From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #28 Reply-To: ammf@smoe.org Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Wednesday, June 24 1998 Volume 01 : Number 028 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: BNL on ABC's In-Concert [cricket5@hotmail.com] Re: Pittsburg show ["Jason A. Reiser" ] frucity (was Re: First Poster (sort of)) [Ofer Inbar ] Re: FW: Pittsburg show [dukette89@aol.com (Dukette89)] Re: JULY 10th Show in Niagara Falls NY at Media Play [jsmooth69@aol.com (] Murry in Can't hardly wait? [mroats@aol.com (Mr Oats)] Louisville review [traugottcm@aol.com (TraugottCM)] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 20:38:51 GMT From: cricket5@hotmail.com Subject: Re: BNL on ABC's In-Concert In article <6mrh6c$4ul$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, wahrend@my-dejanews.com wrote: > > Side issue (and actually relevant to this group), perhaps we might want to > write to this show and to have them get Moxy on TV? > It might work....Check this out from their website.... Hey Late-Nighters! Well, great news for all you Barenaked Ladies fans that have been writing in like a bunch of crazed lunatics! Seriously, all of you that have written have shown a dedication and passion about your favorite band that I haven’t seen in a while… it’s been really refreshing for me, and I thank you. Now, they will be featured on the June 26th episode of In Concert with Sarah McLachlan and Sean Lennon, so enjoy the show! And please help spread the word to all the Barenaked Ladies web sites so they have the correct info. I also want to thank all the fans of Bryan White who mounted a huge campaign of writing in to request him on In Concert. Keep checking in, we’ll do our best!!!!!!! Keep writing! And please keep spreading the word about our web address, which is most easily accessed now by clicking onto the music area of ABC.com. Peace! Eric Boog Send e-mail to Eric Boog at ABC In Concert... concertabc@aol.com - -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/ Now offering spam-free web-based newsreading ------------------------------ Date: 24 Jun 1998 13:33:15 -0700 From: "Jason A. Reiser" Subject: Re: Pittsburg show In article , kpfruhead@aol.com says... >The fruvous show at the BB this saturday is 18+, strictly. Meaning that they >will let an 18 year old in who can't drink anyway, but *will not* let a 16 year >old in *with parents*. I really don't understand the reasoning behind that >(though if they can pull something that stupid, I really should question their >ability to reason). > >Ken, the angry under-ager Well, not to start trouble in the Perschke household, but if you're 18 you don't necessarily HAVE any ID. You don't necessarily drive, and certainly can't buy beer... so there's no reason to actually have ID with age on it. They'll probably just be checking for ID for those who want a wristband or stamp to drink, and let all others through without a problem. I can't imagine that they'd hassle a 16 year old who *could* be 18... especially in the company of his parents. Just play the part of a non-driving 18 year old. It is pretty dumb overall. The 18 age limit would generally be set so that the club doesn't have to worry about having minors in the club. This way everyone there can legally take responsibility for themselves if they get injured or something. But if your folks are there, that's no longer an issue. Clubs don't make laws. - - Jason jreiser@ecoutez.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 23:15:16 GMT From: Ofer Inbar Subject: frucity (was Re: First Poster (sort of)) kdsinthhal@aol.com (KdsInThHal) wrote: > (has anyone taken any statistics here? is Rochester the most represented city > on this ng?:) or possibly Buffalo...?) I don't think there are any recent surveys, but some of us are making our best efforts to make Boston the most represented city here :-) Join us and move to Boston! *evil grin* -- Cos (Ofer Inbar) -- cos@leftbank.com cos@cs.brandeis.edu -- WBRS (100.1 FM) -- WBRS@brandeis.edu http://www.wbrs.org/ "Don't play with Bruno, Bruno is a dweeb. A dweeb, what's a dweeb? Oh you know, like Bruno." -- Tom Chapin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 01:57:03 GMT From: Ofer Inbar Subject: Arrogant Worms I saw this on a mailing list I subscribe to, and it seemed like something I should forward to alt.music.moxy-fruvous. -- Cos Steve I wrote... [snip] >Speaking of Moxy Fruvous... if ectofolk like them, they >might like the Arrogant Worms as well... has anybody out >there heard of them (except Damon? :) Certainly have! The only group discussed on ecto (albeit rarely) that I can claim to have found out about by coming across them busking on the sidewalk quite literally in front of my apartment. This was 5 or 6 years ago when I lived in Kingston, Ontario. I wish I could say that their popularity exploded in a Jewel-like fashion, but it seems they've peaked at headlining busker festivals and the occasional folk festival; although long favourites of CBC radio, they unfortunately haven't seemed to garner much success on commercial radio. It's a huge shame because these guys put on an incredibly entertaining show. But certainly fans of Moxy Fruvous should check them out. They're a lot folkier than Moxy and are relentlessly silly... but like Moxy they are consummate showmen. Canuck comedic folk at its best. Anyway they actually have an entry in the Ectophiles Guide to Good Music! http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide/arrogant.worms.html [snip] -- Cos (Ofer Inbar) -- cos@leftbank.com cos@cs.brandeis.edu -- WBRS (100.1 FM) -- WBRS@brandeis.edu http://www.wbrs.org/ Suffrage is no substitute for democracy ------------------------------ Date: 25 Jun 1998 02:20:05 GMT From: dukette89@aol.com (Dukette89) Subject: Re: FW: Pittsburg show My 8 year-old-nephew wanted to go to the Fruvous show in Pittsburgh so we called the club and they said it would be okay. Who would serve him alcohol anyway? He opted to go bike riding instead. His loss. The show was great as ever. Mary in Pittsburgh ------------------------------ Date: 25 Jun 1998 02:37:22 GMT From: jsmooth69@aol.com (JSmooth69) Subject: Re: JULY 10th Show in Niagara Falls NY at Media Play ::jumps up and down:: Yay!! I'll be there jason ------------------------------ Date: 25 Jun 1998 02:40:00 GMT From: mroats@aol.com (Mr Oats) Subject: Murry in Can't hardly wait? I heard somewhere that either Murry or Dave, can't remeber which, was in the movie Can't hardly wait. did anyone else see or hear this or was it just a dream? Mr Oats -- mroats@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: 25 Jun 1998 02:32:15 GMT From: traugottcm@aol.com (TraugottCM) Subject: Louisville review Every once in a great while, my real life and my Fruvous life happily coincide (or is that collide?). Such was the case this past Monday, when work brought me to Indiana, a mere two hours from the Louisville show. So, after work I high tailed it south and met up with a bunch of fruheads, some of whom I'd expected to see there, and others whose presence was a happy surprise. The venue, Clifton's, is a small, funky pizza place with a small stage and hundreds of clocks adorning the walls. None of which showed the correct time, I think Fruvous must have felt right at home. ;-) We settled in our seats and waited expectantly. There was no opening act, so we were treated to four solos by the fru-lads, each of whom assumed a ridiculous, stereotypically "southern" sounding name. Dave sang My Poor Generation, which seemed to me, on first hearing, an interesting and rather melancholy counterpoint to the Who's My Generation. Mike followed with a song he said he had written while on tour in England, a country he "sincerely hoped he'd never visit again. And you can put that on the 'net." (Sorry Richard). The song was called (I believe) Get Down From There, and he said he wrote it because he missed his beloved so much while on tour. Jian came out and sang Follow the Road, a series of vignettes about people from the very young to the very old trying to find their road. Then came Murray. He began his introduction by joking "This conceit (of pretending not to be Fruvous) is getting kind of old, isn't it." And then talked about what an influence Elvis Costello had been on Fruvous, "especially on the bass player" and proceeded to sing Indoor Fireworks. As predicted, I became a blithering pool of idiocy from the first note. Indoor Fireworks is a knee-trembler of a song to begin with, Murray's rendition of it was exquisite. Fortunately, I was sitting down and had Zard holding on to one side of me and Chad holding on to the other, so I neither flew to the ceiling nor slid from the chair to the floor, thereby retaining some shred, however minor, of dignity. Then the guys came back out as Fruvous, and sang "That Boy" a song popularized by the Beatles in the early sixties (it was actually written by someone else, I forget by whom). Then they launched into Michigan Militia, followed by Jockey full of Bourbon. The guys were really on, and did a number of improvs, including one called contraceptive jam (Mike, who knows what was going on in the playground of his mind on *that* one), and My Guy for a guy in the audience who was wearing a green shirt. Jian claimed he was "his guy" for the evening, meaning the person he was going to focus on during the show, and Murray said "But he's *my* guy." Jian said he had been watching the guy since he walked in, guessed he was a Fruvous virgin, asked who had brought him, and said, "You see, now I've established a dialogue with you, you have stay whether you like us or not, because you know I'm watching." The guys went on to joke about how fun it was to play with the house lights up, when they could actually see the audience. At one point, after a few snippets from Duran Duran songs, Murray offered that Fruvous were actually doing a 90's retro night with all the Duran Duran tunes. Jian challenged him on this saying it would actually be an *80's* retro night if they were playing DD, which Murray countered with, "But we are in the 90's now, so it is a 90's, retro night." This led to a little bickering session of interrogative statements like "I think we need to work this out through consensus?" (Jian) and "I think I am putting my feelings before your feelings?" (Murray, repeatedly, which had Chad and me in stitches.) Finally Mike performed an "intervention" with something like "I think we need to focus a little here. Visualize the basket. Calm, consensus, visualize the basket." Murray gave him this withering look and said, "I'm having a hard time visualizing the basket." Chad and I lost it. We also heard Sad Girl and I Will Hold On, both of which get better with each hearing, and for the first time I heard Sleepy Drinker and Pisco Bandito. I loved Sleepy Drinker, such a nice swingy kind of song, it just gets me in the mood for a good single malt out on the back porch. And Pisco Bandito is delightful, the music is so fun and updeat, and the lyrics funny but also a little sad. This poor Mexican fish plying his trade in the frigid waters of Canada and sending the money home. The guys also did Mistra Know It All and Murray followed Dave's entreaty to "play me something stompin' in the bass" by doing just that. Once again, Chad and I were ecstatic. Kick in the Ass rounded out the "rarely heard" category. The guys ended with an off-mic version of Gulf War Song, beautiful as always. There was a lot more in between, but I'm pretty wiped out from the killer drive back to Bloomington (dark, twisty roads, sheets of rain defeating the rental car's bad wipers, lightening, wind and fog effects worthy of a Spielberg production)followed by two long days of "facilitating" a client meeting. Plus, Indoor Fireworks fried my circuits in a big way. Big ol' goofy grin on my face. :-) So, sorry for the short review, but it was a wonderful show, probably the best I've seen since Lee's Palace. Hope to see some of you all out at Columbia this Friday! chris **** "And where would we be without a bass guitarist?" Ani DiFranco ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #28 *******************************************