Mike Patton is Fucking Nuts

Today I found myself viewing Wikipedia's Faith No More page. Here are some snippets reinforcing the fact that Mike Patton is in fact Mr Nuts. Patton utilizes a wide variety of vocal styles and techniques, and so his performances can (and often do) include airy falsetto passages, Sinatra-esque lounge crooning, death-metal grunts, medieval style chanting, an abrasive take on scat singing featuring various shrieks, screeches, and the occasional jostling of his Adam's apple while singing, as well as a variety of authentic-sounding vocal emulations of things such as flowing water, a train, or a computer voice.



- Ironically, the 'Care Bears' animated motion picture also used Faith No More's song "We Care A Lot" without permission. It was rumored the band decided not to sue because they did not want to be known as the "Band that sued the Care Bears."

- At a show in Seville, Spain the crowd was throwing empty plastic water bottles at the band. Someone threw a bottle on-stage that had urine in it. At one point in the concert, Mike Patton opened the bottle and poured the contents over his head, plunging the entire audience into shocked silence. Billy Gould and Roddy Bottum have stated that this was their favorite concert.

- More so than other Mike Patton related projects, Mr. Bungle was known for their terrifying stage shows, where Patton would wear a gimp mask and Trevor Dunn would donn a blue dress and pigtails while headbanging maniacally.

- Mike Patton defecated in an orange juice carton and then sealed it and returned it to Axl Rose's tourbus vending machine.

- During a European tour, Patton defecated on a park bench in front of Kensington Palace.

- "Revenge is good. I think revenge is healthy too, and if you can use music in that way, a sort of therapeutic way for yourself, it can't do any harm. So if King (For A Day...Fool For A Lifetime) is angry in any way, it's angry in a random, chaotic, healthy way. Like the guy who goes into a building, shoots a bunch of holes in the wall and then leaves. He didn't kill anybody."

- During a 1991 concert in Denmark, Patton told the audience that tour-mates, Lenny Kravitz and Sinead O'Connor were copulating in the hospitality tent. Kravitz looked on in horror.

- Faith No More gained a reputation for publicly ridiculing their more mainstream tour hosts--especially Guns n' Roses

- Patton has claimed to be a video game junkie and a movie buff.



- Patton became infamous for talking about his self-stimulation habits in the press. He often wore a t-shirt with a grotesque image of a man sitting on a toilet seat, pleasuring himself, and the words "Girls are OK--but they're not the real thing."

- Faith No More was famous for showing their disdain for MTV...on MTV. This can be seen in the Hanging with MTV performance during the Angel Dust era, where the band continuously interrupted a flustered VJ while she was trying to introduce the next video. video

- "I got one entire song from fortune cookies (Land of Sunshine). On another one, I took words from different Frank Sinatra songs and pasted them together. Another one, I was just driving around and there was a piece of paper on the ground, so I stole it."

- Anthony Keidis, envious of Faith No More's success and angry that it seemed to have been achieved in part due to Mike Patton having stolen 'his moves,' he accused Patton of ripping him off in the press. Members of Mr Bungle responded by gleefully threatening Keidis with bodily harm in interviews and press features. Then, when Mr Bungle was asked to play at some European festivals in 1999, Keidis threatened to cancel his band's appearance, and Bungle was dropped. That Halloween, Mr Bungle retaliated by playing a show in Pontiac, Michigan dressed as the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Mr. Bungle covered the songs Give it Away, Around The World, Under the Bridge, and Scar Tissue on Halloween 1999 where Patton introduced each band member with the name of one of the Red Hot Chili Peppers (including Trey Spruance as "the Ghost of Hillel Slovak"). They proceeded to imitate many of the mannerisms of the band, including their tattoos, frequent heroin injections, and on-stage antics. Kiedis responded by having them removed from festivals in 2000 (or rather, threatening to pull the Chili Peppers from them unless Bungle were removed).

- In 2006 during an interview with G4/Tech TV, a Wolfmother song started blaring in the background. He stopped what he was saying mid-sentence and burst out with "Are you hearing this shit?!", and then proceeded to say "What year is it?! Forgive me, but Wolfmother... you SUCK!". WATCH



The Unofficial Mike Patton site did a 20 questions style interview with Patton a while back. Lookie here:

Q: Best cure for a hangover?
A: Red Bull and horse semen

Q: Our universe: a coincidence or God’s master plan?
A: Neither. It is something L Ron Hubbard created.

Q: Who inspires you right now?
A: Sigur Ros

Q: Better MC: Chuck D or Q-Tip?
A: Chuck D..... or Lil Romeo

Q: Squeeze me macaroni?
A: No thanks.

Q: Is the internet the new frontier for musicians?
A: No, it is the last frontier for wasting time and sucking the life out of an artist.

Q: What is your favorite movie of all time?
A: Big Momma's House 2

Q: Philosophy to live by?
A: Whistle while you work...or Ass, grass or gas....nobody rides for free!

Q: What is sexy to you?
A: Danny Devito

Q: What would the manager from your first job say about you?
A: He was HOT!!!

Q: Tell us about your first gig? Pathetic? Amazing?
A: Yes.

Q: What’s more important: girth or length?
A: Wait a minute! I thought size didn't matter!!!!!!

Q: What’s your favorite personal defect?
A: My food addiction.

Q: Where do you go to find new music?
A: To my recording studio.

Q: Veggie burger with a side of steamed broccoli or meat lover’s pizza with extra meat?
A: Screw the Veggie burger! Gimme raw meat!!!

Q: Shouldthe U.S. stay in Iraq or get the hell out?
A: We got bigger problems, like Florida!

Q: Dave Grohl once said that he never gets tired of being asked about
Nirvana? How do you feel about being asked about your old bands?
A: That is odd. I never get asked about Nirvana. I guess people just don't care about me. I do get asked about the Foo Fighters all the time. I got asked about Scream once and Probot a couple times too. Actually I have even been asked about Queens of the Stone Age, but never Nirvana. Hmmmm.

Q: What is the meaning of life?
A: That is a better question for Dave Grohl.

Q: If you could be reincarnated, what would you like to come back as?
A: A rock star!

Q: Would you boink Madonna?
A: NO!!!!!! That dude is soooo not hot.

I rest my case.