Miscellaneous Debris: Media blog post #3

In June of last year (2009) I witnessed what I consider to be the best musical performance I have ever seen, and ironically it wasn't in the traditional fashion, it was also the first concert I've seen that was 100% streamed live over the internet. The show was Faith No More (www.FNM.com) at the Download festival in the UK. This was the beginning of their renunion tour, and only the second show they had played in over ten years (they stopped touring in 1998).

The show wasn't without it's gliches, actually it's really funny to watch Mike Patton forget the lyrics like he does close to the end of The Real Thing (about 7:28, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0TuIKVoF4Q&feature=related ), but all in all the show's sound was flawless and the song lineup had something for every fan including a creatively placed Peaches and Herb cover to kick things off; Reunited -

The highlights for me were the inclusion of From Out of Nowhere, Land of Sunshine, Chinese Arithmetic, Evidence, Last Cup of Sorrow, Midlife Crisis, Ashes to Ashes and Stripsearch.

To Learn more about Faith No More, the summary on their Wikipedia page does a fairly nice job of parsing their history down to a sound bite, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_No_More. In my opinion, this is one of the most important bands of my generation, no other has been as been as successful in effectively cross pollenating music genres or has been as influential to so many other artists. You can also find Roddy Bottum's blog here: http://www.roddybottum.com/roddybottum.com/blog/blog.html

Fortunately you can still watch the rest of the show, albeit piecemeal, here:

2 - The Real Thing -