A bit of background earlier than we get into issues right here. Religion No Extra and Mr. Bungle canceled their September and October 2021 tour dates as vocalist Mike Patton handled ongoing psychological well being points. These cancellations bled into 2022, with Religion No Extra canning their plans for all the 12 months.
Mr. Bungle would ultimately get again on stage fairly a couple of instances, however Religion No Extra by no means recovered. Patton would later deal with the state of affairs with Religion No Extra‘s different members, whereas Religion No Extra keyboardist Roddy Backside briefly addressed the band’s state of affairs as a “semi everlasting hiatus” and bassist Billy Gould mentioned he has no thought what is going on on.
Now in a brand new interview with Let There Be Discuss, Religion No Extra drummer Mike Bordin spoke somewhat extra frankly in regards to the band’s state of affairs. Bordin recounted what occurred with the cancellations, earlier than claiming that Patton clearly does not wish to play with Religion No Extra contemplating he is tour with Mr. Bungle.
“All I can say is, and I believe I do need this to be on the document, really — as a result of we do not promote ourselves, we do not speak about ourselves, and that is, that is actually been to our detriment. However we would been rehearsing for six months for these dates [in September/October 2021]. We would been rehearsing instrumentally and we extremely sounded phenomenal. I imply, the bass participant mentioned, ‘I’ve by no means heard us sound this good. That is how these songs sounded in my thoughts.’ And we have by no means gotten that on album, on dwell, no matter. I imply, we had been prepared, we had been ready.
“And it got here to cross that when the gear was within the truck, when it was rolling to Chicago, 36 hours earlier than we had been purported to be on stage, and our man [Mike Patton] does not present for the rehearsal, the one rehearsal that we’re gonna do. And we go to go see him and see what is going on on. ‘What the hell’s occurring right here? Our gear’s rolling already to the gig.’ And it was very clear that he was unable at that time to bodily do it. We made the choice that, ‘Look, we have gotta help our man.’ It is gonna be a shit storm canceling fucking 75 exhibits, however none of us desires to be the man that breaks his again and forces him to do one thing that he is not within the place to have the ability to do.
“It wasn’t even an argument. The one argument was, ‘How the fuck did we logistically do that? As a result of we now have to.’ I imply, we did help him in our manner, and whether or not that is perceived or not is past — I am unable to management it. So we pull these exhibits and simply wait to see. Hopefully issues are higher, and attempt to discover out what we will across the edges. However in the end [Patton started booking shows with Mr. Bungle], and that is continued to this present day.
“So it is my take, my place, my assertion on it’s that he is gone from being unable to do the exhibits to obviously being unwilling to do exhibits with us. And that is heavy. That is an enormous distinction. That is an enormous distinction. And we have not actually had a lot dialogue on it.”
Bordin later famous that he is grateful for Patton and everybody else who’s ever been in Religion No Extra, however realizes he cannot forcefully make one thing occur: “Am I grateful for the time with Mike Patton? Yeah, as a result of my life could be very completely different with out it. However I am unable to pressure him to do one thing that he, from the place I am sitting, does not appear to wanna do. That is all I can say. And I do not wanna be controversial. I am not on the lookout for a fucking headline — I am actually not. I am simply attempting to inform you form of what it appears to be like like from right here.”
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