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19 years of a long wait to hear the legend live? "a boyhood dream come true"? a bit of everything : )

First, I must say one thing that is always present in the SKC hall: terrible sound. I'm more than used to this calamity, so I didn't think, not even for a minute, that everything would be fine and as it should be for bands like this. When they had brains to put such a huge star as Steve Vai in here… nothing has surprised me since.

Second: I hand it to the Italians who make up the band ZU, which is for the second time in Serbia and proved to be an exceptional live band, but it's good ol' Mike who attracted the crowd. Those who knew what to expect - fine, those who didn't, were more than surprised. Naively and foolishly, they expected some old 'hits' and …. they left within the first few minutes : ) Funny for me, but pity for them. This was the night for all those long-time fans and followers of the bands Mr. Bungle and Fantomas and the real Pattonesque sound reflected in his 2 solo albums for Tzadik and also in all earthly possible and impossible variants and collaborations with John Zorn (Naked City, Moonchild, Hemophiliac etc.), Merzbow, Melt-Banana,The Dillinger Escape Plan, Dub trio and.... there's no need to list any more!

Now we'll tell you what it was like! READ ON!

While I'm acting as a typical teenage girl, with an idiotically blessed grin on my face, I begin to understand why I love this man so much. Sorry for a little digression: I've listened to loads of bands with the most various musical styles and on the royal throne of an eternal and endless list of the most-the best loved "something", have been different crazy things that make my life happier. But naturally, after some time that "something" begins to fall to lower places and then finally stops at some honorary place as a characteristic monument in your soul of the time it took place. Well, this man simply doesn't allow me to put him in the history and that's the trick! It's no wonder that my favourite bands of all times are FNM and Mr. Bungle. And after them he didn't stop but continued pushing onward. I don't like everything he does, of course, but…the only thing certain about him is that the next thing he does will nor resemble the previous. But, let me continue… :D

The T-shirt MUNZE caused laughter and kind of a silly connection with the locals, that is, us. Through the rumble of ZU, his voice slowly found its way. As I was able to see in the first few minutes, he swore 'cos of the sound on the stage, flapped his arms about and tried to talk to the guys behind the stage, but soon he gave up and went for the total fooling about. Maybe he said to himself "Serbia, dude… forget about being nervous. I came to get some mone… to have some fun, I wanted to say". The array of screams, yells, sounds, fast chatter and some articulated tones alternated with the noise of ZU. After some completely crazy scream, he would smile at the audience or Luca and Massimo, so it was quite clear that the man was having fun with himself and the crowd… at least with the fraction that digs all this : )

"hey, what kind of a Serbian game is this" Mike wonders…

I no longer find it strange that Zu found Mike, it must have been love at first noise : ) Although I don't know ZU that well, I could recognize some tracks from their album Igneo like "Solar Anus" and "Monte Zu" filled with Pattonnaise. Most of the things they played is new material and could be found in p2p network and on that damned YouTube. They're ready to get into the studio and this will be excellent practice and a check of what goes and what doesn't : ) and here are the best shots and videos …

a bit of scat

here's your "Easy" …! and "Evidence" ! screeeeee !!

"turn off those lights - you'll scare the drummer away!"

"tschak, tschak,tschak...tschak, tschak, tschak...tschak, tschak, tschak. EEEK! BOUM!!" - the spirit of Fantomas floats over SKC

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.......ktrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..... HONK ! zzz… "you morons ! it's not a broken pot but artistic freedom!"

Now I'll sing for real for a change….Aaaaa! There you go - enough for 1800 dinars (22€) and travelling expenses! :D

I took the best photos from the first row… and at the same time ended up without a few thousands of neurons in the part of the brain responsible for hearing…

Luca, a heavyweight saxophone player

Massimo, aka pot-man : )

and for the end one 'ouweeeeeeeeeeek!' dedicated to all FNM fans who had left an hour ago!

And so the concert ended! I'm 100% satisfied. Not disappointed in the least. None of us was. We knew exactly what we would hear, we got used to all kinds of combinations with Mike and his experiments and freak-bands. The objection that it was too short is justified. But these experimental gigs usually don't last longer 'cos it wouldn't be smart to listen to something like this for more than an hour - in the medical sense, I mean, the consequences are inevitable :P And people get tired, both musicians and audience, it asks for strength - racket like this, and home is faaar away.

And here is the photo of the most loyal bunch in Serbia since 1989! Nis team. Here you have married and engaged, with kids and without kids, employed in private and public sector, and entrepreneurs, ex-musicians… everything! These are THE FANS!

After the gig, as a friend of this site and a respected lawyer from Nis, D. Veskovic said, started a PHOTO-SAFARI after Patton! In a combined action, using perseverance, luck, and hawk eyes of the owner of the loving site BULNGEOID.IN.RS, as well as courage and intrepidness of Dule Cvetkovic, a renown owner of "TEA… Excellent" firm, to run past policemen, there was the culmination of the whole event! We were face to face with the main guilty person for the state in which our music taste has been for years. I gave my camera to a little Italian who was carrying Massimo's bass and asked him to take a photo, and he kindly agreed. First I gave Patton my copy of "Disco Volante" CD to sing it.

"Please Mr. Patton, sign this eternal masterpiece". He looked at me like I'm fucking with him, but then he took the pen and very carefully - not to ruin the cover, started signing the white margin as if he was signing a bank draft and not some Nebojsa's CD. Great, I said, now you raised its price for $100 on eBay :D Kidding, of course, I wouldn't sell it for anything in the world. He signed Dule's ticket and then a photo of the decade was taken… As the flesh was recharging, there was a second or two pause and Mike loudly asked:

"make this fuckin' photo man, what the fuck are you waiting for...?"

So just as he was saying that the camera clicked :D I died laughing. A surreal scene in which Patton cursed me over the camera has been documented :D then we started asking. Dule said we were waiting for "Mondo Cane" with him, and he laughed, we saw he was glad we asked him that, and then I added to bring Fantomas to Serbia, and he replied "next year, maybe", and I told him to say hello to the band mates. All in all, the man was nice, just as Gypsies say for Bruce Lee "He was kind" :D I had thousands of questions and really different things were in my mind (what was the last thing he played on PC and did he play anything except consoles, when would that Mondo Cane album appear, etc…) but we're just fans and he's Mike and moves on. "Bye-bye people and thanks for coming..." byeeeee..

And so the wonder's over. Filled with impressions, we set off to Nis and a return into Serbian reality, province, among idiotic politicians and even more idiotic mayors …

<Great thanks to Nina for translation !>

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Gezarie  - excellent   |117.102.146.xxx |2008-06-19 21:07:41 So good to hear a real fans account of a show. Awesome that you finally got to meet him. Thanks heaps for the videos and photo's. Pattonaise is definately my new word of the week! haha. Woo! Awesome story, thanks!

Jettimon   |202.59.16.xxx |2008-06-20 03:07:47 Nice pics and review

Davania  - Great Review and pics   |81.151.162.xxx |2008-06-20 13:36:16 just realised i was rude and didnt leave a comment! great pics and all xxx

King Buzzo  - Very good!   |203.134.59.xxx |2008-06-22 23:24:44 Well done man, very happy for you and your mates. Hopefully he comes back to Serbia again soon.

etheric loopz  - True, true... :D   |77.28.24.xxx |2009-12-07 04:45:31 Greetingz from Macedonia! :D Would write in Serbian, but just for everyone's understanding... I was there at SKC very near to where the first portion of the photos are taken, and yeah... wanted to kill the heavy-metal pussies who were chanting the unholy words before the start of the concert, but it was like four of them and I was alone and had traveled many km's to see the show :D P.S. Kad dodju Fantomas dolazim i ja :p Pozdrav od jos jednog Bungleoid-a :D

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