Feb. 12, 2013, San Francisco – Mike Patton, in a rare and comprehensive interview, is on the March cover of Decibel Magazine.
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Decibel Magazine Issue 101 (March 2013). Story by J.Bennett. Portraits by Ransom & Mitchell.
[Article excerpt]
... He chuckles knowingly. "I thought you were gonna say something else, because there's another story from that tour that Dan never lets me forget because he says he's still scarred by it. At a different show there was another hippie near the front of the stage, a very hairy guy. Dan would always encourage me to mess with the crowd a little because the Lovage shows had a cabaret kind of feel. That night he gave me a can of spray whipped cream. So, I found the hairiest, ugliest guy I could and made him take his shirt off. Then I covered his entire chest—which was like the Black Forest—with whipped cream. And then I went to town.' - Mike Patton
Several mouthfuls of whipped cream and nipple hair later, he knew the hot taste of strange. "I'm glad that wasn't you," he adds. Which makes two of us.
Decibel Magazine Issue 101.
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