The Faith No More Appreciation Thread

Malice wrote: »

Out of curiosity is there a general consensus on where to start with the many side-projects that Faith No More members have been involved in?

Basically all that Crüe pointed out, I especially love Mr. Bungle and Fantômas, if you topple them with as much love as I did you'll be able to delve further into the wackey woods of Avant Garde, and as a fan of John Zorn may I introduce you to the many collaborations with him spanning many records. He's recorded for John as a fellow musician and to fulfil Zorn's compositions under bands such as Moonchild (which also includes Mr. Bungle and Fantômas bassist Trevor Dunn, as well as an amazing drummer called Joey Baron), Naked City, Hemophiliac, Painkiller, Weirld Little Boy, Masada and John Zorn's "solo" albums (despite all the above practically being John Zorn solo albums. He also done many live performances with Zorn's improv band Cobra — as did other Bungle members Trey Spruance (who recorded KFAD with FNM, not touring), Trevor Dunn and Danny Heifetz — and Masada.

And another interest fact is that John Zorn produced Mr. Bungle's very first studio album which is self titled, which got Patton and Zorn working on the long term. As I think you said before Malice, your were into Rap and Hip Hop, therefore I think you should check out General Patton & The Executioners, which is a very good Alternative Hip Hop side project. Also, another project to look out for is Crudo, which is between Patton and producer Dan the Automator, whom he worked with for Lovage, Peeping Tom among others — it hasn't even been released yet, but most people who cared aboutit still managed to hear it one way or the other!

If you are interested at all in the Avant Garde stuff I would recommend going in and getting the Electronic Avant Garde album with Electronic Noice artist from Japan, Merzbow, who worked with Melt Banana as did Patton. Also on the AG front, his collaborations with Zu and Kaada is tops! Stuff with Björk is quite interesting too but he's only on four tracks about. Mike's solo stuff, especially Adult Themes For Voice and Mondo Cane are sweet pieces of music.

But some of his film scores is great, Crank 2: High Voltage is my favourite, it's like action film Fantômas! Only hear A Perfect Place about three times, but it's intense from what I remember. He has a new one coming up soon and narrated a martial arts film with Mark Wahlberg in it, forget it's name, it was out in America at the beginning of this year. He's done the screams of the creatures in I Am Legend interestingly, and on the video game front he's done the infected voices on Left 4 Dead 1 & 2 and the Darkness. Probably missing a load but whatever!


So, wanna hear the rest of the bands' side projects? I'll stop being an anorak, but in fairness, my sig is there for a reason.

jack presley wrote: »

One of my favourite bands and although the 2 albums after he left were excellent, the band weren't the same without Big Jim. The sound of his guitars, his presence on stage, the fact that the rest of the band hated him etc. all combined to make them much more brilliant with him in the band.

I would have loved it if the reunion had included him.

I never ever noticed much of stage presence at all with Martin, he was generally just a 'stand here' guitarist, looked cool albeit. And you know that he probably only recorded about 2 songs on Angel Dust, right? He only contributed writing to one of them anyway, Billy played guitar on the rest. So he only really ever contributed to The Real Thing, Introduce Yourself and We Care A Lot. So no, Jim wasn't that important. In fact that leaves two of my favourite albums without contribution from Big Jim, Angel Dust and King For A Day Fool For A Lifetime — which Trey Spruance of Mr. Bungle recorded on, and was great, and toured the album with Dean Menta, now with Sparks, whom was 100 times more energetic than Martin.

bnt wrote: »

Billy Gould has been an inspiration to me as a bassist - I'm really in to the murky areas where rock & funk cross over, and he's one of the pioneers there. He fooled me for a long while, too - much of what I thought was thumb-style (slapping) is actually plectrum e.g. Land Of Sunshine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYvX2_aupH0

He used either/or to be honest, there's plenty of times I've seen him use an aggressive finger plucking style to play Land Of Sunshine, it's primarily his sound which is a massive part of his playing method, his tone is so hard to pinpoint, I spent my fair share of cash to achieve something close to it, stuff like Peavey cabs, heads, drivers, alternative strings, etc. I love his work personally, he's the key man behind the bands sound, Mike and Puffy and Roddy all said there's no band without him, he's the main force behind most songs too, Mike said he's the go-to-guy to make things sound 'big'. My favourite member of the bad, despite being a big of a Pattonhead.


Edit: Also, Happy belated Birthday to the very man, Billy Gould, an outstanding bass player, the person whom inspired me into bass playing! His birthday was yesterday, he's 48 now, wow!