4/27/2008

The Qemists - Lost Weekend (incluye a Mike Patton)


The
Qemists son un trío Drum & Bass británico que tiene a su haber un ya importante catalogo de singles de remixes para el sello Ninja Tune y la ventaja de haber trabajado con gente como Doctor Octagon o Basement Jaxx.

Hace ya una semana que me encontré con éste link diciendo que Mike Patton estaría envuelto en un trabajo de The Qemists llamado Lost Weekend, que sería un single y saldría a la luz el próximo 25 de Agosto bajo el sello Ninja Tunes.

Lo que me sorprendió fue, que al tratar de conseguir más información sobre esto, no daba con nada salvo uno que otro link de la banda, pero ningún comunicado oficial por parte de ellos. Siendo franco, esto me cabreó un poco y le perdí la pista, hasta que hoy, haciendo memoria sobre esto me dije, ¿porque no les preguntas tu mismo?. Así que me tomé la libertad (o patudez jaja) de consultarles en su myspace (después de saludarlos por supuesto):

"¿Que hay de cierto de lo que leído en timec.net acerca de un trabajo suyo que incluiría a Mike Patton?... ¿Es el Mike Patton que todos conocemos?", para recibir como respuesta:

"Yep, Mike Patton - Faith No More!
Out in August :-)
Dan"

Me alegra pensar en que cosa loca saldrá de esta colaboración =)


Mike Patton Icons


Trabajo hecho por delfinash © Live Journal
¡¡¡ MUCHAS GRACIAS DELFINASH !!!

4/24/2008

Faith No More en Fina Selección de Radio Horizonte


"Chilenos todos" ... hoy a las 22:00 hrs en Radio Horizonte habrá especial de Faith No More!
Tiene versión online también, para los que estén interesados.

Fina Selección, 24 de Abril: Faith No More


Gracias Paulina por la noticia =)
.

4/23/2008

Entrevista Exclusiva hecha por Suicide Girls


"SuicideGirls caught up with Mike Patton in San Francisco's Japantown to chat about his striking film score debut for director Derrick Scocchera's "A Perfect Place", out now"





PD1= Todavía no puedo escucharlaaaaaaaaaaa
PD2= Ya pude escucharla
PD3= Hay más cosas por las que fué preguntado y que no salen en el video, pero aquí pueden leer la entrevista completa:

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Erin Broadley: How are you?
Mike Patton: I’m good! How are you?

EB: Fantastic.
MP: Hungry?

EB: Hungry indeed. You live around here… how do you like Japantown? Come here often to buy Samurai swords?
MP: Or 39-cent Hello Kitty stickers.

EB: [Laughs] Oh, my favorite. So let’s talk about A Perfect Place, which you scored. First film score you’ve ever done, correct?
MP: True.

EB: How was this experience compared to some of your other projects or bands?
MP: It’s 100 percent different. If it’s one of my own projects or even a band, it’s done when it’s done. You have the ultimate veto power. When you’re working for someone else, you’re a hired hand in a sense and he tells you when it’s done.

EB: Right, the director gets final cut.
MP: Yeah, and rightfully so.

EB: How did you meet the director, Derrick Scocchera?
MP: I was a big laserdisc guy and he had a store in my neighborhood and I used to go shop there a lot. So being a regular customer, I got to know the people who worked there and I got to meet him. It was really a great store. It was so great, [laughs] of course it went out of business. I spent a lot of money in there. We got to be friends and from that point on, he was working for Zoetrope for Coppola for a while and we’d call each other from time to time to talk about film and talk about music. I’d invite him to my shows and he’d send me stuff that he was doing. He started an independent company [Fantoma Films] where he was putting out great DVD box sets from really historic directors… Mario Bava, Fassbinder… he put out lots of great stuff that, even if I didn’t know him, I’d just go to the store and buy it. He put together great packages and I was a fan of what he was doing and he said, “You know what? I also write scripts,” and sent me a few scripts and it’s hard for me to tell what a movie is going to be like from reading it on paper, but there was a kinship there and when he said, “I’m going to make a short film and I want you to score it,” who was I to argue?

EB: With the 2004 film you starred in, Firecracker, some wondered why you didn’t also score the film because a lot of the music you make has a very cinematic element to it.
MP: Yeah. For a musician, using film is part of your vocabulary. At least for an untrained musician, I think it’s important. It certainly works for me. With Firecracker, I did not want to act in the movie; I wanted to do the score. And the director -- again, sort of an acquaintance who turned into a friend -- he was adamant and said, “No, no. I’m not letting you do the music; I want you to [act]. I want you to stretch out. I want you to try something new.” And I said, “Well, okay, I’ve looked like a fool before, why not again?”

EB: For A Perfect Place, was there any point where you were down on the set, checking it out?
MP: No. I would have loved to but I happened to be out of town when they were filming it and, you know, a film like that is pretty renegade. I think they barely got the permits that they needed to do it and a lot of it was done at night. It’s a short film, black and white, beautifully shot, almost like a play in that there’s just very few characters and very few sets, but the strength is in the writing.

EB: And the characters. One of my favorite characters is the little old lady who has a collection of bow ties in her house, which is just one of those simple quiet elements that can really define a character.
MP: Yeah. The best part of it is, it starts out with guys playing a card game and they basically, quote unquote, kill their friend who was cheating, [laughs] or so they thought. And somehow, even though we maybe wouldn’t be driven to those lengths, you can relate. If you were to kill someone, all these questions would come up. It’s not as easy as Scorsese would have you believe: you kill somebody, you drop some lye on them and you bring them out to the suburbs. It’s a lot harder sometimes so I think that’s one of the premises of the film.

EB: One thing about the score, it taps into a lot of the same themes that are in the film. Were you crafting these compositions scene by scene or was it more, “Here’s a word, here’s an idea, go with it.”
MP: A lot of the film was basically done, or close to being done, before I started. Being friends with the director, he showed me a couple of scenes. Also, he would just describe a scene to me and say, “I need a theme for when the old lady puts on a seventy-eight and I want it to sound like Enrico Caruso.” One of the best directions he gave me was from the outset he said, “I want one major theme, and I want you to come up with a zillion variations including the source music, including a seventy-eight record, or when the guys are in a car, flipping the radio dial, I want you to write a piece like that.” In a sense, I was doing the score and the source music, in one. It was fun.

EB: The music really moves the scenes along. That’s one thing I noticed; it’s tied into the scenes enough that it helps the narrative progress.
MP: One can only hope!

EB: How did you strike the balance between somewhat heavier sounds and dark subject matter and still retain a sense of humor within this score?
MP: Didn’t think about it. To me every project or every piece of music has a certain amount of requirements. Maybe I’ll set out to create some sort of heavy and dark atmosphere and in the end it becomes comedy. To me, it’s about maintaining a balance and it’s really hard to quantify that. It’s hard to describe what that balance is but I know it when I hear it. The most important part is when it’s done, let it go.

EB: Right. You’ve said before that one of the hardest things to do is to pull back and press stop.
MP:Yeah, yeah.

EB:Does it get any easier over the years?
MP:Eh, depending on the project. To me, certain projects are easier than others. Fantomas… I know exactly when that music is written and done and there’s no more tweaking to do. Something like this film score is a little more difficult; I was on unfamiliar ground. Sometimes when you’re dealing with a collab or maybe a guest vocal for somebody it’s also hard to know because ultimately, you’re deferring to someone else. Usually it works out. But I’ve done a few collaborations or guest spots where it just didn’t work out, either the artist wasn’t happy with it or didn’t feel that it suited the track. You do your best and ultimately if you’re a guest you’ve got to know when to go, “Okay! You’re the boss.”

EB: It’s like being a guest in someone’s house. You’ve got to know when to step down.
MP: Oh yes, I’ll leave now. I pissed on your couch but I’m leaving.[Laughs] I tracked in mud on your expensive carpet…

EB:[Laughs] I’ll pay for the cleaning bill.
MP:Yeah, exactly.

EB: Back to A Perfect Place, the score you did is about twice as long as the actual film so how did you decide which music was included? Or why the choice to include extra tracks in the CD available?
MP: Ultimately, it is the director’s decision. There were certain scenes, certain cues where I did two or three different versions. Like, the thing we were calling the “Alley Theme,” where they’re dragging the body out to the alley, he wanted something with a beat and percussive so I gave him two different choices. He chose one and used it and then, you know, had the other sitting around so it’s like, I guess you just put them on the soundtrack.

EB: Yeah, why waste something good?
MP: Yeah. Also, I didn’t want to put out a CD that was 20 minutes long and a film that was 20 minutes long. I wanted to extend the CD a little bit and make it a little more desirable.

EB: Right, and to have them be able to exists independently on their own…
MP: Well, yeah! Actually, the director made some great suggestions… it was his idea to do a vocal version of the main theme, almost as a single, or whatever. It never got used in the film and was a complete afterthought, but that was his idea. That was [the] “Twist” theme that I did with vocals and it’s probably one of the standout tracks on the album.

EB: It’s a fun track, yeah.
MP: He gave me some direction that was a little hard to follow, just because he was aiming really high. Like, “I want a main theme that sounds like Elmer Bernstein.” And you just don’t press a button and…

EB: …become Elmer Bernstein!
MP: Yeah. That’s like saying, “I’ve got an idea for a street fight and I want you to be Mike Tyson.”

EB: Just do it, channel it.
MP: Yeah, just grow and kick some ass.

EB: And get a tattoo on your face [laughs].
MP: Yeah [laughs]. Bite somebody’s ear off. It was very challenging in that respect but I’m glad he was aiming high and forced me to aim a little high.

EB: Last year you got a lot attention for the sound effects you did for the creatures in I Am Legend. Any afterthought on that whole project?
MP: It was great.

EB: You and Will Smith best buds now?
MP: Oh yeah. He was in the studio, patting me on the back.

EB: You guys are gonna put out a rap album, like Fresh Prince.
MP: There you go. Fresh Mike.
[Both Laugh]
MP:No, uh, [doing the sound effects] was clinical and dry and fun and easy.

EB:Was it flattering in the least that they wanted a more human element to the scariness of the film?
MP: Yeah, it was great. It was a completely unique opportunity and it probably wouldn’t have come my way unless someone involved in the film didn’t put their ass out there and suggest me. So I’m really thankful and would love to do more stuff like that.

EB: You’ve said before that to keep things interesting, you have to continually reinvent or find new ways to say what it is you want to say with music. How do you find ways to make that happen without feeling redundant?
MP: That’s a difficult question and even harder to realize. You just keep trying. My way of doing it is just to keep doing things. Stay busy. My way of learning and getting better and growing is by doing.

EB: You started Ipecac in 1999 with Greg Werckman. Coming up on your 10-year anniversary, obviously you have expanded your roster and are still going strong. How has it changed in recent years compared to when you first started?
MP: It’s been great. I would say the main struggle has been [that] we’ve kept the same amount of employees and the same business model, if you will, meaning Ipecac is like three or four people. Always has been. Yet, we’re getting more and more submissions and personally I’m finding there’s more and more great music that needs to be put out! But we don’t have the manpower. I’m a little nervous about expanding. What we’ve done so far has worked. If we were to listen to our distributors and whatnot, we’d hire 15 more people and run it like everyone else runs a label.

EB: Then again, you don’t want t
o be like everyone else runs a label because we’ve seen what happens there.
MP: Yeah. If you really think about it, the reason we’ve been successful is because of the way it’s gone. Ultimately the way we do it, if you’re looking for half a million dollars and a bunch of hype, we’re not the right label for you. If you want to record cheaply, which is not to say that it can’t be a great sounding record or an amazing record, but do it smart, and then you will ultimately be rewarded because you will make royalties and not dig yourself some sort of loan shark hole where you’re constantly in the [dark]. Our label is not for everybody, but people who understand that aesthetic will be really happy with us and we’ll be happy with them.

EB: Another thing you have coming out in 2008 is [the video game] Bionic Commando. You do the voice of one of the lead characters. Tell me a little bit about how you got involved in that? You’ve always been a bit of a video game enthusiast.
MP: Yeah, that sort of dropped out of the sky and I think it sort of came about because I did a couple of other video game voiceovers and once your name is in the hat…

EB: …You’re on their contact list.
MP: Totally. So I got the call and I was familiar with the old ’80s Nintendo game .

EB: What character do you play?
MP: The main guy, Nathan. Basically, what I did was… I will tell you that my best point of reference was I was trying to channel Henry Rollins [laughs]. It was a real drill sergeant, tough guy.

EB: Did you method act it? Getting into character, weight lifting every morning?
MP: I didn’t go quite that far but you have to have some point of reference and Henry was mine. And Henry… no offense [laughs]. Hey, eat your eel!! I’ve already eaten my eel.

EB: Okay, I’m going to eat my eel and you tell me what else we can expect from Ipecac in 2008.
MP: New Melvins, new Dalek, Farmer’s Market, Desert Sessions, Mondo Cane, Rhazel… Finish your eel. Be a good girl.

EB: I’m finishing my eel… dad. [Laughs]
MP: [Smiles] I’ll take that as a compliment.

EB: Mike Patton’s my daddy, telling me to finish my eel.
MP: Finish your eel.

EB: [Laughs] How do you balance being a businessman and an artist without completely losing your mind?
MP: I don’t think about it, just kind of do what I do. The label is a part of every day; it’s just a matter of how much of that day. Sometimes it’s more; sometimes it’s less. To be honest, it’s rewarding and most of the things that I do, my contribution to the label is things that I’d be doing anyway. Listening to music, listening to new artists… I would do that anyway, even if I didn’t have a label. So to have a purpose in doing that is even better.

EB: And to put a roof over their heads and not have them be wandering, homeless stray pieces of music.
MP: Yeah, like I said before, the real trouble is there’s too much great music and we can’t do it all. And that’s in the last year or two become a reality. It’s a bitch. If I heard something great tomorrow, I’d have to tell an artist, “This is great, I’d love to put it out, but I can’t do it until late ’09.”

EB: There’s no promises of grandeur right away like there are with other majors.
MP: [Laughs] There’s no promises of grandeur, period. But just on a timeline vibe, no artist wants to hear that. I can totally relate but we’re in that position right now and that’s just the way it is.

EB: So what’s your next release we should be looking out for?
MP: Mondo Cane. It’s a new project of mine. It’s an orchestral project of ’50s and ’60s Italian pop tunes that I arranged.

EB: Fabulous.
MP: It’s a crooning record but with an orchestra. Not many horns. And, I wouldn’t say very jazzy, but much more orchestral ballad stuff. Lots of singing. But it’s not in English. Summertime we hope.

EB: Well, any parting words of wisdom?
MP: Eat your fuckin’ eel!

EB: I’ve eaten pretty much all the fuckin’ eel.
MP: Pretty much?

EB: I just didn’t eat the skin!
MP: The skin’s the best part!

Erin Broadley: How are you?
Mike Patton: I’m good! How are you?

EB: Fantastic.
MP: Hungry?

EB: Hungry indeed. You live around here… how do you like Japantown? Come here often to buy Samurai swords?
MP: Or 39-cent Hello Kitty stickers.

EB: [Laughs] Oh, my favorite. So let’s talk about A Perfect Place, which you scored. First film score you’ve ever done, correct?
MP: True.

EB: How was this experience compared to some of your other projects or bands?
MP: It’s 100 percent different. If it’s one of my own projects or even a band, it’s done when it’s done. You have the ultimate veto power. When you’re working for someone else, you’re a hired hand in a sense and he tells you when it’s done.

EB: Right, the director gets final cut.
MP: Yeah, and rightfully so.

EB: How did you meet the director, Derrick Scocchera?
MP: I was a big laserdisc guy and he had a store in my neighborhood and I used to go shop there a lot. So being a regular customer, I got to know the people who worked there and I got to meet him. It was really a great store. It was so great, [laughs] of course it went out of business. I spent a lot of money in there. We got to be friends and from that point on, he was working for Zoetrope for Coppola for a while and we’d call each other from time to time to talk about film and talk about music. I’d invite him to my shows and he’d send me stuff that he was doing. He started an independent company [Fantoma Films] where he was putting out great DVD box sets from really historic directors… Mario Bava, Fassbinder… he put out lots of great stuff that, even if I didn’t know him, I’d just go to the store and buy it. He put together great packages and I was a fan of what he was doing and he said, “You know what? I also write scripts,” and sent me a few scripts and it’s hard for me to tell what a movie is going to be like from reading it on paper, but there was a kinship there and when he said, “I’m going to make a short film and I want you to score it,” who was I to argue?

EB: With the 2004 film you starred in, Firecracker, some wondered why you didn’t also score the film because a lot of the music you make has a very cinematic element to it.
MP: Yeah. For a musician, using film is part of your vocabulary. At least for an untrained musician, I think it’s important. It certainly works for me. With Firecracker, I did not want to act in the movie; I wanted to do the score. And the director -- again, sort of an acquaintance who turned into a friend -- he was adamant and said, “No, no. I’m not letting you do the music; I want you to [act]. I want you to stretch out. I want you to try something new.” And I said, “Well, okay, I’ve looked like a fool before, why not again?”

EB: For A Perfect Place, was there any point where you were down on the set, checking it out?
MP: No. I would have loved to but I happened to be out of town when they were filming it and, you know, a film like that is pretty renegade. I think they barely got the permits that they needed to do it and a lot of it was done at night. It’s a short film, black and white, beautifully shot, almost like a play in that there’s just very few characters and very few sets, but the strength is in the writing.

EB: And the characters. One of my favorite characters is the little old lady who has a collection of bow ties in her house, which is just one of those simple quiet elements that can really define a character.
MP: Yeah. The best part of it is, it starts out with guys playing a card game and they basically, quote unquote, kill their friend who was cheating, [laughs] or so they thought. And somehow, even though we maybe wouldn’t be driven to those lengths, you can relate. If you were to kill someone, all these questions would come up. It’s not as easy as Scorsese would have you believe: you kill somebody, you drop some lye on them and you bring them out to the suburbs. It’s a lot harder sometimes so I think that’s one of the premises of the film.

EB: One thing about the score, it taps into a lot of the same themes that are in the film. Were you crafting these compositions scene by scene or was it more, “Here’s a word, here’s an idea, go with it.”
MP: A lot of the film was basically done, or close to being done, before I started. Being friends with the director, he showed me a couple of scenes. Also, he would just describe a scene to me and say, “I need a theme for when the old lady puts on a seventy-eight and I want it to sound like Enrico Caruso.” One of the best directions he gave me was from the outset he said, “I want one major theme, and I want you to come up with a zillion variations including the source music, including a seventy-eight record, or when the guys are in a car, flipping the radio dial, I want you to write a piece like that.” In a sense, I was doing the score and the source music, in one. It was fun.

EB: The music really moves the scenes along. That’s one thing I noticed; it’s tied into the scenes enough that it helps the narrative progress.
MP: One can only hope!

EB: How did you strike the balance between somewhat heavier sounds and dark subject matter and still retain a sense of humor within this score?
MP: Didn’t think about it. To me every project or every piece of music has a certain amount of requirements. Maybe I’ll set out to create some sort of heavy and dark atmosphere and in the end it becomes comedy. To me, it’s about maintaining a balance and it’s really hard to quantify that. It’s hard to describe what that balance is but I know it when I hear it. The most important part is when it’s done, let it go.

EB: Right. You’ve said before that one of the hardest things to do is to pull back and press stop.
MP:Yeah, yeah.

EB:Does it get any easier over the years?
MP:Eh, depending on the project. To me, certain projects are easier than others. Fantomas… I know exactly when that music is written and done and there’s no more tweaking to do. Something like this film score is a little more difficult; I was on unfamiliar ground. Sometimes when you’re dealing with a collab or maybe a guest vocal for somebody it’s also hard to know because ultimately, you’re deferring to someone else. Usually it works out. But I’ve done a few collaborations or guest spots where it just didn’t work out, either the artist wasn’t happy with it or didn’t feel that it suited the track. You do your best and ultimately if you’re a guest you’ve got to know when to go, “Okay! You’re the boss.”

EB: It’s like being a guest in someone’s house. You’ve got to know when to step down.
MP: Oh yes, I’ll leave now. I pissed on your couch but I’m leaving.[Laughs] I tracked in mud on your expensive carpet…

EB:[Laughs] I’ll pay for the cleaning bill.
MP:Yeah, exactly.

EB: Back to A Perfect Place, the score you did is about twice as long as the actual film so how did you decide which music was included? Or why the choice to include extra tracks in the CD available?
MP: Ultimately, it is the director’s decision. There were certain scenes, certain cues where I did two or three different versions. Like, the thing we were calling the “Alley Theme,” where they’re dragging the body out to the alley, he wanted something with a beat and percussive so I gave him two different choices. He chose one and used it and then, you know, had the other sitting around so it’s like, I guess you just put them on the soundtrack.

EB: Yeah, why waste something good?
MP: Yeah. Also, I didn’t want to put out a CD that was 20 minutes long and a film that was 20 minutes long. I wanted to extend the CD a little bit and make it a little more desirable.

EB: Right, and to have them be able to exists independently on their own…
MP: Well, yeah! Actually, the director made some great suggestions… it was his idea to do a vocal version of the main theme, almost as a single, or whatever. It never got used in the film and was a complete afterthought, but that was his idea. That was [the] “Twist” theme that I did with vocals and it’s probably one of the standout tracks on the album.

EB: It’s a fun track, yeah.
MP: He gave me some direction that was a little hard to follow, just because he was aiming really high. Like, “I want a main theme that sounds like Elmer Bernstein.” And you just don’t press a button and…

EB: …become Elmer Bernstein!
MP: Yeah. That’s like saying, “I’ve got an idea for a street fight and I want you to be Mike Tyson.”

EB: Just do it, channel it.
MP: Yeah, just grow and kick some ass.

EB: And get a tattoo on your face [laughs].
MP: Yeah [laughs]. Bite somebody’s ear off. It was very challenging in that respect but I’m glad he was aiming high and forced me to aim a little high.

EB: Last year you got a lot attention for the sound effects you did for the creatures in I Am Legend. Any afterthought on that whole project?
MP: It was great.

EB: You and Will Smith best buds now?
MP: Oh yeah. He was in the studio, patting me on the back.

EB: You guys are gonna put out a rap album, like Fresh Prince.
MP: There you go. Fresh Mike.
[Both Laugh]
MP:No, uh, [doing the sound effects] was clinical and dry and fun and easy.

EB:Was it flattering in the least that they wanted a more human element to the scariness of the film?
MP: Yeah, it was great. It was a completely unique opportunity and it probably wouldn’t have come my way unless someone involved in the film didn’t put their ass out there and suggest me. So I’m really thankful and would love to do more stuff like that.

EB: You’ve said before that to keep things interesting, you have to continually reinvent or find new ways to say what it is you want to say with music. How do you find ways to make that happen without feeling redundant?
MP: That’s a difficult question and even harder to realize. You just keep trying. My way of doing it is just to keep doing things. Stay busy. My way of learning and getting better and growing is by doing.

EB: You started Ipecac in 1999 with Greg Werckman. Coming up on your 10-year anniversary, obviously you have expanded your roster and are still going strong. How has it changed in recent years compared to when you first started?
MP: It’s been great. I would say the main struggle has been [that] we’ve kept the same amount of employees and the same business model, if you will, meaning Ipecac is like three or four people. Always has been. Yet, we’re getting more and more submissions and personally I’m finding there’s more and more great music that needs to be put out! But we don’t have the manpower. I’m a little nervous about expanding. What we’ve done so far has worked. If we were to listen to our distributors and whatnot, we’d hire 15 more people and run it like everyone else runs a label.

EB: Then again, you don’t want t
o be like everyone else runs a label because we’ve seen what happens there.
MP: Yeah. If you really think about it, the reason we’ve been successful is because of the way it’s gone. Ultimately the way we do it, if you’re looking for half a million dollars and a bunch of hype, we’re not the right label for you. If you want to record cheaply, which is not to say that it can’t be a great sounding record or an amazing record, but do it smart, and then you will ultimately be rewarded because you will make royalties and not dig yourself some sort of loan shark hole where you’re constantly in the [dark]. Our label is not for everybody, but people who understand that aesthetic will be really happy with us and we’ll be happy with them.

EB: Another thing you have coming out in 2008 is [the video game] Bionic Commando. You do the voice of one of the lead characters. Tell me a little bit about how you got involved in that? You’ve always been a bit of a video game enthusiast.
MP: Yeah, that sort of dropped out of the sky and I think it sort of came about because I did a couple of other video game voiceovers and once your name is in the hat…

EB: …You’re on their contact list.
MP: Totally. So I got the call and I was familiar with the old ’80s Nintendo game .

EB: What character do you play?
MP: The main guy, Nathan. Basically, what I did was… I will tell you that my best point of reference was I was trying to channel Henry Rollins [laughs]. It was a real drill sergeant, tough guy.

EB: Did you method act it? Getting into character, weight lifting every morning?
MP: I didn’t go quite that far but you have to have some point of reference and Henry was mine. And Henry… no offense [laughs]. Hey, eat your eel!! I’ve already eaten my eel.

EB: Okay, I’m going to eat my eel and you tell me what else we can expect from Ipecac in 2008.
MP: New Melvins, new Dalek, Farmer’s Market, Desert Sessions, Mondo Cane, Rhazel… Finish your eel. Be a good girl.

EB: I’m finishing my eel… dad. [Laughs]
MP: [Smiles] I’ll take that as a compliment.

EB: Mike Patton’s my daddy, telling me to finish my eel.
MP: Finish your eel.

EB: [Laughs] How do you balance being a businessman and an artist without completely losing your mind?
MP: I don’t think about it, just kind of do what I do. The label is a part of every day; it’s just a matter of how much of that day. Sometimes it’s more; sometimes it’s less. To be honest, it’s rewarding and most of the things that I do, my contribution to the label is things that I’d be doing anyway. Listening to music, listening to new artists… I would do that anyway, even if I didn’t have a label. So to have a purpose in doing that is even better.

EB: And to put a roof over their heads and not have them be wandering, homeless stray pieces of music.
MP: Yeah, like I said before, the real trouble is there’s too much great music and we can’t do it all. And that’s in the last year or two become a reality. It’s a bitch. If I heard something great tomorrow, I’d have to tell an artist, “This is great, I’d love to put it out, but I can’t do it until late ’09.”

EB: There’s no promises of grandeur right away like there are with other majors.
MP: [Laughs] There’s no promises of grandeur, period. But just on a timeline vibe, no artist wants to hear that. I can totally relate but we’re in that position right now and that’s just the way it is.

EB: So what’s your next release we should be looking out for?
MP: Mondo Cane. It’s a new project of mine. It’s an orchestral project of ’50s and ’60s Italian pop tunes that I arranged.

EB: Fabulous.
MP: It’s a crooning record but with an orchestra. Not many horns. And, I wouldn’t say very jazzy, but much more orchestral ballad stuff. Lots of singing. But it’s not in English. Summertime we hope.

EB: Well, any parting words of wisdom?
MP: Eat your fuckin’ eel!

EB: I’ve eaten pretty much all the fuckin’ eel.
MP: Pretty much?

EB: I just didn’t eat the skin!
MP: The skin’s the best part!

4/15/2008

The Fantômas Melvins Big Band DVD


Desde Douggy.com:

A comienzos del 2006, le consulté a Greg Werckman de Ipecac Recordings si podría ir al show de Melvins y tomar algunas fotos de mi banda favorita, realmente quería obtener buenas fotos e incluir en ellas algunos cartoon monsters. Una cosa llevó a la otra y terminé llendo con mi video cámara, además de mis amigos Matthew Rozeik y Alex Gunnis. Cada uno tenía la suya, Matt se hubicó en el balcón y Alex deambuló alrededor para situarce justo bajo la batería de Dave Lombardo. Él me debe dos nuevos oidos.

Grabamos todo el show para luego pasar los próximos 6 meses, fines de semanas y horas después del trabajo para poder editar y armar a esta bestia. Mientras tanto Matt tuvo que unir el audio de las cámaras y mezclar el show. Vi unas cuantas veces lo que él estaba haciendo y tenía una pinta de ser una gran jacqueca y aún así él hizo un trabajo brillante. Bueno, finalmente se terminó luego de un montón de modificaciones y de rehacer algunas canciones y qué sé yo. Gastamos un poco de tiempo haciendo algunos menús con la ayuda de Dominic Hailstone.

El DVD también incluye comentarios de Melvins y del fan Nº1 de Fantômas, Danny DeVito.

Pronto postearemos mas detalles de su realización...

Aquí algunas cuotas de Buzz desde la website de Billboard:

"A último minuto, Greg Werckman vino con la idea de hacer un comentario de todo esto. Mike Patton y Greg son amigos de DeVito y el aceptó en participar. Asi que soy yo, Greg, Robby Frasier de William Morris, Dale y Danny hablando todos juntos. Mayoritariamente, no tiene nada que ver con el DVD en sí. Le hicimos cualquier pregunta que pudieras imaginarte -como fué trabajar con Andy Kaufman, o quién fué el mayor imbécil con quien ha trabajado. Nos contó grandiosas historias- todas las cuales están allí."


THAT SUCK'S DAY en Wamego Strikes Back


Hoy es 15 de Abril, o "Day of the Sun", aquella maravillosa melodía que confunde tan bien lo misterioso de sus simples notas con la alegría caótica de sus juguetes que suenan de fondo... en pocas palabras... una auténtica Animación Suspendida.

Eso me hace recordar que April 15 es el único track para Suspended Animation que ha sido usado de manera oficial como apoyo a un material audiovisual, que en este caso remite al documental de Steve Balderson Wamego Strikes Back (2007).

Les dejo aquí en formato AVI, un breve fragmento del film en donde pueden oír THAT SUCK'S DAY (Day of the Sun) y de paso ver algunos detrás de cámara mientras él habla sobre su participación en Firecracker.

MIKE PATTON: "Un hombre sin limites"


La misma entrevista en audio de Synthesis que publicamos aquí, pero ahora escrita ;-)

¿¿¿Patton en Velvet Revolver??? =S


Mike Patton es el séptimo candidato según los lectores de la Rolling Stones, para reemplazar (hipoteticamente) a Weiland en Velvet Revolver =S

¿¿¿ Que le pasa a estos jodidos lectores ???

1. Chris Cornell
2. Josh Todd from Buckcherry
3. Sebastian Bach
4. Eric Dover from Slash’s Snakepit
5. Izzy Stradlin
6. Gavin Rossdale
7. Mike Patton
8. Lukas Rossi from Rock Star: Supernova
9. Scott Stapp
10. Sammy Hagar
11. Billy Idol
12. Danzig
13. Kid Rock
14. Perry Farrell
15. Ozzy Osbourne

4/03/2008

Fantômas/Melvins DVD para Julio y Otras Novedades


La página oficial de Melvins asegura que el DVD de Fantômas/Melvins Big Band Live From London 2006, saldrá por fin en Julio del presente, e incluirá audio comentarios del mismísimo Buzz, así como también de Greg Werckman y de Danny De Vito (¿¿¿???)

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Por otro lado, Benjamin Weinman (guitarrista de The Dillinger Escape Plan [DEP]) en una entrevista de Lords of Metal para su número de Abril, cuenta que, además de recibir muy buenos comentarios de Mike Patton para su Ire Works (2007), está seguro de que en un futuro volverán a hacer "algo" juntos.

Link a la noticia
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Y mira estos exclusivos videos en youtube para Cobra (incluyendo a Mike Patton como invitado) que un muchacho pudo filmar el pasado 01 de Abril para el John Zorn Festival, llevado a cabo en Israel.

Ésta presentación marca su debut en solitario en este furioso y divertido juego, ya sin el alero de sus demás amigos de Mr. Bungle, a excepción de Trevor, claro.


4/01/2008

Mondo Cane Live in Holland Festival 2008


Ya está confirmado el esperado retorno de Mondo Cane a los escenarios!!!
Lo que me impresiona es leer que al menos para la fecha en Holanda, no contará con la participación de la Orquesta Filarmonica de Toscanini, sino que con la Orquesta Neerlandesa "Metropole Orkest".

Metropole ha trabajado con artistas como Terry Bozzio en el pasado, lo cual habla muy bien de su histrionismo y adaptabilidad, pero no deja de ser algo triste a la vez. Mike Patton hablaba de las dificultades del traslado a la hora de pensar llevar Mondo Cane a otros escenarios, y de su interés por ocupar a las mismas personas en próximas presentaciones, por eso me sorprende y entristece un tanto su delegación.

APRIL FOOL'S DAY (U.S.A.)


1.- Mike Patton confirma totalmente la reunión de Faith No More, pero aclara que no habrá disco nuevo, sino que sólo será por ganar dinero:


2.- Mike Patton habla de grabar junto a Tim "Ripper" Owens (ex-Judas Priest) y a Jason Newsted (ex-Metallica):

¿Que sería del primero de Abril sin Suspended Animation y de noticias como éstas? =P