It’s back from the dead! The TB Mega Thread.

[MSUsousaphone]

I for sure dug all of his stuff. Tomahawk, too.

But yeah...I love that interview....."I'm doing 60's Itallian music with an orchestra......WolfMother.....what year are we in....?"

[behndy]

that's weird. i loved FNM, and saw Bungle like 7 or 8 times and every time was AMAZING. but didna dig the Peeping Tom show i caught. but i didna like the album that much.

i'm a HUGE Patton fan though. the two "For Voice" things he did were great, the mellow soundtrack thing was good, some of the Tomahawk stuff was cool, the Malador thing with Masami Akita is maybe my favorite Merzbow'ian thing evah.... but Peeping Tom felt like his Tired Of Being All Indie And Don't Wanna Do FNM Reunion Shtuff, Cash Me Out Please attempt at mainstreaming it. which.... he has the voice to go that way, but i like it better when he focuses on his vocals and has a band of musicians that write the music.

he's pretty much my favorite male vocalist though.

[alexa.]

I LOVE what he did with the dillinger escape plan

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3ez-DpwiqM[/youtube]

[behndy]

oh jia. i like about a 1/4 of the Dillinger songs usually, that whole ep with Patton is HAPPY Tits.

kinda funny that they got somebody that (originally at least) really bit off Patton's style as a replacement.

[foomanfat]

that's weird. i loved FNM, and saw Bungle like 7 or 8 times and every time was AMAZING. but didna dig the Peeping Tom show i caught. but i didna like the album that much.

i'm a HUGE Patton fan though. the two "For Voice" things he did were great, the mellow soundtrack thing was good, some of the Tomahawk stuff was cool, the Malador thing with Masami Akita is maybe my favorite Merzbow'ian thing evah.... but Peeping Tom felt like his Tired Of Being All Indie And Don't Wanna Do FNM Reunion Shtuff, Cash Me Out Please attempt at mainstreaming it. which.... he has the voice to go that way, but i like it better when he focuses on his vocals and has a band of musicians that write the music.

he's pretty much my favorite male vocalist though.

I seem to remember him saying somewhere that Peeping Tom was basically him writing what, in his mind, is a pop record.
Coming from this perspective I can see where he went with that group, but then I've always kind of dug PT's vibe.

[My name is Mudd]

I didn't know that Henry Rollins had/has his own show...gotta go looking for more of that stuff.

[Gozu]

i thought the best track on peeping tom was the one with Dub Trio. the rest was hit and miss

[excane]

I didn't know that Henry Rollins had/has his own show...gotta go looking for more of that stuff.

yah, it was a good show. He had some great guests on, (larry flynt was especially memorable) but the show has long been cancelled.

It was great too since it was on IFC, they didn't water anything down.

[Gozu]

didn't mars volta play a 16 minute version of one of their songs on Rollins show?

[warwick.hoy]

There really only are a few FNM, Mr. Bungle and Tomahawk songs that I like.

Epic
War Pigs
and the Commodores Song they covered.
(okay two of those 3 are covers and one of which is a hit)
I like God Hates a Coward and Goodbye Sober Day

I just could never bring myself to listen to an album by a Mike Patton project from start to finish. Just Can Not Do It.

Mike Patton is a big influence on Mecha Shiva's geets player. So logic should dictate that I ought to be listening to those records,...but whatever,...they don't listen to Phish records soooooo,.....

I definitely respect Patton as an artist though.

EDIT: The only DEP record I liked was Calculating Infinity. That was at a time that was searching for bands that were like Candiria and Meshuggah (prior to the whole "djent" movement).

True story,...the first time I heard Meshuggah was right after Choasphere came out while I was tripping. I was staying in Pennsylvania to decompress,...get some debts paid off. While visiting my old band and making plans to come back and reunite with them in Virginia Beach,...I dropped some acid,...went to a local show with the bandmates,...went back to the rehearsal studio afterwards,...and the guitar player was like; Check this out. He pumped Chaosphere on the stereo. Totally a mind altering experience. Meshuggah,...on Acid,....RULES.

[Joe Gress]

I LOVE what he did with the dillinger escape plan

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3ez-DpwiqM[/youtube]

I love that album.


To me Patton is kinda hit and miss. FNM I really like a few albums, the rest are kinda meh. I dug Fantomas alot, but mr bungle is a little I dunno, not my style at all.

[Jwar]

I was Seven Mary Three, Live, and Stabbing Westward on acid. I could barely move I was so fried. God I don't miss drugs!

I'm not a big Meshuggah fan. They have some good stuff, but one of their albums pissed me off so fucking much. It was like each song was the same as the last. So annoying.

My favorite Patton project (besides FNM, Warwick you goddamn blasphemer!) is Lovage: Music to Make Love to your Old Lady By. So fucking awesome.



[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JYkoJ6L10c[/youtube]

[theavondon]

didn't mars volta play a 16 minute version of one of their songs on Rollins show?

They played two songs off of Amputetchure, one of which is just 16 minutes long. But yeah, that performance rules.

[behndy]

i love like.... a third of the stuff Patton's involved with. he's been a huge influence on how i approach music..... but.....

i was thinking about it, and while i agree that WolfMother is pretty bad and i don't get why they're necessary or popular.... and it's FUNNY to hear somebody be that dick-handed some times..... i kinda hate seeing that shit. almost every interview i've heard/read with him makes me think he'd be a horrible letdown to meet in person. and what irks me about him is that he's had a pretty blessed career. yesh, he has MAD talent. but i know a lot of people with amazing talent that it just shook out where they haven't done a 12th what Patton's done.

and he gets to do ANY project he wants. for somebody to have a chance to do so many different things as he has and work with the best i each genre.... it's kinda unheard of now.

i'm jealous.

[dubkitty]

my former roommate had what i think is a wise take on the slagging-other-bands thing...he says that if you're prominent at all and you're tempted/prompted to say something negative about another artist, don't, because it just makes you look like an asshole and nothing good can come of it.

Patton's an interesting character. he strikes me as a later version of that California punk-rock archetype, the Mad-Ass Jock With A Brain.