Life has not been kind to Wes Scantlin, the frontman for former alt-rock staple Puddle Of Mudd. Last summer, Scantlin was arrested after a standoff with SWAT. This, of course, was not the only time that Scantlin had been in trouble with the law, nor the only time that he appeared to have a less-than-desirable mental state.
While playing a benefit show for St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital (noble), the band embarrassed themselves in front of the Daytona crowd (because of course they were in Daytona) due to Scantlin’s inability to be even semi-coherent on stage.
The day after the performance, someone caught Scantlin outside the venue and asked him what happened. Scantlin responded: “I suck, I suck, and I suck, but I was roofied. My old bass player Sean Sammon roofied me last night, so he can go fuck his ass.” Sammon co-founded Puddle Of Mudd with Scantlin but hasn’t played with them since 2002.
