Apr 26 2000 @ House of Blues New Orleans, LA

Fishbone had been my favorite band since GAMAB was released, but hadn't gotten a chance to see them until 2000 at the House of Blues in NO. I can't remember the whole setlist, but there were plenty of great songs played: Question of Life, Behavior Control Technician, and others in the like. The crowd was the most energetic of any show I'd ever been to. Though it's cheesy to say, the band and the crowd became one, and that was why this became such an awesome event. A few things stand out in my mind:

-The crowd went freaking bananas right after the "...pink vapor stew... WAAAAAAAAAA" from Party at Ground Zero, the first song they played. The insanity didn't let up for one second during the whole show. Except when they played "Change" and "I'm a Weed Plant" unplugged.

-Before "Where'd You Get Those Pants" Angelo was asking all the "fine ladies" to go up on stage and show everybody the pants they were wearing. Some dude I didn't know looked at me and said "Dude! Go up there!" I climbed up on stage, a big hairy arab with a devil lock, with all the beautiful women. Angelo let all the women introduce themselves followed by me. The girls stayed on stage and shook their bottoms while I did the Charleston then dove.

-I forget which song it was exactly, but Angelo's sax mic kept falling off of its stand. During the song, only Walt was playing the horn parts since Angelo was wrestling with the defective stand. Some really tall tatted guy in the audience held the mic up for Angelo for the rest of the song, standing like a stump while the pit was constantly throwing bodies onto him.

-This was around the time the old fishbone.net site was up and Angelo posted his Chronicals, or tour journal. If you look back, Angelo comments on this being one of the greatest fishbone shows.

It was truly a remarkable event.

Chris.

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