Review of Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone (2011) by Ben C — 14 May 2012

Here you have a story (which on a personal note debut in MV w/accompany show as party the "new" Sweet Water...my Mom's last big architectural project...and a band I have loved nearly as much as it's influenced and contemporaries Mr.

Bungle, Faith No More, Living Colour and more then Primus and ST {they share a guitarist in Rocky George}...and a band that twice live was Spanish Fly in my youth)...a story birthed out of LA, connecting with Marin, SF, Berkeley and the world.

A story that brings Rodney King, the thermion, surfing, parenting, storm troopers, gang bangers, skate punks, ska cats, inequality, metal heads, democracy, mac fish drawings, fat albert animation, prosimians and cults together.

A story that brings Flea, Ice-T, Gwen Stefani, Tim Robbins, Perry Farrell, George Clinton, Branford Marsalis, Eugene Hutz (my wife's friend), Vernon Reid, Keith Morris, Les Claypool, Questlove, and Jason Lee to testify.

A story where I get for the second time in a month how for Rodney King and Angelo Moore, black men in Jehovah suburban families where insulated from a life I lived in (as a white kid) in a black community (where my adult posture is challenged by the necessity of a childhood keeping my eyes to the ground).

..this reality lead to Angelo's smile when visiting his friends in the LA basin...this reality (and addiction) that did not warn Rodney he could get beat. Ironically he finally faced this with Bob Forrest (a major testefier in this story and friend to the band) and Dr.

Drew. A beating which was of great influence on the band and myself at the time...all of us. This film speaks to so many personal connections and at the same time confronts with modest solution the issue of it being about "me.

" Please, see the film and find what the diverse music and lives of the Fishbone ensemble has on you...so "me" can be "we.".