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Fishbone: Champions of the Stoopid

Vernon Gibbs, New Look, December 1985

FISHBONE IS the nightmare of every high school teacher who feared that the misfits would take over. After their first appearance in New York, one hardened reviewer who thought he had seen every aberration rock 'n' roll had to offer admitted that two fart jokes in one set was a bit too juvenile for his aging psyche. He also thought that the limits of bad taste had been breached when one band member exposed himself in front of the audience. The same day a member of the band told me that he liked to wear "two green socks with shit stains on them." These guys certainly are consistent in their interests.

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