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    The Essential Fishbone

    Early on, in the mid-Eighties, Fishbone were a mildly interesting ska band in bohemian clothes -- never as exciting on record as their dreadlocked-and-mohawked appearance or their frenetic live show led you to hope. That changed as they moved into the late Eighties and early Nineties: At their heigh...

    2003 RS: 3of 5 Stars

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Biography

Fishbone was formed from a disparate, all-black oddball crew at a South Central Los Angeles junior high in 1979. Playing an orgasmic urban gumbo of punk, funk, and ska, the six-man band became a favorite of the L.A. postpunk scene; eventually, the group would become a notoriously powerful live act, opening for the Beastie Boys on their Licensed to Ill tour and coheadlining club tours with the Red...

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