I think some of the choices are going to really shock people, and that was a lot of the fun in choosing some of them. But that was a risk we were willing to take in order to do songs that had a reason behind us doing them. So far it’s been extremely positive, which is always a gamble when we do such timeless songs. So how do you think these songs will be received by your fans and fans of the original songs? We hope to be in the studio in January to record our next original record. Hopefully they’ll dig it and will treat it for what it is, like a cool little collectors item. Because that wasn’t our goal at all, it was just a record that’s fun to do for our fans. And as an artist it’s always good to push your boundaries, so I had a lot of fun in that.Īnd it was about making sure you can choose songs that meant something, and not just going for a cheap song we thought maybe would be a hit single. To me that was extremely exciting because it was challenging to tackle such different styles of music in such different instrumentation. Doing a cover record allows you to do things that are so far out of left field of what your band does.
Or even musically as musicians, something we knew that would be challenging. We wanted to do songs that had meant something to us, whether lyrically or that meant something to us in our childhood growing up. 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 it’s going to be good, it should be a fun little run.
And for the consumer’s dollar, it’s a lot of bands and a lot of hours for your buck. There’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?Įxcited. We’ll play one or two and then the rest will be all our Puddle songs and our hits over the years. We’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 you’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 it’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 we’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.
GUITAR WORLD: What made you guys want to release a covers album?