From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #77 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 Thursday, July 9 1998 Volume 01 : Number 077 Today's Subjects: ----------------- That DaVinci's Notebook band in NYC [goodomenz@aol.com (GoodOmenz)] Re: That DaVinci's Notebook band in NYC [Chad Maloney ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 9 Jul 1998 16:35:42 GMT From: goodomenz@aol.com (GoodOmenz) Subject: That DaVinci's Notebook band in NYC i was just flipping thru the paper trying to get up the nerve to call someone about a job and i saw a familiar name- DeVinci's [sic] Notebook The Bitter End Saturday July 11th did they have somethin' to do with the mighty fruvous or am i making it all up? dunno if theres an age policy. doubt i'll go but its still pretty cool ~liz ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 12:35:53 -0500 From: Chad Maloney Subject: Re: That DaVinci's Notebook band in NYC GoodOmenz wrote: > > i was just flipping thru the paper trying to get up the nerve to call someone > about a job and i saw a familiar name- > > DeVinci's [sic] Notebook > The Bitter End > Saturday July 11th > > did they have somethin' to do with the mighty fruvous or am i making it all up? > dunno if theres an age policy. doubt i'll go but its still pretty cool DVN is a great acapella group from around DC (I think - that's a guess though). You can get more info about them from http://www.davincisnotebook.com. On their CD Bendy's Law, Fruvous sits in on a cover of They Might Be Giants song Shoehorn with Teeth. Bendy's Law is really good and recommended for anyone who likes acapella music. - Chad ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 19:34:55 GMT From: Ofer Inbar Subject: Talking Heads, and repeated band seeings (was Re: nyc!!) goodomenz@aol.com (GoodOmenz) wrote: > this wont make me all that popular but umm... have you see the talking heads > live? if so im jealous but ANYway, i saw david byrne a few months ago and he > did that song. he wore this sick skin tight jumpsuit that covered everything > except his mouth and eyes and made him look like he'd been flayed alive cuz it > showed all his muscles and stuff. and they had blacklights, it was one of the > coolest things ive ever seen! i still have nightmares. fruvous, tho wonderful > (my friend didnt know they played that song and she nearly choked) just dont > compare. sorry, had to say that I've never seen the Talking Heads live for real, mainly because I hate large venues, and by the time I'd heard of them that's the only kind of venue they did, and besides, back then I didn't really go to concerts much (can you imaging that? those of you who know me :). But, I did see the concert movie they made. I forget what it was called, but I think it went with the tour that went with the release of Little Creatures, so I think it might've been called Little Creatures. Anyway, it was just a live concert, filmed and recorded, nothing more. I saw it in a real theater on a big screen with a good sound system. Wow! No, much as I love fruvous' cover of Psycho Killer, it really does not stand up to comparison with the original as performed live by David Byrne and the Talking Heads. If you (the collective you on this here newsgroup) can hunt down a copy of that movie and see it on a big screen, do it! It's as close as you can get to a real Talking Heads concert these days. And it's pretty damn close, let me tell you. People in the theater were applauding the songs and everything. (Says he who has never actually seen them live... :) ceelove@ibm.net (Colleen Campbell) wrote: > Ya gotta laugh, you really do. "Only five or six times." I > understand this perfectly, what it's like to feel like that's not a > lot of times (especially when they've teased us with trying to attend > fifty shows in a year & a half, with the Fruhead/Frumiles cards), but > really--in how many contexts does one say "I've *only* seen a group > five or six times"? Hey, I object! That's a perfectly normal thing for me to say! :-) I really have lost track of the number of groups I've seen more than 5 or six times. But there are also a lot of groups I really like that I've only seen that many times, and would like to see more (and very likely will...) In fact, I'm beginning to lose track of which groups I've probably seen more than 20 times. Hmmm... moxy fruvous just recently made that category. Then there's Groovasaurus, Rippopotamus, The Nields, Jennifer Kimball (including The Story), Southern Rail, Chucklehead, Falling August, Carol Noonan (including Knots & Crosses), Jim Infantino (including Jim's Big Ego), Heavy Metal Horns (maybe), ... But I'm sure I'm forgetting some. *soon* Eddie From Ohio will be in that category. Workin' on it! -- Cos (Ofer Inbar) -- cos@leftbank.com cos@cs.brandeis.edu -- WBRS (100.1 FM) -- WBRS@brandeis.edu http://www.wbrs.org/ "[Spencer Tracy and Tom Hanks have] a disturbing aura of wholesomeness of which I do not approve." -- James Guimond [9 April 1995] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 19:17:43 GMT From: Ofer Inbar Subject: 6.27.98 moxy fruvous & jess klein (fwd) Forwarded from The Nields mailing list... -- Cos Forwarded message: Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 16:35:43 -0500 To: nields-nook@pobox.com From: erica chow Subject: 6.27.98 moxy fruvous & jess klein hi all :) (and wake up sleepyhead! ;) since i went to see moxy fruvous (finally!) and jess klein was opening (and she mentions tom neff in the credits!) at the bowery ballroom, i figured i'd blab on a bit :) first of all, the people who said moxy fruvous were awesome were so right. :) jess klein was great too. lessee. doors opened at 8, room opened at 8:30ish. got my new frumiles card stamped , glanced at the cd's, but since i didn't have very much money, couldn't buy one. next time, hopefully :) actually, i did scrounge $10 to buy _wishes well disguised_, jess' newish cd after her set. i guess around 9, jess opens. . w/ a song of Rose Polenzani's . w/ lots of amusing bantering w/ the audience, plugged her cd quite a few times :) . before her "funny song," she made fun of nj a bit. west windsor though, so i was okay. :) . her funny song really was funny too :) about working in a deli, the second verse about a guy with a top 10 reasons beer is better than women. ani like in the male-bashing quality. hehe. . she had a guitar player "austin powers", (i really can't remember his last name, the austin powers stuck) - but "he get's real mean when you call him that" (i think it was accompanied by a nice "mean" face by him :) . the audience was a bit rowdy. for instance, she did "another man done gone" (which would have been really awesome a cappella with _hand clapping_) but the audience chatter just ruined it... . songs i remember that i liked, though i didn't catch many words : the wading pool, angelina, romeo (there may have been more, but i don't remember their names) she played for a good hour i think. and after waiting around another 1/2 or so for moxy fruvous, in which some cheesy lounge music and some amusing other stuff was played. and then moxxxxxxy fruvous! wow. they were all that i had heard about live and more. :) i convinced my friend to go, based on Cos' short bio. so she came. and breaking laws of deciding if something is nice when it's not even half over, said it was cool. :) i attempted a setlist. . sahara (i think) . "hey little bird, your house is on fire" . bj don't cry . "davo's people" - some people screamed "murray's people" so murray : "hello my children...the revelation is still 1 1/2 years away" (who was standing on the other side of the room (who by location, would have been dave's people :)) which turns into this reggae with a little red red wine thrown in. "these are of course songs from our new album 'interband sectarianism'" "we can compare jian's drumming to what happened in east timor..." . horseshoes . comments about how although the songs from live noise were from ny, they substituted in the philly audience...hee. . mike as the quintessential 80's bass player w/ SOUL! (pictures would have been awesome here :) . sad girl . pisco bandito (i love it! :) . you will go to the moon . the kids song . "it's grampa fruvous" ... "he's evil" . minnie the moocher "gotham city dream sequence...george clooney not included" . random people screaming songs out, and "it's a really requesty crowd tonight" . "you know what i love? i love the people who have never seen moxy fruvous...who walk in off the street and people are going, kick in the ass! i love my boss...sapphire bullets of pure love (hey, i got that one! :) . jewel poetry (with many appreciative (moxy fruvous, and mine) disclaimers before and after, and yes she does write nice melodies... i woke up this morning hopped out of bed stripped off my pj's and my cheeks were all red and then i was feeling really bad by the mirror so i went to the kitchen and instead of cornflakes, i had a beer and my cheeks were all red because of the slappin' the slappin' in the darkly night. the darkly night is where things are happenin' and when i'm slapplin i have quite a fright. so, i think dave goes into joni's little green. "joni did it and we all bought it. the difference is that joni's poetry is good." ... "i think it has something to do with the fact that our tits aren't as nice" (i think dave) "i think you just crossed the line, that was very offensive, and i think my tits are nicer than yours" (i think this was murray!) so here's the tits song transcribed for you :) have you seen the tits on shirley? they don't compare to the ones on jian when he went to the beach real early everyone said those tits are really great yeah yeah, the tits on him tits like a bull or a moose yeah yeah, the tits on him and what a nice caboose :) . a new song: "so i will hold on, and if that's not what you're used to baby how could i refuse you.." . ballad of marion fruvous ("and the rangers won't make it with richter in net" (no comment... especially since i'm a devils fan. still. yep. :) and the thenardier song from les misrables :)!! . that was a rare fruvous song into i'm my only friend i'm just my only friend, you're just a little glowing friend ;) . michigan militia . johnny saucep'n . i gotta get a message to you (wow, this was really cool! . king of spain "we are so sick and tired of having that woman's face on our money" (it took forever for dave to get on stage because of this huge hilarious therapy session before the song :) "i'm finding that, um, it's really hard to perform. excuse me? i just feel like there isn't a real consensus, that we're not operating as a collective, and i'm feeling very alone right now." (jian) ...mike says something about concentrating on a thimble :) "excuse me, excuse me, i felt really uncomfortable while you were saying that because murray was laughing at me...we were told that we should respect what we were saying, especially when you mentioned the thimble and i think he should be confronted" (more jian) something "the friggen thimble...see the thimble...feel the thimble..." :) . green eggs & ham (mike as jackie chan! and cabaret! during the beatles interruption :) . ? um, my tape runs out. i know at least video bargainville, psycho killer, and the drinking songs closes my friend from home i guess from not seeing me for a while, told me that she thought that i found my niche. i'm just glad she enjoyed the concert. :) but the spontaneous songs, bantering, it was so amusing and amazing at the same time! on our trip home (which would have been fine, had we not been on the last train, and missed the stop at newark for our connection. oops. after being randomly whistled at, and other not fun stuff in linden, i had to (ugh) call my parents to pick us up. but! i've decided that i'm going to start a band with kristin (although she thinks i'm crazy), and one of the offshoots would be, in the vein of jian's tits (i really think it was jian, but it's all a blur), "i've got big tits and i cannot lie, no other person can deny" with all the imaginative choreography you can imagine. :) unfortunately coming home at 3 in the morning didn't help my chances to drive up to schnectedy to see TN though :( oh yeah, i've been lurking for awhile but it's only a review :) erica np: jess klein's _wishes well disguised_ no paragraph explanation needed, i hope :) * * * ** * * * * *** * * * ** *erica p. chow * we fell up not to see the sun,* *http://www.sit.wisc.edu/~epchow * gardening at night just didn't grow.* *mailto:epchow@students.wisc.edu * r.e.m.* * * * * * * * ** * ** * * * * * - ----------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #77 *******************************************