Faith No More

. Gaudio is a member of the Songwriters' Hall of Fame.
. He lured Neil Diamond to Nashville to record the album "Tennessee Moon." In recent years Gaudio has focused on musical theater, writing the music for the 2001 London production of "Peggy Sue Got Married." Gaudio was instrumental in mounting "Jersey Boys," a musical play based on the lives of The Four Seasons, which is running at the La Jolla (California) Playhouse through January 2, 2005 and is headed for Broadway. In 1998, the Sparks (band) album Plagarism was released featuring two collaborations with Faith No More ("This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us" and "Something for the Girl with Everything"). In the 1990s Gaudio moved to Nashville and produced recordings for Canadian country artist George Fox, among others. for the song "Another Body Murdered" on the 1993 Judgment Night soundtrack. He produced the movie soundtrack albums for Diamond's "The Jazz Singer" and "The Little Shop of Horrors.".

Faith No More collaborated with the Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. In particular, he produced six complete albums for Neil Diamond. In 1991, the Faith No More song "Perfect Crime" appeared on the soundtrack for Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey. In addition to his work for the Seasons and Sinatra, he wrote and/or produced for Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Barry Manilow and Roberta Flack. Jim Martin (http://home.pacbell.net/diana_do/tallycom.htm) now has the 235th largest pumpkin ever grown. Gaudio had stopped touring with the Seasons in 1971 so that he could focus on writing and producing. Billy Gould is a member of Brujeria, as well as founder of Kool Arrow Records. The original Four Seasons were inducted into the Rock and Rock Hall of Fame in 1990.

Mike Bordin regularly performs as a member of Ozzy Osbourne's band. The songs became big hits for a reconstituted discofied version of the Four Seasons (Valli was the only original left). Keyboardist Roddy Bottum formed Imperial Teen, whos sunny pop music seemed very different from Faith No More. Later in the 1970s Gaudio wrote "Who Loves You" and "December 1963 (Oh What a Night)" with his future wife Judy Parker. Patton went on to collaborate with John Zorn, and has been active with several other groups, including Tomahawk and Fantômas. Gaudio and Holmes also wrote and produced Frank Sinatra's 1970 album "Watertown.". Three more guitarists would pass through before Faith No More disbanded in April, 1998. and Ace in the U.K.

After touring to support Angel Dust in the summer of 1992, (including tours with Metallica and Guns N' Roses), longtime guitarist Jim Martin was fired during the early stages of recording their follow-up. Appreciation of "The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette" has grown over the years, and it was released on CD (minus the newspaper cover) in the 1990s by Rhino in the U.S. reveals a developing facility for combining unlikely elements into startlingly original concoctions." [3] (http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=faith_no_more) Angel Dust featured the "Midlife Crisis" and "A Small Victory", as well as a re-recording of the theme to the film Midnight Cowboy. The album was a commercial failure and marked the end of the Four Seasons' first period of success, but the album's quirky newspaper-style cover influenced the covers of subsequent albums by Jefferson Airplane, Jethro Tull, and John Lennon. Faith No More displayed a distinctly experimental bent on Angel Dust. One critic writes that the album is "one of the more complex and simply confounding records ever released by a major label," [2] (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:m7rvad5kv8wo~T1) and another writes that "'A Small Victory,' which seems to run Madame Butterfly through Metallica and Nile Rodgers .. With lyricist Jake Holmes, Gaudio sought to join the trend toward more socially conscious pop music by writing and producing the album "The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette," released by the Four Seasons in 1969. That same year, Faith No More gave memorable performances at the 1990 MTV Video Music Awards (September 6th) and on Saturday Night Live (December 1st). Gaudio-Crewe compositions also became major hits for other artists, including the Tremeloes ("Silence is Golden") and the Walker Brothers ("The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore").

The Real Thing also featured a cover of Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" and the album has been described as "not quite early Brian Eno joins Led Zeppelin and Funkadelic, but it's closer than might be thought." [1] (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:a8jgtq9ztu48~T1). Together with producer Bob Crewe, Gaudio wrote a string of subsequent '60s hits for the Seasons, including "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Walk Like a Man," 'Ronnie," "Save It For Me," "Bye Bye Baby" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" (the first big success under Valli's name as a "solo artist"). The video for "Epic" received extensive airplay on MTV. The end of this video features slow motion footage of a fish flopping out of water, a sight which provoked anger from animal rights activists in the summer of 1990. Gaudio played keyboards and wrote the Seasons' first hit, "Sherry," in 1962. His first record with the group, The Real Thing, was a major hit, selling over a million copies. He shot to musical fame at the age of 15 as a member of the Royal Teens when he wrote the hit "Short Shorts." For years afterward he seemed destined to be a one-hit wonder until he met Frankie Valli, Tommy DeVito, and Nick Massi, all from Newark, New Jersey, forming the group that became the Four Seasons. Bungle, and dropped out of Humboldt State University to join Faith No More. Bob Gaudio (born November 17, 1942) is an American singer and songwriter from the Bronx, New York.

Patton had previously fronted Mr. Patton would prove a more versatile singer than the rather monotone Mosley. Mosley was fired in 1988, and replaced with singer Mike Patton. "We Care A Lot"--a song satirizing the prevailence of charity-related rock efforts (Live Aid, "We Are The World")--is probably their best known song from this era.

Chuck Mosley became the full time singer, and appeared on their first two records. The instrumentalists were established early-on, but a number of singers passed through, including a brief stint by Courtney Love, who never recorded with the group. Faith No More formed in 1982. Faith No More have been classified as alternative metal, demonstrating their talent for incorporating elements of funk, rap, soul and even country into their sound.

Their music is difficult to categorize neatly, but is rooted in heavy metal, and in some ways they anticipated the nu metal of the late 1990s, as it combined angular, distorted guitars with big pop choruses, and heavy doses of rap-style vocals. They are probably best known for the singles "Epic" and "Falling to Pieces" off of their 1989 album The Real Thing, and for their cover version of the Commodores' classic Easy. They first performed as 'The Chicken F*ckers'. Faith No More was a rock music group, formed in San Fransisco, California in 1982, and disbanding in 1998.

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