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Mike Patton asked to join INXS!

Jack The Bodiless

10:59 / 25.11.01

It's true. They approached him a little while back, I believe. He laughed in their faces, which I think was a horribly missed opportunity to make one album that would really unsettle people. And would be even more unlistenable than Mr. Bungle.

(don't get me wrong... I really quite liked INXS...)

shirtless, beepers and suntans

02:11 / 26.11.01

Mike Patton is GOD!

if you think Bungle is unlistenable, his other projects (Fantomas, solo, Tomahawk) will give you cancer. stay far, far away, city boy.

but you might just dig Lovage, though. he duets with the chick from Elysian Fields. SEXY.

The Return Of Rothkoid

07:28 / 26.11.01

Jack... Bungle unlistenable? Shame on you, sah! I quite liked INXS, too, however I have to applaud Patton: they should just pack it the fuck in, right now. They couldn't sell enough tickets on a recent NZ tour (where the then(?)-vocalist, Jon Stevens, comes from) to make it work - you'd think that'd give them the message.

But still, I deny you not to be doing some kind of funky-arse dance when you hear the first couple of bars of "Need You Tonight".

Damn. Sprung.

[ 26-11-2001: Message edited by: Rothkoid ]

rizla mission

12:20 / 26.11.01

quote:Originally posted by Jack The Bodiless:

(don't get me wrong... I really quite liked INXS...)

Marillion? ok, I can go along with that..

INXS? no!

for shame, Jack and Rothkoid, for shame..

the taste police are on your tail.

Spatula Clarke

12:30 / 26.11.01

Me, I want to see Patton fronting Fu Manchu. Now that would be something else (well, something vaguely similar, but you know what I mean).

mondo a-go-go

13:14 / 26.11.01

taste schmaste

The Return Of Rothkoid

13:18 / 26.11.01

quote:Originally posted by Rizla Year Zero:
for shame, Jack and Rothkoid, for shame...But Riz, you don't understand! It's not us. It's the devil inside. Devil inside. Ev'ry single one of us - the devil inside!

Actually, that looks surprisingly Lovecraftian. H.P. Hutchence?

The Return Of Rothkoid

13:29 / 26.11.01

Update: if you visit JJJ's Mike Patton J-file page, you can hear him (in RealAudio) talk about INXS' offer.

Looking for a news link, but can't find one at the moment. However, a stack of Fantomas reviews make mention of him speaking about it while onstage, and segueing into INXS tunes while playing. Much like this, actually...

[ 26-11-2001: Message edited by: Rothkoid ]

Ierne

13:32 / 26.11.01

I want to see Patton fronting Fu Manchu. – E. Randy Dupre

That made my morning

What an awesome thought.

rizla mission

14:11 / 26.11.01

quote:Originally posted by Rothkoid:
But Riz, you don't understand! It's not us. It's the devil inside. Devil inside. Ev'ry single one of us - the devil inside!

<assumes puritan countenance and pulls Starstone of Gnar from big black coat>

I assure you sir, that devil is not within me! (despite the best efforts of Virgin Radio).

Jack The Bodiless

16:07 / 26.11.01

quote:Originally posted by the shirtless moron:
If you think Bungle is unlistenable, his other projects (Fantomas, solo, Tomahawk) will give you cancer. stay far, far away, city boy...

Yes, I know who he is, O shirtless one. And I love Fantomas - that's an entirely different kind of unlistenable. Mr. Bungle, I've never really gotten on with (sorry, Rothkoid).

And I believe it was me old mucker Parliament Of Fools that described 'Need You Tonight' as a 'vampire song'. With it's own little dance, if I recall the video correctly...

CameronStewart

19:27 / 26.11.01

I thought the last Bungle album, California, was pretty conventional, and thus pretty "listenable."

The Lovage album gets better with each listen.

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