From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #8 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Thursday, October 8 1998 Volume 01 : Number 008 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Chatting in Borders Books [Jess ] Re: I-70 stuff (and US 40 and I-80 too) [cos@wbrs.org (Ofer Inbar)] Canadians Amongst Corn: Fruvous in Urbana (Long!) [jimcclur@ews.uiuc.edu ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 21:52:50 GMT From: Jess Subject: Re: Chatting in Borders Books First of all... that'll teach me to respond to posts before work, when I'm not fully coherent. ;) I thought that was a little early for tix to be gone in Wilmington. Oh, well. I can dream. Between Books (in Claymont) which is selling tickets is still a very happy place, for those folks within driving distance. >> >Oh, happy day! My work schedule changed, and I was just starting to wonder >if *maybe* I could manage to get down to Wilmington for this show, and if >it had sold out I was going to be quite disappointed. You folks are quite >inspiring -- reading the ng is getting me all worked up to go see the >fellas! > >So, er, um, hey guys, if I can't find a "date" for the show, and I show up >all by myself (how pathetic -- no frufriends around here), will y'all be >kind to a new face? (I'll be the one over in the corner, looking lost . . . >) I'll be there with a husband and a friend... we'll be nice. :) We'll also be easy to spot. The friend will likely be the only one wearing a beanie. ;) >-- >amy >(bustling off to find a phone number to call to order tickets!) >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >---- >"maybe you don't like your job, >maybe you didn't get enough sleep; >well, nobody likes their job, >nobody got enough sleep" --Ani DiFranco >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >---- Jess Looking sheepish ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 22:13:56 GMT From: cos@wbrs.org (Ofer Inbar) Subject: Re: I-70 stuff (and US 40 and I-80 too) tmbgirl@juno.com wrote: > >This has got to be one of the most incredible stretches of > >freeway in the country. Especially eastbound when you are > >just above the Colorado River. > > heh, that's the one thing that made it "ok" to be stuck there > for two hours... you'd just hop out of your car and watch all > the people rafting and stuff... very cool :) > > > Westbound, they stuck the highway to the side of the mountain. > > (National Geographic wrote a story about it in their book, > > "The Builders.") > yeah well... there wasn't much room anywhere else ot put it... > just stack the roads one on top of the other :P > > >(I drove from Denver to Grand Jct. in mid-June. Aside from the > >*really* boring part between Glenwood and the ski resorts, it > >was much cooler than I expected.) Hmm. When I was out there in August, I opted out of driving much of I-70. I did spend a day driving around the Rockies: entered the mountains from Boulder, drove around small roads for a while, and finally took 119 down to I-70, but only stayed on 70 long enough to reach US 40. I spent the second half of the day around lake Granby and Rocky Mountain National Park, then returned to US 40 to continue my westward blitz. (Blitz: Boston to San Jose in 4 days, counting that one whole day spent in central Colorado) It was really pretty all the way to Utah. So I wonder, is there anyone here who's tried *both* US 40 and I-70 through central & western Colorado? Compare & contrast? > hey now... you've got the quality lil towns like... Edwards > (heh, my bro and his wife live there...), No Name, Dotsero, > Minturn (go up there during a bronco's game... freeks!)... :) I stayed overnight in... Kremmling. Sounds like a name out of a Sci Fi / Fantasy book, the kind where humans settled on some other planet but then lost contact with the rest of the race and went back to a lower level of technology. Chad Schrock wrote: > I liked No Name. Of course, that stretch of 70 in Colo. beats > the part between Grand Jct. and the first "town" in Utah. I say > "town" because it consists of a Texaco station and a small > restaurant (that I saw). Noteable, as it is the first place in > Utah that has roadside serivces and access to east AND west bound > I-70. Utah *sigh* I spent a while in southern Utah in 1980, and that was great. We actually also went to some places in the north - Bear Lake, Salt Lake City, Timpanogus. It was all pretty nice. But my recent experience, crossing northern Utah, US 40 -> I-80 west, was different. It can be roughly divided into two segments: 1. Road construction. That sums up pretty much *all* of US 40 in Utah, and all of I-80 until after Salt Lake City. Actually, the portion of I-80 going through Salt Lake City was closed due to road construction, and I had to take the Salt Lake City beltway around to the other side. I *thought* I'd seen road construcion in Ohio, Indiana, and Chicago, but they can't hope to match what Utah's doing. 2. Featureless. Have you ever gone 80+ mph for hours and still felt like you weren't moving? An hour passes, and the only things that look any different are the clouds in the sky and the few cars on the road? That's I-80 in Utah west of the Salt Lake area. If you plan to drive this stretch on your own, do it in a car with CD or tape capability (you're not gonna find much radio there...) -- Cos (Ofer Inbar) -- cos@polyamory.org cos@cs.brandeis.edu -- Producer, Free Live Music -- booking@wbrs.org http://www.wbrs.org/ This could only happen in the life of a cos. This stuff never happens to me! -- Tara Elizabeth Backman, 4 May 1998 ------------------------------ Date: 8 Oct 1998 22:14:19 GMT From: jimcclur@ews.uiuc.edu (Jordan I. K. McClure) Subject: Canadians Amongst Corn: Fruvous in Urbana (Long!) Fruvous in my now-home town! Yay! I've had a whole day now to reflect on Tuesday night's show and I think it's review time. In short, the show kicked much ass (sorry if I already said that in a previous post) Definitely one of the top two Frushows I've seen too. True, I haven't been to all that many but that does not detract from its excellence. The crowd got really into it and was nice and loud during sing along parts. Loud and interactive, yet for the most part quiet during the songs[1] (even the slow ones!) So we (Kumar, myself, and some non-Fruheads) hopped in our cars at 7:30pm and headed over to the Canopy Club in Urbana. We arrived at 7:32. Almost nobody was there and Tobey was just setting up the merch table in the bar area. Tobey reported that the hockey jerseys were not in yet, but that they were expecting them by Saturday in Chicago. The band was sound checking in the theater/main stage area (we couldn't hear much of that). After the sound check the band (minus Murray) came out to the bar area and Kumar and I met Jian and talked with him a little bit. They left and the Nields headed over to the stage for their sound check. We amused ourselves until shortly after 9 when they let us into the theater and we secured one of the closest tables. There have been several descriptions of the club posted already, but let me try another. It's actually a converted movie theater so there's a really high ceiling and a screen right behind the stage. The floor is split up into a decent sized dance area in the front and movie seats in the back and on the sides. Then in the very back there's a balcony with even more movie seats. So we sat at our nice little table until 10ish, listening to the house music which was by far the best house music I've heard any club play (namely Victor Wooten's 'What Did He Say?' album). At 10, out came the Nields, who rocked for about an hour. This was the first time any of us saw them live and we were all quite impressed they really rocked! More house music after the Nields finished up and finally at shortly after 11 was the introduction that Moxy Fruvous would be blessing us with their presence in a mere two minutes. By the point, the club was quite full I'd guestimate there were around 500 people or so there pretty big club though so I wouldn't say it was packed. Sure enough, a couple minutes later, that almost-now-familiar drone began emanating from the speakers... SAHARA. Do I need to comment on how much I love this song? I think so. I *love* this song. Really. There is no song I don't love less than Sahara live. If I were on a small desert island and could only have one song with me then I actually would probably not bring Sahara because who wants to be reminded of the desert on a desert island? What the heck is a desert island anyhow? Deserts don't have water near by. Islands do. Maybe it should be a deserted island. Or a deserted desert island. With only coconuts to eat for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert. Actually sounds kind of nice I could build myself a big house with a balcony and a deck Nah, who needs a dumb deck? Jian does . . . in order to play Sahara, a song that I *love*! Really! I would have been perfectly happy had the band come out and just played this for 90 minutes and finished up with the Gulf War song. Next came... LAIKA. A bit of a surprise, but not really since we faintly heard some of it during the sound check. This rocked as usual. I should mention here that Murray looked really under the weather tonight his hair was a bit mussed up (or maybe it was just a nouveau hair style) and neither he nor Jian were at the radio interview that afternoon. Murray didn't come out after the show either Hope he's feeling better by now (and Jian too, who said he was a bit sick). B.J. DON'T CRY. This is another of my favorites and a song I never seem to grow tired of no matter how much I hear it. Local lyrics: "Till there his only reflection (something about a red bandana) / Now he hikes the Himalayas but he'd rather get down in Urbana!" At this point, someone in the crowd shouted out that it was their birthday. Jian asked if it was anyone else's birthday (so we could get them out of the way and prevent further interruptions) and Mike started singing a song called "Libra". It more or less involved the guys chanting "We call you Libra" to a beat with some other lyrics thrown in. Example verses: "We call you Libra / Oh my oh my / We call you Libra / Too bad you're not a Gemini." and "They're Libras / They're striped like zebras / They're not amoebas / Those fuckin' Libras." It was great, and went on seemingly forever. After that, someone in the crowd "Sagittarius" and they almost started all over again but instead played... HORSESHOES. Always a great song I was getting just a little bit tired of it but then started learning it on guitar last week which makes it great all over again. After the song, Dave commented on how "quiet and attentive" the crowd was. Next was story time with Jian. Jian wanted to explain why he was sweating so much (it was because he wasn't feeling well and took Tylenol with Codine before the show) and there was also a story about Cindi Lauper in there somewhere. Next came... I LOVE MY BOSS. Actually it took a few tries to get this one started. Every time the band got quiet so Murray could do the pitch pipe, someone shouted something out. Alternate lyrics included "Who knows what Periscope Records will be bringing" (Periscope is a kick-ass little record store the band played in over the summer). After Boss, the instruments stayed down and we were treated to... YOU WILL GO TO THE MOON. This song, which is not one of my favorites from the album, is considerably more fun live. After this, someone tossed their jacket up on stage. I won't go into how nice it was since someone else already did. Now it was time for the ole switcheroo and Murray to the drums and Mike the bass. Mike started playing some funk-ass shit on the bass and Murray gave him a what-are-you-doing-to-my-bass glare. This instrumental configuration could mean only one song... SAD GIRL. Very nice as always I seem to like this song more than others though - maybe since I'm a sucker for keyboards. After this we journeyed to cottage country where we were pestered by ... PISCO BANDITO. No "apple strudel" part this time. I missed it but still a fantastic song and the crowd really got into it. After Pisco, out came the silly hats. Could it be Boo Time? No, it was Grandpa Fruvous singing... MINNIE THE MOOCHER. Wow. Not previously a big fan of this song but this was my favorite of the night (well except for Sahara). Fortunately, I have an audigraphic memory so I'm able to remember all the lyrics: "Well folks here's a story about Minnie the Moocher / She was one real hoochy coocher / She liked popsicles and the occasional lola (?) / But Minnie had a heart as big as Tuscola (local town)" "So Minnie as some friends went down to a Champaign club / Before the show they ate a little too much grub / The Doritos were perfect the cabbage salad was gorgeous / But the flatulence that followed rivaled hurricane Georges" "Now radio listening can cause such frustration / It seems so many radio programmers have had castration / Their lists of songs to play suffers from constipation / Thank god that isn't the case with the Web radio station" MICHIGAN MILITIA. Rocking as usual. JOHNNY SAUCEP'N. Introduced by Murray as " There are people who are very conservative in the kitchen. There are people who are very daring in the kitchen. This song is a tribute to the people who are very daring in the kitchen." After this came a looong discussion on how it would be great if one of the band members tragically died because it would make the other 3 famous. (They've been looking for new marketing tactics ever since they made the mistake of calling themselves Moxy Fruvous). Finally, they played... HEY HEY MY MY. Yes, the Neil Young song. With Dave on lead. Only a tease, actually, but it went on for a little while. After than came another pair of new ones starting with... I WILL HOLD ON. No need to comment on how excellent this song is. Next was one I had not heard live yet HALF AS MUCH. Another great new song I really can't wait for a new album. We were missing only Sleepy Drinker tonight (another piano song that I love, though they don't seem to play it much :( ). Then it was time for a special guest star (after making shadow puppets on the screen behind them), who, with his hat full of brains was saving the ruble one city at a time. This rocked through all the way to the end of the show, including... KING OF SPAIN -> GREEN EGGS AND HAM. RIVER VALLEY. GET IN THE CAR. LOVE POTION #9. Including Gotta Get Over Gretta and Barbie Girl and the aforementioned really annoying shouting woman sitting next to me. Encore1: PSYCHO KILLER. Encore2: KING OF SPAIN, CRANKY MONARCH VERSION. THE DRINKING SONG. Just about everyone knew the words. A perfect end to the evening. All and all, just shy of two hours of Fruvous. I have no complaints and can't wait to see them again this weekend! I got to meet Mike and Dave briefly at the end of the show (though I was tired and didn't have much to say) Murray didn't come out. And that's a wrap! - - jordan (not the female one) [1] The exception of course happened to be the two people at the tape sitting next to us who would not shut up! At one point they were even screaming at their top of their lungs so they could continue their conversation during Love Potion. - -- Dying can be hazardous to your health. ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #8 ******************************************