My fave FNM song. It's often argued that he is the best vocalist in metal/rock and has a range of 6 octaves. His response? ""I think that range thing is all bullshit. I don't think that I have the biggest range. And even if I do, who cares! ... This is not like the Olympics of vocals. [laughs] I could make a record without singing a note, and I'll be happy with it." - Patton 2019

He is not properly trained, just self trained. In his own words he learned from imitation. He is Just too good

“The energy’s just kinda pouring out of him” & “chaotic & effective” are about the best summations of Mike Patton, ever.

Parton is the greatest rock vocalist ever. Most coaches can’t explain all he can do.

Patton's (apocryphal?) official voice training story infamously involved a single session with an unidentified, but famous, LA vocal coach who came on to him during the session, which convinced him to figure things out on his own. He cites John Zorn, the avant-garde sax player/composer, with inspiring him to experiment and envision his voice as one would with any other instrument. Serj from SOAD describes Patton as a "vocal instrumentalist," which hits the nail on the head. For vocal coaches, aside from specific songs or projects, the answer to pupils who want to sound like Patton should be: "Don't try," for the sake of vocal preservation. However, his ability to sing "poppy" lines over dissonant tones, honed in high school with Bungle wunderkinds Trevor and Trey would make for an interesting dissertation for some music nerd!

From what I understand he is pretty much self trained. Mike enjoys nothing better than locking himself away alone and experimenting with his vocal folds. Check out 'Adult Themes for Voice' which is soley sounds he made with his voice, it's like marmite, love it or hate it. Mr Patton is kinda like a vocal version of Frank Zappa, both amazing composers, both incredibly experimental, both holding a raised finger to the music establishment.

Faith no More are classified as Funk Metal or experimental Rock/Metal or alternative Rock and sometimes as a Post punk band. Actually they have a high range of genre in their discography so... pretty difficult to put them in a defined category but they are surely not part of the progressive rock genre like Dream Theater or Pink Floyd for example.

Ken thanks for taking my suggestion 🥰 Greetings from Poland!

I believe he knows how brilliantly he can sing but absolutely does not care he will sing how he pleases.Had no idea he could sing like he can.I knew song (What is It)that I still love today.I was blown away with with range.

*The keyboardist, Roddy Bottum, came out and wrote the song "Be Aggressive" about his experiences to which Mike Patton sang without any reluctance taking into account it could've changed to way mainstream audiences saw him.* Bottum went on the co-found the alt-pop band Imperial Teen.

Definitely would recommend you give FNM's cover of 'Easy' (originally by The Commodores) a listen. Mike's voice in that one is smooth and full of soul.

He's also inhaling the final syllable of each (most?) lines of the verse here live. It's a technique he's used throughout his career on recordings.

Patton is always a treat to hear live. I've seen FNM 3 times, Mr. Bungle at the Limelight in NYC, and Fantomas at the Knitting Factory. All over the span of 3 decades, lol.

Love mike patton especially his version of this guys in love with you. So great

I'd highly recommend the live version of Ashes to Ashes from TFI Friday as well. Aside from his microphone breaking part way through and having to switch to another, it's a fantastic performance.

"Caffeine" and "Malpractice" from this album are at his best.

Truly one of the best vocalists ever to exist. HIs catologue is mind blowing.

I have always aspired to care as little as Mike Patton about what other people think. 😂 Don't think I'll ever get all the way there, but I'm getting closer! Chaotic but effective is such a perfect description of him.

Wow my friend. Ren, Igorrr, Faith No More. Someone is recommending you all my favourite artists! I love artists that do thing show they want and do not fit in a genre.

I’m assuming he’s self taught, his vocals just do it for me ❤️‍🔥🤘

Always enjoy your reactions!

Thank you so much for appreciating his style and artistry. Most people want to complain about what proper. He’s a genius and does it on purpose. ❤

Thank you for looking in to more Mike Patton. Cuckoo For Caca live is a must as well. This version specific: Faith No More - Cuckoo For Caca (Optimus Alive, Lisbon, 07/08/10) Love your channel!

El hombre de las mil voces ❤

I adore Mike Patton so much! There are some serious studies that proof that Mike Patton, axl rose and Freddy mercury are the - of course in „pop“ genre- singers with the widest vocal range 🎉 I would love you to react to everything’s ruined and my fav of all time: a small victory, which is outstanding on the angel dust album

Yup, the ‘Angel Dust’ LP was released in 1992, and all these years later is still one of my fave albums. I discovered it through a buddy of mine back in high school. I went over to his parents’ house one day and he was blasting it. I just sort of fell in line with him, and started grooving to it, too. Soon bought my own copy, and dived deep into it, as it is surely FNM’s most haunting album.

I love you ken!!

I saw them 4 times and Mike alone with Fantomas! Nice Channel 👍👍👏👏

so far ahead of its time - litterly influenced thousands of bands of all kinds

True vocalist

May I suggest *Demetrio Stratos* and his band *Area* , Ken? Is an Italian Progressive band from the 70s, one if not the most iconic band and voices in the Italian music but quite unique and extraordinary. There are a few songs in English as well but what really matters is Demetrio and his voice. If you believe Mike Patton, who I love to death as one if not the greatest voice today and probably of the last 3 decades, has "invented" something new... you must listen to Demetrio Stratos, whom Mike Patton himself _[he lives in Italy and is with an Italian woman as far as I know]_ knows pretty well and, I'm sure, idolize Demetrio not less than us Italian fans. Cheers!

Crazy, but great❣

2:20 "Ballsy" pretty much sums up Mike Patton's style in a nutshell. He acknowledges no rules whatsoever. That's why we love him.

I think of him as the OG character vocalist and inspired almost every big band vocally whether they know it or not. From Incubus to Korn to Dillinger to anything good from the 90's that didn't sound like any other bands

Check out two tracks with Mike Patton: Tomahawk - God Hates A Coward The Dillinger Escape Plan - When Good Dogs Do Bad Things You will enjoy them)

Mike is self taught (apart from half hour lesson). Every vocal coach reactor says he's doing things that are not possible or bad for the voice, so for him not being trained is freeing. Of course, vocal chords of steel help.

I recommend the Live Rock Show BBC RADIO 1 Faith No More

See also.. mr bungle, tomahawk, fantomas, mondo cane, loveage, general patton, peeping tom, dead cross, crudo... and so many more

He was the (bad) good guy in (Timecop) "I Am Legend"

"He is doing EVERYTHING you don't suppose to do... Breaking ALL the rules... Every one" Welcome to Mike Patton's art.

Payton is self taught. He played in Mr. Bungle with jazz musicians. He was just there to make noises and sing unique.

Mike has the most diverse voice in the world.

When the Real Thing came out, the "teen scream set" picked up on Mike's good looks. And he hated it. So for this album, he went out of his way to make himself look like a gas-station attendant.

Please..... listen the cover of EASY...is a Song from The Commodores of 1977...is amazing

This isn’t metal, it’s Faith No More, they do every style

Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady To by Lovage has some great Mike Patton vocals. Very fun album.

Patton is one of the most complete singers, with a vocal range from Eb1 to E7, six octaves and half tone in total. He can't be framed in a single style, because he moves from metal, rock, rap, guttural, lyrical...... So that u can appreciete his vocal talent it's no enough with just one song. Ashes to ashes, for example, u'll think he's not the same singer

Mike Patton is the greatest singer of our time.. Perfect pitch. Baritone Range: 6 octaves (A2-F#7) And yummy to look at

It's funny because after performing Midlife Crisis, they went on to sing a second song, a cover of Easy by the Commodores.

This is a MUST Mike Patton reaction, live segments of his range: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/adFyf5V02ciYkWg.html

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He's just so good! A very interesting band he has/had ( dunno if they still exist) is Peeping Tom😁😆

One vocal coach on youtube said that its awfull presentation, he is out of notes and cant sing. But the most part of other vocal coaches praises this perfomance. What do you really think about it, Ken? And audience?

'hey i'm Jay leno...im going to go play with my cars after this ''........LOL

Patton is a god

The Real Thing and Last Cup of Sorrow.

Listen to Kill Another Man , Seasons and his newer stuff with the Les Paul Band...*Steve Miller!* ...Dean Martin, Perry Como, Smokey Robinson, Andy Williams and on and on.............

considering he joined FNM at 19! and this was his SECOND band, Id say he had some kind of early childhood vox training. At least, breath training.

6 octive, 4 language singing genius. No one can come close. No one.

You have such a symmetrical face.

As I know, no he had no training at all. A godly talent not only vocalvise and also from composition standpoint.

He had training later on in his career (after this), not early in his life. I like live versions as much as the next, but this doesn't necessarily do the song justice. Probably want to give the album version a go...

Patton is a God among insects.

In line with how ballsy it was go go this hard in front of a Leno crowd, consider also Leno having a 19 year old Devin Townsend with Steve Vai kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m5Opoaihs7rHhoU.html

As another said: no, no training, absolutely not back then. If you ever heard his pre-FNM/demo & live Mr. Bungle stuff from when he was a teen it's just.... there. He went into his first FNM album intentionally making his voice very nasal-whiny and off-sounding a good bit and while it works great for the album it annoyed their producer/bosses because he refused to do what they already knew he could. He had just made an artistic choice and stuck with it. Demos and lives from before it (a lot of fans, even, think he did some massive changeup in abilities between the first and second FNM album and no... he just decided after a couple years of touring that he wanted to get back to doing more variety with his voice). While maybe something has changed and I missed it (since I don't track the man's every career move lol), last I'd read and heard in interviews is that he's been frank that while he'll experiment with ideas for his voice on his own and will practice older songs to make sure he recalls how to do them/the words, he has been frank that he doesn't/refuses to do any vocal practices/exercises to develop and maintain his voice nor see a vocal coach. He meets and works with new people on projects and picks up skills from that at times. He heard just came out of the box with these strengths (vocal quality and style/changeup abilities) and started working with John Zorn early in his career which inspired to keep expanding what he could do. Patton has a very firm view that vocals are another instrument rather than something to be put on the top/front of the music of a song..... that it fits some projects, others it doesn't., but that in either case it's like any instrument being a focus in a piece of music. He's done a massive, massive amount of work where he *is* parts of the instruments for other people's projects and you wouldn't know unless you were familiar with him or saw the credits on the song. The guy has had rather an odd career path due to his vocal abilities.... basically done so much and so varied of work that his level of success has ironically dropped him into a commercial-music/general-population obscurity outside FNM for the most part. Most else followed of his is by fans. Outside of metal I'd suggest sometimes trying out a song or two from his project Mondo Cane where he does orchestral 60-70s Italian pop songs.

It's extremely pedantic to even mention it, but I would say 'alternative metal' instead of progressive. Progressive metal, invented by Fates Warning and a couple of other contemporaneous peers, is very, very different. As far as being this bold in front of the 'normies', I totally agree. However, it's worth remembering that this was a very special time in music, where bands like FNM, Primus, and the wacky like were top 40 artists. The early 90s was a very special time, comparable to the late 60s as so much, well, better than other times in music.

Are you Conan O'Brien's brother/son?

Good but still not even close to watching something that Mike is at full potential 🙏Mondo Cane to Peeping Toms to Mr.Bungle….✍️Please keep going!!! Tomahawk!!

Any other band would need at LEAST 2 vocalists

The terrible audio quality of this video doesn't do his voice or range justice. Studio version would be better IMO. A small victory and last cup of sorrow are great songs

He's even better when he's not on smack.

This is the worst live recording of any faith no more song ever.

He is the Johnny Depp of singing.

4:44 ZERO vocal training.

Oh dude, there‘s a video with much much better sound quality on yt🥲