Angelo Moore: I'm Angelo Moore. Christopher Dowd: I'm Chris Dowd. We're Fishbone, Angelo Moore: And you're watching LifeMinute TV. Joann Butler: 40th anniversary show.
Christopher Dowd: It's controversial. Joann Butler: Why is it controversial? Christopher Dowd: You know, Ying Yang. Angelo Moore: I want to play more music.
He wants to play less. I want to play Adolescent Regressive Behavior, Why Do We Keep on Dying, Love Is Love, My God Is Better Than Your Gawd, Living On the Upside Down, there’s like five songs off of the Stockholm Syndrome release that we did that we’ll be playing some of tonight. And he doesn't want to really, he doesn't really rehearse. He doesn't really rehearse his songs.
He waits till the last minute, and now we out of here and we don't know how to do it. Christopher Dowd: That's one way of looking at it. Joann Butler: 40 years. Could you imagine 40 years?
It's hard to believe. Angelo Moore: I've been here the whole time. He left for about 20 years. 20 years?
Is that what it was? I'm glad he came back, though. I enjoy his company. Joann Butler: Tell us about the new album.
Christopher Dowd: In Your Face 40th? Joann Butler: Yes. Christopher Dowd: We wanted to do something extra like, have the opportunity to, to interact and sort of have a creative conversation with other people about our music. Joann Butler: Who picked the songs?
Like who decided who was going to do what? Christopher Dowd: They, the artists came and they picked, like, Silversun Pickups picked In The Air, and Jesse Michaels and Tim Armstrong picked Simon Says and so on and so forth. And, you know, when we had done a tour last year with Less Than Jake and we met Catbite, it was just such a cool hang and when they heard we were making that record, they were like, “Oh, I want to do I Wish I Had A Date.” And just kind of all just, you know, sort of came together. The universe conspired in our favor.
It is a miracle when anybody wants to listen to anything you have to say creatively. It's like a real, it's a real milestone because there's so much in the world going on. If somebody would even take the time to stop and listen to anything you have to say and treat it with any value is an incredible thing to be a part of. I attribute a lot of it to this talented young man right here.
Angelo Moore: Well, thank you sir I appreciate you. Christopher Dowd: Such a great talent. Angelo Moore: Your benevolence and observation. Christopher Dowd: One of a kind.
I knew it when I met him. He was different. Joann Butler: When did you guys meet? How old were you?
Christopher Dowd: 12. Angelo Moore: We were kids. It was in junior high school. Probably a little earlier than junior high school.
Christopher Dowd: 12 years old. Can you imagine? Angelo Moore: Mr. Robbins’ band class.
Joann Butler: Did you guys always know you wanted to play? Be musicians? Christopher Dowd: Definitely. I did.
I knew when I was about eight. I saw Michael Jackson do ABC and I was like, “That's, I'm in. Where do I sign up?” Then I met Angelo, and I actually got to meet Michael Jackson because of Angelo. Angelo Moore: Michael Jackson went to my Jehovah Witness Kingdom Hall in Woodland Hills.
Christopher Dowd: They went to church together. Angelo Moore: Yeah. Joann Butler: What about you Angelo, did you always know you wanted to be a musician? Angelo Moore: I always thought I was going to be a dancer at first.
Rhythm is the dancer. And so then I learned how to play music. So in between my pop locking group Royal Plex O’Flex and Fishbone, which was called Diamonds and Thangs at the time, I had to make a choice. So I chose Fishbone, and learned how to play an instrument so that I could make the dancer dance rather than being just the dancer being moved by the music.
Christopher Dowd: Well we're working on a record now, that will be out before the end of the year. The level of perfection that me and Angelo sort of strive for even with the realization that there's no such thing as perfection. It's still a process, and takes time to be creative, takes time to do something when you're trying to do something at a certain level. Joann Butler: And we've seen you over the years.
You move the same way you did, you know, when I was 20. You know, I’m not 20 anymore. How do you do that? That's right.
How? What is your secret? Angelo Moore: Let the music carry you. Joann Butler: Yeah.
What does music do for people? Christopher Dowd: Expands the mind. Music is like this strange thing where it connects us all in one way, and the people that create it are just pulling it from the air. It's like magic.
Magic without the magic trick. Angelo Moore: We're catching the signal and translating it into the music, you know? Christopher Dowd: From nothing. Angelo Moore: The vibrations for...
Christopher Dowd: From nothing though. Angelo Moore: People could be healed from. Yeah. Christopher Dowd: I think that's the most incredible part about it.
Angelo Moore: It's a healing. Christopher Dowd: It just comes from, like... Angelo Moore: Music heals. Christopher Dowd: So much of what's happened in the last couple of years with Angelo and I being the two people that, you know, carry the mantle of what we started when we were 12.
So much, so much of it is just like, it's unbelievable. Joann Butler: That’s awesome. Christopher Dowd: It's like hitting the lottery.
