* During the 1992 Angel Dust tour with Guns N' Roses:
o At one show in Lisbon, the band invited the audience to throw garbage on stage. Patton then rummaged around and ate some of the trash. video
o At another show in Seville, Spain the crowd was throwing empty plastic water bottles at the band. Someone threw a bottle on-stage that had urine in it. At one point in the concert, Mike Patton opened the bottle and poured the contents over his head, plunging the entire audience into shocked silence. Billy Gould and Roddy Bottum have stated that this was their favorite concert.
o Patton defecated in an orange juice carton and then sealed it and returned it to Axl Rose's tourbus vending machine.
* During the MTV Music Awards performance of Epic in 1990, Patton flopped around on stage like the controversial dying fish from the video. video
* At a 1995 concert in Chile, the crowd began to spit on the band. Patton encouraged this and even invited people to spit in his open mouth while singing. video
* During a European tour, Patton defecated on a park bench in front of Kensington Palace.
* During a 1991 concert in Denmark, Patton told the audience that tour-mates, Lenny Kravitz and Sinéad O'Connor were copulating in the hospitality tent. Kravitz looked on in horror.
* Faith No More gained a reputation for publicly ridiculing their more mainstream tour hosts--especially Guns N' Roses.
* Patton became infamous for talking about his self-stimulation habits in the press. He often wore a t-shirt with a grotesque image of a man sitting on a toilet seat, pleasuring himself, and the words "Girls are OK--but they're not the real thing."
* Roddy Bottum frequently made references to his homosexuality in an effort to alienate the crowd. At a show in Australia, he taunted the crowd: "I heard that homosexuality is illegal here. Too bad, because we were going to have some fun backstage." The song "Be Aggressive" was itself an attempt by Bottum to use it to alienate people (or derive amusement from embarrassing Mike Patton in concert). It became Faith No More's second-most played song in concert.
* Mike Patton regularly did front-flips while singing on stage. He often landed painfully on his back, but would get right up and continue singing without interuption. video
* Faith No More was famous for showing their disdain for MTV...on MTV. This can be seen in the Hanging with MTV performance during the Angel Dust era, where the band continuously interrupted a flustered VJ while she was trying to introduce the next video. video