Mike Patton is UNWILLING to carry out with Religion No Extra!
On Let There Be Speak, Religion No Extra drummer Mike Bordin spoke about live performance cancellations, and claimed that Patton clearly doesn’t wish to play with Religion No Extra contemplating he’s touring with Mr. Bungle.
“All I can say is, and I feel I do need this to be on the file, truly — as a result of we don’t promote ourselves, we don’t speak about ourselves, and that’s, that’s actually been to our detriment. However we’d been rehearsing for six months for these dates [in September/October 2021]. We’d been rehearsing instrumentally and we extremely sounded phenomenal. I imply, the bass participant stated, ‘I’ve by no means heard us sound this good. That is how these songs sounded in my thoughts.’ And we’ve by no means gotten that on album, on stay, no matter. I imply, we have been prepared, we have been ready.
“And it got here to move that when the gear was within the truck, when it was rolling to Chicago, 36 hours earlier than we have been purported to be on stage, and our man [Mike Patton] doesn’t present for the rehearsal, the one rehearsal that we’re gonna do. And we go to go see him and see what’s happening. ‘What the hell’s happening 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’ve gotta help our man.’ It’s gonna be a shit storm canceling fucking 75 reveals, however none of us desires to be the man that breaks his again and forces him to do one thing that he’s 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 have now to.’ I imply, we did help him in our manner, and whether or not that’s perceived or not is past — I can’t management it. So we pull these reveals and simply wait to see. Hopefully issues are higher, and attempt to discover out what we are able to across the edges. However finally [Patton started booking shows with Mr. Bungle], and that’s continued to at the present time.
“So it’s my take, my place, my assertion on it’s that he’s gone from being unable to do the reveals to obviously being unwilling to do reveals with us. And that’s heavy. That’s an enormous distinction. That’s an enormous distinction. And we haven’t actually had a lot dialogue on it.”
