Faith No More

[The Mock Turtle Regulator]

I read in an interview that he had trouble with the neck on the aria warping, which would be troublesome for live work.

so i guess that's the reason he switched to the graphite-neck Zon.

 

[keb]

Bill's great. A fine player and songwriter and a heckuva nice guy.

 

[davidmurphy]

Faith No More Roooooooooooooool!

Not many bands can do that range of styles & stay credible.
GREAT rockin' band!

 

[f'nar f'nar]

Three words: Land Of Sunshine.

 

[Baryonyx]

^^^ Top class song that, and a brilliant way to open an album.

 

[velvetkevorkian]

Definitely one of the best bands ever. The Real Thing is probably my number one album of the 1980s- my favourite album of theirs, although they're all good.

 

[Panther]

DEFINITELY one band that is overdue for a reunion/new CD!

One of my top 5 bands ever!

 

[Mo' bass]

What got me started on FNM was Everything's Ruined. Great and very musical band.

 

[bassjamn]

Great band & bass playing by Billy Gould.
I heard he was into producing these days and did some stuff with Brujera(sp)? Mexican Metal'r band a a while ago.

 

[Mikeus]

Billy Gould is THE reason i started playing bass.

i can pretty much nail his "Introduce Yourself", "The Real Thing", "Angel Dust" and "King For A Day" tones on my custom Ibanez SDGR 4 string with bartolinis

id kill my mother for one of his Zon basses or to get my hands on one of those Aria basses he used...

MIKE

 

[Modulrob]

Am I the only person that really felt "Album of the Year" was just that? Not to mention the best way to go out?

If I had to rank them I'd got like this:
AotY
KfaD
Angeldust
TRT
IY
WCA

More or less the reverse order of they releases.

I pretty much agree, but I have King for a Day on top, in fact one of my favorite albums ever. Trey Spruance played guitar (the *incredible* dude from Mr. Bungle) and the grooves just ooze, with great solos and small fills thrown in all over the place keeping things way cool. What's interesting about Album of the Year is that Billy Gould produced that...*definitely* the guy keeping it together. I love him because he's not flash but plays f'ing great bass parts for the songs.

 

[Mikeus]

Bill plays guitar now in a band that i dont really like the sound of...

 

[SUNNyday r.]

Listening to the Midnight Cowboy soundtrack right now and think that the title song was covered on Angel Dust. And their cover of Easy like Sunday Morning was awesome too. Mr. Bungle was "white" rap done right. Ahh, I miss those days. Good times and music that helped me expand out of the beloved metal.

 

[Baryonyx]

DEFINITELY one band that is overdue for a reunion/new CD!

One of my top 5 bands ever!

I'll say! We can wish....

 

[Benjamin Strange]

Listen to Mr Bungle and forget everything you thought music should be like.

And after that, listen to John Zorn and hear where Mr. Bungle got all of their ideas.

Billy Gould and FNM simply destroy. They are a criminally overlooked band.

 

[Baryonyx]

Yep, they were undoubtedly a huge influence on the whole nu metal thing, which is something they detest!

 

[SurrenderMonkey]

Yeah, Faith No More... For me one of the last great rock band.

My picking order :
KFADFFAL
Angel Dust
Epic

I never really digged Album Of The Year. A few good things, but overall, didn't grabbed me.

The whole band was great. Bordin is always a laugh watching live. he MURDERS his kit. There's a video where he breaks his left stick, the nutter.

My fave song of them, I'd go with Jizzlobber. No wait, King For a Day. Although Just A Man is awesome too... Or maybe Kindergarden... gah... Epic! Digging The Grave! I don't know... so many to choose!

 

[Audiophage]

Mr. Bungle was "white" rap done right.

Maybe if you've only listened to a couple of their earlier tunes. They're so much more than that though.

 

[Ekim]

Yep, they were undoubtedly a huge influence on the whole nu metal thing, which is something they detest!

Something FNM detests? Interesting.

Hell, FNM kills any NU METAL I've ever heard.

 

[sloppysubs]

One thing I have to point out on an earlier comment is that the song is called "Epic". The album that song was on is called The Real Things.

That said, one thing about Billy that I love and have been trying to do for a long time is that muted rythm stuff he does.

You know, where he mutes out his low E and plays the rythm on the muted string. I can do it, I always get some sort of harmonic. But that's a great technique that I've honestly only ever heard him use.