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I can't be the only one? Even though they sort of imploded later on, The Reality Of My Surroundings is def one of my top 5 albums of all time. Also, Truth and Soul...

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I love Fishbone. Third best concert I ever saw. They played for 4 hours. They killed the pit.

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I do love Sunless Saturday. I need to finally pick up that album

I'm all over the OLD old school Fishbone. I wore that debut EP out when it was brand new. The soundtrack to my 7th grade year was a dubbed tape with Fishbone's s/t and Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables on one side, and Black Flag's Damaged and the Exploited's Live From The White House on the other.

To me, The Reality of my Surroundings is to Fishbone what the Black Album was to Metallica. It's great as a standalone musical statement, and it's their first really high-budget radio friendly production, but it was also the beginning of the end as far as being musical innovators.

One of the very best live bands I have ever seen. They have the distinction of being the only band I have ever seen that completely wore out the crowd. How they put on such a intense show for two hours straight, no breaks, I'll never know.

A funny aside. While watching their HBO special many many years ago(1992?), we noticed one of the backup singers/trumpet player guy had his Mic mounted in a massive black dildo.

I saw them play a couple times. One time in particular was at the Headroom in North Myrtle Beach years and years ago. I don't think that place is even there anymore. Angelo was greeting people at the door. He was kind enough to, uhm, partake with me before they went onstage. It was a little venue and I had a decent seat at the bar near the stage. I dunno how he did it but he leaped from the stage to the bar and was singing directly to me, as he stood on my hand! Good times, great band. They put out a documentary a couple years ago that was really good...It may have been called "Everyday Sunshine". It was very informative and a really good look into the inner workings of a band on the edge - on the edge of being a band selling out stadiums AND the edge of falling apart. Worth a look if you have a little time.

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One of the more amazing live antics I have ever witnessed was at that same Fishbone show. The Pudgy singer that played the Trombone and the keys(Not in the band anymore I think), would be belting out a verse or chorus. Then as he was putting the mic in his back pocket, his trombone would come flying out from stage right. I mean someone was chucking that thing fifteen twenty feet in the air across half the stage. Without looking, the singer guy would just reach his hand up and snatch it out of the air. Blow his part through the horn and then, again, without so much as a glance, just huck the thing back to stage right. I watched it happen the whole show without so much as a small fumble.

It was fucking precision in play.

Their self titled debut EP is awesome, I still listen to it often as well as The Reality of my Surroundings. I really need to revisit their other stuff. I remember listening to Chim Chims Badass Revenge a lot when it came out. I still have the cassette somewhere. I've seen them 2x, the first time was when they came to Az right after they ended their boycott due to lack of MLK day. It was a pretty small venue, but it was packed and everyone just went crazy when they opened with Housework.

Love Servitude, that's a fuckin' kickass tune!

John Norwood Fisher played bass on two tracks for Jerry Cantrell's Boggy Depot album. Pretty badass!!!