And it’s a doozey! Nice work Karina

“(Having Chuck there) was weird,” he laughs. “Funny. Great. Soundcheck was great, we were laughing, he was just so out there. I grew up with him, way before FNM. He was like an older brother to me, and he saved me from listening to a lot of bad music. And when we got rid of Chuck, we were probably at the most opposite ends of the spectrum. So it was really great to come back as friends. And the music is a lot different with him in it, I really like it. It’s more simple, a little darker, a bit goth in a way. We were trying to get Jim to do it too but he didn’t want to do it. He thought about it for a couple of days and came back with a real big ‘No!’ Jim was all business, and sometimes the business isn’t the point.”

Check it out:

http://consequenceofsound.net/2010/10/08/interview-bill-gould-of-faith-no-more/

At last, it’s here!  Ladies and gentlemen you’ve been asking for it, and here we have it! Presented to you by stubbadub, and our fellow FNM lovin’ sites FNM2.0 and the FNM FB French Community, the Faith No More Fan Interview, with all questions asked coming directly from YOU, the fans.

On behalf on everyone who worked to make this project a reality, I’d like to say thank you. To all the fans who submitted questions, we really appreciate the interest and support and I hope the lucky few of you whose answers were chosen are happy with the answers. Sorry we couldn’t ask more! But keep an eye on Consequence of Sound for more from Bill Gould.

So, on that note, here we have it, made by fans  for fans: The Faith No More Fan Interview, 2010.

FNM Fan Interview Part One

FNM Fan Interview Part Two

The full interview transcript can be found here

Looks like things are winding down in the Faith No More camp as signs of things returning to business as usual begin to appear.

Billy has just announced the creation of a non Faith No More news outlet via twitter, specifically for Kool Arrow Records, Bill’s own label:

“Guys, just starting a twitter acct for my non-FNM related, musical activities. Good stuff coming. http://twitter.com/KoolarrowRec“

“Upgrade of koolarrow.com in progress…first release of year: Flattbush ‘Otomatik Attak!’ Sept. 28. Blistering punk rock Tagalog power.”

image by Chantel Bann

http://twitter.com/MRGOULD/status/19428980024

Jello Biafra’s latest musical venture, Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine, have just released their debut album The Audacity of Hype and features none other than our good buddy Billy Gould on Bass:

“In the twenty or so years since his brainchild Dead Kennedys officially disbanded, Jello Biafra has made a career of spoken word gigs interspersed with musical collaborations with some of the most compelling figures in underground music. Recording projects and touring with the likes of Melvins, No Means No, DOA, Mojo Nixon and Lard (with Ministry’s Al Jorgensen) among others have kept his “hardcore as political weapon” message sharp, but the lack of his own band made these collaborations usually short-lived and left Biafra with a ton of songs that had never seen the light of day.

Inspired by Iggy Pop’s 60Th birthday gig at the Warfield in San Francisco, Biafra laid plans for his own 50th birthday party and finally decided it was time to start a band of his own. Ten years before he had been attempting the same thing with the likes of guitarist Ralph Spight (Victims Family,Freak Accident,Hellworms) and drummer Jon Weiss (Sharkbait,Horsey). They had also previously worked with bassist Billy Gould (Faith No More) who was tapped for the new group. After cramming rehearsals for a month the four piece band known as Jello Biafra and the Axis Of Merry Evildoers took the stage in a sold-out two night stand at San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall and subsequently spent the next 9 months in rehearsal for an album project.

Before entering the studio guitarist Kimo Ball (Freak Accident,Carneyball Johnson,Mol Triffid,Griddle) was recruited and the resulting twin guitar attack took the groups sound to new, noisier heights. The quintet now known as Jello Biafra and The Guantanamo School of Medicine began recording tracks for the upcoming LP/CD entitled “The Audacity Of Hype”(Alternative Tentacles Records) slated for release in October 2009, produced by Biafra and engineered by Hip Hop legend and long time Jello co-conspirator Matt Kelley (Hieroglyphics,Tupac,Digital Underground,Victims Family) at Prairie Sun Recording in Cotati,CA and San Francisco’s Hyde Street Studios.

The band’s sound retains some of the the spy-music-on-meth chaos of the DK’s while adding a healthy dose of Detroit style proto-punk mixed with layers of sonic guitar noise, and Weiss’ industrial excursions into metal percussion. Topically, the album explores how our forced Iraqnophobia and Homeland Insecurity continues to feed lawlessness at the top (“The Terror Of Tiny Town”) vs. a runaway police state and class war towards the bottom (“Three Strikes”,”Electronic Plantation”). “Clean As A Thistle” becomes more timely every day as “Family Values” blowhards get caught in sinful trysts while, album closer “I Won’t Give Up” offers an Age of Obama anthem on how change comes from agitation from below, not glamour and soundbites from the top.

Thirty years on, Jello Biafra has made an album that solidifies and expands his uncompromising vision and updates it for the new century, with a powerhouse band that promises to be a terrifying live machine, featuring Jon’s brother Andrew Weiss (Rollins Band,Ween,Butthole Surfers) filling the live bass position recently left vacant by Billy Gould’s return to Faith No More.”

www.myspace.com/jellobiafraandthegsm

Latercera.com recently posted a brief interview with Billy Gould….in spanish:

Faith No More: “Great moments of the band that happened in Chile”
Billy Gould, bear of the band, speaks of its return, the future and shows that will offer in Santiago.

“These days, Faith No More takes a breather. A few weeks off before starting the second coming of The South American tour, the tour back in July, the group revived, 11 years after its dissolution. And in an unprecedented gesture at the meeting of one of the most important rock bands of the 90s, its bassist and founding member, Billy Gould, interrupted his break to talk with La Tercera. The highlights of entry: “On this tour we are not giving any interviews, this is a special case,” the massive man in charge of the four strings of the group that next October 29 will offer a gala show at Teatro Caupolicán and next day will hold its reunion with the masses in the Estadio de La Florida

“We decided to talk because what happened in Chile is very crazy,” Gould said. “Chile is one of the most special places for the group. I mean you. Great moments in the history of the band have happened there and feel a very powerful energy. We are very aware of the expectation of our visit, if this is not for Chile, we would not have given this interview, “says the man who come together on the group for the third time the country after a bizarre debut at the Festival de Viña 1991 and a return that had received thousands of spitting in the hectic closing Monsters of Rock Festival 1995 at Teatro Caupolicán.

What do you remember Viña?
Vina was incredible. We thought it was a rock festival. When we started playing there was a family audience thought we were a band of pop. Many people did not understand what is ours, many people hated him and there was another that I liked. Definitely do not pass unnoticed.

Do you remember the spit of 1995?
It was crazy. There was a very different energy from Vina.

“Bad energy?
No, no, quite the contrary. It was one of the most intense shows I can remember. It was one of those nights where everything is on, I remember we played very fast.

A RETURN HERMETIC
Since the group announced its return through a statement on its official site, there have been no new developments to the new dates that had joined the tour that revisits songs from the six albums between 1985 and 1997 – and ending in March 2010 in Australia.

Do you prepare something special for South America?
We’re taking songs that we have not touched on the reunion tour. Insurance that covers but will not tell you what. Every night is different, there is little, just two weeks.

What will happen to the group after the tour?
None of us know.

Right?
Yes, we have not sat down and talked much about it.

Can we expect new songs by Faith No More?
I’d love that to happen, but it’s something that just solve once we finish the tour. For now we are enjoying playing, we’re having a great time.

Follow Billy at twitter for all the latest updates as Faith No More marches towards their first tour in a decade.

http://twitter.com/MRGOULD

Thanks to HLK for the tip

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1605901/20090226/faith_no_more.jhtml

“Obviously, frontman Mike Patton is in, as is Gould. Founding members Mike Bordin (drums) and Roddy Bottum (keyboards) will be back for the reunion, as will guitarist Jon Hudson, who joined FNM for their last album, 1997′s Album of the Year. The band’s mid-’80s frontman, Chuck Mosely — who was replaced by Patton after being ejected for erratic behavior — and iconic guitarist Jim Martin — who split (or was fired) in 1993 — aren’t mentioned in the e-mail, though Gould does hint at their rather tumultuous exits from the band.”

From blabbermouth:

“Billy Gould (FAITH NO MORE, BRUJERIA, HARMFUL) has recorded the bass and the keyboards on the track “Be Yourself!” by the Bulgarian super-project TANGRA MEGA MULLETS.”

Download the track