From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #145 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, July 22 1998 Volume 01 : Number 145 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Moxy Music Crosses [Christi218@aol.com] Wrong CD Liner!! Who is Mary from Reading? [fruwench@aol.com (FruWench)] Ocean City - Babbling On [fruwench@aol.com (FruWench)] Re: August in Toronto [Christi218@aol.com] Penn's Landing - Verbose [fruwench@aol.com (FruWench)] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 01:01:55 GMT From: Christi218@aol.com Subject: Re: Moxy Music Crosses Okay..I just want to point out..that uh...it was late....and...uh...I was tired...and uh......am not responsible for what I wrote. ;-) *laughs* Christine. - --Chrissy_K on irc *^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^ Christi218@aol.com & bh108@freenet.buffalo.edu - --Diet soda? - --No thanks. FREAKED!!!!!!!!!! - --Fiddle Faddle? Elijah to Ricky - --Alright.....delicious. 1993 *^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^ ------------------------------ Date: 23 Jul 1998 00:41:17 GMT From: fruwench@aol.com (FruWench) Subject: Wrong CD Liner!! Who is Mary from Reading? Up at Penn's Lending, I met a Fruvous fan who asked for my help. He claims to have seen Moxy Fruvous at a Barnes & Noble(?) in March(?) and was so thrilled he bought all five CDs and had them all autographed right then and there. (Since Live Noise did not come out until May, and there are no records of Fruvous ever playing at a Barnes & Nobles...I am assuming he meant Borders in May and was just a bit carried away by the heat and excitement on Sunday) However, after leaving, he discovered that his Live Noise CD Liner was not the one signed to him. He actually had the liner that was signed for a lady named Mary, from the Reading area, who had two(?) kids, and had just celebrated her 40th birthday. He assumes that she has his liner, and he has been trying to find her to effect a trade. So... MARY FROM READING!!! If you are out there or if anyone out there KNOWS Mary from Reading, please E-mail me. This gentleman should be E-mailing me with his info so I can forward it, and the Live Noise liners can get to their intended collectors. :-) Thanks for your help! "That's any good!" ladywench FruSpace - We came, we saw, we slept on the floor . . . ------------------------------ Date: 23 Jul 1998 00:50:51 GMT From: fruwench@aol.com (FruWench) Subject: Ocean City - Babbling On Since I was in early I got out early and buzzed home to get everyone for Ocean City. Dora came back up from Baltimore and she took Sheryl, Barb and Moz in her car ('cause it has AC) and Pixel and I took MiLady up to Beth's to pile in her mini-van. Grab Beth, pile in - who has directions? - pile out and make grass whistles while Beth runs in to get directions off the net. Pile in - liquid stop - pile out. Pile in and off we go! Somewhere during the drive, my sleeplessness caught up with me and I became silly. By the time we got to Ocean City, I was on the floor of the van giggling. Picked up the tickets, quick stop for fudge, and schmoozed with Tobey while he was setting up. Hung out on the porch over the ocean and enjoyed the salt air for a bit before finding our seats. Nice hall, mostly glass for a beautiful view of the ocean and the boardwalk. As the sun set and the boardwalk lit up it lent a carnival atmosphere to the setting. I think this was a subscription series, most of the audience didn't seem to fit Moxy Fruvous OR Buckwheat Zydeco. Lots of older couples who would have been more comfortable at a symphony and kept watching us with alternating confusion, annoyance, and fear. A lot of "I don't get it" expressions. I would like to say we sat patiently waiting for Fruvous, but we didn't. I was trying to nap on Pixel's shoulder, but kept popping up to see what, if anything, was happening. We had a group back rub going for a while. And we just couldn't keep quiet, not that we were really trying. :-) Problems from the start, Dave's mic wasn't working. So the Lads leaped from the stage and took "Boss" off-mic and into the audience (further frightening a few of the feeble-minded, but facinating the frantic FruHeads - sorry, I got carried away). By the time they got through Spidey, the sound was, um, fixed. It only took one song for Dora to drag me out of my chair and along the side to dance. And I dragged Beth, and she dragged Pixel . . . Beth and I had our picture taken by a professional type when we were being cute and doing synchronized dancing. So if anyone sees any photos in Ocean City papers about Moxy Früvous fans, lemme know! Dave led the improv this time with a sweet ditty about the ocean drip drip dripping into the pail . . . which Mike took and dragged into the back alleys of Ocean City's smut. I caught a couple disturbed glances amoung the octogenarians on that one. No encore, of course as Moxy was the opening band this time. I dashed out for fresh air as soon as it was over and secured a place on the rail facing the Ocean. Since you could hear Buckwheat from outside, I stayed there where it was cool, and less crowded. I was being a bit anti-social in my post-Fruvous state, but rejoined everyone when I came in to get my card stamped and sat at Tobey's feet by the Merch table. We got ice cream, watched the bungee chair (equally split between "I'm gonna be sick", "I wanna do it!, and just staring in disbelief), walked the boardwalk and the beach, played some video games, and headed home around midnight. Once again, we all piled into MiLady and Dora headed back to Baltimore, while we headed back to my place. Again, Pixel and I went out for breakfast while the 3 travelers crashed. Home and in bed finally somewhere around 4 am. Yawn. What a weekend! ladywench FruSpace - We came, we saw, we slept on the floor . . . ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 00:51:05 GMT From: Christi218@aol.com Subject: Re: August in Toronto In a message dated 98-07-22 19:38:10 EDT, gaspar.11@sympatico.ca writes: > So. Who is going? I will be there -- as long as I don't have any trouble getting to TO or planning for it. :p (hmmm..you can tell that I've had some problems with other Frutrips...I almost decided recently to never take another one again.) :( Christine. - --Chrissy_K on irc *^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^ Christi218@aol.com & bh108@freenet.buffalo.edu - --Diet soda? - --No thanks. FREAKED!!!!!!!!!! - --Fiddle Faddle? Elijah to Ricky - --Alright.....delicious. 1993 *^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^ ------------------------------ Date: 23 Jul 1998 00:49:10 GMT From: fruwench@aol.com (FruWench) Subject: Penn's Landing - Verbose Wow, what a weekend! Friday Beth and I went up to Penn's Landing and met Mary for the first night of the Singer/Songwriter Festival to catch Bela Fleck. My first live Fleck, and it was his 40th birthday! Micala Majune (ok spelled wrong, I know) from WXPN brought out a cake and we all sang Happy Birthday. Bela seemed flustered and tried to deflect the attention by making us sing Happy Birthday to FutureMan too. Their newest member -Jeff Collins- stole my breath and knees away with his killer sax and Ian Anderson style flute. (you know what they say about flutists. . .) Where was I . . oh yeah, so I've added Fleck right after Fruvous for my favorite group to follow fanishly. My only regret about Friday night was not being close enough to the stage to watch Bela's hands. Sigh - next time. Saturday I rushed around to finish my errands before Sheryl, Barb, and Moz were to show up at around 7. I missed. Leaving a note on my door "Grocery Store - BRB", I came back to find all three hiding in a fort they built by tying a blanket across the nook beside my apt stairs. The wanted to know who "Grocery Store" was that I addressed the note to, and when was he showing up? (wise-acres). Dora showed up shortly after and we schmoozed for a while. The 3 erstwhile travelers collapsed in a heap on the floor for an hour or two before Jeff arrived and I piled everyone (all 6 of us) into my '66 Dart (MiLady) and we headed out to meet Mary at O'Friels. Danny Quinn was playing, Sheryl and Moz were playfully requesting Fruvous songs and were surprised when he actually played "Goodnight Irene" - his version. Danny was surprised at the volume from our table on the choruses (hee hee). We also elicted a raised eyebrow at our proficiency with the Hand Jive during his 60s medley. Home to crash around midnight or 1 am. Sunday morning, after showers and cinnamon rolls, we piled into Barb's car (it has AC) and I led a small pilgramage to Delaware's Highest monumented point. All of 10 minutes out of our way to Penn's Landing. One photo op and a wild-goose chase later we were on our way again. A local told us there was another plaque on the ground at the "actual" highest point so Moz cavorted across the field and we wandered through a trailer park but we couldn't find it. (I have a new quest now). We hit Penn's Landing around 1:30 and quickly found Mary saving space for us down front stage Murray. Met LOTS of FruHeads in that same area (surprise, surprise). With my horrible memory for names I am not going to try to list everyone here, but if any are reading this I enjoyed meeting all of you! Staking our claim with a blanket, we all dispersed into the concert grounds to explore. About an hour later, we all ended up dipping out feet in the same fountain, babbling and splashing away happily. There were four groups on before Fruvous. The first was a local woman I had heard before - Mary Arden Collins. Black hair, black dress, black glasses, black guitar. Very much a "Coffee House" look. She came out and started the day off with a very strong acapella solo before bringing out her band. I am ashamed to say I took a nap during the second act, but I think I was applauding in my sleep. When I became alert again he was still on, a crowd was beginning to line the railing in front of the stage, and the FruHeads to my left were decorating themselves with Sheryl's markers. Dora and I went on a quest for liquids which lasted into the third band, but we listened while we wandered. I had been hearing people rave about Patty Kline all day so we were back on the blanket (and kicking other people off it) for her set. The crowd between the concrete steps and the stage was now thick, but most were sitting down so it was ok. I was disappointed with Patty. She came out in a purple sundress with her red hair pulled up in two pony tails over her ears and all I could think of was "Oh my God, its Pippi Longstocking!" It was a bit hard to take her seriously after that image. And her music was a bit overdone for me, I couldn't hear a lot of her vocals for the crashing of the guitar and the thumping of the bass. We sat and blew soap bubbles at the crowd during the auction of the WXPN special edition autographed 1998 VW Beetle, and encourgaed the bidding to go higher. Hey, it's not MY money. By this time, the crowd between us and the stage was on its feet, thicker than a brick, and not moving. Beth and Jeff managed to weasel through and we all squished together even more to make room for them with us. When the auction was over Kathy, the woman who does WXPN's Children's Corner, gave a wonderfully spastic introduction and Fruvous took the stage. And I do mean TOOK the stage. And held it for a ransome of enthusiastic applause, which they received in willing abundance. The week's rest at home has done the Lads good. They all bounded across the stage leaping and spining with energy, which we caught and threw back at them as we leapt to our feet and welcomed them to Philadelphia (although Jian called it Pittsburgh again-heehee). Framed in the airy stage, with the Delaware River sparkling in the background the Lads were a welcome sight and sound. They mentioned the TLA as a great venue they had played before, and when the audience cheered, they said they meant the TLA in Seattle(?). Murray said that apparently there was a TLA in Philly too, and apologized for the confusion. After the first song or two, they were commenting on Penn's Landing and mentioned that the stage area, which had concrete steps for the audience and several tall flag poles holding up triangular blue and gold sunshades, was like a ship and must just sail away after the concert was done and wasn't that efficient? Jian picked up the improv about "the hippie on the post" from a guy standing/dancing on the cement base of one of the flagpoles, and expressed empathy by saying he was a polesitter himself. Near the end of the concert, during ?????, Jeff nudged me and pointed to Dave. Dave was deep in his solo bit (on the red Les Paul?) and had broken a string. Looking closer, I noticed that the dangling string had a smaller shadow. Dave was playing with 2 busted strings! But if ya didn't see the strings, or know the solo intimately, ya would never have known. Awesome respect for Dave from this corner! He tried to twist them out of the way for the rest of the song, but that was all the attention they got. Kathy came back out and cut short our attempts to get an encore. We cheered and screamed over her until she spread her arms like a teacher with an unruly class and shouted "ok - STOP!" And was very surprised when we did. She pleaded the lateness of the show and said no encore. But she fervently marketed the Früvous CDs with the ardor of an American fan who couldn't find them them for soooooo long, and directed everyone to Tobey saying "They are very hard to get here, so GET THEM NOW!!!" And it must have worked. When she was done there was a mass exodus for the Merch table. Yikes! And Yippie! I wanted to just sit and revel. I am never much good for anything for at least an hour after a Moxy Fruvous concert. But Sheryl, Barb, and Moz were on their feet and running. Beth and Jeff disappeared. And Dora wanted to head to the Merch Table. I delayed Dora for about half an hour or so, and got Alex to watch our stuff. Everyone else had taken their stuff with them, but I wanted to come back and hear Francis Dunnery. There was still a hugh line at the Merch table, so we got our cards stamped and hung out for a while. The Merch Table was just below the VW Bug, and we saw the Lads dash past on their way to sign the bug. And then dash back again to go sign things at the WXPN members area. Murray and Jian got acosted between the bug and the stage and signed a few autographs there. Mike and Dave made it back safely. Somewhere in this mess, Dora and I lost our rides. Barb had disappeared, and when we went looking for her, we lost Beth. So we were kinda paniked until I found the car in the parking lot to prove they were still here. Dora and I camped by the gate so we wouldn't miss them, and Mary came down from the MXPN members area to chat. When we all got together, we ended up dashing up the steps because the members area had opened to non-members at this point. On the way to the car, we determined that everyone was staying for the Ocean City show tomorrow. Yay! I was expecting Pixel around midnight or 1 am, so everyone else hit Denny's at 1 while I waited, and took a nap for an hour. Pixel showed up at 2:30, just before everyone else got back. He and I went to breakfast around 3 while they crashed. Home at 5, shower, change, into work by 7. Wheeeeeee! One down, one to go!! ladywench FruSpace - We came, we saw, we slept on the floor . . . ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #145 ********************************************