Over the weekend, Mike Patton sang some tracks from his Mr. Bungle and Faith No More days while on tour with his latest project, AVTT/PTTN. Though his collab with folk rock band The Avett Brothers carries with it a folky Americana sound itself, that didn’t stop the group from trotting out some fan favorites to both excite and bum out huge swathes of his fan base.
During the shows this past weekend, AVTT/PTTN didn’t shy away from covering their respective music. Multiple times throughout their sets, AVTT/PTTN played a majority of Avett Brothers covers, with some Faith No More songs sprinkled in amidst the group’s actual songs they wrote together.
For our purposes, they played “Ashes To Ashes” off of Faith No More’s Angel Dust record, “Digging The Grave” off their album King for a Day… Fool for a Lifetime album, and “Easy”, the Commodores song that Faith No More famously covered. As for their Mr. Bungle covers, they did a snippet of “Vanity Fair” and the entirety of “Retrovertigo”, both off the classic California album.
These performances come just weeks after Mike Patton openly said that Faith No More’s last tour felt like “closure”, effectively cementing the fact that the band is on “permanent hiatus”. Still, it’s left fans of the band watching the live performances feel like they’re on the outside looking in, with many feeling they didn’t get any closure with how things ended. Sure, that’s not something the artists owe their fans, but Mike Patton fans are rabid, man. They want it all, even if they can’t have it.
If you’d like to catch AVTT/PTTN live, since it seems to be the only way to hear Faith No More songs live these days, then you can do so by checking out the list of tour dates below and getting your tickets today.
AVTT/PTTN Live dates
04/11 Nashville, TN – The Pinnacle
04/14 Chattanooga, TN – Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Auditorium
04/16 North Charleston, SC – North Charleston Coliseum & PAC
04/17 Greensboro, NC – Steven Tanger Center for the Perf. Arts
04/18 Columbia, SC – Township Auditorium
05/8 San Francisco, CA – The Masonic
05/9 Paso Robles, CA – Vina Robles Amp
05/10 San Diego, CA – The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park
05/12 Phoenix, AZ – Arizona Financial Theatre
05/14 Austin, TX – Moody Center
05/15 Dallas, TX – AT&T Perf. Arts Ctr. – Winspear Opera House
06/10 Boston, MA – Wang Center – Boch Center
06/12 Brooklyn, NY – Kings Theatre
06/14 Baltimore, MD – Chesapeake Employers Ins. Arena
06/16 Lewiston, NY – Artpark Mainstage
06/18 Cleveland, OH – Jacobs Pavilion At Nautica
06/19 Ann Arbor, MI – Hill Auditorium
06/20 Waukegan, IL – Genesee Theatre