YOUR QUESTION

08/26/2020 Brock O'Toole

Given the statements made in interviews about feeling that the Raging Wrath era of Mr. Bungle never had it's due and that you were always a metal band and metalheads at heart, do you regret going in an experimental, avant-garde direction with Mr. Bungle? If you could go back in time, would you have saved any interest in jazz or the avant-garde for your various other projects, and cemented Mr. Bungle's legacy as one of the earliest death/thrash metal bands?

MY ANSWER

Nope. No regrets. We were changing as we felt fit at the time. Having Mr. Bungle was actually a blessing as we had an outlet to explore different directions. There was no saving necessary, and I formed my own bands later to express whatever I wasn’t expressing in Bungle, as did the others. I would have lost my mind if I’d been stuck playing Day On The Green year after year.