Watch Mike Patton & The Avett Brothers Perform Together For The First Time

A few weeks ago, some truly unlikely collaborators got together to release an album. The Avett Brothers, the long-running and massively successful neo-bluegrass group, joined forces with the Faith No More/Mr. Bungle frontman Mike Patton to make the LP AVTT/PTTN. It's a seemingly random pairing, but they clearly had mutual respect and worked to find common ground. On Tuesday night, the Avetts and Patton took their AVTT/PTTN songs to the stage for the first time.

Last night's Avett Brothers/Mike Patton performance wasn't a full set. Instead, they made their debut public appearance at a Grammy Museum event at New York's Sheen Center. Together with the Avett Brothers' backing band, they said that the four songs that they performed — "Dark Night Of My Soul," "Heaven's Breath," "Eternal Love," and "Received" — were the only four that they learned how to play.

Patton wore a suit with some little pigtails, and he stood off in the corner of the stage, surrounded by a bank of electronics. He also had a gong that he hit one time. Other than the vaguely prog-metal "Heaven's Breath," the songs weren't too far from what the Avett Brothers might do on their own, with a little extra weirdness from Patton thrown in. You can see the full set in fan-footage form below.

The performance was supposed to follow a conversation moderated but Eric André, but André got sick and couldn't do it. Get well soon, Eric André!

AVTT/PTTN is out now on Thirty Tigers/Ramseur Records/Ipecac Recordings.