Master Copy July 30,1999 Mr. Bungle Live at the Guvernment, Toronto 2. Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz They showed up late to a packed house. Trouble at the border. After the band had to pack up their own gear and found time to talk to fans.
@@Theybo2 the "lyrics" are "written" in optophonetic style & leave quite a lot of room for improvisation, besides the coupla "verses" of nonsyntactical sound sequences
there are clips of Humboldt State University's percussion ensemble performing this. a bunch of this lineup was attending in the 90s and Trey composed this while there. I think it's pretty cool the school uses it as one of their jazz pieces. apparently the calypso/steel drum program is legendary, I know they also thanked the band director on liner notes but I forgot his name.
I imagine this song is very difficult to play on all the instruments. Mike Patton seems to "sing" this song with ease it's very talented how he makes those bizarre vocals.
They said in interviews that the music was too hard to play with the masks on at this point. It's a testament both to their maturity and to their evolution as musicians. They always pushed themselves to create new and exciting music each time out. But they never lost their sense of humor or their showmanship, either. I think this band is eons more talented and hard-working than 99% of other bands.
Plus even though the band had always dressed up in costumes and wore masks even in the early days, part of the reason they started wearing the full head masks for entire shows was because Mike Patton was such a huge star in Faith No More and they wanted to distinguish his two bands from each other. IMHO there should not have been a problem with that, as both bands are wildly different musically. But a lot of people were going to Bungle shows because they were seeing Patton on MTV all the time back in the day. The masks in a weird way forced people to listen to their music and not just stare at Mike's face. It was an "f-you" to the people that came to the show just to see, as Buzz Osborne called him, the MTV Star. And plus by the time the California album came out, FNM had broken up so Mike could just be Mike again. No mask needed anymore. They all still wore costumes of some sort, though. Because that's them. Always did things with a wink and a nod. Never too serious or self-important, even though they always took their music seriously. I love that so much. What a band.
