In July 2018 he announced he’d been sober for nearly a year, and the band was full-steam ahead. In that 10-years-plus, Scantlin and the band have survived a fusillade of troubles and strife, including nearly a dozen personnel changes, and Scantlin endured a few brushes with the law and several incidents of misconduct at shows (including a mid-show exit in April 2017.)īut nearly two years ago, when it seemed the band’s train was on the verge of derailment, Scantlin went into rehab. It was Scantlin’s first hometown appearance (he’s a Park Hill grad) in more than a decade-since a September 2008 performance at the Midland Theater. Thursday night at Crossroads KC, Puddle of Mudd headlined its own festival: Muddfest, a confederacy of like-minded hard-rock, post-grunge bands, a few with signature one-word or monosyllabic names: Trapt, Saliva, Tantric, Saving Abel. Coincidentally, the market for the band’s genre-call it what you will: post-grunge, nu-metal, alt-metal-began to wane, and Puddle of Mudd did not endure the change in weather gracefully. Its sophomore album, Life on Display, was significantly less successful commercially. The band was a hit on the road, playing major festivals, filling theaters, and snagging opening gigs on arena tours, including a stop at Kemper Arena in July 2002, when they opened for Korn.īut the band’s success trajectory subsequently took a dive. 1, and sales of which exceed 5 million copies. In 2001, his band, Puddle of Mudd, released Come Clean, its first big-label album, which dropped four singles into the Top 5 of the mainstream rock charts, three of them No. For a spell at the turn of the millennium, Wes Scantlin was poised to be one of Kansas City’s biggest rock stars.
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