From the forthcoming Jamie Saft album Trouble, Mike Patton sings Bob Dylan’s Ballad of a Thin Man.
Pick up the album here.
(Again hat tip to Gezarie for the Twitter link)
Footage of Faith No More’s first ever live show at the Mabs in San Francisco on 11 October in 1983.
The four-song set included The Jungle, Why Do You Bother?, Spirit and another unknown song.
According to the aussiemusicfan.com gig database the band line-up was:
Joe Pop-O-Pie (vocals)
Jake Smith (guitar)
Bill Gould (bass)
Mike Bordin (drums)
Roddy Bottum (keyboards)
The Jungle
Why Do You Bother?
Unknown
Spirit
Joe Pop-O-Pie was the vocalist of the legendary Pop-o-pie in San Francisco in the early 1980s and there was a revolving crossover of members between the band and FNM. Find some details and photos on Pop-o-pie here. The band were famed for regularly playing their one hit – a cover of the Grateful Dead’s Truckin’ – over and over again in live shows. A contemporary report in the San Francisco Bay Guardian quotes Billy Gould as saying: “That was actually one of the highlights of my life,” Gould said about performing the song live and watching unsuspecting audiences go from nervous laughter to mild annoyance and then to full-fledged anger and, finally, passive acceptance. “There was this one [show] we did in Texas, like in Dallas at this warehouse, where we just played ‘Fascists Eat Donuts’ for so long that I was actually starting to hallucinate. I was starting to hear new melodies and new songs, because it was just this drone that was going on relentlessly.”
Roddy tweeted on the show this week: “First gig was phenoms. We had really grand aspirations and our aim was to hypnotize. Pretty certain we pulled it off.”
Thanks to Gezarie for bringing the video to my attention.
The man who belied that drummer hanging out with musicians gag and the man who makes FNM tick, the one and only Mike “Puffy” Bordin celebrates (or at least we do on his behalf) his 47th birthday today. Puff was an original member of the band and his distinctive drumming set the tone for the group right from the off. His soul may have been metal but the Ganeshian drummer had and has the skill and mind set to drive FNM in any direction.
As Mike P would chastise, Mike is also, of course, Ozzy’s drummer, recognition that we is feted by his peers as one of the greatest metal percussionists of all time.
Mike in video:
Mike burps (feckin’ amazing vid; possibly the best FNM YouTube I’ve ever seen)
Where’s the Puff?
Mike Puffy B masterclasss
Puffy being a leg-end
Mike for Ozzy fans
Puffy in Brazil
The two Mikes
Mike joins Korn
Puffy facts (not all are true)
- A left-handed drummer who plays right-handed kit
- Along with Billy, was an original member of FNM precursors Faith No Man
- Made dreads cool again for white guys
- First dreadhead to live long enough to show that dreads look cooler in silver
- Competed in Who Wants to be a Millionaire
- Taught the Little Drummer Boy how to play
- In an effort to stave off the post-tour withdrawal symptoms, here are a few small FNM nuggets. First up, rewind back to few weeks in late October and a clip of a snippet of Fever leading into King for a Day…
- Also in Chile, the campaign to get FNM to return in 2010 continues.
- And there is also a petition to bring the band back to Brazil.
- Movieweb asks the stars of Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia is Mike Patton – a friend of star Danny DeVito – whether the FNM front man might make a cameo appearance in the show.
- More great shots of FNM in Mexico City here on Flickr.
- Via Jose in comments, very high quality footage of FNM in Santiago.
Great footage of FNM peforming Edge of the World for the first and only time on the tour at the José Cuervo Salon in Mexico City:
Faith No More wrapped up the third leg of the Second Coming Tour with a performance at the Auditorio Telmex in Guadalajara, Mexico. No many reports in so far but here’s the set list for starters.
Set list:
Midnight Cowboy
The Real Thing
Land of Sunshine
Caffeine
Be Aggressive
Evidence
Surprise! You’re Dead!
Last Cup of Sorrow
RV
Easy
Epic
Midlife Crisis
Ricochet
The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
No más Fe Güey/Evidence
Ashes to Ashes
Just a Man
King for a Day
Chariots Of Fire
Stripsearch
Pristina
Cuckoo for Caca
This Guy’s in Love with You
I Started a Joke
We Care a Lot
Mike P at Mexico City ((c) tono.tv)
Despite this, it seems Edge of the World was played at a stonking Mexico City gig last night.
Video
Set list:
1. Reunited
2. From Out of Nowhere
3. Land of Sunshine
4. Caffeine
5. Evidence (Spanish version)
6. Surprise! You’re dead!
7. Last Cup of Sorrow
8. Ricochet
9. Easy
10. Epic
11. Midlife Crisis with Cielito Lindo
12. I Started a Joke
13. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
14. King for a day
15. Ashes to Ashes
16. Just a Man
17. Edge of the World
19. Introduce Yourself
20. Chariots of Fire / Stripsearch
21. We Care a Lot
Photos
Some great pics and a set list explanation here.
The Info 7 website has footage of Faith No More in Monterrey here.
And here is some footage of the masked performers at the start of the same gig.
And Caffeine
Faith No More voted number 1 of the reforming 90s bands by Rolling Stone Brasil.
Nice personal review and some great images from the Belo Horizonte show here at Zonapunk.
UPDATE:
Still no news on set list or any video surfacing but here’s a review from El Porvenir, wqhich states that the concert was not sold out, that the sound was poor and that Mike P took out a monitor in anger.
It also lists Be Aggresive, Surprise! You’re dead!, Last Cup of Sorrow, Easy, Epic, Midlife Crisis, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies and Just a Man as among the songs performed while Jaun in comments suggests they played RV (see I do read the comments!!).
No news on set list or any video yet but Roddy has posted a great photo on Twitter.
Faith No More played a somewhat shorter set than recently in their final Brazil date at the Chevrolet Hall, Belo Horizonte.
Video:
Set list:
Midnight Cowboy
The Real Thing
Land of Sunshine
Caffeine
Evidence
Surprise! You’re Dead!
Last Cup of Sorrow
Ricochet
Easy
Epic
Midlife Crisis
Medley: CaralhoVoador / Ele é Carioca
The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
King for a Day
Ashes to Ashes
Just a Man
Chariots Of Fire/Stripsearch
Mark Bowen
Photos:
Some great photos here from Puccini on Flickr.
