i had the most awesome time last nite. sorry i didnt see you guys i
looked a couple of times at the coat check but...

the show was amazing. long as hell and worth every minute of having to
sit through the band i saw. i think called enemy squad they were funky,
but i didnt really get into them.

i had a good view and believe me it's not easy being short and it's
really not easy being a short female but i never mind getting shoved
cause i get so into the sounds i don't even feel it anymore.

anyway. i went home tired and played fishbone this afternoon when i
woke up

when one of you who know them see them them pls say for me what i great
time i had. they rocked.

Hey anyone going to comment about the show last night? I thought it
was incredable but then again I have nothing to compare it to. The
only things I thought were bad was the view of the stage (it's not
easy being short!)although it got better then the mosh pit pushed me
and my girl friend back like 8 rows (being my second concert I never
moshed before but it was fun. The only other low points were the crapy
microphone which got solved by the time fishbone came on and also
p-fluid sucked! The grand highlights were enemy squad (alice in my
fantices rocked except for the microphone) and of course the entire
fishbone set I could stop myself from dancing and sining all night
long!!!!!!! And of course all my dreams came true when angelo jumped
on top of that dj platform during alcaholic abd sang the going to jail
part to my little area and looking right at me! I can die happy now!
Hope you guys had a good time to!

ok - i can't believe no one has stressed how incredibly amazing the show
was. i don't even know the words to describe the extent to which i enjoyed
it. i drove down from providence for the show and it was worth every
second. i thought the set list was impressive, they didn't concentrate too
much on one particular album or anything. Freddie's Dead was great, as was
Unyielding Conditioning, and everything else they played for that matter.
and i also love the fact that they played for so long. last time i saw them
was when they opened for maceo parker and their set was definitely limited.
does anyone know if there are really gonna be cd's available from that
night? - that would be very cool cause i got to scream -donuts, cigarettes,
coffee- into the mic with angelo and i would love to be able to hear that.
and yes, i did notice him holding his ear at one point checking the mic, but
i don't think he was overly bothered by it.
was anyone else downstairs with the band after the show? i was down there
for a little while and was wondering if anyone there was from the list.

Fishbone may have a more subdued lineup these days, but the show was a
good reminder of how unique and powerful and simply friggin' awesome
this band has always been. Angelo has not lost a step and remains one
of the best frontmen I've ever seen. Norwood was also having a great
time and I loved that hat!

The new members really live up to the legacy of the band. Alcoholic was
indeed one of the highlights of the night. I was standing front stage
far right at the end of the photo pit and the beginning of the VIP
tables. Angelo was walking all over the tables and grabbed one of the
staff's humongo flashlights and shining it all over. Stupid me did not
have extra film for that moment as I shot all my film from the photo pit
during the beginning of the show (look for MiningCo article w/photos in
the near future).

Also, I interviewed Angelo before the show for an article I'm doing on
Dr. Madd Vibe. Angelo was bumming before the show because all his
luggage had been left behind in a cab during the rush to the club. :-(
He was psyched for the performance, though, because they were recording
the show and burning it straight to CD, right there in the club. Angelo
claimed he was gonna sell CDs of the show to people on the way out!
(don't see how quickly you can burn and dupe that many CDs though). As
usual, he was quite friendly with the crowd, hanging at the merch booth
and talking to pretty much everybody as he moved through the crowd.

And, indeed, there is no crowd like a Fishbone crowd. I've been seeing
this band live ever since 1986 and it's as incredible an experience as
ever.

Bob Timm