Fishbone - Film and Television Appearances

Film and Television Appearances

• In 1985, Angelo Moore and Dirty Walt appeared in the Eurythmics video "Would I Lie To You?"
• The band is featured in the 1987 movie Back to the Beach, performing a rendition of "Jamaica Ska" with Annette Funicello singing lead vocals.
• Fishbone appears in the 1988 John Cusack/Tim Robbins film Tapeheads as "Ranchbone" in the bar scene, playing the song "Slow Bus Movin' (Howard Beach Party)". They supplied an incidental score for the film as well.
• In the 1988 blaxploitation-spoof I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, members of Fishbone appear on the street as hecklers of Antonio Fargas' character Flyguy, and also as a "back-up band".
• Angelo Moore, John Norwood Fisher and John Steward appear in the 2006 film Idlewild as members of the band led by Rooster, the character played by Big Boi of OutKast.
• In 2007 Fishbone appeared in the David Arquette movie The Tripper.
• Fishbone shirts were often featured in movies and TV throughout the late '80's and early '90's, mostly as fashion choices by actors who were fans.
  • Marlon Wayans (in the role of Seymour Stewart) wears a Fishbone t-shirt in Mo' Money (1992).
  • The characters Freddie and Lena of A Different World wore the shirts (both are fans).
  • John Cusack wears a Fishbone shirt in the film Say Anything.... (In that movie's iconic "boombox scene", Cusack is actually blasting Fishbone from the radio. Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes" was added later).
  • In the Movie Bull Durham, Tim Robbins' character Ebby "Nuke" Laloosh is wearing a Fishbone T-Shirt with his suit while giving his first interview after getting called up to the big leagues.
  • In 2010's Hot Tub Time Machine, Cusack pulls out and clearly advertises a black T-shirt with the band's logo out of his character's suitcase.
  • In the TV show Northern Exposure, Ed Chigliak (Darren E. Burrows) is frequently spotted with a Fishbone shirt under his leather jacket.
  • Early episodes of Beverly Hills, 90210 had scenes filmed against a set of lockers that featured a sticker logo in almost every shot.

• On November 21, 2011, Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann was played on to Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to the Fishbone song "Lyin' Ass Bitch". The Roots drummer Questlove later explained that the playing of the song was "tongue in cheek". Fallon and the NBC network later apologized.
• In the video for the Ramones song "I Believe in Miracles" the band's name appears as part of the scrolling text on the upper and lower part of the screen.