Aug 24 2001 @ Temple Bar Santa Monica, CA

for the sake of your own sanity, all informations about the happennings of last WE in LA has been classified confidential, besides for the concerts.

all i can say is that the familyhood is not a concept. it's a reality. as i remember repeating over and over during the bbq: it was so right.

hopefully, when the DVD is out, you'll witness how everything r...

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Hey all! I have never posted a review of a show before, but since I see the reviews are scarce, I will try to throw in my experience of the weekend. I got in Friday night, after a 5 hour flight, straight from work, so I was already exhausted when I got there. Everyone from the list was hanging out at the Travelodge rooms (that was the central meeting place). Everyone I met was immediately frie...

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Man oh man....what a weekend. Like Sarah said, gives us some time to recover a bit and gather our thoughts because a LOT of stuff went on that weekend, from a lot of different perspectives. First and foremost what everybody wants to know: The new material. A lot of us have heard four or more of the new songs on the last tour, but they worked them a little differently for the Temple Bar shows (...

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Hey everyone! Just wanna say that the show on Friday nite wuz the BOMB!! The new songz are incredible, each song had my full attention through out the show. They're brilliant! Last Dayz is the shit, heavy groove with da' reggae twist. Skank and go Nuttz, Are u wid it, etc. HOT Damn, This is Fishbone! PFN is a good album, but this is the shit Hollywood wrekordz should have let them do. The show and...

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Hey all!! We just got in a couple of hours ago...but man, we miss being in Santa Monica. All the way home all we could talk about was missing our new family. The drive home was just a dazing swirl of laughter and storytelling. For all of you that didn't get to go, I will do my best to recount, to the best of my recollection, any and all happenings.

First, the familyhood. ...

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Wow. What a weekend. WOWOWOW! Its difficult to put into words, but I'll try.

First off, thursday: I went with three friends, two of them virgins, all of us from LA. We got there really early for fear of a sell out, which gave us much drinking time; I had guinness, the others had tequila (more on this later). I met Sarah and several other list members, all of them beautif...

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I have to admit to a little apprehension when I heard that the show was going to be all new (more or less) music. It's not that I don't dig hearing new songs at shows, it's just that I love the old stuff so much. Plus, hearing the four new songs on this previous tour when they were in Seattle, they weren't completely fishbone tight yet. But I was sold quickly, once the boys started into their s...

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Hey all, I think I've recovered enough from my flight back to NYC to make a coherent post. First off, to echo the sentiments of most everyone else, the reunion and the shows were flat out amazing. The chance to meet some of you folks truly was an honor. At one point, Lauren Batiste asked me, "So what was your high point?" To which I replied, "High point? You mean I gotta pick just one?! Hel...

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I just got in (Monday, about 10:30pm) and had about 130 notes to read... mostly, everyone summed up the weekend just as I would have. The whole event just exceeded my expectations at every turn. the music, the location, the people the BBQ (Go Derrick!)... We had seals swimming in the ocean in front of the BBQ! Just amazing.

I still wish I had taken a picture when I opened...

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i have slept! yesterday i flew home, went straight to work, then to rehearsal where i was thrown around stage and did backflips (i was already tired!). but now i have rested so i will add my take to the gathering, or really, the soldiers:

Keisha, Angel that she is, picked me up at the airport at 5 am friday morning, before she had gotten a chance to sleep! then she played taxi & drove a bunch of us to the show!

Jeff and I flyered Venice Beach. we wore the same shirt and both had "red" hair, so i was like "mini-jeff." What a leader! i think he is definitely the "general" of our Fishbone soldiers. Great diplomat with those hotel people...

Jenna...sweetheart! it was good that the two of us short girls had each other ;) she stayed with me in the front of the stage the entire time! tough chick!

Denis, the crazy dancing Belgian. a very down to earth guy. typing Q's instead of A's. What a wonderful person.

Nico, silently slinking around, taking photos- even when we were getting smashed in the pit- i would look over and Nico would take a photo of us!

Neal, what a cool cat! sympathizing with my busted up knee (it's still red and purple!), driving me all the way to Malibu listening to Fela- i did not feel terrorized at all ;). his grandpa was a Disney Imagineer, that is so cool!

Adam, working so hard, not getting to enjoy the show like we were. he deserves, and will receive, great things in life.

Chris, Steve, Bill, Lauren, Nerre- the familyhood vibe was definitely in the air!

Trip- another sneeky photographer, giving Ase a giant Tweety bird that she fell in love with.

Bryan coming from las vegas, poor guy couldn't stay long but i saw him in the pool! where i was forced to kick some ass my self i might add. i think it was Jeff who said that i was, pound for pound, the toughest soldier there! Jenna suggests that we have a boot camp for Fishbone soldiers!

Sarah...what can you say about mothernutture? She rocks! great to be in the front of the stage with, just a wonderful person all around, and genuinely cares about people.

Ase-besides drooling watermelon all over my pants, she's pretty cool ;) indeed one of the happiest babies i have ever seen!

Of course Angelo, Norwood, John, Walt, Spacey... it was great to talk with them again. Norwood recounting the time I saved his life in Waikiki. Angelo just being Angelo, showing up for the BBQ even though he had been throwing up earlier. that guy will always have my respect, even though the first concert i went to he kicked me in the head!

i enjoyed meeting chef D-brakes and showing him that i could moonwalk, to which he responded, "oh, shit!" which is the common response when someone realizes that even though i may be a little white girl, i got plenty o' funk in my soul! jenna... we have to get together and go dancing!

it was definitely worth the 2,500 mile trip and i like that we are all closer now, and that i can put faces and personalities to the names i see on here so often.

i truly love you all...

-nicole

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