[kj] FNM's Mike Bordin on KJ

[Rheinhold Squeegee]

http://www.faithnoman.com/mike-bordin
Mike
 Bordin, you pioneered an innovative style that emphasized full-kit, 
tom-driven grooves over tight kick-and-snare patterns. This became like a
 Bordin / Faith No More trademark. Did it all start back with Morris and
 Faith. No Man?
 
I
 don't particularly want to contradict Morris, but the fact is that 
there were several things working together at that time to break me out 
of the "normal" style of drumming. Seeing the Sex Pistols' last show at 
Winterland really changed everything for me. I knew there was more out 
there musically, because I had seen it with my own eyes. The guy that 
introduced me to Morris and consequently the others, Rick Clare, I was 
in a bad new wave band with that I didn't fit in at all. He knew I was 
coming from a metal background and consequently into harder stuff like 
Killing Joke, Pil, etc. and suggested I look into Morris, who he said 
was also into stuff like that.

Listening
 to that style (maybe they called it Post Punk?) was hugely influential 
in breaking out of tradition. Pete De Frietas (Echo and the Bunnymen 
R.I.P.) Martin Atkins, and Big Paul Ferguson were all both much more 
musical and rhythmically aggressive in their approaches and very 
inspiring. Maybe
 most importantly, I was in a class at school with a Ghanian Drum 
Master, C.K. Ladzepko, who taught Ghanian style ensemble percussion. 
This was drum (tom) patterns as rhythmic frameworks exclusively. There 
was
 a huge group of bands in the Bay Area called Worldbeat who studied in 
this class, The Looters, Big City, Mapenzi, to name a few. Being left 
handed really helped here, because I hadn't been crossing my hands 
anyway, and I could get around the drums with ease. Playing like this 
and listening to the first couple Killing Joke albums, among others, it 
all really made a lot of sense, and at that time, I was absolutely ready
 (and looking) to do something different, as were many people.







> Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 13:59:16 +0100
> From: jimharper666 at yahoo.co.uk
> To: gathering at misera.net
> Subject: [kj] FNM's Mike Bordin on KJ
> 
> In an interview with UK drumming magazine Rhythm, Faith No More's Mike Bordin talks about his influences. When he was a kid, he loved Bill Ward, Ian Paice, Cozy Powell and John Bonham, but later discovered British post-punk drummers like Big Paul, Pete DeFreitas and Hugo Burnham who he came to love because because they were unique and didn't play like anyone else. Big Paul is described as "amazing", with "incredible texture". We all know FNM are big Joke fans, but it never hurts to see it said in print again!
> 
> Re: FNM. It's good to see the US media appreciating them as a deeply individual band, resolutely doing whatever the fuck they want, as opposed to their stance 20 years ago, which was that they released one bona fide 'classic' album (The Real Thing), before committing "commercial suicide" with Angel Dust (a much better album that TRT) and blandly fizzling out a few years later. I've liked everything I've heard from Sol Invictus and can't wait to have the whole album.
> 
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