At 12:10am, the Fishbone funk was set loose on the fans at the Wetlands!!! Here is the set list:

Rolling in Many Blunt Ways [Dirty Walt song]
Nuttmeg World [Dirty Walt song]
Karma Tsunami
Pressure
Behavior Control Technician
Shakey Ground
I Wish I Had a Date
Cholly
Freddie's Dead
Ma and Pa
Just Allow
Riot
Bonin' in the Boneyard
Jah-Jah on the Telephone (excerpt)
AIDS and Armageddon
Lyin' Ass Bitch
One Planet People
Alcoholic
Subliminal Fascism
The Lord's Prayer....Fishbone-style
Servitude

ENCORE:

The Suffering
Everyday Sunshine
Party at Ground Zero

DA BREAKDOWN (an appropriate term for this show)

The band started with a couple of Dirty Walt's solo songs, "Rolling in Many Blunt Ways" and "Nuttmeg World". The grooves were well-anchored by the strong, stanky bass of Norwood Fisher and the guitar antics of the insane Spacey T were electrifying!!!! Angelo Moore and Norwood provided backing vocals. Angelo provided percussion (a la bongo) and hi-frequency soundwaves to disturb one's brainwaves (by way of the theremin)!!! John Steward's drumming was as lethal as a fat woman named Cholly falling onto Angelo, after a crowd-surfing mishap!!

THEN, IT CAME!!! (The following is not for the faint of heart......)

The REAL bomb dropped as the song "Skankin' to the Beat" began (reggae-funk on heavy dose of CRACK).......I felt a strong push and it almost floored me! I looked........these MF's were MOSHING!!! The ska groove got the party into breakneck mode! These folks were "breaking down" every sense of decent behavior and sanity as they pounced and bounced about like water molecules of boiling water!! Forget about Corey Glover & VICE's armageddon-type shows..........this was the inner depths of HELL, and I was along for the insane ride!! The breakneck pace slowed down to allow the crowd to breathe and cool down (my body temperature was probably at 105 degrees Fahrenheit)!

"Shakey Ground" featured Spacey T doing a tribute to the late Eddie Hazel with guitar lines from the Funkadelic song "I Wanna Know If It's Good To You".... it was some phenomenal shit.......just to listen to Spacey T's guitarwork!! "Riot" was an appropriate term for the chaos in the club!! "Bonin' in the Boneyard" featured some in-your-face bassisms by the great Norwood!! "Jah-Jah on the Telephone" (from Angelo's Dr. MaddVibe alter-ego) was a nice addition to the show!! "AIDS and Armageddon" had a much hard-rock slant to it, thanks to the fiery guitar antics & smotherin' bass!!! (Smotherin' like the atmosphere in the club.......the place was almost sold out and a lot of people were still on this "PCP-type" high!! "Lyin' Ass Bitch" was DA BOMB, with the ending dedicated to George W. Bush ("You redneck motherfucker......lyin' piece of sack of shit......slut, trash can, scummest dirtbag.......BITCH!!")!!!! "The Suffering" began with a long reggae-type intro.......the song featured some strong bass & a great guitar solo! "Party at Ground Zero" ended with some top-notch, stank ass solos from Norwood (bass), John (drums), and Spacey T (guitar)!! The chaos finally subsided at 2:20am. BY THAT TIME, THE WETLANDS WAS IN A STATE OF DISASTER!!

Review by Dr Brookenstein (http://www.pond.com/~dbrooks/fishbone-060901.html)

Well I got back from my first trip to NYC today. Ira hooked us up with most of the set from Fri but I grabbed set lists from both shows as follows (sorry I'm late):
Fri.
Nuttmegworld
Skankin'
Monkey Dick
Sunless Saturday
Behavior
Aids
Question
If I ....
Riot
Bonin'
Shakey
Suffering
Cholly
Ma & Pa
Karma
Deep Inside
Freddy
Servitude
(the next stuff was listed as encore but I can't remember if they played One
Planet-didn't play anything after that fer sure)
One Plan-Nutt Pee-Pole-Alcoholic
Housewerk-Pants-Party

Sat.
Blunted Wayz
Nuttmedworld
Skankin
Karma
Pressure
Behavior Control
Shakey Ground
Date
Ma & Pa
Just Allow
Riot
Bonin'
Aids & ARm
One Plan Nut
Cholly
Lyn Ass Bitch
Alcoholic
Sub Fasc
Freddy
Servitude
Suffering/Everyday/Party (this was the last song of the night)
The Goose/Beergut/Sunless

I like the hard stuff and didn't really miss McKnight. On Sat. I asked Wood if he could play some stuff and he was like...no, no, and no because of the keyboards. I said how about something from "In Your Face." He was like, "we played Cholly, didn't we?" Oh yeah, yes sir, sorry.

I talked to Angelo after Sat.'s show and said Walt messed up Suffering and Party on Trumpet (bad). During the show Wood and Walt kept talking to Steward but I couldn't figure out why. I thought he sounded great but I'm no musician. I know that they didn't do the final encores because Steward was spent. It was so hot in that place.

Suffering and Everyday Sunshine were way too slow from this Nuttcase but I did swim on Behavior (my absolute favorite). I wish I could have seen y'all there. I was the one with the big hair right in front.

Keisha

Greetings,

Saw both Wetlands shows. Imo, the second show was the better of the 2, but not by much. Crowd was wilder in the first. Both shows were good, but I've seen the bone better (having seen them something like 30 times or so, I've seen they play some amazing shows, so maybe I'm too picky now ;)).

Was surprised to see the lack of a keyboard on the stage before they started the first night. Have to say though that they sounded good even without it.
Those of us that know the songs (and that's probably everyone on this list) will likely notice that the keyboard parts are missing, but despite that the band still has a full sound. Have read others say that the compensation was from textures laid on Norwood's base, but I think Spacey filled some of the space as well with extra bits here and there (have to say I wasn't too thrilled with Spacey when her first joined the band, but since then he seems to have really clicked with the band and is fully with them, first noted in that Amazing Tramps show a couple of years ago (where they played "Black Box" as one of their encores)). So I noticed that the keyboards weren't there, but didn't miss them.

Was wondering what they were going to do for a keyboardist now. Whatever they do will have to wait until the end of the tour I'm sure. Since I'm reading that they knew McKnight might be leaving them (though were surprised to find out when) is there anyone else out there that they had lined up already? And what is the current status of Dowd? Is he at all a possibility (wishful thinking on my part)? I know they didn't get along when he left, and he wrote a rough song that blasted them, the band seemed to laugh the song off and said they liked it (or at least Norwood did, I think). Are they on better terms now? What is he doing now anyway?

chris...