What happened to Jim Martin?
Depends on who you ask. Bill Gould says “To make a long story short– Jim wrote very few of the parts on Angel Dust. In fact, the tension and difficulty due to his lack of contribution on that album had a lot to do with his eventual ouster. Having said that, I’d rather not go song by song through who wrote what. For the record I’m happy to leave it that all of the songs on Angel Dust were FNM songs, meaning, written by all of the members equally, including Jim like the credits say.” When asked why he was no longer in the band, Martin replied, “Two words: Mike Patton. When I joined the band, we were going to spread hatred and have fun. At some point we stopped doing both.” Billy explains further: “Musically we were always kinda different. But… it got to a point I think when the chemistry can even just wear itself out into nothingness. Everybody tried to make things work, it just became so stressful that it became just kinda obvious.”…”I think that if we didn’t change members we woul
