Apr 24 2005 @ Blue Nile New Orleans, LA

First of all I must say it was absolutely incredible to see Fishbone at the New Orleans Jazz Festival ... I estimate they played in front of at least 75,000 people ( There was probably a good 200,000 plus people at the whole festival. Fishbone took the stage at the Blue Nile around 3 AM by this time all of New Orleans was just toasted up including the band ... They opened with Party At Ground Zero and proceeded to play a few other songs ( Ma and Pa and Unyeilding Conditioning were the only ones i remember ... ) After that it was just a big jam session with everyone switching instruments at times ( Angelo on keyboards, Pastor Dre on bass ... thats all I can think of at this moment ( I was toasted up myself ) .. The band was just having fun and messing around and it was great just to be there with them ... After about an hour of straight jamming they did try to start playing The Suffering but were unsuccessful in getting past the first horn parts ... It was basically just a big party ... everyone drinking mass quantities of alcohol, people chongin' it up in the crowd, on stage ... Angelo and Norwood stage diving ... John Steward got naked and stayed that way for the rest of the night ... he was just walkin around the club dick swingin .. it was hilarious ... I think the night started winding down when Angelo had to make make a quick run to the restroom and never came back ( too many shots of Jagermeister I presume ) ... It was just great to be there ( especially since I went to New Orleans from Baltimore just to see them ... Completely off the meat rack !!!!!

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The group came on really late, like ya boy before me said, about 3am. That was cool though, cause they put on a REAL TIGHT performance at Jazz Fest. Especially liked that "train whistle" thang they did (at the Fest). Anyway, the Blue Nile gig was kinda crazy. Norwood was drinkin' . . . but the bass was thumpin'. The ska stuff was really, really nice. Seems like they did about 3 or 4 of those...

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it was disappointinf to see angelo pass out towards the end of the set. is norwood ok? he seems like he's picked up an addiction since the last tour, or his drinking is getting incredibly out of control. norwood, i love you brother, please take care of yourself. even though all of those people yelled about how you weren't shit (before the show, 2 hours before they started because norwood was abs...

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