First show as Faith No More

The band’s first show as Faith No More, in October 1983, featured vocalist Joe Callahan (known as Joe Pop-o-Pie) and Jake Smith on guitar. The first release under the Faith No More name was a self-titled cassette in 1983, which featured their first live performance as Faith No More on Side A, and a 20-minute instrumental track on Side B, titled “New Love, Same Neuroses; New Hairstyles, Same Minds”. By the beginning of 1984, Mark Bowen had replaced Smith on guitar. Throughout 1984, the band played with several vocalists and guitarists, including brief stints with vocalists Paula Frazer and Courtney Love . Frazer was originally from Arkansas and she went on to front the alt-country band Tarnation , which released music through Warner / Reprise Records in the 1990s. Love’s stint as Faith No More vocalist began in February 1984, with Love having recently moved to San Francisco after living in Japan during the early 1980s. Love was dating Bottum while in Faith No More. When the two first met, they initially bonded over their shared zodiac sign , with Bottum claiming that she went on to “talk her way” into the band. Despite dating Love around this time, Bottum later came out as homosexual in 1993. One of Love’s performances with Faith No More in San Francisco was taped and broadcast during the spring of 1984 on Viacom Public Access on Channel 25 . Both Love and guitarist Mark Bowen had both left the band by June 1984. Regarding her departure, Love said in a 2010 VH1 interview that “Faith No More didn’t want to have the image of a chick singer anymore”, while Bottum claimed, “we wanted a male energy. That was sort of just the direction we needed to go in as a band.”