The Small Victories tour will finally reach the US this February. Adrian Harte, author of Small Victories: The True Story of Faith No More, will be speaking about the book and signing copies, alongside special guests, in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Los Angeles
Tuesday 19 February | Booksoup | 7pm
Book Soup
8818 Sunset Boulevard
West Hollywood, CA 90069
I’m delighted to say I’ll be joined by Faith No More’s long-time producer Matt Wallace for a Q and A discussion with audience questions, followed by a book signing at Booksoup. Booksoup is one of the largest independent bookstores in LA, and is located on Sunset Boulevard in west Hollywood.
San Francisco
23 February | Green Apple Books on the Park | 7pm
Green Apple Books on the Park
1231 9th Ave. (@ Lincoln Way)
San Francisco, CA 94122
The home of Faith No More will play host to a unique event. Adrian Harte will discuss his new book Small Victories: The True Story of Faith No More with Faith No More member Bill Gould and special guests.
The event takes place in the Bay Area’s most well-known independent bookstore, and specifically in the store’s Green Apple Books on the Park store on
9th Ave at Lincoln Way.
Wine and beer will be served and books signed.
More details here at Green Apple
Sign up for the event at Facebook
I remember an interview with Bill and he was asked what songs he does or does not enjoy playing live anymore. I remember he liked playing Epic which surprised me…he definitely no longer enjoys playing Death March. But there are quite a few shows in the 2nd half of the 97 tour where they omitted Epic. They didn’t play it at the Chile show with Trey and there were a few 2015 shows they didn’t play it either, mostly when they played SI in it’s entirety.
The inclusion of “epic” in their set lists actually puzzles me – since for the most part the band normally doesn’t give into public demand and if anything would normally go against the grain – probably the bands most popular and well known song and i actually skip by it when listening them live and the only thing i like about the song is the end of the track when they include a sample from another artist.
Agreed. On live bootlegs, Jim does a great job of take a 1/2 measure he and there to add in a little solo fill. On WCAL, Midlife, Epic, he works in great little bits.
Listening back (to random where ever my finger lands at on the podcast scroll bar) a good example of Jim martins ability to insert on the spot solo brilliance was in phoenix 93 when pattons microphone died at the end of ‘midlife crisis’ and we got to hear what Big Jim brought to the fnm table. The band hasn’t been able to fill that guitar level of greatness. And it probably would have went unnoticed only for the malfunctioning mic. Maybe he consciously upped his game on recognition of the loss of vocals.
Wasn’t much of a dean menta fan (too animated) and although i like what jon Hudson brings to the band i think Jim Martins ability was just too good to top – pity he was so stubborn and not a team player
Can’t wait for some info about how these events went. I’m feeling fairly starved from FNM member related music. Nobody’s been putting any music out there for purchase. The last thing was early 2018 Dead Cross EP (which wasn’t all that good), Patton doing various background vocals on some songs, 1922 (which was good), and Roddy put a little experimental song on his bandcamp page. 2017 was better (Dead Cross album & Primitive Race album). 2019 could be good “Now We Are Timeless” by Imperial Teen and whatever Nastie Band releases…all still very far away…it mostly looks like all the interesting music is coming from other places for now.
These are some notes from the event on Saturday 23 Feb 2019, where Billy Gould and Mike Bordin joined the book’s author for a chat about Faith No More in San Francisco. The notes are my recollection of some answers by the band members to questions asked by the audience. I share them here in case they are of interest to other fans, as I doubt that there were recordings of the event.
On Epic: they included it in most setlists because it felt right, they didn’t get bored playing it. Moved the song to earlier in the setlist to avoid the sense of people waiting for it.
On Angel dust: they don’t feel is necessarily their best album, just one album offering a portrait of a specific time of the band, like any of the other albums. Mike said he prefers King for a day actually…
On Last cup of sorrow video: it’s one of their favorite videos (Billy)
On playing with Chuck versus with Mike Patton: music is played the same, no difference from an execution perspective
On Chile connection: Billy said many of the details in the book were new to him (e.g., the notes about Chilean author Alberto Fuguet). They also said they were in the end cool with Chileans spitting on them, Mike said he was happy to be at the back of the stage though… Billy mentioned Chilean band Como Asesinar a Felipes as one of the good new bands.
On being a San Francisco band: it’s unlikely that the band would be the same if it was based elsewhere.
On rotation of guitar players: the core of their creative process does usually not include guitars. Guitar players at some point want to play solo parts, which they don’t seem to appreciate much…
On jamming currently: they hinted they were jamming occasionally until recently, but the site they used in Oakland was flooded about a month ago.
It was a really cool event, good vibe, the band members are so down to earth and very accessible, which makes it easy for the audience to engage in a good exchange. Thank you Billy, Mike and Adrian for a great event.
P.s. it would be great if someone that attended the LA event with Matt Wallace could share some words here as well!