Thursday 5 April 2012

E is for Eccentric

There's something about taking music as one's life work that brings out the bonkers in people. Somehow, being a professional musician morphs people from being of this world into beings from another realm entirely.


Take Mike Patton of Faith No More and Mr Bungle fame and the following:

* Faith No More covered the Eastenders theme tune at Leeds Festival 2009.

* There track 'Caffeine' was written about a sleep deprivation experiment Patton undertook.

* Faith No More once played a festival where bottles of piss were used as missiles aimed at the band themselves. In good humour, Patton threatened to drink the next one that landedon the stage. A man good on his promise, he downed it and proceeded to throw up throughout the remainder of the set.

* He used to shit in hairdryers in hotels.

* Patton provided the voices of the monsters in 2007's 'I Am Legend' starring Will Smith.




8 comments:

  1. Hah! And euw! :-)

    I remember hearing from my boyfriend-in-law (my sister's boyfriend) that Patton was a nutter but I didn't know any of the above. Luckily, he's hot! :-D

    Some Dark Romantic

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    1. Lol, yes Mina he definitely is! I didn't realise the full extent of his weirdness until I started looking into it and with hindsight there's some things there I'd rather not know! Thanks for visiting.

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  2. Mike Patton - definately eccentric! Nice to meet you!

    CarolynBrown-Books

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    1. Hey, thanks for the comment. Yes, he's definitely a nutter, I just hope he doesn't read this. Sorry Mike.

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  3. I wonder what it is that brings out the bonkers in them? Because some of those things you listed are just plain CRAZY!

    Happy A-Z! Nice to meet you!

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    1. Hi Peggy, thanks for your comment. I don't know if it's the excessive amount of drugs or whether they were like that in the first place!

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  4. Love Mike! And all--eer most!--of his eccentric ways.

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    1. Hey, thanks for stopping by. Yeah, he's good for a laugh, but sometimes goes a little too far! I wonder if he does any of these things at home...

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