![]() ![]() Slipknot, Faith No More, Megadeth Set for Knotfest “But things were going well, and we wanted to see it develop.” ![]() “We were kind of mismatched,” says Bordin. One volunteer, Chuck Mosely, a mohawked howler who was a friend of Gould’s, began turning up regularly to monopolize the microphone, and eventually he was inducted into the band. Unable to find a suitable vocalist, the quartet took to playing clubs with an open-mike policy, letting a member of the audience supply vocals each night. They wrote together for a year before recruiting Jim Martin, who’d been kicking around the Bay Area in a band called Vicious Hatred, which also included the late Cliff Burton, Metallica’s original bassist. “We’ve earned what we’ve achieved - a little more than some record company all of a sudden giving us a lot of money.”īordin, Bottum and bassist Billy Gould formed Faith No More in 1982. “We’ve worked for a really long time,” says Roddy Bottum, the soft-spoken keyboardist. While the members of the band acknowledge the massive boost afforded them by MTV’s support, they’re quick to point out that the break was well deserved. In late July, the album cracked the Top Twenty and was certified gold. Then, in March, when MTV began airing the arty video for the single “Epic,” The Real Thing began to move steadily. ![]() After the band received an attention-getting Grammy nomination for Best Heavy Metal Performance, The Real Thing reentered the charts at Number 188. But things started to change in late February. In early 1990, Faith No More was still trying to break out of cult status the band’s third album, The Real Thing, released in June 1989, had already disappeared from the Billboard charts. Finally, he skulks off down a side street. He lopes along behind the band for about a block, until it’s clear that no dinner invitation is forthcoming. They’ve only taken a few steps when the same annoying cretin pops out from behind a lamppost. The rest of the band members set out for a Chinese restaurant a few blocks away. Jim Martin, Faith No More’s guitarist, departs for the band’s hotel. The fan hangs around for another few minutes, then disappears. Seven years! She doesn’t have tickets to the show, either.” “See that girl over there?” Bordin asks, waving a hand toward Faith No More’s tour bus. Still, he’s making an effort to be polite. Bordin, who’s been dragged around mercilessly by Faith No More’s publicist since nine this morning, is tired, hungry and especially cranky. He squints up at a teenager who has spent the last ten minutes harassing him for free tickets to tonight’s show. Mike “Puffy” Bordin, the wiry drummer for Faith No More, is sitting on a curb outside New York City’s Ritz, chin supported by his fist, a dreadlocked version of Rodin’s Thinker. ![]()
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