’s what we tried to do. I really made an effort to do that as far as having live takes. These are timeless songs, so who am I to go in and change them and make them more modern rock? I think what we made is a ’70s record that’s recorded on modern gear. It was very important to us to stay true to the originals. When you recorded these songs, did you aim to put a modern spin on them or stay true to the originals? The whole package of bringing that on the road is a different experience for Puddle fans.
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We thought about recording “TNT” and Steve Miller’s “The Joker” that we’d been doing live forever, and then we dreamed up this crazy idea of doing a whole record of it and bringing in a big band to help us out. So, we wanted to get something out there, but we didn’t really have anything written, because we had been off for so long. So, we took about six months off and reconvened, but then we started getting offers to go play again already, like Rock Allegiance and a European tour. We took some time off after the last record, which we never usually do we usually tour, record, tour, record. Why the decision to do a covers album, re:(disc)overed, at this point in your career? caught up with Phillips to talk about the band’s slot on the 2011 Rock Allegiance Tour, how it feels to come up on Come Clean’s 10th anniversary and plans for a new Puddle of Mudd album in 2012. There was a lot of great music being made then, and timeless music.” “We thought, ‘Why do that?’ So, another era of music we’re fans of is the late ’60s and early ’70s. “We didn’t want to do a Soundgarden or Nirvana cover, because they’re still on modern rock radio being played in maximum rotation,” Phillips said. Covers include The Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter,” which is the first single, along with Neil Young’s “Old Man,” Led Zeppelin’s “D’yer M’ker” and Elton John’s “Rocket Man.”Ībsent are the expected grunge-rock nuggets. Re:(disc)overed, out August 30, packs 11 tracks taped with producer Bill Appleberry earlier this year. But, I think people are going to be surprised with how true we tried to keep it to the original songs.” “People say, ‘You can’t cover that,’ or ‘You can’t do that.’ I think, ‘Sure you can.’ And if you fail, you fail you had a good time doing it. I can’t believe Puddle did that.’ Because I think that’s what a lot of people expect when you tackle timeless artists. “We wanted to surprise people, and I’m excited about that. “There was an element of wanting to do crazy things that challenge us as artists on this record, and it forced us to go back and start practicing again and have to learn these parts,” guitarist Paul Phillips told. When Puddle of Mudd started toiling away on their album of cover songs, re:(disc)overed, above all, they wanted to surprise fans with something creative, unique and maybe even a little risky.