Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley says he wound up producing the band's new disc, Underclass Hero, by necessity, not by choice.
"We had two weeks before we were to start and we still didn't have a producer yet, and we'd been trying to get a producer," he told Sun Media.
"There was really maybe three guysI respect as producer and I talked to all of them and it came down to about two guys that I really wanted to work with. One guy I really wanted to work with ... For whatever reason it just wouldn't work out, whether it was due to money or timing."
Whibley, who wouldn't divulge the name of the two producers on the Ajax, Ont., band's short list, says his job was made easier because he came armed with a complete demo of all the new songs in sequence.
"We all knew that there was nothing that anyone was really going to do (production-wise)," he said.
"The three of us just went and said, 'Let's just do it.' Especially since now it's three of us. You know, once the bass and drums were done, it's all me. That's just guitars and the pianos and stuff ... I went home and just finished everything on my own."
