The one where an injured and seemingly annoyed Puffy leaves and Mike Patton apparently takes over on drums.
This was recorded in 30 July 1990 in Sydney as part of a Live at the Wireless show for Australia’s leading station Triple J.
07 – War Pigs_0
Downloads of the full show are very easy to find on Google.
I had this on tape that didn’t leave my walkman for most of the end of 1990 and 1991. Have since lost the tape…Does anyone know where a copy exists? This has been my musical Holy Grail to re-find this session!
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He was in a lot of pain and he was fucking up his parts a bit because of that. This is according to an interview with Mike Patton, Roddy and Bill I heard in 97′ on JJJ when they toured here in Australia. I can remember this because I was in high school at the time and was standing outside the library after school listening to it on Walkman radio haha! and I had The Real Thing album in the tape player haha!
War Pigs was definitely the final song of the session. And yes, Puffy hurt his ribs bungy jumping in New Zealand, he played all the Australian shows in some form of pain.
Just a great line, “our drummer is leaving the building……..bye……….he he he….”.
During Epic I think, Patton says “JEEEEESSSSUUUUUUUSSSSSS!!!!”, I assume directed at Puffy’s drumming. It’s a shame too b/c the audio is sound good in that studio…it would be the quintessential live version for some of those songs if Puffy wasn’t struggling so much. I’ve always been confused though…did Puffy come back in to play “Falling To Pieces” or was that track moved to the end? I have 2 versions of this and it seems that the “original” has FTP after War Pigs.
I have heard that recording. Puffy sounded real pissed off and whole band is teasing him. Hilarious!
I have to admit that upon first listening to the song I was under the impression that Patton was on drums for the entire thing. Then I thought, as much as I love Patton, there’s no way in hell he’s playing drums that good, on top of singing while doing it. So it made much more sense when I listened to more and realized Patton took over drumming towards the end.
He did an admirable job, but you can definitely tell the difference between Puffy and Mike, haha.
I remember meeting Puffy and chatting with him in Melbourne when FNM toured Australia in ’97 and asked him about what happened during War Pigs on the triple j recording. He said that in NZ they went bungey jumping and he cracked or bruised his ribs (can’t remember exactly) and said by war pigs he was in a lot of pain and couldn’t go on anymore and just got up and left. He said the guys had been stirring him but it was the intense pain that was the reason why Patton jumped on the drums and took over.
Holy crap, that’s really something – Patton playing the drums and singing to this song at the same time? awesome! One thing I crave more than a Bungle reunion or getting satisfied by FNM playing songs they never play (more or less), is footage of Mike playing an instrument. I love the video where he blasts beats the hell out of an Emperor song, but that’s about it… unless you count his keyboard playing. This is great.
And you know, it’s funny people always said Patton was never a Sabbath fan and was annoyed with covering “War Pigs” all the time – I doubt that. Sure, he was annoyed with covering the song all the time honestly, but not a fan of the band in general? I don’t know; he’s known for his love of british bands with original sounds — and what’s better than the guys who gave birth to dark and heavy metal? ha ha.
And was that Jim on vocals too? saying “f–k bodies” or something? Just shows you even he had a sense of humor when it came to covering his idols.
Easy to find? Really? The recordings went missing from TripleJ, it’s one of their most revered live sessions. I guess someone recovered them? I’ve only got a battered old tape from the original radio broadcast.
They did a beautiful cover of a Nestles commercial, only to realise that nobody in this country had seen the ad… he jokes about Sebastian Bach stealing his girlfriend… the session is absolutely legendary.
Yeah, not half bad. Wish there was some video footage of that one.
Quite good playing, Mikey.