You heard it here first, or maybe you didn’t, but Mike Patton is back with a newly reformed Faith No More who have been confirmed as a headliner of the 2009 Download Festival (UK).
The annoucement has come from out of nowhere and follows the epic news of the reformation of Faith No More, lineup circa Album Of The Year, for a European tour.
This means no Jim Martin, older FNM fans may be unhappy to hear, guitar duties being handled by Jon Hudson.
In 1998 we thought “everything’s ruined” when evidence of the breakup of this seminal band emerged, and after digging the grave, saying “ashes to ashes” and drinking a last cup of sorrow for this once-great act over a decade ago, they’ve come back to get us on the ricochet and this is the real thing.
Personally, I’m falling to piece over this news, so I take this bottle and toast the band that brought us these classic albums…
1985: We Care a Lot
1987: Introduce Yourself
1989: The Real Thing
1992: Angel Dust
1995: King for a Day… Fool for a Lifetime
1997: Album of the Year
It’d take woodpeckers from mars to keep me away from this gig.
The other headliners are Slipknot and Def Leppard.
We care a lot at the RMF and have our fingers on the pulse of the music-loving world, and so for all those budding guitarists, pianists and other musicians out there that are looking for the chords and lyrics to Faith No More’s cover of the Lionel Ritchie classic, “Easy” – here you go…
For ease of playing, I’ve transcribed it in G, whereas the recorded version is in G#, so if you want to use these chords to play along to the record, you’ll have to tune your guitar up a half-step.
Verse:
G Bm Am D
You know it sounds funny but I just can’t stand the pain…
G Bm Am DDDDD…
Girl I’m leavin’ you tomorrow….
G Bm Am D
Seems to me, girl, you know I’ve done all I can…
G Bm Am D
You see, I beg, stole and I borrowed, yeah
Chorus:
G Bm Am
It’s why I’m easy
D G Bm Am D
I’m easy like Sunday morning
G Bm Am D
It’s why I’m easy
F C DD G (bass part: F, E, DD, G)
Easy like Sunday morning
Bridge:
F Em D
I wanna be high, so high
F Em D
I wanna be free to know the things I do are right
F Em D
I wanna be free, just me
Bb F Bb C
Oh babe
(guitar solo: same chords as verse)
(repeat chorus)
End on the G
Now don’t say we never give you anything. 
Incidentally… the 2009 Download UK lineup so far:
Faith No More, Slipknot, Def Leppard
Korn, Marilyn Manson, Whitesnake(plus special guests)
Limp Bizkit, Pendulum, ZZ Top
Motley Crue, The Prodigy
Dream Theater, Killswitch Engage, Trivium, Dragonforce, Billy Talent, Buckcherry, Anvil, The Blackout, Devildriver
Best lineup ever?
Take it easy, and don’t be having a midlife crisis over this news.
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Muso
Can I stop with the stupid FNM puns now?
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