{"id":1541,"date":"2015-04-30T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2024-04-13T20:25:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T20:25:26","slug":"the-outsider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=1541","title":{"rendered":"The outsider"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Bring on the bevy of overhyped hard rock dudes<\/strong>:&nbsp;<strong>Faith No More\u2019<\/strong>s new album&nbsp;<em>Sol Invictus<\/em>&nbsp;isn\u2019t released until May 19, but that hasn\u2019t stopped the band from debuting songs on its set lists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The band\u2019s rabid fanbase and reputation for a strange, yet equally great live show earned an early sell-out for a recent stop at the Warfield in San Francisco. Sadly, the tour skipped Sacramento, but Faith No More was worth the drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dressed in all-white on a stage heavily adorned with flowers and white drapery, the band\u2019s look certainly juxtaposed its sound on hard rockers like \u201cCaffeine\u201d and \u201cCuckoo For Caca.\u201d Impressively, singer&nbsp;<strong>Mike Patton could still hit the high notes<\/strong>&nbsp;on more difficult songs like \u201cEvidence,\u201d and he also delivered a stellar performance of the Commodores classic \u201cEasy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It seemed like every second someone was getting tossed from the lower general admission section wearing either a tight muscle shirt or a backwards baseball cap. But of course, no Faith No More show would be complete without a bevy of goofy, overhyped dudes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(SN&amp;R)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bring on the bevy of overhyped hard rock dudes:&nbsp;Faith No More\u2019s new album&nbsp;Sol Invictus&nbsp;isn\u2019t released until May 19, but that hasn\u2019t stopped the band from debuting songs on its set lists. The band\u2019s rabid fanbase and reputation for a strange, yet equally great live show earned an early sell-out for a recent stop at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1542,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions\/1542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}