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Faith No More: The Real Story

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I happened upon this book in a local tower records, and I was surprised one actually existed for my favorite band. This was long after its release (maybe 1997) so it was on sale for like $7. It's got a great source of info about the band's history from the very beginning. Lots of nice pictures too, though one of them is a big picture of Patton with a shirt that's a little disturbing. But hey, he had a point he was trying to make. . .anyway, if you can find this book, get it if you're a big fnm fan. The only problem I have with it is that while it's a great resource, it only goes up to about 1992-3, the last thing is when Jim Martin was fired. Since they've now broken up, I don't think we'll seea new edition sadly enough. . .

If you're even curious about this book it's probably because you're a die-hard fan. And if that's the case, this book is easily worth having. I'd say it's heaviest on interviews with Gould and Bottum, and fairly light on material with Patton.

It's a great behind-the-scenes take. These guys weren't exactly the best of friends but they sure are endlessly interesting. Just read it.

The book is great - it was a gift and the person who received it, was over the moon as he was under the impression it was out of print. The market place vendor kept true to his word and the book was delivered from the UK in about 2 weeks. The shipping plus the book only cost about 90 dollars, which is not too bad at all considering some people were selling it for upwards of 200 dollars. Thanks Amazon!

I have had this book for quite awhile, read it many times. So much so the glue in the spine of the book has some of the pages falling out. It is very detailed in all of the history of Faith No More up until when Jim Martin was fired. The end of the book which briefly describes the parting probably came when the book itself was in the finishing stages, so no great detail in that episode. Unfortunately I believe I read the author has since died, I think he would have been a natural choice to document the next stage of the history of Faith No More. As of now I don't believe there is any other biography of the band out there. The book was easy to read with quite a few images which compliment each other.