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===Shifting membership and a documentary (2003β2015)=== [[File:FishboneAlive.jpg|thumb|left|Moore, Fisher and [[Rocky George]] performing in 2010]] In late 2003 Fishbone lost another founding member when Walter Kibby left the band. Guitarist Tracy Singleton departed as well. After leaving Fishbone, Kibby released two albums with his band Dirty Walt & The Columbus Sanitation: ''To Put It Bluntly'' (2000) and ''Still Smokin' ''(2009). Kibby and Singleton also collaborated in the band Year of the Dragon, releasing the albums ''A Time to Love Is a Time to Bleed'' (2006) and ''Blunt Force Karma'' (2009). Together, they also recorded tracks with Swade G (Kibby's younger brother Wade Antonio Kibby) for the album ''Ghetto Life'' (2010). After the 2003 departure of Kibby and Singleton, the last two founding members John Norwood Fisher and Angelo Moore, along with drummer John Steward, restarted Fishbone with [[Rocky George]] of [[Suicidal Tendencies]] and Tori Ruffin of [[The Time (band)|The Time]] on guitars (though Ruffin left soon thereafter), and Dre Gipson on keyboards. In 2005 John McKnight returned on trombone and guitar. Trumpet players during this period were PaDre Holmes, Fernando Pullum, Mervin Campbell, and Curtis Storey. The line-up of Fisher, Moore, Steward, George, Gipson, Storey, and McKnight recorded the studio album ''[[Still Stuck in Your Throat]]'' with producer [[David Kahne]], who had worked on the band's early albums. The album was released in October 2006 in Europe, and in April 2007 in the United States. Music videos were recorded for the cover song "[[Date Rape (song)|Date Rape]]" by [[Sublime (band)|Sublime]], and for the song "Let Dem Ho's Fight." In 2008 and 2009, departed original members Walter Kibby, Christopher Dowd, and Kendall Jones joined Fishbone on stage on various occasions,{{Citation needed|date=February 2010}} most notably for the shoot of the Pepsi "Pass" commercial, which aired in January 2009.{{Citation needed|date=February 2010}} In April 2008, Stephan Kraemer directed the shoot of a live CD/DVD recorded in Bordeaux, France. The DVD ''[[Fishbone Live]]'' was released on May 10, 2009. In January 2010, John McKnight left Fishbone for the second time. During this period original member Walter Kibby returned on trumpet and vocals. During a 2011 tour, Tom "Tom-Bone" Ralls, formerly of Weapon of Choice, filled in on trombone. Tori Ruffin also briefly returned to play guitar in place of Rocky George, who was unable to tour. After the tour, Jay Armant, a former student of Fernando Pullum, joined as the new trombone player. Fishbone released a seven-track EP titled ''Crazy Glue'' on October 11, 2011. Current and former members of the band were deeply involved in the making of the documentary film ''[[Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone]]'',<ref name=":3">{{cite web|url=http://www.fishbonedocumentary.com/ |title=Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone |publisher=Fishbonedocumentary.com |access-date=July 25, 2015}}</ref> directed by Lev Anderson and [[Chris Metzler]]. Narrated by [[Laurence Fishburne]] and featuring interviews with [[Les Claypool]], [[Gwen Stefani]], [[Flea (musician)|Flea]], [[Branford Marsalis]], [[George Clinton (funk musician)|George Clinton]], [[Ice-T]], and [[Gogol Bordello]], the film debuted at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 19, 2010. The film has screened at more than 100 film festivals in twenty countries, winning 12 awards for Best Documentary. One of the top-reviewed documentaries of 2011β2012, the film has a ranking of 100% on RottenTomatoes.com and was nominated for a Golden Tomato Award. The film was rolled out in United States theaters nationwide with bookings in over seventy-five cities, including extended runs in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, plus week-long engagements in 20+ cities including Chicago, Boston, Seattle, Portland, Detroit, New Orleans, Baltimore, and Kansas City. A DVD was released by [[The Cinema Guild]] on February 21, 2012, and received a national TV broadcast on the public television series ''AfroPoP''. In February 2013, keyboardist Dre Gipson left the band after nine years to focus on a new project called Hunter Green. Fishbone was in the midst of a US tour, and reggae musician Freddie Flint filled in temporarily on keyboards. In July 2013, Paul Hampton (formerly of The Skeletones) joined as Fishbone's new keyboardist. In February 2014, federal judge [[Jan E. DuBois]] ruled that Fishbone had to pay $1.4 million to a woman who suffered a fractured skull and [[Clavicle|collarbone]] during a 2010 concert in Philadelphia when Angelo Moore [[Stage diving|stage-dove]] and landed on top of her.<ref name="Spin 2014-02-14">{{cite news|last=McGovern|first=Kyle|date=February 14, 2014|title=Fishbone Owe $1.4 Million for Stage-Diving on Fan|url=https://www.spin.com/2014/02/fishbone-stage-dive-lawsuit/|newspaper=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|access-date=April 23, 2015}}</ref><ref name="AP 2014-02-13">{{cite news |last=Dale |first=Maryclaire |date=February 13, 2014 |title=$1.4M for woman injured by Pa. Fishbone stage-dive |url=http://bigstory.ap.org/article/14m-woman-injured-pa-fishbone-stage-dive |agency=Associated Press |location=Philadelphia |access-date=April 23, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150313022255/http://bigstory.ap.org/article/14m-woman-injured-pa-fishbone-stage-dive |archive-date=March 13, 2015 }}</ref> A five-track EP titled ''Intrinsically Intertwined'' was released on April 22, 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fishbone.net/new-ep-intrinsically-intertwined-drops-tuesday-april-22-pre-order-available-april-10-2/ |title=New 5-Song EP Intrinsically Intertwined Drops Tuesday April 22. Pre-order available April 10 |publisher=fishbone.net |access-date=July 25, 2015}}</ref>
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