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Faith No More - Mike Patton and Billy Gould talk Sol Invictus Tour

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Billy Gould and Mike Patton have spoken to the Wall Street Journal about the demands of touring and how playing the new material live is feeling



“The way we’ve scheduled this year of touring is actually pretty humane,” Patton told Speakeasy in a telephone interview last week. “We’ll do a few weeks, in this case it was actually a month, or a little longer, and then we’ll have a few weeks off.”

Patton on making  tweaks because it wasn’t possible to capture the full studio-record sound live. 
 “It’s a matter of choosing. Hey, you’ve got this three- or four- or five-part harmony, we can’t do them all, Let’s figure out an instrumentation or an arrangement where we can still make it work in a live setting. That’s challenging. It’s also really fun.”

Billy on playing the new songs live.
“They’re starting to get comfortable, familiar to our bodies now, and that’s really important, We’re playing music and not just playing songs.”




Patton on the demands on his voice.
 “The one thing that’s different now is I go through more peaks and valleys, I’m older so it’s tougher. I’ll start out fine, then I’ll hit a valley. And then I’ll be great for a while, and then all of a sudden, hey, if you blink or stay out too late one night or don’t take care of yourself, then it can step up and bite you in the ass.”

Patton on the 'wait and see' approach.
“The one constant has been, and it’s a comforting constant: let’s not plan too far ahead, let’s not make any commitments that are going to compromise us in the future, Hey, let’s take it step by step, and we’ll see how we feel after this year of touring. God only knows.”

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