Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone

Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone
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  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: February 7, 2012
  • Originally Released: 2010
  • Label: Cinema Guild

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User Ratings: 1,394
To hear the soaring craziness of Fishbone's "Sunless Saturday" is to wonder how such musical inspiration could possibly miss. Full Review
HeraldNet (Everett, WA)
Dec 16, 2011
Rating: 4/5 -- [It] isn't the happiest movie about a band you'll ever see, but it is one of the more entertaining, and thanks to directors Lev Anderson and Christ Metzler, one of the most original. Full Review
Arizona Republic
Nov 17, 2011
It's a much more interesting story than your usual Behind the Music arc. Full Review
Geekweek
Dec 16, 2011
A fascinating, sometimes achingly depressing ride through the potential glories and everyday indignities of a life struggling with the music business. Full Review
Austin American-Statesman
Apr 16, 2018
Even as a hagiography, though, it's pretty interesting. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Dec 16, 2011
Rating: 3/4 -- It's a hearty, thoughtful, smartly assembled, vaguely complete documentary about a rock band that, even by the standards of out-there musical acts, seemed out there both in the mid-1980s and even now. Full Review
Boston Globe
Jan 10, 2012
Rating: A- -- Narrated by Laurence Fishburne, its in-depth interviews with band members, friends and fellow musicians from the punk/ska scene of the late 1980's make it so you don't have to be a fan of Fishbone to be enthralled by their story. Full Review
indieWire
Dec 6, 2019

Product Description:

In the 1980s, Fishbone were a band that seemed destined for stardom; their albums earned rave reviews from critics, their wildly energetic live shows made converts of the most skeptical music fans, and they were willing to work hard to bring their music to the people. But a few things held them back -- their music was a crazy quilt of funk, ska, punk, hard rock and R&B that was exciting but wildly difficult to classify, and all the group's members were black, which shouldn't have mattered but did as radio and MTV became increasingly segregated in the 1980s. The group was spawned by a typically 1970s cultural collision; founding member Norwood Fisher became part of a court-ordered bussing program that took him out of South Central Los Angeles to a school in the San Fernando Valley, where he met fellow outcast Angelo Moore. Together, Fisher and Moore took their own musical ideas rooted in reggae and funk, mixed them with the rock and punk favored by their classmates, and created a sound that was all their own. But for all their promise and talent, Fishbone had a way of generating chaos, and the frequent conflicts between band members (best exemplified by their attempts to liberate Walter Kibby after he joined a cult) certainly didn't help matters. Filmmakers Lev Anderson and Chris Metzler chronicle the band's long, strange history in the documentary EVERYDAY SUNSHINE: THE STORY OF FISHBONE, which includes interviews with noted fans Gwen Stefani, Flea, Ice-T, George Clinton, Mike Watt, Branford Marsalis and Tim Robbins. EVERYDAY SUNSHINE received its world premiere at the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival.

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