Faith No More drummer Mike Bordin is temporarily filling

in as Ozzy Osbourne's skin-pounder. We don't know how Old Oz does it, but he's

lost another one of his crew. Ozzy's "Retirement Sucks" certainly has been the

tour to end all tours. Maybe Ozzy should have stuck to his guns and never

toured again, like he vowed during his "No More Tears" (you remember that one,

right? Who could forget?). This tour has already been waylaid by illness

three times,

and Osbourne has burned through one bass player, his long time crone, Geezer

Butler--whom he replaced temporarily with Mike Inez from Alice In Chains, and

finally with bass god Robert Trujillo formerly of Suicidal Tendencies. Now Ozzy

drummer Randy Castillo has departed, and the band has drafted Faith's Bordin

for the next leg of the their beleaguered tour. This hasn't exactly brought

smiles to the faces the rest of Faith No More, since they're in the process of

recording a new album. Fortunately they have 80 percent of the record

completed--and probably can work around Bordin's schedule, as they've had to do

with Mike Patton's side project, Mr. Bungle. In other Faith No More news, Faith

keyboardist Roddy Bottum's side project, Imperial Teen, is creating a big stir

among the cognoscente. That group's debut album, Seasick, produced by

Steve MacDonald from Redd Cross, will be out on May 7. Imperial Teen will

do a

West Coast tour opening up for their dear friends the Amps. (At one point Kim

Deal was set to produce the disc, but that never happened.)