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#1021 Re: The Sunset Strip » MIKE PATTON on Faith No More » 909 weeks ago
I'd love to see FNM get together for a tour, since I never had a chance to see them back in the day. I wonder what guitarist they would include? It's funny, because I consider Jim Martin to be their "Slash", but I actually like the music they made with him gone a little more. I'm by no means a FNM expert, so does anyone know who in the band had problems with one another?
These are some quotes out of the liner notes from the 'Who Cares A Lot" greatest hits. If you want to read the whole thing (and it is a really cool read) I found it online here- http://www.angelfire.com/pa3/fnm/FNMbio.html But here's some of the stuff about them not getting along.
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Typical stuff. You see, Faith No More were often an obstreperous pain in the arse. Even when things looked like being peachy-creamy, it always seemed that one wheel had to go wonky if only to maintain their status quo. It's a miracle they made it beyond 1988, having spent the best part of three years prior shoving themselves into Ryder trucks (sleeping bags and pillows included) for national tours, with tempers often fragile in such gerbil-like close quarters.
Most bands last out stuff like this by being close friends. Not here. The truth is that much of Faith No More's longevity and creative magic revolved around thick, fetid, repeatedly denied tensions. Some were obvious: the escalating piss fights with Mosely in the mid to late '80s, the disgust and dismay at Mike Patton's stubborn refusal to place Mr. Bungle a spiritual second to his FNM duties, the sheer anger between Jim Martin and the other four until the breaking point in 1994. But most days there was something bugging someone somewhere. I know they never agreed that tension was a vital ingredient of their resultant sound, and probably still wouldn't, but during the band's richest spells of creativity and commercial popularity, they were always in some form of self-induced turmoil. Secretly, they held high regard for each other's talents, but sadly said it enough.
When they first visited Britain in 1987, they did interviews where they'd rip the shit out of each other to the utter astonishment of journalists, making anything the Gallagher brothers from Oasis have engaged in seem like quaint foreplay. It was tough to tell if they were joking or using interviews as the medium through which to talk to each other. Martin once told me that Mosely was like an irritating pimple being rubbed by cheap ladies underwear...Mosely was five feet away. Patton used to loudly hawk demo tapes of his then unsigned band Mr. Bungle within generous earshot of others. And when the "Epic" single hit the American top ten in 1990, rather than celebrate, they complained loudly about what a big bunch of bullshit it all was because they weren't seeing any dough, only airports.
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That's because Faith No More only ever did what they wanted, despite the polar opposite personalities within the creative process. Gould was a quiet pressure cooker who would blow his stack every few months in spectacular fashion; Bottum was the floating carefree sort; Bordin would go wherever the comfort and ease of passage seemed greatest; Patton seemed to enjoy the thrill of pissing everybody off in any way necessary; and Martin would often belligerently refuse to entertain his bandmates, just because. Compromise was the equivalent of profanity in church,
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Everyone would marvel at Bordin's curious penny-pinching habits, which once went to the absurd length of trying to exchange some free shoes for another pair at some sportshop in the next city during the band's Billy Idol tour in 1990. Patton would talk shit about everything and everyone for awhile, seemingly delighted to plant such seeds of insecurity. Bottum's lifestyle and interests saw him drift away from everyone in the group, and Martin was an outright antagonizer, jabbing a boney finger into what he saw as an open wound that was being left untended. Billy Gould, a mischievous master of experimentation, unwittingly found himself in a "den mother" role he carried to the band's last day.
#1022 Re: The Garden » New WWE HD Sets... » 909 weeks ago
"There's nowhere to hide," Leslie explained. "Every T-shirt in the audience can be read. Every bead of sweat, every scratch on the canvas is seen. What you see through the HD lens, you'd see with your eyes live."
When I first heard WWE was going high def my first thought was wondering if it will make punches that don't actually connect, and things like that, more noticable.
I don't have an HD tv, but just knowing more industries are moving to the next point in technology is pretty cool.
#1023 Re: Guns N' Roses » Stolen Motorcyle (myspace bulletin) » 909 weeks ago
jorge76 wrote:russtcb wrote:The reason I have a problem with it is that it's just dumb and weird.
Has anyone ever heard of any other band doing something stupid like this?
I've actually seen a couple of other (mostly lower tier) bands post myspace bulletins about gear being stolen from vans and such. I guess it's kinda similiar to that.
The reason it's stupid is simply because just when they make you think that no one is minding the store, so to speak, there is some communication. So you know they're around, they're just keeping quiet.
I relate that stuff (gear and what not, actual stuff related to members and their stuff) to what Zakk Wylde did as I mentioned before.
I guess I just can't see why GNR think any of us could or would care to help find some guys motorcycle.
I'd love to help the guy out. GN'R created the situation where them asking like this is ridiculous though.
Also, I'm just a dipshit from Iowa, so maybe I'm wrong and it's somewhere really famous, but I think it bears saying... I think it is pretty comical that they're so unaccustomed to giving any sort of updates that they are so unspecific as to where Club Tee Gee in Atwater Village is. I have no idea where Atwater Village would be.
#1024 Re: The Sunset Strip » MIKE PATTON on Faith No More » 909 weeks ago
jorge76 wrote:russtcb wrote:I'd pay alot to see a Faith No More album and tour.
I would too, but I don't see it happening.
Everything that I've read about those guys basically points to them not really being friends the whole time they were together.
Patton generally has something like 74 different projects going on at one time anyway, so this was probably just him saying, Yeah I'd go in the studio with one or two of them for a day or two.
You're probably right. I know he's always got a ton going on which is cool, but I'd love it if he made time for a FNM project.
Yeah, absolutely, and I am right there with you with what you said before about paying a lot to see a reformed FNM.
Really though, I'd also love to see what Patton and Gould or Bottom would come up with in a studio together again, FNM or otherwise.
#1025 Re: Guns N' Roses » Stolen Motorcyle (myspace bulletin) » 909 weeks ago
AtariLegend wrote:Jameslofton wrote:Yes.
You really expect an album release date, to come exclusively from myspace...
I don't really see why them using myspace to help find a Motorcyle is such a problem, it isn't even a headline on the page.
Every update that has come so far has come from www.gunsnroses.com ...
Does this look like updates to you guys...?
The reason I have a problem with it is that it's just dumb and weird.
Has anyone ever heard of any other band doing something stupid like this?
I've actually seen a couple of other (mostly lower tier) bands post myspace bulletins about gear being stolen from vans and such. I guess it's kinda similiar to that.
The reason it's stupid is simply because just when they make you think that no one is minding the store, so to speak, there is some communication. So you know they're around, they're just keeping quiet.
#1026 Re: Guns N' Roses » Stolen Motorcyle (myspace bulletin) » 909 weeks ago
Who is running this circus?
A red-haired clown
#1027 Re: The Sunset Strip » MIKE PATTON on Faith No More » 909 weeks ago
DoubleTalkingJive wrote:Maybe they could do a tour or something.
I'd pay alot to see a Faith No More album and tour.
I would too, but I don't see it happening.
Everything that I've read about those guys basically points to them not really being friends the whole time they were together.
Patton generally has something like 74 different projects going on at one time anyway, so this was probably just him saying, Yeah I'd go in the studio with one or two of them for a day or two.
#1028 Re: The Sunset Strip » What's Your Favorite Movie Of All Time? » 910 weeks ago
Fav action movie - The Rock
Fav stupid comedy - Dirty Work
Fav sci fi - The AbyssOthers are, Pi, Phonebooth, Flatliners, and many many more.
Dirty Work=Fantastic
One of the most underrated movies ever.
Anyone who got their nose bit off by a Saigon Whore knows that for sure.
#1029 Re: The Sunset Strip » What's Your Favorite Movie Of All Time? » 910 weeks ago
Blues Brothers
Great music and hilarious, can't go wrong.
#1030 Re: Guns N' Roses » Finding Fitting Actors to Play Axl Rose, Dave Grohl » 910 weeks ago
Ron Jeremy as Tad Doyle made me laugh out loud.