Mike Patton
마이크 패튼
マイク・パットン
مايك باتون
Паттон, Майк
Amerikaanse muzikant
US-amerikanischer Sänger
cantor american
Ameriški glasbenik
kanitan Lamerikänik
muzician american
cyfansoddwr a aned yn 1968
Ameerika Ühendriikide laulja
amerikansk musiker
músico estadounidense
американський музикант
americký hudebník
amerikansk komponist og songar
yhdysvaltalainen laulaja
مغني أمريكي
ceoltóir Meiriceánach
o nyɛla Chile yiliyiinda
خواننده و آهنگساز آمریکایی
abeslari estatubatuarra
Muzikant amerikan
Músic estatunidenc
Amerikansk musiker
זמר אמריקאי
Usona muzikisto
musicista statunitense
Penyanyi, produser, dan komposer Amerika
amerykański muzyk
Músico americano
cantante estadounidense
মার্কিন গায়ক
американски музикант
cantante estauxunidense
musicien américain
American singer
Eureka, California, U.S.
film composer
songwriter
Singer
voice actor
record producer
right
left
Demetrio Stratos and Yamantaka Eye influenced Patton's extended vocal techniques.
Fame is like going to Las Vegas. And if you can't laugh first and foremost at yourself, then you are fucked. And when you are going through that, it's hilarious.
People are too concerned with theoretical knowledge. I think the important thing is to hear more.
I love music. Why limit yourself?
I'm not a poet. I'm not up onstage to get something off my chest. I'm making musical statements, or, most of the time, musical questions for people to figure out, and I'm not going to get in the way of that.
[Patton's] ear is so finely tuned – [he is aware of] every single little thing [in the band], and nothing, nothing gets by him! ... And if [some members] fuck up one little thing, he's like, "Stop! ... There was one little thing here; do this, try this." And it's never mean, or yelling, or condescending, it's just in a creative musical way always. ... He's like Stevie Wonder, guys that just could play everything that's going on in a room, and they know everything. ... [The creative process] is so pure with him.
[Kiedis, who] had still not forgiven [Mike] Patton for being a similarly pretty, long-haired singer who happened to be prettier, younger and sing better, managed to become totally irrelevant [by 1999], and then more popular than ever, thanks to musical vulture/magpie/compressor extraordinaire Rick Rubin. ... Not only was the [Patton's] third Mr. Bungle album delayed, but every festival appearance they'd been booked for at which the Chilis were also playing got cancelled at the behest of erstwhile bridge-lurker Kiedis.
In most areas in our culture, fame and wealth are universally admired and respected, it doesn't matter what it took to get there. Patton rejects all of that. For a frontman, he's fairly comfortable being the center of attention, and he's not a self-promoter. He's certainly got the looks and talent to be famous, but he absolutely doesn't care about that. Maybe that's why he's won the respect of so many musicians.
[The major label's] world is not about doing what you can to keep the artist happy, it's not about music, it's about spend, spend, spend and get the band in debt and keep them drunk and compromise their art and that's that. ... One of the things you realize [by releasing albums independently] is, it's your money! So don't go to some expensive studio and hire some guy to hold your golf clubs, just make your fucking record and get the fuck out of there! [Whispering] You might make some money on your records!
—Scott Ian about working with Patton, 2020
—Revolver, 2002
—Mike Patton, 2015
—Mike Patton, 2002
—Patton on his motivation to start Ipecac Recordings, 2003
—Fact, 2014
—Mike Patton, 2004
—Mike Patton on his music, 2013
keyboards
Vocals
samples
alternative rock
funk metal
contemporary classical
art pop
Avant-garde
experimental rock
Michael Allan Patton
Patton declined offers to join chart-topping bands INXS and Velvet Revolver in order to work with experimental, underground artists.
The members of Mr. Bungle often traveled to watch Nomeansno play live.
Patton in 2009
Lovage
Hemophiliac
Peeping Tom
Nevermen
Tomahawk
Fantômas
Mr. Bungle
Faith No More
Demetrio Stratos - Ευστράτιος Δημητρίου.jpg
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