Faith No More recently played the KFAD album in full at a show in Chile, which also saw Trey Spruance finally make his live debut with the band but wait there’s more…

FNM also played popular KFAD-era B-side ‘Absolute Zero’ live for the first time!

Lucky Chilean Bastards! Fresh off Billy’s twitter:
“Santiago, Chile: King for a Day from front to back, with original guitarist Trey Spruance!! Told you it would be something different…!”
Do I even need say… I wish I was there!

Recently on FB Trey off-handedly mentioned that along with the South American tour, they are also currently in the planning stages of tours through America, Australia, the UK and Scandinavia.

No mention though of the much anticipated and long awaited next Secret Chiefs 3 album (Book of Souls?).

Cool, huh? Guess the Cobra show went well Gotta love Zorn.

A long read. Hope you’ve got some time:

“I hope what will happen is that everyone will grow out of projecting decayed, crypto-Christian apocalyptic concepts onto other cultures, and inventing comic-book scenarios out of the silent mouths of extinct ancients who are not around to tell all these white people how stupid they are being, and how wrongly they have interpreted everything (according mostly to their fantasies, dim echoes from becoming unglued from their own Traditions)”

Trey Spruance Interview @ Bungleoid

Hardtimes.ca just published a long interview with Trey Spruance. Check it:

Secret Chiefs 3 Interview HARDTIMES . CA

http://rs402.rapidshare.com/files/181753969/NTF.zip

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IFJEGG7E

Tracks included:

Noddingturd Fan – Mary Niel and the Collapsed Corpse of the Universe (1995)
Noddingturd Fan – Attempts the Imprisonment of Mind Undifferentiated by Fabrication of Demiurge [Precipitation] (1995)
Millers Higher Life – Forms Web of Mimicry [Indiscreet Stereo Test Record] (1995)
Noddingturd Fan [Kitchen Sink Live] (1999)
NT Fan – The Secret Mausoleum of Mankind [Bad Times Ahead for Me] (2000)

More info on NT Fan here

http://rapidshare.com/files/128890120/trey_rock-a-rolla.zip

http://markprindle.com/spruance-i.htm

Photo courtesy of HLK

Trey Spruance and Tawb b. Dorenfeld (Director/Writer of The Anna Cabrini Chronicles) conducted an interview with UCSC Radio to talk about the movie The Anna Cabrini Chronicles. I have been keen to see this movie and after seeing snippets in these interviews I am even more so. If you are interested in the move after watching these interviews, head on over to www.annacabrini.com.

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Part 2:

My friend Henrik from the cv mailing list recently posted an overview of the Trey Spruance interview recently published in the magazine rock-a-rolla. Go grab a copy, it’s a great read.

I’ve got the new issue with Trey‘s interview and it was pretty
interesting. I’ll mention a few interesting things from the interview.

First of all Trey talked about how he came to do the Xaphan album.
When SC3 were playing at the Stone, Zorn happened to be there and he
ran home and came back with Masada Book II (300 charts) at the end of
the show and offered Trey to make a record and arrange however he
wanted. Next Trey and Jason Schimmel looked through the charts and the
ones Zorn suggested struck him immediately and he knew exactly what he
wanted to do.

Then he compares Zorn’s way of doing this to his own way, for example
the amount of time he spends on SC3 records. Also the way of doing
live shows is different, where Zorn get the players ready on the same
day of the show (or they’ve rehearsed before) and play the show.
Whereas Trey has a “pool” of players that are “broken in” and get
whoever’s available for those shows.

He also says he’s more into composing than being “fixated” on an
instrument. The Book of Souls is divided into three folios and a lot
of it is at the mixing stage and doing the Xaphan got in the way of
that, but helped creatively.

He says that FORMS and Holy Vehm is next up for the live shows.

Furthermore, he says that he “resents” iPods for ruining the artwork/
image aspect of the album/single.

WoM will release a cd with a band called The Diminshed Men, some kind
of surf-ish music and also Girth (the band which Peijman is in).

At the end of the interview he talks about the demise of Mr. Bungle,
saying that he probably was the one who was in denial longest, until
late 2005 and the way that it ended was weird, sad and awkward. He
thought the problems could be solved and that the band could’ve made a
fourth album. Trey says: ” “Management” certainly didn’t help, and
continues not to, and that’s the only grudge I bear.”

He says he doesn’t have a grudge against Patton, but that he wouldn’t
be too eager to get into a band situation with him these days. But
all in all, he thinks Mr. Bungle had a good run and that he thinks
fondly of those days.
He also stated that he still has material for a Bungle record and that
he would be positive to a live album.

Then he talks about the other members of Bungle, saying that he’s
heard some of Trevor Dunn’s stuff and that he always likes his
playing. He mentions that he played with Umläut, Bär McKinnon’s band,
on the Australian tour and that he always likes things about Fantômas.
He also sounds enthusiastic about Patton’s Mondo Cane project and
says: …”which sounds perfect for him – like something he should have
done all along.” He’s not into the more rock/hip-hop stuff that
Patton’s been doing, but that’s probably because he doesn’t like
anything that sounds that way. At the end he expresses his admiration
for Danny Heifetz drumwork.

He also talks a lot about middle eastern philosophy and the difference
in recording techniques between SC3 and Bungle. Well there you go,
that’s about as much as I can write about it!

/Henrik