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Mar 11, 2022 · As keyboard player Roddy Bottum recalls, 19-year-old Courtney Love "basically demanded to sing". Bassist Bill Gould remembers the singer as “a chaotic personality” who created “a whirlwind of shit” with the band, which was very much part of Faith No More's aesthetic in their earliest years together.
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Jun 10, 2023 · 394. 149K views 13 years ago. Courtney Love and Roddy Bottum talking about the early years of Faith No More with Courtney fronting the band for a few months ...more.
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The group recorded material with Love as a vocalist, but fired her; according to keyboardist Roddy Bottum, who remained Love's friend in the years after, the band wanted a "male energy". Love returned to working abroad as an erotic dancer, briefly in Taiwan, and then at a taxi dance hall in Hong Kong.
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Before he came out as gay, Bottum was involved in a brief heterosexual relationship with Courtney Love in the early 1980s, concurrent with the time she sang for Faith No More. The two remain friends decades later.
Apr 22, 2014 · Firings by fax, Courtney Love and Japanese Porn - the convoluted, crazed story of Faith No More. “They were really like a spider’s web, pulling equally in five different directions,” recalls long-time Faith No More producer Matt Wallace. “There was no de facto leader of the band.
Sep 15, 2020 · Faith No More keyboardist Roddy Bottum, who also dated Love for a brief time in the 1980s, added: “She sang with us for probably six months. She was an awesome performer; she liked to sing in her nightgown, adorned with flowers. We were switching around singers a whole lot at that point, but she was really good.”
Sep 28, 2017 · Believe it or not, the future Hole bandleader led an early incarnation of the influential alt-metal outfit (which then comprised Mike Bordin, Bill Gould, Roddy Bottum and Mark Bowen) back in 1984 — at the tender age of 20, natch. The gig was Love's idea.
