Faith No More Reunion
 

I just stumbled upon this. What the hell?! This is so great. They are doing a tour too! I may actually get to see Faith No More live?! WTF? Best news of the day.

http://www.fnm.com/news.shtml

Another 90s alternative band that I have a much harder time taking seriously today but damn I loved them when they were in their hayday.

They announced this 2 or 3 months ago. Kinda shocked no one posted about it... but then, no one posted about Six Finger Satellite reforming either!

But ... yeah, Angel Dust rules all kinds of ass.

I just stumbled on an article about it today. They are rehearsing to go on tour but so far are only touring outside of the U.S.

Wait, Patton is actually in on this? I didn't think he would go along with it.

Angel Dust DOES rule, I don't like any of their other records.

Is the original guitarist one of the dudes listed for the line-up in the article? God I hope so...

AngelDust is in my top five favorite albums of all-time. That said I've learned to appreciate "King for a Day" and "Album of the Year" even if they don't touch the greatness of "AngelDust", unfortunately Jim Martin is not part of the reunion.

this is one re union i am actually suprised about given as i thought they all hated eachother?

Does anyone know his reason for departing the band and why he wouldn't be part of this reunion? Any bad blood to speak of?

I don't know for sure but since Jim Martin hasn't really done anything that I'm aware of after Faith No More, maybe he just retired from music completely.

I remember reading a WHERE ARE THEY NOW? feature on Faith No More and Jim Martin said something like, "My main hobby is growing pumpkins now. All I do is grow pumpkins." Ahahaha awesome.

:D That IS awesome. I've always dreamed of owning a pumpkin patch! Once we planted a pumpkin in my mother's back yard and the fucking thing TOOK OVER the whole place. Like ten 80 pound pumpkins sprouted. Totally inedible since they were rotting as they were growing but it was a sight to see.

Ahaha amazing.

I think ole Jim Martin was doing a pisstake... amazing if it wasn't though.

Holy hell. This is exciting news, you know how I love the 90's and shit, (trying to beat jb to the punch). I so hope they do some Cali dates. Mike Patton is excellent, I was just listening to some Mr. Bungle and Fantomas madness the other day.

I was listening to Mr Bungle the other day as well! Disco Volante is one of the greatest albums ever.

I think I read somewhere that Jim Martin isn't doing this and instead it's Trey Spruance.

Very excited for this.
I sleep with an FNM poster over my head every night.

Trey Spruance would be cool.

I agree. King for A Day was great.

Is it true that Courtney Love tried out to be the band's vocalist, after Chuck's departure?

Trey Spruance strongly dislikes Patton, according to cryptic interview answers when asked about him and message board posts... that's why Mr. Bungle broke up! I doubt Spruance would do it... but if so, maybe Bungle could eventually reform too.

If that is true, then I hate Spruance. California is my favorite thing Patton was ever involved in, and then Mr. Bungle just broke up? Sucks.

^
I'd cum out of every orifice/pore on my body, if that happened.
Things could get messy.

Yes, apparantly that is true.

But Patton was the member who wrote the LEAST amount of Mr. Bungle music. He only wrote 2 or 3 songs... Trey and Trevor wrote most of the stuff, and Trey is in the brilliant Secret Chiefs 3, which basically started out as Bungle without Patton and is now... whatever they are now... some kind of bizarre Middle Eastern-prog-jazz band that is just unbelievable. I really don't like Patton. Besides Angel Dust, Disco Volante, California, and his Kaada/Patton collab "Romances", I don't like anything he's ever been involved in. That includes Fantomas, Tomahawk, Loveage, and definitely Peeping Tom!

Only European dates....

They really like there rock over there. Kings of Leon, White Stripes both have big followings..

Here's the first interview I could find...

http://www.markprindle.com/spruance-i.htm

5. I know this is a tired old topic, but my readers would kill me if I didn't ask about it – why have you and Mike Patton not spoken in years? Did your friendship die out because of Mr. Bungle or Faith No More, or did you just go separate ways, or something else entirely?
As time wears on you find out who your friends are, and who they aren't. Mike and I always had the best working relationship imaginable. Really, very very good and fruitful. There are other things in life we see differently. I don't think those things are irreconcilable at all. But when you get used to having things your own way, and certain people around you resist the "natural order" of becoming subordinate to you, you may start nursing resentments. Even lashing out at them and calling them egomaniacs etc. for not assuming the position. I think in my case it was too painful for Patton to realize that where there are no subordinates there is no insubordination. Like most of us, Mike tends to begin the process of deciding whether or not he can afford to discard a person's point of view altogether, rather than facing certain difficult facts of life. So to answer your question, there was never any big mess between he and I specifically. The general dysfunction coming from being expected to silently endure more and more of this emerging top-down/top-dog order-barking thing he'd taken to just ended up getting really tiresome for everyone involved. In a band, strong personalities need to know where to draw the line on this kind of stuff. Anyway, since it wasn't going to happen, I was the idiot who started to draw that line. I admit I had more emotional involvement in the process than would be neccesary for a non-robot, having poured comparatively ridiculously copious doses of my blood into the project. Patton's subsequent resentment towards me is a fairly predictable outcome. You don't stand up to him and stay off the shit-list. A bummer, yeah, but its essentially a self-protecting reflex action - something I don't really feel a need to hold against him too much. He has his way. It won't change. And after all why should it? This method works well for him overall -- who am I to question it? I dare say it's even part of his charm. (we are a nation of pathological narcissists after all!). Whatever. Really, I feel fondly about the time we spent making music together, and feel we did some great things. And, while I am diametrically opposed to it on a human level, over time I do appreciate the clarity of his cut and dry approach: how black and white it makes things. You're either in the club, or out of the club. Unfortunately, I have to say I do prefer life as an excommunicate from that kind of 'friendship'. I know he prefers it that way too. I'm sure both of us would agree it was a good run, though.

There's a Painkiller disc he's on (replacing EYE) that is actually pretty amazing. I suggest you check it out.

That whole interview is great btw. Spruance's responses are... very intelligent.

Secret Chiefs 3 is deeeefinitely a band I need to look into more. I heard one of their albums before, and I was like "WHOA this is what Mr. Bungle should have been.. It's different genres but spread limited to one genre per song!" If you know what I'm trying to get at, but yeah.

Jim Martin DOES grow pu mpkins. he raises record size giant pumpkins. NO LIE.

as far as reunion goes, if Jim martin is not in it to riff it up on jizzlobber or their amazing cover of war pigs then FUCK the reunion.

I still rock real thing and angel dust

after that they sucked shit to my ears.
I hjate king for a day and calfornation whatever

King for a Day has "Evidence" which is one of the sexiest songs ever, so I'd love that album if only for that.

Also I skimmed through most of that interview and just, ugh. Trey Spruance himself seems pretty cool. It's the interviewer that I take issue with, he even insults himself and says "I don't understand your music, none of us do!" I hate it when people put others on a pedestal like that.

Do not insult Mark Prindle.

Summer, you're the only person in the world to dislike Mark Prindle. That's... noteworthy.

i'm not sure if its still up, but they posted a video of one of their recent rehearsals on the front page of their official site, great to see they haven't lost their sense of humour

Faith no more was cool when I was 9. Only Patton project I've ever really loved is Mr. Bungle. I'm far more interested in the Jane's Addiction reunion tour that is currently happening

overated and boring band like radiohead, u2, pearl jam and smashing pumpkins. Then again, what do i know about music anyways?

Incorrect. Nothing at all like U2, Pearl Jam or Radiohead. Sorry but that is not my opinion. That's just the truth. If you think they are boring than whatever, to each his own, but I think they make the best melodies of any band ever. Sheer aural ecstasy

i will go!

wade worthington = roddy??