![]() One of the reasons could be the ubiquity of the band after ‘Epic’ went, well, epic, meaning memories are forever tied up with specific times and places for many listeners, me included. That all said, there’s a vitality to the Chuck Mosley period of Faith No More that actually feels more alive and contemporary than with Patton at the helm. His career has been a triumph of perversity, vicissitude and above all, innovation, and his forays into what can only be described as avant garde metal, have made him one of the most compelling artists around, while his label Ipecac keeps dropping thrillingly off the wall new music. Off the back of Faith No More, Patton has been able to consistently release some seriously recondite and envelope-pushing music into the world over the last 20 years, and find an audience only too happy to lap it up. And the recent glorious comeback - also led by Patton - crowned with the excellent Sol Invictus album.īecause the Patton years were so successful, it’s become a bit of a received wisdom that they must therefore be the best. The all-conquering Mike Patton era, from 89 to 98, when they became a world straddling, MTV-sanctioned, unit-shifting rock behemoth. The pre-Chuck Mosley era when they didn’t really release anything and had dalliances with various singers, including a young Courtney Love. This all is of course heartwarming and satisfactorily grown up.īroadly speaking, Faith No More’s time as an entity can be divided up into four distinct phases. Thankfully everybody has kissed and made up, and Mosley and Patton (who sings with the reformed Faith No More) were photographed hugging and hanging out together in LA after the second show, which is a bit like two Doctors meeting. Legal action regarding publishing rights followed his dismissal, the stuff of hurt feelings and hysterical headlines. Astonishing, because there was a lot of bad blood between the singer and the band before Chuck went off to join Bad Brains rumours of substance abuse abounded, and the final straw apparently involved Mosley falling asleep at the launch party for Introduce Yourself. FNM followed up the recent show with another in Los Angeles two days later. Astonishingly, Faith No More played a show to promote the We Care A Lot reissue with Chuck Mosley, a singer they ejected in the late 80’s before giving his job to a young Mike Patton. It started with the Sex Pistols’ Filthy Lucre reformation - or maybe the Pixies getting back together - and may yet conclude with The Smiths burying the hatchet, or The Beatles taking a whistle-stop tour of Britain’s remaining music halls with two sentient holograms in tow.Īnother of those amazing spectacles took place in San Francisco on 18th August to celebrate the rerelease of an album made in 1985. Rock ‘n’ roll is going through a phase we might call the things we never thought we’d see again period.
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