Faith No More at Warfield night 1 videos: From the Dead, Matador and more

The two opening bands were below the bar.. La plebe was disappointing, frightwig had an interesting story from early years, so at least a bit more interesting.

I’d the one song I hear about over and over that I don’t get the love for is Zombie Eaters. Obviously it’s FNM, so it’s good, but it’s kind of long and repetitive. I like the old ‘rhythm exercise’ on the early bootlegs which was the skeleton of the song better than the actual song. Roddy’s keys on those early demos sounds cooler than the final song.

I would say that this setlist is a pretty good setlist, only being critical that it doesn’t change much night to night. Hopefully it will considering they are playing SF and LA multiple times. But I like that Everything’s Ruined, Cuckoo, and Spirit are showing up often and that Mark Bowen and Pristina have been played. People are tough on Epic. Off of TRT the songs that have aged the best IMO are FOON, Epic, TRT, and The Morning After. They’ve played all of those a ton of times on the reunion except haven’t played The Morning After since TRT tour. TRT may have sold a lot, but to me it is far and away their most uninteresting album, I think mostly b/c of the guitars…they are very cliché metal. Patton’s voice dates the record but sounds fine when he sings the songs now, so I think the guitars are mostly the problem.
I would like to 2nd Jacob for all the songs he wants to hear, except The World Is Yours…that song to me was a not so great B side. Hippie Jam Song, I Won’t Forget You, Perfect Crime, Absolute Zero would be cooler for me. I completely agree about Faster Disco and Kindergarten…those are probably the 2 FNM songs that I listen to the most. But more than anything in Detroit I would love to hear the new songs…all of them!! I hope they start playing Black Friday and Rise of the Fall by then!

zombie eaters and from out of nowhere and the real thing should be played every show. no idea why they dont play jizzlobber at all…kindergarten should be brought back….easy and evidence have been played EVERY SINGLE SHOW since mid 90s…bury them both and replace them with other slow songs (RV, edge of the world)…..if you drop KFAD from the set, you can replace it with 3 or 4 songs since its a 12 minute song….

I would describe the set list as “conservative”. It wasn’t bad, but it was all stuff we’ve been hearing them do since 2009, save the new tracks. They are good renditions, they’re evolving, and I still belted ’em all out and enjoyed them. Matador was a highlight for sure – it still gives me the same chills I got when the bootleg surfaced in 2011, and it was great to hear it live at last.

I was surprised not to hear Be Aggressive.

Roddy was having a great time and it showed. I was happy to have him take the lead in working the crowd as opposed to MP’s typical maybe-I-actually-hate-you-all schtick. For that matter, MP DID seem to be in a good mood; he didn’t yell at Roddy or throw shit at Puff, so maybe that’s a good sign.

I broadly concur that MP sounded a little challenged at times. He’s still the best in the business, but I am concerned he might actually be a bit tired in the voice right now. I’ll give him a pass – he’s 47 fracking years old! – but it was a little surprising given the man’s voice has seemed to only get better with age.

Big props to tbranado for snaking his way into the photog pit – great shots, my good man!

With regard to Falling To Pieces, BenM, it is my understanding from some interviews and fan input that the band really doesn’t like this song, and only played it once, halfway, out of love for a crowd in Mexico a few years ago.

Huge shout out to La Plebe – they burned it down, and I think I’m going to go catch them at BotH on 5/1. Great energy, great sound.

Unabashedly unrealistic fanboy songs I would love to hear over the next five shows:

Everything’s Ruined (I did get to hear this at Palladium in 2010, and it was gleeful in the extreme)
Kindergarten (This song is seriously feelsy for me, dunno if I’m in a minority on that one)
Crack Hitler (I know Billy mentioned this was in contention a few years ago in a CoS interview)
A Small Victory (still haven’t heard ’em do it since the AD tour, I know they did it once or twice in Europe a few years ago)
Absolute Zero (unlikely I know, they’ve played it ONCE near as I can tell, at the last “reunion” show)
The Real Thing
Midnight Cowboy (when they opened with this in 2010 a few times it was just fantastic, a wonderful dramatic entrance)
What A Day
Underwater Love
As The Worm Turns (probably the most likely on this list)
Mark Bowen (also not out of the question, and I LOVE what they did with this song for the reunion)

Balcony tickets for tonight are going for $40 on Stubhub; GA $80 and up.

I’ll be there tonight, as well as the three Wiltern shows and the Observatory, if anyone wants to fanboy/be cranky/laugh out in line. I’ll probably be wearing the Palladium “I Trident FNM” shirt and my Gate and Perimeter jacket (black, skull on the back) tonight. Also note that it IS 4/20 in San Francisco, so you out of towners, be prepared, it’s a real holiday around these parts 🙂

I tried not to ever complain because 6 yrs ago Id be happy if they came out and played Epic 19 times. But I guess now they are a completely active band soo…

Wtf? The sets are certainly not great. For a band so out if the box, they tour with the same old set. AOTY gets no love besides Ashes and Sorrow. 1 song from TRT? And it’s gonna be Epic of course. No sense in naming all the tracks that are worth playing but never see the light of day. We all know what they are.

Rant over.

Maybe that’s why it doesn’t get played that often.

Pretty standard set. Happy to see Matador in there. Curious to see how much they change it up tonight. I’m going to both NY shows and I’m hoping for big changes between the 2 nights. When I saw them in brooklyn they changed it up nicely between night 1 & 2.