Oct 26 2000 @ Maritime Hall San Francisco, CA

What a powerful performance by 'Bone. The evening started with these two Vanilla Ice style performers (if you could call them that). Well actually, it started with this young woman dressed in a nurse slut outfit taunting the boys in the audience with promises to take it off in exchange for loud cheers. Well, they weren't loud enough. Anyways, they took it off for during this unbelievably horrible set. The only cheers these guys could get was when the girls came out. The whole thing was embarissing. To make a long story short, Fishbone didn't come out till about 12:40. They came out after Kottonmouth Kings who seemed to be blatently ripping off Cypress Hill beats, with a guy onstage that was ripping off Buckethead without the guitar. When Fishbone finally did come on, it was well worth the wait. They started with this opening jam that had Norwood playing as if he was with Ornette Coleman. It was kickass. From there they jumped into Behavior Control Technician. It was so good to hear that song again. The rest of the night was a blur. I can't remember the order of songs (hopefully someone has it). But they did play Bonin Everyday Just Allow Housework Ma & Pa One Planet Shakey Ground The Suffering Aids & Armageddon and more but I'm a little foggy right now! They sound so revitalized. The old songs have this fresh vibe to them it's unreal, and the new songs sound 1000% better than they do on the album. Karma Tsunami is completely over the edge. Walt began by saying, "I hope you guys have some goo karma, I can tell you've been fucking up" Then he kept saying "you've beeen fucking up" over and over again. This song was breathtaking. The horns were incredible. Angelo is like Cab Calloway morphed with Dexter Gordon morphed with Bruce Lee. There is simply no other performer who can touch him, he truly is in a league of his own. He is the most underated horn player of our time. Norwood stood out as the Jimi Hendrix of bass. What I mean by this is that not since Hendrix, have i ever heard or seen a bass player with a full command of his instrument in such a fresh and creative way. The new songs were like tripped out versions of the album. Amazing. Spacy T. sounded better than i ever heard him. Some of his guitar solos had that backward guitar effect on them (like in "Are You Experienced, or John Frusciante's first solo album). The drums were played admirably by John Steward, but it does seem like the other musicians are on another level. I'd love to see Fish come back. The Suffering was so much better than the album version. They even did a sort of interstellar dancehall part at the end. Even the the crowd was sort of thin, they were all lovin' it. It became a very intimate, late night affair. It was so positive to see all the young kids there being blown away.

Jah Nuttadelic

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> The evening started with these two Vanilla Ice style performers (if you > could call them that). Well actually, it started with this young woman > dressed in a nurse slut outfit taunting the boys in the audience with > promises to take it off in exchange for loud cheers. Well, they weren't loud > enough. Anyways, they took it off for during this unbelievably horrible set. > The only cheers ...

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