Nov 24 2000 @ House of Blues Lake Buena Vista, FL

The baron was in teh house that night. the bone played for about an hour, not long enough, but i took some friends that had never seen them. They loved it, especially during Everyday Sunshine when it got to the chorus' and he'd hand us the mic, and in the break down he got in the floor and hopped with us and let us sing with him. But there weren't enough people for him to stage dive ca...

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The Fishbone/George Clinton show was awesome. My band PowerBall all did our Thanksgiving thing with our families here in Jacksonville and then headed down to St. Pete to party with Fishbone Thanksgiving night since they had no show that evening. We left thier tour bus around 5 and slept until noon and then drove to Orlando to hang until the show that night. We didn't expect to hook up with Fishbone again... we just figured we'd see them at the show.

We ended up hooking up at 2 o'clock and Norwood and I had lunch at Wolfgang Pucks while the rest of PowerBall hung out with the other guys from Fishbone. We then all met back at the tour bus and spent the afternoon listening to our new cd (like five times in a row) on the bus with Angelo, Dirty Walt, Norwood and Spacey. It was an unreal moment for us... they were bobbing thier heads to it and singing new back-up vocals that they were making up and shit... it was rad (if a little scary as well). I also got to hear unreleased material, Human Rights material and Brains stuff.... an awesome day after an awesome evening.

Day turned into night and we got our passes and watched Fishbone play thier set... it was staggering... honestly they smoked Parliment from my perspective. They then came down into the audience and brought us back up to their dressing rooms and backstage area. We spent the rest of the night hanging out with them and Funkadelic. There were so many memorable moments I won't even try to convey them all. But we jammed to Parliment from Fishbones backstage sky box and then Hazel (Funkadelics guitar wizard) got us access into their areas as well.

So as I'm sitting with Norwood looking across to the Parliment sky box watching my guitar player Matt dancing with some chick and my drummer Chris and bass player Josh kicking it with Dirty Walt, my mind was blown. I don't know how we got there, but it was fun as shit and those guys were ultra cool to us. They are as positive as thier music and lyrics would lead you to believe and they hooked us up big time.

As a musician in a regional act I can't tell you how many times we have met previous "heroes" of ours only to find them to be total pricks. Fishbone is one of the baddest bands ever... and the things I learned about the new players over those few days convince me that the best is yet to come. Most significantly, there was nothing but love from these guys for their hardcore audience... They really do appreciate every soldier out there. Any of you that have had any traffic in the music business know how rare it is for any major act to do for a small regional one all that I described above.

These cats are a rare and precious commodity by any measure. Lets keep doing all we can to make things happen for them.

I came away from it more inspired as a fan and as a musician!

PEACE! Mitch G.

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Great play by play... truly appreciated...

I've seen Fishbone a few times and Orlando was the best I've seen 'em. Stunning performance and excellent set list... I just wish they'd had another 30 minutes since they seemed to have so much more left to leave us with.

I've seen P-Funk a couple times and enjoyed this show the most as well. I wouldn't ...

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