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Fishbone

Fishbone’s eagerness to confront, provoke and cross-pollinate enabled them (along with The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Untouchables et al) to help the early-80's L.A./Orange County music scene shake free of the unsavory grip of uninspired rock and "New Wave" hair bands. Since breaking through in 1985 with the frenetic, cross-media smash "Party at Ground Zero" (from their self-titled debut EP), the 'Boners have continued to delight fans and confound radio programmers with their joyful, eclectic noise. Through it all, the band has embraced, lampooned and shifted hairstyles and clothes like a stripped-gear chameleon – the constants are ENERGY and MOTION.

Spawned by an unruly posse in an L.A. junior high over 20 years ago, Fishbone, according to the group's hyper-kinetic, elastic-voiced singer Angelo Moore, "started out in the music room playin' Bootsy, Rick James, and Led Zeppelin covers and we just stuck together. We'd go over to Wood's (rubber-fingered bassist, Norwood Fisher) mom's house and play in the bedroom, bangin' on pots and pans and whatever."

"At first, we'd get together on weekends," recalls Bassist/singer Norwood Fisher, "then it turned into every day. It's the only band I've really been in. We had other names before Fishbone. Another name we had – Megatron – would get us gigs with heavy metal bands. So they'd book us with metal bands, and we'd get up there and play ska and funk and stuff, and these longhairs would be saying, "What the hell are these guys doing here?"

Live audiences around the world have been surrendering to the band's stage flash and magical rhythms with uninterrupted regularity. Such passionate devotion is not lost on Fishbone, who refer to their friends on the road as "The Familyhood."

Fishbone lives up to their legend as “THE” group to bridge the gap between the funk of George Clinton and the blare of Rush; a hybrid fusion where Led Zeppelin and Sly Stone dance to a frenetic ska beat that fuel’s the alternative thrust of Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jane’s Addiction and the cast of Lollapalooza. From their childhood together in the hardcore South Central Los Angeles wasteland to years of forced school-bused integration, Fishbone’s influences were kaleidoscopic and never-ending.

The band is enjoying free agent status and will continue to tour through the states / Europe / Japan. Look for the bone to be touring near you soon. The band’s tour schedule can be found on their official website: www.fishbone.net As well as on the fan based site www.fishbonelive.org.

www.fishbone.net