I have only managed to see Fishbone twice now, but both time I have been
blown away. Tonight they played in one of Vancouver's lesser clubs that
usually features bands such as LA Guns, Quiet Riot, and Ratt, but the
average crowd was much younger tonight and way more energetic. The place was
pretty much packed with an estimate of 400-500 people.

They took the stage at midnight and played past the noise bylaw until 2:30
non stop. Most of the tunes they played were older songs off of "Reality"
and the preceeding albums. They only played a few tunes off of their latest
release and Unyielding Conditioning and Swim from "Monkey". It's true that
Bigham is out and Spacey T is in, but I didn't see a keyboard player that
some of you have been mentioning. In the posters around here, their were 6
members, but only 5 on stage tonight. Angelo was his usual self flying into
the audience on numerous occasions and going nuts on his Theremin. What was
really cool was some guy was going to get kicked out in the middle of
"Cholly" for stage diving, and Angelo (while the rest kept playing) told the
security guys not to. The crowd was so energetic that the security could not
stop the stage diving and the moshing. What I found that was different about
this show was that Walt did 80% of the talking between their songs. And for
those of you who don't think that Walt is a good singer, he's more at the
fore front now, he's an excellent singer, and he's one of the most energetic
guys on stage. Even Norwood was flying around the stage. All and all it was
a great show and I think that with the huge corwd that came out tonight to
support them and all the people who were singing and dancing like mad that
Fishbone is very far from dead. Their pure energy and musical talent makes
them one of the greatest all time bands ever to perform.

It's too bad that another local Fishbone Soldier on this list, Vanessa,
could not make it out tonight, however I will be extremely jelous tommorrow
when she will be seeing them in the small town of Nelson. I would love to
hear how that went.

The following is a list of the songs they played that I can remember:

(no perticular order)
Ugly
Party At Ground Zero
Lyin' Ass Bitch
When Problems Arise
Cholly
I Wish I Had A Date
Ma and Pa
Bonin' In The Boneyard (Norwood kicks ass in the solo)
If I We're A.....I'd
House Work
Behaviour Control Technician
Pressure
Pray To The Junky Maker
Sunless Saturday
Naz-Tee May'en
Swim
Unyielding Conditioning
Chim Chim's Badass Revenge
BeerGut
Alcoholic
Love....Hate
Riot

Some P-Funk cover

I sure I missed some, but that's all I can remember right now. It was a
great show and hopefully they will come back to Vancouver very soon
(possibly with 311 or Janes Addiction).

Michael S. Chang