Today's the day ! Go bug your local record store owner or megastore clerk ! Tell your friends ! Buy five copies and hand them out at random people on the streets ! Show your love ! Spread the word, they will catch on ! Still Stuck in Your Throat is an awesome record that deserves to make everyone groove. And if you're too busy/lazy , there's always the ITunes / Amazon option !
Buy the digital version of Still Stuck In Your Throat off ITunes here ! Get it, write a review, make some buzz ! This album with the proper buzz could finally represent Fishbone's break for success ! Do your part NOW !
Still Stuck in Your Throat available for preorder from Amazon.com
The wait is almost over ! Amazon.com has just listed Still Stuck in Your Throat for preorder (13.98USD). The US release date is set for April 24th by label Sound In Color. The CD is an enhanced version with videos for Forever Moore and Sunless Saturday. The sleeve is also totally different from the European release. Two good reasons to get another copy if you already got the European release, besides the incredible music !
The familyhood has lost a good soldier last week. Toronto soldier John, aka J.Wo (after Jennifer Lopez called herself J.Lo) aka Jazzpatrick, unexpectedly passed away at age 42 while visiting his father in Barbados on March 7th. He leaves a wife and a kid behind. I've known John for the past 7 years or so on the Nuttwork and immediately appreciated his witty sense of humour and "don't take anything for granted" approach. Besides, he was yet another strong Chim Chim partisan. My thoughts go to his family. I think G-Bone made justice to his memory on fishbone.net's forum much better than i could ever write, so i take the liberty to extensively quote him here.
One of the aspects I really enjoyed most about John's style of writting apart from his humor laced with heavy drippings of sarcasm was his honesty and frustrations regarding Fishbone. Unlike many fans who feel 'their' band can do no wrong, j.wo let fly many times at the not so admirable attributes of Fishbone. Loads of people here at the forum and on the mailing list got upset about this seeing it as a negative attack but he was so passionate about the band that when they did things that jeopardised their future or reputation, he just voiced his frustrations at ANOTHER barrier the band had to bust through to get their rightful desserts. In all honesty, I agreed with virtually everything he said regarding these facts. The list of Fishbone's dodgy business strategies range from not having an offishal web site until sometime around 2002, not delivering goods purchased by fans on the merchandize section of the site yet pocketing the money, claiming more often than not to be 'victims' of a white corperate music industry rather than looking sometimes at their otfen unapproachable attitude towards compromise and commercialisation, scrapping an album and disbanding a live dvd after stateing that they were in the pipeline but never saying why they never came, having Norwood manage the band when the band needed an objective third party to look after the affairs of business and management, in 2002-03 reduce the the band to a 'Greatest Hits' live show and eventually lose Spacey and Walt because nothing new was on the horizon and until this web site's forum, rarely posting a word to fans while the technology was there to make easy contact to them. These were points that John felt were shortcomings that needed to be addressed but the funniest part was when someone would turn around a say, "You can't say that about Fishbone, don't be so negative and hate on them so much! Why are you here if you have to say such bad things about this band that have been slogging their asses off for the last 20 odd years?!" He'd just turn around in a sarcastic way point out that Fishbone are humans, flaws and all that needed to take stock from time to time to preserve and nurture their loyal fanbase whilst looking at what they were doing wrong and improve on it in order to keep their careers afloat. He'd also witfully reduce these people to silence which is neither a good or a bad thing. In the early days, I was often on the "wrong" side of a debate with him but that's the beauty of opinion.
With all this said, I believe he was very positive and proud of where the band was right now stating that some of the material off 'SSIYT' was his favourite, up there with 'Chim Chim'. His words of late were nothing but praise for the band and he was especially happy with the members of the current line up. It is heartwarming to know that when he left this earth, his beloved Fishbone were touring the world and thriving as a unit better than ever.
G-Bone
Trulio Disgracias and Weapon of Choice European release announced
Ter à Terre Records has announced for April 30th the European release of Trulio Disgracias' debut album Nuttin's Gonna Git'Choo If U Don't Look Out and Weapon of Choice's 6-hour long DVD. If you live in Europe and intend on buying these records, please support Ter à Terre's courageous efforts !
It's been promised for a few years; it is now actually available ! The first CD by Trulio Disgracias, Nuttin's Gonna Git'Choo If U Don't Look Out. Trulio Disgracias is Norwood Fisher's All-Star Nuttmeg project. This record includes, among others, H.R. of Bad Brains/Soul Brains, Spacey T and John Bigham formerly of Fishbone, Mark Cross and Audra Nishita of Weapon of Choice, Danny Moynahan and I Timothy of The Untouchables, Bronx Style Bob and Donald D of The Rhyme Syndicate, Asdru, Ulysses, and Crunchy of Ozomatli, Overton Loyd of P. Funk ... Get your own copy from Amazon
John Bigham, former guitarist of Fishbone, has just released The Good Girl Blues the second record of his band The Soul Of John Black. The CD is available from CDBaby and available on digital outlets too (Itunes,...). This record is probably the perfect follow up to the eponymous debut LP of JB. It's pretty much stripped down to the essentials with as usual great vocals and a permanent blues underlayer. Wholeheartedly recommended !
Wolfunkind, the French band that opened 90% of the last Fishbone Euro shows has called it quits. Their vibrant mixture of psycho-funk and (attempt at) Belgian humor (i.e. self derision) will be deeply missed. Angelo contributed a couple of tracks on the last record L'?ge de la maturit?, covering Grimskunk's Looking For Gabio and giving a Madvibesque follow up to their Martine dance-machine anthem. I doubt that the Mont de Marsan posse can stop making great music, so hopefully, they'll soon be back with another project.
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