POP MUSIC REVIEW : Fishbone Hooks Fans at the Roxy

Too few acts can drop an hour-plus of spankin’ new material on an audience--not once stooping to trite ‘n’ true call ‘n’ response routines--and watch the sell-out crowd explode .

At the Roxy on Monday, in the first show of a three-night stand, local sextet Fishbone proved itself a full-tilt, booty-bustin’ member of this killer elite.

After five years and a couple of albums and EPs, the original lineup--and hey, let’s hear it for loyalty and brotherhood in every sense of the word--remains as eclectic and hyper-energetic as ever.

Highlight of the new material--most of which was pretty much your hardest-workin’, interplanetary dance band’s typical ska-funk-reggae-soul-rock-rap-beat-poetry with all the psychedelic trimmings--had to be the too-Sly screaming yellow zonker “Everyday Sunshine.” All this and they saved the “greatest hits” for the encores.