Great show, great setting...weak crowd. The dancing was pretty lame. Not sure if the crowd knew how to get up for a Bone show. The setlist needs to change too, same old mix of new & old songs. The highlight was hours earlier when half the Coup didn't make the fest so a couple of Fishbone (John & Norwood) filled in and and the set absolutely rocked!

I'm in complete agreement with zeekster.
The venue was absolutely fantastic, as were the majority of the performers. A 2 day event in an organic hayfield in the mountains of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom. Fishbone was great, but yes, the setlist is getting a bit tired. Nice to see Cholly and Give It Up (In Your Face is my fav album). The biggest problem was the crowd, and Angelo's recognition of who he was performing for. The whole place was full of *ick* hippies. They didn't want the hard stuff, just the high energy danceable stuff. Frey'd Fucking Nerve Endingz and Let Dem Ho's Fight were completely lost on them.

I hadn't seen Fishbone since 2003, and I thought this show was off the hook! The band is possibly tighter than I've ever seen them (first show: SUNY Albany in 1988), and I was really impressed with the new lineup (it was Fernando on trumpet, I believe). Yeah, the Vermont crowd probably wasn't the greatest, but it's an awesome festival and was a great space for Fishbone to do their thang. I got some great pics that I'll try to submit. Man, I forgot how much I love those guys!

The Northeast Kingdom Music Festival serves up a classic
August 10, 2007 By Tom Huntington Arts Correspondent
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Punctuating the stellar affair was an impressive performance by Los Angeles funk-ska-punk band Fishbone, which delivered a blistering two-hour set that proved that the longtime underground legends is still one of the baddest and most relevant bands alive.

Other highlights included the Coup, a standout Bay Area hip-hop group featuring the funky-fresh MC Boots Riley and a hard-rockin' live band that included bassist Norwood Fisher and drummer John Steward of Fishbone ? who had to perform impromptu when two members of the Coup were unable to make it. ("Give it up to them because they just learned this whole set in the van before we went onstage," said Riley following the final song.)
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