Sep 2009 Update: There is ample evidence the 1988 gig happened including two mentions of an iBeam gig where Faith No More played with Mike Patton in Steffan Chirazi's column in BAM Magazine in Dec 1988 and Jan 1989. The date isn't mentioned, but only this one gig is ever discussed before gigs in Feb 1989 begin. More details.

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Sep 2008 Update: Turns out Patton's first gig was in Jan (possibly early Feb) 1989. The confusion was caused by The Beatnig's calling their album launch "Faith Once More", and the venue confusing that with "Faith No More" supporting, which then trickled through to gig listings. Wow.

Either way, the March '89 Bogarts gig is definitely not Patton's first gig, but is (as far as we know) Patton's first video-taped gig.

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There has been a fair amount of history rewriting in the Faith No More fan camp lately:

• "New Improved Song" ("The Morning After" with Chuck Mosley on vocals) had been around since at least July 1986 and so was most likely an "Introduce Yourself" reject, not a hint at Chuck's attempt at providing lyrics to "The Real Thing".
• Mike Patton's first gig with Faith No More was November 1988, not March 1989. That puts his joining, learning and writing lyrics and gigging to less than 6 months after Chuck left.

There are novels worth of detail missed from "The Real Story".

Apple are finally starting to complain about general usage of the word "podcast" (can anyone say "too late suckers?").

Because Apple owns any word (or at least, any new word) with the prefix or suffix "pod". Dinchaknow?

The coffee drinkers at work will be most upset.

I vote for "radcast".

People should start saying rad more.

Rad.