Drowning Pool intend to mark the 25th anniversary of their platinum-selling debut album “Sinner” next year. While that album racked up its platinum status in 2001 just months after its release, its hit single “Bodies” wasn’t certified platinum until January of 2019.
Speaking recently with My Weekly Mixtape, the Texan nü-metal band’s guitarist C.J. Pierce revealed he has already begun combing the vaults for bonus content for that reissue as part of a broader initiative of sorts intended to pay tribute to the group’s late frontman Dave Williams. The latter passed away while on tour back in 2002 from an undiagnosed heart condition.
Pierce stated of the band’s plans at the moment:
“We have a lot of stuff in the works and a lot of things that we’re working towards now, things that we’re still putting together — a lot of amazing ideas. We wanna do everything and anything, first and foremost [as a] hats off to Dave Williams, who was a part of the making of the ‘Sinner‘ record and kind of the foundation of our sound that you know with ‘Bodies‘. So, we have a lot of stuff, man.
I went to storage when I had some time off, cleaned out some stuff, and I have a lot of music and cassette tapes and stuff we did that we didn’t finish. We have a lot of songs with Dave that just were not recorded professionally, if you will. So, we’ve been talks about maybe getting some of those songs to put ’em out there, ’cause you can get his voice off the cassette tape now with all this cool, fun technology — still his voice, not this A.I. stuff.
But we have songs, a few of them that we would like to finish. There’s songs that we haven’t played live. I don’t think we played ‘The Game‘. ‘Break You‘ is another one that we did. So all things Dave Williams, man. We wanna make the show all about that. And again, it’s just fun. I haven’t gone through everything yet, but I found a lot of video and a lot of music that we just never got around to putting out yet. We were in super writing mode before we even did the ‘Sinner‘ record.”
As for the 25th anniversary deluxe edition of “Sinner“, Pierce shared:
“There’s definitely gonna be that, with all this stuff on it. We’re just kind of narrowing it down to what we wanna put on it. I wanna put everything out, especially the video. I had so much video back then. The Hi8 cameras came out. And we did a lot of stuff locally — right before we got signed, we did some touring. Actually, with(hed)p.e. — we got to open up for them here locally. Same thing with Sevendust. And with Kittie — [I] love Kittie, love that band. And so I have a lot of stuff, as long as they’re cool with it, just to get it out there, just us raw, all that stuff. Kind of pre-‘Sinner‘ days, if you will, on the local scene…
So, yeah, there’s a lot of stuff that we have to put out there… There’s definitely video that I have that we haven’t released, and [drummer] Mike [Luce] and [bassist] Stevie [Benton] as well. So I wanna get all that out, have a big package with that. But the fun, exciting stuff is just a handful of songs that I think we could probably either just clean off, keep it how it is on a cassette tape, or we can — us three, Mike, Stevie and myself — can redo the music and put the vocal on top to kind of polish it up. I’m cool either way. We did a handful of cover songs too.
We did ‘Day Tripper‘ from The Beatles, and I have that as well recorded that nobody’s ever heard. That was fun just hearing Dave do it… I forgot we even did it until I heard the tape. And there’s also earlier versions of ‘Bodies‘ and ‘Tear Away‘ that are a little different. I think some of that might be out there, some of the old demo versions, but if not, I still have those. Just stuff for the hardcore fans, man.
We have stuff that’s still signed from Dave Williams in storage, a handful of things. It’s gonna sit in storage and collect dust, man. I’d like to get that out to the hardcore fans. So we have a bunch of posters that are still signed and some of the older CDs and stuff too, man.”
