Fishbone live @ Don Hill's - Oct 12 2003

New York City, New York

Sun 12 Oct 2003

Don Hill's

REVIEW|SETLIST|MEDIA|RECORDING

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Support Act(s)

King's X

Venue

Don Hill's

Reviews

2 review(s)

From the web

02 Jul 2004

At 11:00pm, King's X took to the stage and began their funk-rock set. "Believe" (from the album MANIC MOONLIGHT) was great with an electrifying guitar solo by Ty Tabor and some inspirational words about self-confidence by Doug Pinnick! They performed tracks from the new album BLACK LIKE SUNDAY, like "Finished", "Black Like Sunday", "Screamer" (featuring some monstrous drumming by Jerry Gaskill), and "Johnny" (featuring a long jam, with some excellent lead guitar by Ty and standout bass riffs by Doug)! MANIC MOONLIGHT's "Static" sounded great, and the electrifying guitar shredding was the absolute highlight to "Dogman"! "Cigarettes" was another smokin', intoxicating hard rock song!! The King's X set was over at 12:30am.

At 1:05am, Fishbone started their funk/rock/ska/R&B set with some "behavior control"......actually "Behavior Control Technician, featuring the funky horns of Angelo and Dirty Walt, punctuating the driving rock force of the guitar (courtesy of Spacey T), bass (courtesy of Norwood Fisher) and drums (courtesy of John Steward)!! Angelo did his stagediving act at the start of the hard-rock groove of "Sunless Saturday", after an acoustic intro!! "Pressure" was lethal, thanks to the powerful drumming!! Angelo skanked about on "Skankin' to the Beat" and delighted fans with some New Orleans-style partyin' on "Karma Tsunami"! Fans were going nuts in the mosh pit and Fishbone added even more fuel to the fire with their high-energy version of "Ma and Pa"! "Cholly" was followed by "When Problems Arise", featuring some NASTAY lead guitar riffing!! "Bonin' in the Boneyard" was followed by "Give It Up" (this is the first time I've heard this song live and it was great)...... "Give It Up" got a hard-rock facelift (better than the album version!) and featured some smolderin' bassisms!!! "Primadawnutt" was good, and "Lyin' Ass Bitch" was better with Angelo throwin' in a long list of new insults at the very end of the song!

Unfortunately, I had to leave at 2:05am to head back to Philly, so I left the show while the band was doing a newer song......I believe it was "Skank 'n' Go Nutts"!

Review by Dr Brookenstein (http://www.pond.com/~dbrooks/fishbone-kingsx-101203.html)

Rob Summers

02 Jul 2004

Unfortunately when I called in sick the morning after, Domino's didn't fire me so I still have job.
I see what you guys were saying about this club, it was just awkward. It seemed like you couldn't turn around or go anywhere without bumping into someone's ex-husband. The sound and mix was pretty decent tho.
Finally after Kings X, about 20% of these fools got out of the way and we moved up. We were pretty bitter by this point, even more than NY usually makes us. Fishbone started at 1am, after the god-awful misuse of sound by 4 other bands. Angelo DJ-ed between each set and I gave him a silver adhesive star which he wore between his eyes. After reading the other setlists you all posted I wondered what happened to BC Technician, and to my pleasure they opened with that one.

This was followed by Sunless, and the crowd went mental. Angelo looked like he was surprised by the energy and we proceeded to rock. At this point the crowd was really cool. You could get a rough skank going without much football playing. The only other setlist non regulars were "I wish I had a date", and "Swim". The 2 newbies I brought were floored by this show. Unfortunately half way through, 3 drunk individuals of unfashionable form climbed the stairs and proceeded to 'shake it' on the front edge of the stage. They seemed to have an attitude of "god! I remember these songs so much, let me show everyone". This personally offended me, as my two friends seeing the band for the first time ($35) saw these idiots in front of Fishbone! I actually got security to remove one of the girls. The 3 of them ended up back up there, with random bickering from everyone behind them. I finally got mad enough to get them each down by one on one discussion. Anyway, Lyin' seems to be evolving a lot. Many positive changes. After the dedication part, they seemed to jump into a new piece reminiscent of old Metallica. This really excited the crowd, but after a minute they switched it to the finale of "Lyin'".
Everyone looked and played in top form, although Norwood seemed really tired and ragged. The band tho was very tight and seemed happy with itself. But.....while deliberating between final song selections, they landed on "Ma and Pa", and Angelo bitterly said "Crankin' out all the hits" as if it were against his will. Norwood scowled. After speaking to one band member I could tell there probably is cause for alarm, though no details were revealed. They probably didn't make too much dough tonight between the 5 bands. They finished strongly with "Party".

After the show we were bushed, so I quickly pointed out to Angelo that my star was still on his forehead. He was surprised :"How did I not sweat this off!"

~a brighter tomorrow!