Cult-rock Red Hot Chili Peppers alternative Faith No More played their last gig in August 2016. If frontman Mike Patton has his way, it looks like the band won't play their next show anytime soon. Drummer Mike Bordin has confirmed Patton's shift "from being unable to do the shows to clearly being unwilling to do shows with us."

In a Let There Be Talk podcast episode, Bordin recalled the band's rehearsals for their (since cancelled) shows in 2021, and the positive sentiments of bassist Billy Gould:

"We’d been rehearsing for six months [...] instrumentally and we incredibly sounded phenomenal. I mean, the bass player said, ‘I’ve never heard us sound this good. This is how these songs sounded in my mind.’ [...] we were ready, we were prepared. And it came to pass that when the gear was in the truck, when it was rolling to Chicago, 36 hours before we were supposed to be on stage, and our guy doesn’t show for the rehearsal, the one rehearsal that we’re gonna do. And we go to go see him and see what’s going on. ‘What the hell’s going on here? Our gear’s rolling already to the gig.’ And it was very clear that he was unable at that point to physically do it. We made the decision that, ‘Look, we’ve gotta support our guy.’ It’s gonna be a shit storm canceling fucking 75 shows, but none of us wants to be the guy that breaks his back and forces him to do something that he’s not in the position to be able to do."

Bordin goes on to deliver the killing blow in the interview: Patton has "gone from being unable to do the shows to clearly being unwilling to do shows with us."

The percussionist concluded by saying that he is "grateful" for what the mercurial, eccentric frontman has "given to us. I mean, we're blessed to have been blessed by such a gigantic, enormous talent."

Ironically, given the state of this article, Bordin added that "I'm not looking for a fucking headline."