Fishbone (or what's left of Fishbone, anyway) played the
Vic Theater in Chicago last night, with Weapon of Choice
opening. Here's what I thought:

Weapon of Choice

What the hell is nutmeg music? Is that a pot thing?
They were interesting, but pretty forgetable. Semi-funk rock
stuff. Good keyboardist.

Fishbone

The only stuff I recognized was Pressure, Behavior
Control Technician, Properties of Propaganda, Warmth of your
Breath, and Nutt Megalomaniac. The rest was either really
old or really new, and demonstrated one important point: Fishbone
is going to miss Kendall Jones and Chris Dowd a LOT. The
songwriting was noticeably worse on songs like "Beer Gut",
"Alcoholic", and "Love and Hate", as might be guessed by
dumb, trite song names. They tried making up for the
absence of lead guitar, keys, and songwriting by doing a lot
of mediocre but well-performed vocal harmonies and horn
parts.

It wasn't a bad show, though. Angelo Moore did some
very cool spoken word stuff, and was up to his usual jump-into-
the-crowd-from-the-balcony antics. He also played the largest
saxophone I've ever seen - bigger than a baritone. Behavior
Control Technician and Properties of Propaganda were great.
The crowd was into it, and fortunately noone threw anything at the
band this time (they stopped the show last year for that). I
am pessimistic for the future of the band, though.

Does anyone know if Kendall or Chris plan on any musical
projects in the future?

Later,
COZ

--
Chris 'COZ' Costello clc2 at midway.uchicago.edu

Couldn't agree more. This show wasn't very good, lots of stuff that was new to audience - ended up on Chim Chim album. I walked out thinking Fishbone might be done for good. Glad they bounced back in 1996 at Cubby Bear!!!