Jeremy Allen – one of the foremost media Faith No More experts – conducted an interview with Chuck Mosley in Paris before the find date of his Reintroduce Yourself tour and The Quietus today published the revealing Q and A.
Here are some highlights:
So tell me about your dreams.
CM: Yeah, in the dream I get invited back to play. I’m on stage with them but I can’t sing a word, I can’t remember a word and I don’t know what to do, and I freak out and hide behind an amplifier, and Billy looks disappointed at me and they’re all looking at me. I had it for a good 20 years or something – a lot! – and it was weird. And then it stopped when I started playing with them again. It stopped happening actually after the first time I went back with them.
So wait? You’re telling me they’d already auditioned Mike Patton when you were still in the band?
CM: I dunno, maybe they had. It took a while, you know, for it to come out. It could easily be that they’d already been talking to Mike before I was even done. Billy was really angry with me for a while for whatever reason. But it’s all under the bridge now, we’re all really super good.
Looking back, what would you do differently?
CM: Probably just show more that I was a team player and go along with the programme a bit more. I could never do that when I was a kid. I’ve always been a rebel and it’s got me in trouble sometimes, and probably kept me poor. And then again, maybe not, because I might not have the two daughters that I have, you know. And we’re all so close now. You know, I came full circle for a reason; I had to grow up a little bit and we all grew up and it’s all good.
Thoughts anyone about Patton joining Dead Cross??
All the zombies walk on Black Friday…
So in his interview, Chuck talks about plans to move to England so that his life partner and mother of his children can be around her family. I was hoping to talk him out of this….I live in Ohio and I haven’t gotten to see him live yet! Now….I kind of wish I was heading out of the USA too. But I can’t leave now, I have too much work to do. I’m a white, straight, middle class, American man. I feel the need to help my documented and undocumented countrymen and women who don’t look like me or love like me know that we aren’t all just driven by our own self interest. I also feel the need to help the world understand that whatever the fallout that is coming, a popular vote majority tried to set a different path.
In the meantime, I’ll be listening to this quit a bit…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGJzMzW3kuY