Fishbone Is Red Hot
So it's been a ridiculously stupendous and dense month of live music for me so far. I figured I'll try and post about each show seperately.
Fishbone live @ The Arena kicked it all off. I've tried but I can't think of what adjectives I would be able to use in order to do justice to how amazing this show was. I thought the show would have sold out, given their cult underground following, but as I walked through the doors with only an hour before Fishbone were due on stage, there was only about 70 people in the crowd.
Angelo Moore was hanging around (in a 3 piece suit and hat no less) organising the merch and I was genuinely embarrassed at the turn out. Numbers grew a little closer to show time and peaked around the 250 mark, but it was still less than acceptable.
The upside of this was myself and a friend were able to stake out a position in the front of the mosh pit, jammed against the punter barrier facing the centre of the stage. That's a position I haven't held for many, many moons and If I'm going to be honest, I was less than confident my atrophied body was up to it, but this was Fishbone, and there was no way I was going to settle for anything less than a spiritual experience.
As I said, I can't rightfuly go into specifics, but the show was astounding. Angelo spent the entire set dancing about, stage diving, carth-wheeling, crowd surfing-there was even a commando roll
-all this from a guy who is 41 years old and has been in the same band for over half his life.
Someone told me once that the true nature of a rock and roll show is you should never know what is going to happen next. I'm not entirely sure I think rock and roll should be anything, but I had the very real sense that I had no idea what the crazy bastards on stage were going to do next.
After a 2+ hour set, half the band then came down to hang out with the die hard punters (yours truly included) and sign autographs. Even off stage these guys are inspiring.
It's not right that these pioneers, who are all masterful musicians and are sighted by the likes of Primus, Jane's Addiction, RHCP and No Doubt as large influences, only play to 250 people when they come over.
It's not right that they still have to scrounge out a living touring relentlessly and aren't lauded as the musical heroes that they truly are.
Even if you don't like their music, you have to respect the fact that they're still out there doing it, and for that, we should all give thanks.
Fishbone live @ The Arena kicked it all off. I've tried but I can't think of what adjectives I would be able to use in order to do justice to how amazing this show was. I thought the show would have sold out, given their cult underground following, but as I walked through the doors with only an hour before Fishbone were due on stage, there was only about 70 people in the crowd.
Angelo Moore was hanging around (in a 3 piece suit and hat no less) organising the merch and I was genuinely embarrassed at the turn out. Numbers grew a little closer to show time and peaked around the 250 mark, but it was still less than acceptable.
The upside of this was myself and a friend were able to stake out a position in the front of the mosh pit, jammed against the punter barrier facing the centre of the stage. That's a position I haven't held for many, many moons and If I'm going to be honest, I was less than confident my atrophied body was up to it, but this was Fishbone, and there was no way I was going to settle for anything less than a spiritual experience.
As I said, I can't rightfuly go into specifics, but the show was astounding. Angelo spent the entire set dancing about, stage diving, carth-wheeling, crowd surfing-there was even a commando roll
-all this from a guy who is 41 years old and has been in the same band for over half his life.Someone told me once that the true nature of a rock and roll show is you should never know what is going to happen next. I'm not entirely sure I think rock and roll should be anything, but I had the very real sense that I had no idea what the crazy bastards on stage were going to do next.
After a 2+ hour set, half the band then came down to hang out with the die hard punters (yours truly included) and sign autographs. Even off stage these guys are inspiring.
It's not right that these pioneers, who are all masterful musicians and are sighted by the likes of Primus, Jane's Addiction, RHCP and No Doubt as large influences, only play to 250 people when they come over.
It's not right that they still have to scrounge out a living touring relentlessly and aren't lauded as the musical heroes that they truly are.
Even if you don't like their music, you have to respect the fact that they're still out there doing it, and for that, we should all give thanks.
posted by I Am Man I Am You. at 9:58 PM
1 Comments:
Fishbooooooooooooone!! I hope they come back this year like Wet Daddy said!
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