Faith No More announced their reunion earlier this year. Mike Patton? Check. Virtuoso guitarist Jim Martin? Afraid not. Turns out it's the Album of the Year lineup. Adding to my disappointment, Faith No More has yet to play a single concert on American soil.
Rolling Stone caught up with former frontman Chuck Mosley as he promotes his debut solo LP – the awesomely-titled Will Rap Over Hard Rock For Food (out now). Mosley says he was actually invited to Europe to duet with Mike Patton, but passport trouble interfered. Mosley also not only laments Jim Martin's absence, but thinks the band should have never fired Martin.
I thought [firing Martin] was as big if not bigger a mistake than getting rid of me – just because he had a lot of pull with the big part of their crowd at the time. And he was ‘the personality,' y'know? There was something people could identify to. After Jim, they were going through a string of different guitar players, and I couldn't name one of them. That Jagger/Richards, Plant/Page thing was gone."
Video of Faith No More covering Peaches & Herb's "Reunited", plus more news after the jump!
This article appears in Aug 12-18, 2009.