Chuck Mosely
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Chuck Mosely is an African American singer and was the frontman in the rock band Faith No More prior to Mike Patton. He was featured on their debut album We Care a Lot and on their second, Introduce Yourself.
Mosley was born in Hollywood, CA, yet raised in South Central Los Angeles and Venice, California. Mosely befriended Faith No More bassist Billy Gould and the pair formed a reportedly obscure band called The Animated. It was after the break up of this group that Gould formed Faith No More, and Mosely formed Haircuts That Kill (The sleeve notes to FNM's "Introduce Yourself" album contain the line: "Thanks to Haircuts That Kill for letting us borrow Chuck"). Mosely joined Faith No More between 1984 and 1985 (after Courtney Love's short stint as lead singer ended).
He was fired from the band in 1988 for a number of reasons, including alleged drug abuse (reportedly, at the release party for Introduce Yourself, he fell asleep mid-concert due to excessive alcohol consumption earlier) and antagonistic behaviour (his relationship with guitarist "Big" Jim Martin reputedly descended into physical violence), though according to many he was let go because his bandmates considered him a poor vocalist: it has since been alleged by members of Faith No More that Mosely was given money with which to buy singing lessons, but spent it on quaaludes instead. He was replaced by Mike Patton.
After his dismissal from FNM, Mosely featured as singer and guitarist in Cement (albums Cement and Man with the Action Hair), who also featured on compilations Buy This Used Compact Disc: A Dutch East India Sampler and 'Just Add Water' and recently singer and guitarist in VUA (Vandals Against Illiteracy) (sic) with their album Will Rap Over Hard Rock For Food. He also had a brief stint with the band Bad Brains.
In 2006, Mosely announced VUA was working on recording a new album. Little information has been given, but Mosely has said that former FNM keyboardist Roddy Bottum was assisting them in recording a new, updated lyrically version of FNM's first hit "We Care A Lot."
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HAIRCUTS THAT KILL on MYSPACE: http://www.myspace.com/cutsthatkill
| Bad Brains |
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| H.R. | Dr. Know | Darryl Jenifer | Earl Hudson |
| Sid McCray | Israel Joseph I | Mackie Jayson | Chuck Mosely |
| Discography |
| Albums: Black Dots (1979) | Bad Brains (1982) | Rock For Light (1983) | I Against I (1986) | Quickness (1989) | Rise (1993) | God of Love (1995) | I And I Survived (2003) | Build a Nation (2007) |
| EPs: Spirit Electricity (1991) | The Omega Sessions (1997) |
| Live albums: The Youth Are Getting Restless (1987) | Live (1988) | A Bad Brains Reunion Live from Maritime Hall (1999) | Live at CBGB's 1982 (2006) |
| Videos and DVDs: Live at CBGB's 1982 (2006) |
| Related articles |
| Hardcore punk | Reggae | Beastie Boys | Faith No More | Minor Threat | CBGB |
| Faith No More |
| Roddy Bottum | Billy Gould | Mike Bordin | Mike Patton | Jon Hudson |
| Chuck Mosely | "Big" Jim Martin | Dean Menta | Trey Spruance | Mark Bowen | Courtney Love | Wade Worthington |
| Discography |
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| Studio albums: We Care a Lot | Introduce Yourself | The Real Thing | Angel Dust | King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime | Album of the Year |
| Lives and compilations: Live at the Brixton Academy | Who Cares a Lot? | This Is It: The Best of Faith No More | Epic And Other Hits | The Platinum Collection |
| Singles: We Care a Lot | Anne's Song | From Out Of Nowhere | Epic | Falling to Pieces | Midlife Crisis | A Small Victory | Everything's Ruined | Easy (Songs to Make Love To) | Another Body Murdered | Digging the Grave | Ricochet | Evidence | Ashes To Ashes | Last Cup Of Sorrow | Stripsearch | I Started a Joke |
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| Imperial Teen | Mr. Bungle | Faith No Man | Brujeria (band) | Peeping Tom | Coma | Tomahawk | Fantômas |
| Categories: Faith No More albums | Faith No More songs |
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