The baron was in teh house that night. the bone played for about an hour, not
long enough, but i took some friends that had never seen them. They loved
it, especially during Everyday Sunshine when it got to the chorus' and he'd
hand us the mic, and in the break down he got in the floor and hopped with us
and let us sing with him. But there weren't enough people for him to stage
dive cause the crowd was an older, pfunk, kinda lame crowd just waiting for
pfunk, not even dancing. I tried crowd surfing a few times but as soon as i
hit like the 5th row of people they would just watch me drop, not even trying
to break my fall. And you could see the difference in teh bone between a
crowd like that and a better crowd. It was the 5th time i see them, and the
two times they've had a really lame crowd he's had to do that, literally go
in and push you around so you move your ass.... kinda sad, but kinda cool for
those of us that love singing with him. The clinton played for 3 hours,
which rocked, but they shoulda given the bone another half hour or something.
In the last 15 minutes of pfunk though angelo came out with a change of
clothes, it was cool too, at one point he wa sjust leaning on an amp and he
kept lookin at me til i looked up and nodded... then he smiled and pointed at
me all giddy like. So i gave him the fishbone hand sign and he returned it
and looked like he was happy to see me 2 and a half hours farther than on
monday which was already an hour and a half from my house cause i got to talk
to him for a while at the west palm show about my whole deal driving up to
see them. We took a lot of pictures of the bone, or rather my friend did,
and a few of pfunk. The best part though was when the venue closed the
curtains literally on clinton's face in the middle of a song and the last
sight seen by the crowd was angelo and clinton arm in arm with mics jamming
together center stage as the curtain came from left and right... man i wish
we had one last shot in the camera for that one.... anyways, i'm gonna shut
up now...
s

The Fishbone/George Clinton show was awesome. My band PowerBall all did our
Thanksgiving thing with our families here in Jacksonville and then headed
down to St. Pete to party with Fishbone Thanksgiving night since they had no
show that evening. We left thier tour bus around 5 and slept until noon and
then drove to Orlando to hang until the show that night. We didn't expect to
hook up with Fishbone again... we just figured we'd see them at the show.

We ended up hooking up at 2 o'clock and Norwood and I had lunch at Wolfgang
Pucks while the rest of PowerBall hung out with the other guys from
Fishbone. We then all met back at the tour bus and spent the afternoon
listening to our new cd (like five times in a row) on the bus with Angelo,
Dirty Walt, Norwood and Spacey. It was an unreal moment for us... they were
bobbing thier heads to it and singing new back-up vocals that they were
making up and shit... it was rad (if a little scary as well). I also got to
hear unreleased material, Human Rights material and Brains
stuff.... an awesome day after an awesome evening.

Day turned into night and we got our passes and watched Fishbone play thier
set... it was staggering... honestly they smoked Parliment from my
perspective. They then came down into the audience and brought us back up to
their dressing rooms and backstage area. We spent the rest of the night
hanging out with them and Funkadelic. There were so many memorable moments I
won't even try to convey them all. But we jammed to Parliment from Fishbones
backstage sky box and then Hazel (Funkadelics guitar wizard) got us access
into their areas as well.

So as I'm sitting with Norwood looking across to the Parliment sky box
watching my guitar player Matt dancing with some chick and my drummer Chris
and bass player Josh kicking it with Dirty Walt, my mind was blown. I don't
know how we got there, but it was fun as shit and those guys were ultra cool
to us. They are as positive as thier music and lyrics would lead you to
believe and they hooked us up big time.

As a musician in a regional act I can't tell you how many times we have met
previous "heroes" of ours only to find them to be total pricks. Fishbone is
one of the baddest bands ever... and the things I learned about the new
players over those few days convince me that the best is yet to come. Most
significantly, there was nothing but love from these guys for their hardcore
audience... They really do appreciate every soldier out there.
Any of you that have had any traffic in the music business know how rare it
is for any major act to do for a small regional one all that I described
above.

These cats are a rare and precious commodity by any measure. Lets keep doing
all we can to make things happen for them.

I came away from it more inspired as a fan and as a musician!

PEACE!
Mitch G.

Great play by play... truly appreciated...

I've seen Fishbone a few times and Orlando was the best I've seen 'em.
Stunning performance and excellent set list... I just wish they'd had another
30 minutes since they seemed to have so much more left to leave us with.

I've seen P-Funk a couple times and enjoyed this show the most as well. I
wouldn't say either band was better or worse, but I loved them both... so
incredibly smokin!

Best to all,
Steve