Sharp Young Men tour

Having heard about drummer Mike Bordin , who had played in local San Francisco bands, Morris and Worthington talked him into joining Sharp Young Men. According to Morris, it took significantly longer for them to find a bassist, with the band eventually recruiting Billy Gould via a newspaper ad around 1980. Gould had moved from Los Angeles to begin his first year at the UC Berkeley , which put him in the same area as the other members. Between March 1982 and August 1982, Sharp Young Men did a 12 show club tour of the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1982, a three-song demo cassette was also released under the Sharp Young Men name, which featured the songs “Alive”, “Decay” and “Life Is Tough for Me”. Morris called the Sharp Young Men name “a piss-take on all the ‘elegant’ groups at the time”, and claimed on their early music he was influenced by Killing Joke , Theatre of Hate and The Blackouts . Later in 1983, he proposed the name Faith In No Man, but eventually the band settled on Bordin’s suggestion, Faith. No Man. (stylized with either two full stops or two bullet points).