Aug 08 2002 @ Double Door Chicago, IL

Oh my f'ing gawd... that was easily one of my top five shows of all time... It was a good all around concert experience starting as i met two really cool musicians before the show... we talked Zappa.. Jazz... music i have never heard of.... One of them, this guy named "zero" introduced me to Walt!!!... Walt was real freindly we talked for a few minutes... the tour is sponsered by Jack Daniels so it was cheap ass Jack night at the double door so i got a good buzz going... Mr. Plow was a one man ..not really funny Tenacious D... Dead Weight (on Fishbones label) was a 3 piece drummer violin, cello... using effects sometimes they sounded like a rock band..pretty cool.. even cooler when they closed with Charlie Daniels "The Devil came down to Georgia"... FISHBONE!!!! was fantastic... their Cd's don't do the live show justice... Angelo was like an amalgamation of james brown, a baptist preacher, and john coltrane rolled into one firecraker of a man... he played this weird contraption that he manipulated by placeing his hands at different distances from the device that sounded like an old movie effects thing but it was cool...he also played 3 different kinds fo sax's... they mixed up a lot of old and new stuff (i was sad no "Lying ass Bitch") and they played a new song with Dead Weight that was really cool... the crowd was packing the place full of knowledgable fans and it was rowdy and fun. After the show we hung out for awhile but i didnt want to ask the guys to sign anything they looked exhausted and i would have felt like a goober asking them for anything after the show they put on.... too bad they had to split for milwaukee the next night... and the night was capped by realizing how damn cool it is that i could walk home in 20 minutes with a short bus ride... im loving the city

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So in the past two weeks there were two shows I was really looking forward too -- and I rarely look forward to live music now -- and I walked away from both gigs feeling a little let down. The first show was Love (featuring the only original member left around now, Arthur Lee) and I guess this one was my fault. There was no way that the band was going to be able to fulfill my own personal sonic im...

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My 2 cents...The Chicago show was good, but not as good as the one the last time around at the Cubby Bear. Now these were my 1st and 2nd Fishbone shows so who am I to say, but...that's just the vibe I had. BUT....I still would pay money to see them rock a less than stellar show than most bands out today at the top of their game, not to say that Fishbone isn't 1) at the top of their game and 2) a...

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