Norwood Fisher
@woodywoodstraw
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Fishbone, Trulio Disgracias, The Familyhood Nextperience, Innanuttshell Reekordingz
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The Familyhood Nextperience - new edit featuring Antonee 1st Class! He drops it so nice, we had to allow y’all to focus on his skills!
@DCJamRecords
@SilverbackMusic
@Antonee
@dobsound
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For the band that would become Fishbone, the impact was massive. Yeah, we talked about it the next day. It was like a directive...
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Well, my new case was no match for United Airlines!!!
@united
What must a baggage handler do to cause this kind of damage? The case is fully intact. Hardly a scratch that wasn’t there before it was checked. I’m devastated. I’ve traveled the world since 1984 playing music(cont.)
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What’s your opinion of this lineup? Tunde Adebimpe (TV On The Radio), Tony Austin (Kamasi Washington)’ Vernon Reid (Living Colour), Justine Warfield (She Wants Revenge), Brett Farkas, Chris Dowd, Angelo Moore and ME!!! Paying a well deserved homage to David Bowie on his birthday.
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Little Richard and The Isley Brothers were articulate enough for The Beatles to mimic them all the way to superstardom…Get The Fukkk Outta Hear With That Bullshit!!!
The founder of Rolling Stone Jann Wenner has a new book about some of the best musicians of all time titled “Masters.” When asked by the NYT why he only focused on white male artists he says Black and female artists just don’t “articulate” at the level of white men.
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Then came Bad Brains…
"Punk not rasta but them fight down the Babylin system an' love black people"
Bob Marley
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1st exposure to some of the bands in this movie! If I recall correctly, all of original
@FishboneSoldier
saw it together. A double feature with Dance Craze, at the Fox Theater in Venice. Monumental in our lives.
THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION ('81) captures the thriving Los Angeles punk scene of the early 1980s.
X - Beyond and Back
#punkrockhistory
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I’m on Maui, producing an album for a band called The Lamonts. Bassist, Aydin Sey, picked me up from the airport, took me to drop my belongings where I’m staying and we got right to work! Today is day 2. I’ll be posting as we go along.
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Oh yeah, my band has new music available…check if you will
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Marijuana Compound Removes Alzheimer's-Related Protein From Nerve Cells
(Share and share again!!!)
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Catfish was one of the 1st Funk Mob members that a young Fishbone and friends met, outside of the backstage door of The Beverly Theater, after the 1st night of the Atomic Dog Tour in L.A., 1983. We wanted to meet George Clinton and
@Bootsy_Collins
.
Happy Heavenly Birthday to the best Big brother in the whole wide World. Mr. Phelps "Catfish" Collins!🎂🎂🎂Join me in celebrating one of the funkiest mugs in the universe, he would be 80 years young 2Day! He loved flying under the radar & flirtin' with the girls!💃👀🤔Brotherly
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Doug Pinnick and I, loving his signature amplifier and speaker configuration!!! November 9, 2014…believe me, this is random for me. Not a TBT thing, although it’s Thursday. I am practicing sharing more…
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Whaaa!?!?!
@woodywoodstraw
Went to see
#breakfastwiththebeatles
@hardrockhollywood
this morning and saw this greatness. Nothin’ but Love ✌🏻
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We did it! Paddle out, caught waves. She rode more waves than me. Quite different than years ago. We saw Crash, the guy that actually taught Asè, Zineb and Safia their surf skills. Good to catch up.
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Did it? Yep, and I had a blast whilst doing it!!! That's realtime reacting to Bernie Worrell's lost tapes. I partied to whatever was put up. It's an honor to be amongst those asked to participate.
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Lollapalooza
#1
! I thought Gibby was shootin’ blanks, until seeing this Video!!! I don’t know what show this is but
@FishboneSoldier
played Dallas and Seattle. Regardless, I was impressed then and it’s still an alarming concept NOW!!!
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I remember hearing a radio announcer say that the clothes worn on the album cover were all purchased from thrift stores. Very shortly thereafter, inner city black youth converged on Melrose. Along with Dirty Mind, this drastically transformed the hood in L.A.
If you can wrap your head around this!
42 YEARS AGO today, Prince and Morris Day put together The Time's self-titled debut album that is unrivaled in the purple world. While the album represents mostly work from P and MD, also making appearances were Dr. Fink (keys on The Stick
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Email a brutha at Norwoodlessons
@gmail
.com for all the details about pricing and scheduling. Bass is my space, let’s ride!!!
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The ONE!!! The only!!! Upon the hill thriller, paradigm shifting Bootzilla!!! Happy Birthday to the innovator and one of my biggest inspirations and influences!
What comes with joy, comes pain. I only hope I brought respect to my Mother's name. On this Happy Birthday to me, my mind set me free. Thx u all, for another year around the Sun, let it be written, let it be done, by the Power of the One.☝️
Bootsy baby!!!🤩🎂🫡
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The 1993 Bone Tones Euro Tour!!! Hell was raised, feet’s were moved, asses shook wildly!!! There’s some legendary tales that are mostly untold…
@FishboneSoldier
@mmbosstones
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Life is amazing when you just so happen to run into
@funkrockster
whilst inching through TSA! Nona Hendrix is ultra foundational/influential/transformative to who I am. Funk/Rock/Soul pioneer. Summa y’all know, but if you don’t know, I suggest you fukk around and find out…
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He's an absolute bass monster!!!
Hello
@woodywoodstraw
! We ran into
@kenken_RIZE
at a festival and he said your play in Tokyo was one of the best shows he had ever seen.
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I was 1st on my block to get it!!! Well, maybe the only muthafukka on my block. I turned on some of the homies ro it tho’. Hood life is good life!
Rush released Moving Pictures, February 7, 1981. What is your favoite track?
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November 7th 2015, me, Eric McFadden, Roosevelt Collier and Duane Trucks!!! We jammed our asses off and the audiences asses too! Just randomly going through pics and sharing. Something I should do more often.
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Consciousness deserves compassion and there's way more to consciousness than you were taught. Keep on thinking and thanking!!!
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Anti-Fascist Resistance in full effect!!!
45 years ago today
Paul Simonon from The Clash playing in front of a crowd at Rock Against Racism's 'Carnival Against the Nazis' concert, April 30, 1978.
Photo by Syd Shelton
#punkrock
#paulsimonon
#theclash
#fightracism
#fucknazis
#history
#punkrockhistory
#otd
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I’m dark black evil as fukk!!!
MAGA pastor/self-proclaimed "prophet" Hank Kunneman used his Sunday sermon to declare that "God is far right" while ranting that Democrats are "dark black evil."
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Party At Ground Zero…ha!!!
A few tunes with notable instrumental intros pre first verse-NOT ranked
Time
Ashes To Ashes
Baba O’Riley
Free Will
1999
Master Of Puppets
Close To The Edge
Betcha By Golly Wow
The Great Curve
The Rain Song
Sweet Child
Sir Duke
Hot For Teacher
War Pigs
Mighty Mighty
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Party At Ground Zero, Ma And Pa, Skankin’ To The Beat, When Problems Arise, Cholly, Fishy Swa Ska, Sunless Saturday, So Many Millions, Properties Of Propaganda...I could go on
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Bass boss!
Great pic of the awesome Kira Roessler playing for Black Flag in 1985.
#punk
#womeninpunk
😎
📸 Murray Bowles.
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The shit storm is at a category 3 level. I really should’ve been celebrating my ass off!!!
My new single To The Hilt under the name The Familyhood Nextperience
Released yesterday!!! Please listen and let me know what you think. Bless up and bliss out
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No ONE has rocked THE ONE, with the passion, richness and intensity of
@Bootsy_Collins
!!! Thank you for the music and for kicking open an unimaginable freedom of expression for bass and all of music!!!
Happy 68th Birthday to one of the forefathers of funk, William "Bootsy" Collins!
@Bootsy_Collins
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Fishbone just played a show with The Specials. Epic beyond words..
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Was it called Punk in 1961? Regardless, still Punk as fukk!
Louis Armstrong draws a trumpet on the head of a French punk, 1961
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I’m sure that’s the way Eric Clapton, Pete Townshend and Jimmy Page felt about Jimi Hendrix? I got a Robert Johnson/Sister Rosetta Tharpe ass kickin’ for the pitiful fools that think anywhere near the same! What, Prince?!?!? Fukkk U
The founder of Rolling Stone Jann Wenner has a new book about some of the best musicians of all time titled “Masters.” When asked by the NYT why he only focused on white male artists he says Black and female artists just don’t “articulate” at the level of white men.
This
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Happy Birthday David Bowie!!! We let the shit hits the fans, tonight! As spacial as it gets…
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That’s a bad bass playin’ mutha!!!
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If you have any curiosity about the power dynamics of the band, watch Everyday Sunshine: The Story Of Fishbone. It’s very telling.
Thanks to the Fishbone Familyhood for supporting all of us for all of these years. I coined the term because I truly saw you as our extended family,
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Thanks for the love!!!
@woodywoodstraw
Norwood Fisher is what every influencer video
#bass
player wants to sound like.
#fishbone
one of the best modern era funk/ska/rock bands. Give a Monkey a Brain is a classic album all
#bassists
should have in their collection. Check out Norwood now if you haven’t!
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Be blissed, brutha Vic!!!
Happy Birthday to my lil-brother the Baddest Mutha on the Planet!😲 Everybody say, "HAPPY BIRTHDAY VIC"
@VictorWooten
!🎂🍦🎂 We all love u lil brutha👍✌️🤘Bootsy baby!!!🤩🤓🥳
@MrStanleyClarke
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@mcbridesworld
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Fishbone joins George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic for the One Nation Under A Groove Tour, tomorrow in Milwaulkie!!! The best summer vacation ever!!!
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I say, it was the only sane response to the conditions of oppression and abuse that he and the human beings that rolled with him were subjected to…
In 1831, Freedom fighter Nat Turner started what is considered the most deadly slave revolt in the history of the United States , the Nat Turner Rebellion, which sparked the events leading to civil war.
A THREAD
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It’s an absolute honor to have participated in this recording project. Bernie Worrell’s influence on me is immeasurable. I truly appreciate that my path has lead me to this moment.
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Bass lessons are in your future and norwoodlessons
@gmail
.com is the portal to that unfoldment
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Ummm, Party At Ground Zero? Or sum’n like that…
Crank up the ska till the Earth explodes and we all die! ✌
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Welcome to my happy place, at least other than my bass space!!!
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Hey y’all, I really appreciate the outpouring of concern for my well being. I absolutely do not take it lightly, for if anything were ever to actually happen, it’s nice to
know that people would move into action...
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A year ago, February 16th, 2019, I broke my wrist while skateboarding. I spent the better part of today giving bass lessons. I’m extremely grateful that my students understood and stayed with me through my ordeal.…
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#Repost
@silverbackmusic
with get_repost
・・・
34 years ago today in 1985, FISHBONE released their original eponymous EP!!! The 6 track release captures the band ushering in the 3rd wave of Ska in the 80's with…
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They wuz real ones, fa sho’!
Shoutout to the American Samoan group Boo Yaa T.R.I.B.E. for their contributions to Hip Hop 🙏🏾.
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Dec 11, 2023
All Star HR Benefit Concert!!
Teragram Ballroom
1234 w 7th st
Los Angeles, CA 90017
Paul "HR" Hudson is the legendary frontman of Bad Brains. Noted as the pioneers of hardcore punk, Bad Brains was formed in Washington DC in 1978.
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A Nutter possible way of being…
Happy Friday y’all! Music is
@truliodisgracias
featuring Ike Willis. Song called Come To Life
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It's A Bad Brains Christmas, Charlie Brown
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Mingus!!!
Vice President
@KamalaHarris
went to a local DC record store and her first question was: “Do you have any Mingus?” Then she showed off her purchase to reporters outside: Let My Children Hear Music (1972)
@Mingus
rules
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It’s really, really, really, all about “WHITE” life. Always has been…
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Thank you! Your continued support and passing the stoke to the next generation, keeps us motivated to keep on rockin’ out!!!
Hey
@woodywoodstraw
and
@FishboneSoldier
!
Introduced our sons to your music last Wednesday at the State Theater! Thank you six all for a fantastic night of heavy music!
#fishboneforever
!
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Fishbone’s Philip “Fish” Fisher - Modern Drummer Magazine
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Played Las Vegas last night with
@starchildjr
and
@kokane_og_
and it was awesome! More of that to come.
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I’ve continuously made music with Angelo from 1979 to the end of 2023. A hiatus is okay with me. If we never make music together again, we did the damn thang and I’m cool with that idea.
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One of many of the most happiest of birthday moments at
@TheMintLa
, making it up as we go, like we love to do!!! What’s your opinion on unscripted, all improvised musical explorations?
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Well,
@FishboneSoldier
loves
@margaretcho
, fa sho!!!
Today's guest is legendary comedian Margaret Cho. Her favorite band is Fishbone. Her mid-90s ABC sitcom almost had a ska theme song (by Skankin' Pickle). She went to punk & ska shows at The Farm and Gilman--she saw Operation Ivy! She tells us how all this informed her adult life
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without you we couldn’t even exist. Your love and support has meant and continues to mean the Whirl’d to me.
Much love to you all,
Norwood
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Btw, this show is officially sold out!!! More events forthcoming. Stay toon’d y’all
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Saw them together, playing separately at The Apollo Theater, with most, if not all of Fishbone, on a day off in NYC. It was ultra EPIC, indeed...
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New phase in the werks. Coming to a reality near you, very, very soon. Wuddoo U think?
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Now down bitchez!!!
50 years ago, August 3, 1973, the album Innervisions by Stevie Wonder, was released !! 🎶🎶🎶
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This muthafukkka should be the inspiration for a Whirl’d Why’d general strike!!! Fukkk working for him and anyone like him and fukkk giving them your money!!!
Gurner Group founder Tim Gurner tells the Financial Review Property Summit workers have become "arrogant" since COVID and "We've got to kill that attitude."
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Nuttin’ wuz never the same
Released on this day in 1980:
'Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables' the debut studio album by
#DeadKennedys
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Paradigm shifter, quantum leap techniques, foundational, transformational and all around dope human being!!!
Happy 76th Birthday to the master of thumpin and pluckin, Larry Graham (Sly & The Family Stone, Graham Central Station)!
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I really don’t know jack shit about this historical tragedy…I have a lot to learn
This was 60 years ago in living memory. The British genocide crimes in Kenya. The concentration camps that the British work to cover up. They never pay Reparation. No one talks about the Africa holocaust,
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Just this...
I ❤️ this pic of Hendrix listening to playback at Electric Lady Studios
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I love Chris and Angelo, because through it all, we’re brothers that created something unique, special and enduring.
As you can probably imagine, there’s a whole lot more to this story. In time, at the appropriate time, I’ll tell all.
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I’m having fun creating these. I hope you enjoy and if you’re in the L.A. area, come to the show!!!
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Black People want equality and justice, not revenge. This shit makes me wish for equal pain to these fukkk'n White Supremacist assholes...
WARNING: GRAPHIC ⚠️ Police in Alabama used a stun gun on a high school band director at a football game just for letting his students finish playing a song. 85% of the students at Minor High School are Black. Cops attacked a teacher and traumatized these kids forever.
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I'm happy!
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Love!
Album Alphabet Challenge Day 6 F
Fishbone
Fishbone
Columbia 1985
@FishboneSoldier
@ColumbiaRecords
@drmadvibe
@woodywoodstraw
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I’m grateful to be on the other side of maximum indulgence. Gotta go thru it to get to it!!! Like Graham Central Station sang…
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This is the first of the Trulio Disgracias “Deep Dive” series, at The Mint! Once a month, September through December. We launch with a Johnny “Guitar” Watson tribute, nextploring his soulful, blue funk of the 70’s.!!!
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Ooooh, he's reeely, reeely, pissed off!!! I'd be scared as shit if he got a 2nd presidency!!! I was scared the 1st go round. But for now, the biggest bag of popcorn and an appropriate accompanying beverage will give me comfort as I watch his meltdown with glee!!! Springer time!
Trump is now vowing to prosecute Joe Biden, his family & others if he gets into office. These are the rantings and ravings of a deranged lunatic. He cannot go to prison soon enough. The most anti-American individual in history. A failure. A criminal. A con man. A loser. A sleaze.
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No Doubt came widdit last night!!! A living, beathing, stank ass, rockin' and rollin' BAND, kick me in the NUTTZ, at the Gibson Theater.
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It looks like the leader that some of us was hoping would emerge may have been catapulted into action and the limelight by the actions of The Iron Fisted Fascist Authoritarian Republicans in service of White Supremacy...
What say ye?
Tennessee State Rep. Justin Pearson speaks after vote to expel him from the House over participating in gun protests: “Our lives are at stake. And we're going to fight for our lives, just like they're fighting for the NRA."
#TenneseeThree
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