.FaithNoMore's TheRealThing at 30: How they switched singers & delivered a classic
Rock n' roll lore is filled with successful frontman transplant stories -- AC/DC, Van Halen, Iron Maiden, Journey, King Crimson, Black Sabbath. For a group to switch lead singers mid-ascent, however, is a far more daring trick.
"We played Humboldt County with Chuck, and Trey [Spruance], the guitar player from Mr. Bungle, gave us their demo cassette," remembers the group's bassist and fellow co-founder Billy Gould. "So we'd play it on the bus, and Jim Martin was really hip to it. So when things didn't work out with Chuck, Jim suggested we reach out to Mike even though we didn't properly meet him yet. We didn't know anything about him other than Jim liked the tape.
"It was nothing I would ever listen to, so when the idea came up I was, 'Who is this guy?" questioned Bottum at the time. "I remember listening to the Bungle tape and hearing how great Mike sings, because they would do crazy snippets of covers and it showed a crazy range. But it wasn't my bag." "That's what was immediately beautiful about Mike Patton to us at that point," admits Bordin. "When we played The Fillmore and they came down to see the show, we ran into them accidentally and let them know again how much we enjoyed the tape. And they were like, 'We don't sound like that anymore.' Then the next tape we heard was this super-secret spy ska stuff. That, to me and I think most of us in the band at the time, it carried a lot of weight.
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