Last Friday, February 2nd, Wikimetal Daniel Dystyler participated in a YouTube video on his colleague Daniel Iasbeck , along with Marcel Ianuck . The trio did a track-by-track breakdown of Faith No More 's album, The Real Thing , and Daniel took the opportunity to recall a rumor that circulated about the band in the early 90s.
According to Daniel, there was a rumor going around that Faith No More had kidnapped a journalist, and since the internet wasn't yet accessible to the general public at that time, there weren't many ways to verify the story. Surprisingly, it turned out the rumor was relatively true.
Kerrang! journalist Irish Jaega spent a weekend accompanying Faith No More on tour in the English cities of Sheffield and Newcastle. She recounts the entire experience Mike Patton 's dislike of shower curtains and tour manager Tim Dalton with shaving women's body hair.
At the end of her last day accompanying the musicians, the band kindly offered the journalist a ride to the station. Jaega, however, soon realized they had taken a detour and were heading to Edinburgh, at which point guitarist Jim Martin reportedly said: “Yes, we’re kidnapping you and holding you hostage in exchange for appearing on the cover of next week’s Kerrang! issue.”
The band then allegedly used a mobile phone to call editor Geoff Barton and make their demands, threatening to shave all of the journalist's hair off and mail it in. Eventually, Irish Jaega managed to escape Faith No More's clutches and make her way back alone, only to later learn that the call was dropping and that her editor hadn't quite heard what the band members were saying. That week's magazine cover featured Iron Maiden .
Listen to the story in Daniel Dystyler's own words:
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