February 25, 2009
You know that horrible feeling in the pit of your stomach when you first heard St. Anger? You know how you dropped your head in shame for falling for the hype once again and believing Lars when he said that “This next album is the hardest, craziest thing we’ve done since Ride the Lightning dickweeds”? You know how every ping of that coffee can drum was like a kick to the cute long-eared puppy dog that is your psyche? You know how you were so pissed at Metallica for creating that album that you just wished they’d do the honorable thing and let the entirety of the metal community give Lars the soap and sock treatment from Full Metal Jacket, or at the very least break up? Well, you almost got your wish. No, not the mass bludgeoning of Lars Ulrich with a bunch of tube socks and a Costco box of Irish Spring. The breaking up part. After St. Anger the band nearly collapsed in on the weight of their tear soaked t-shirts and coffee can drums and it was only a life line in the shape of the craggy, saggy faces of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards that kept them from breaking up. Lars says, “The big turn around was when the Rolling Stones called us in the summer of 2005 and asked if we would play with them in San Francisco. We showed up at HQ four or five days before the gig. There was no film crew, no producer, no psychiatrist, no minders, no babysitters, none of that s**t. We didn’t have to sit down and talk about how we were feeling and all of that horses**t. That set the tone for the next three years and it’s been great.”
An update on the story I had yesterday about Faith No More reuniting. I told you how most of the band would reform (including Mike Patton) but would only tour in Europe. As I told you yesterday, the rumor seemed unlikely considering the time and effort over the past few years that Mike Patton spent telling his former band mates just how many wieners they could eat (the answer being all of them). And as I also told you yesterday, someone would probably pop up in the next few days to tell us that the whole rumor is crap and that we could go ahead and finish any of the wieners that Patton’s ex-band mates didn’t finish. Well, Mike Patton’s publicist was asked about the Faith No More reunion rumor AND… he confirmed it. Yes, apparently Faith No More is reuniting. Unfortunately he also confirmed the sucky part of the story, that they have no plans to tour the states.