From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #178 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 30 1998 Volume 01 : Number 178 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: King of Prussia Directions [dmandeluxe@aol.com (Dmandeluxe)] OT: Grey Eye Glances [seqiro@mail2.nai.net (Paul D. Beasi)] Re: shriek of delight! [dacilen@bu.edu (Vika Zafrin)] More details on the SONO show ["Hartfield Adam (Lud)" wrote: > *shrug* anyways, >just figured i'd share. my friends don't always appreciate my obsessions. >here, i've an outlet to vent to those who understand. thanks for >listening, fine früfolk. :) *laugh* Sillykat!!! Thank you for that wonderfully giddy post. I'm facing the second Day From Hell here at work: stuff that was working before just refuses to do so now, without a visible cause for it. You guys (all you ammf'ers!) keep me in perspective of what's going on around me, times like this... thanks! Whistle while you work, cuz swearing, though satisfying, ain't gonna accomplish much.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Vika [VEE-kah] Zafrin Patron Saint of Caffeine dacilen at bu dot edu aka Coffee Fru "You and your hula dance of culinary delight..." -ceecee ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 12:47:31 GMT From: "Hartfield Adam (Lud)" Subject: More details on the SONO show Hi everybuggy, I've been hunting down more details on the SONO show. There's a Web site, of course, and its address is: http://www.norwalk.com/sonoarts/leadstry.html. There are directions there, but for convenience I am posting them here as well: =========== Directions to SoNo by car: From I-95 North, Exit 14. From I-95 South, Exit 15. From Danbury, take Route 7 South. Follow signs to SoNo Historic District. Directions to SoNo by train: Metro North Railroad to South Norwalk Station, 2 block walk to South Main St. and Washington St. ========== There's a map at the website that gives more detail. http://www.norwalk.com/sonoarts/direc.html And here's when and where the Lads are playing: 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Washington St. Stage Moxy Fruvous (Eclectic Folk/Pop) I would assume that the Washington St. Stage is the Main stage (number 1 on the map) at the corner of Washington St. and North Water St. Anyway, see y'all there! (and at Quincy Market, too) - --Adam adam.hartfield@dev.artioslink.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 13:24:50 GMT From: cricket5@hotmail.com Subject: Annapolis Review....*happy sigh* :-) At 1:45am this morning, I was in a 7-11 just outside of Annapolis (if you're reading this aloud, please slur the city name for the correct pronounciation...similar to the way Buffalonians say that Fruvous comes from "Trono"), and the clerk was foolish enough to ask why Traci and I were so happy. I think the poor man got the most enthusiastic plug for Fruvous that I've ever delivered, because the glow of last night's Ramshead show will last a long, long time. It didn't start out to good though. Traci was supposed to meet me at 3:30pm. Around 4pm, she calls and says something has gone terribly wrong with her car and she won't be able to get to me. And with the time constraints and traffic, I wouldn't be able to get to *HER*. I was crushed, but carried on to Annapolis. I arrived there without mishap, quickly finding the venue and a 24-hour parking garage. I amble over to the Ramshead and immediately spot Cal outside. After ascentaining that everyone really *WAS* okay from the car accident, we ambled inside and waited for the girls to open the doors to the main stage area. While waiting, I met up with Chris and Zard who quickly introduced me to Paul and then Melsie. It was already beginning to feel like a family reunion by the time Dan Carps and Jessica Baskin showed up. Soon to follow was the whole Deleware crowd, Jen and Jo, Wendy and in a surprise appearace TRACI! who had borrowed her mom's car and made it in plenty of time for the show. I actually squealed "OH MY GOD!" I've never done that before in my life, but I just felt SO terrible about her missing the show! Yay! I probably missed some people, but it was a late night and I'm tired. SORRY! My table quickly arrived after that...Matt, Nicola and Andrea. Really, really great people. Thanks for sharing Stage Dave with me and, Andrea, thanks for taking care of the bill so quietly and efficiently. Philly band Grey-Eye Glances started off the evening with a gorgeous sound that was somewhat distorted by some sort of speaker problem, causing a cracking after many of the lead female singer's vocals. I'd be zoning into her voice when suddenly the fuzz would have me cringing. But surprisingly, they still put on an amazing show. Great performers. Finally, time for the band. The announcer thanks us for our patience and says a local group will be warming us up. The applause was rather tepid, and the entire audience was going "who? Could it be Davinci's Notebook?" NO! It's Mike Ford, chastising us for our lukewarm response to local talent. After going on and on about Mulroney, he sang a fabulous song. He said it was an old one, but I'm not quite sure of the title..."Everything will be okay" maybe? NEXT!Murray Foster...I mean Billy Bob McBride. Someone call Central Casting...with the fishing hat, the occasional twang and the permenant scowl, he had dim-witted, angry hick down to a T. His was a song about love and loss..."The Hunt for the Dangerous Pork Tenderloin." I was literally CRYING with laughter. Question: what did Fruvous do with the Murray who wrote depressed songs, full of melancholy? Just curious. ;-) Jian is up next and begins by speaking in a stereotyped Middle Eastern accent, only to growl at us for our racist laughter. *grin* He pointed out that he was the ultimate paradox: a Canadian of Iranian heritage...benevolent, inferior friend or dangerous bitter foe. Finally, he began "Follow the Road." Nice, really, really nice. Murray started a bad trend because I was blinking back tears for this gorgeous piece. Finally Dave. Instead of the new Dave song, I'd heard so much about, we got 2 "legit standards" - a "biology," instead of trilogy. Dave is *SUCH* a crooner...the first was something like "I Fall In Love Too Soon," followed up by "The Moon is a Silver Dollar." Very Cool. Now, it's show time. And it's "Wood" revisited. It's my favorite album, and I was ready to curl up for the night, as we moved from Down from Above into Horseshoes into Fly. Great version of Fly. A lot of times, my appreciation of Fly is often marred by Mike's vocal mic being turned down too low...I adore the little "Let Go" part that sort of hangs at the end (about 4:10 into Fly on Live Noise). But tonight was perfect. The whole song gave me chills. Bango time. Continuing the "Wood" theme, we get Present Tense Tureen which blends in Johnny Saucepan. Because the Ramshead is a "listening room - no talking or dancing," the boys did most of this sans banter ;-) (This policy wasn't really enforced, but occasionally produced problems for call and response bits because we were being quiet.) I Love My Boss. They decide to do this off-mic. People are into right away, clapping along, to the point where you can't actually hear the song and Jian has to shout out between verses..."STOP CLAPPING!" But a great, high-energy version. A little banter, bashing Paula Cole and then it's The King of Spain...wearing that fishing hat again. Okay...into Boo Time. Again prop-free. Jian seemed to be searching rather anxiously for his hat, so I'm not sure this was planned. Boo Time into MISSTRA KNOW-IT-ALL. Quite possibly the best version I've EVER heard. The energy and the sound was simply perfect and Murray...ah Murray...finally "something STOMPIN' on the bass!" Great, great, great bass solo. Wow! And speaking of Mur, it was time for Pisco Bandito. As always a fun tune, and as always (at this point *wink*), Murray screwed up a line. In an interesting stage setup, Jian was pretty much abandoned "Stage Dave" right where my table was, so I was able to enjoy his antics without any real distraction. Ji, you could TOTALLY convince me that you spend your days off, singing backup for Calypso bands. He has the perfect look, the perfect expressions. I'd love to see him play mandolin...not because I think that sound is needed, but because mandolin players always look a little lost, like they aren't sure what to do while playing...Jian could teach a class ;-) Onto the Kids Song and then I Will Hold On. *sigh* So beautiful. If possible, I think I grow to like it more everytime I hear it. It's like a drug. Banter at this point. A little Mike "tribute" to Springstein...not quite sure why. The song he comes up with is "Santa Claus is Coming to Town." LOL! This went on for a bit until BJ, Don't Cry took over. No slow version tonight and up-tempo, fun tune. The a capella message was gorgeous as always. Dave added this little counter-rhythm of snaps between his hand claps that was really pretty interesting. After Message, we got an *EXTENDED* dialogue about Eight is Enough, the songs in it, child actors, Dick Van Patten. Hilarious. Onto Michigan Militia and Organ Grinder - yay! Fruvous continued to rock on through Get in the Car, Psycho Killer and My Baby Loves a Bunch of Authors. They ended the first encore with the Dancing Queen medley which proved fun as always. SOMEDAY I'm gonna make a tape of this and get it to a friendly DJ at Shampoo...a club in Philly. Friday night there is Shaft Night and "Dancing Queen" is naturally a popular number with all the fun-loving gay men who patronize the establishment. I think the Fruvous medley would go over rather well :-) 2nd encore...I really expected Drinking Song and was a little perplexed about how we were going to link arms with the tables in the way. But No Drinking Song. Something new, dedicated to Cal and Tobey (yay guys!) and the folks back in Toronto. On Dave's setlist, it was called "Darling Released." Ummm...how to describe it...WOW! 4 part harmony. Great intrument sound. Wow. My jaw was on the floor for the whole song. Amazing. It seemed a bit familiar, like it might have been a cover. Dunno. But this one has radio hit written all over it. Great, great song. All in all, an amazing night. Well worth the drive from and back to Philadelphia. And that was a pretty late drive back because I didn't want to leave...didn't want the night to end. I didn't even want to talk about the show...didn't want to over-analyze how perfect it was. I just wanted to hug everyone there and bask in the happy glow. Thanks to everyone who made it a special evening and thanks to Fruvous for a fabulously well-played show. Anyone get a tape? I would *KILL* for one. *Fruhugs to All* See ya in Connecticut! Mary, who apologizes for all grammer/spelling errors. 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