"At school he gravitated to Fisher and his musician friends, and was soon making a two-hour bus ride into the city just to play music. Together, the young players discovered punk rock. Moore saw a connection to the gospel music he grew up hearing at home.
"'A lot of those beats and tempos are the same,' he explains. 'That enabled me to relate more to punk rock, from a melodic soulful perspective. You can scream that shit all the time and it's exciting, but I like to sing, too. Once I started tuning into my gospel roots, the fast gospel--Shirley Caesar and the Clark Sisters--we started putting melodies and harmonies to shit playing a million miles an hour.'"
Steve Appleford in the LA Weekly talks with Fishbone about the new documentary, Everyday Sunshine.
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