From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #646 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 Monday, September 21 1998 Volume 01 : Number 646 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Calgary weekend [dalevy@aol.com (DALevy)] Re: Revi: Frvous in Saskatoon, 09/17/98 [petit_chou@juno.com] Re: They All Have Guns: Expedition '98 [LONG] [petit_chou@juno.com] Re: Name tags for NoHo? [Marie.Claude@canada.com] Re: A couple of questions [hKatherine@ehmail.com] Re: Yet another Frvous article [richardbutterworth@my-dejanews.com] Re: The Rhyming Frulad [Joshua Doell Drury ] Re: Yet another Frvous article [wahrend@my-dejanews.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 21 Sep 1998 05:44:12 GMT From: dalevy@aol.com (DALevy) Subject: Calgary weekend OK, I'm not really good at taking notes and writing stuff up, so I hope y'all will forgive if my review of the two shows in Calgary is short and sweet. Both shows were at local folk clubs in community centers. This is a new concept for me, and I was impressed. Both shows were part of a subscription series and I think each one (the entire subscription season) sold out. (Thank God for the guy on Friday whose girlfriend couldn't come, as I foolishly overlooked getting tickets ahead of time.) These folks enjoy coming out for music each weekend. But I'm not quite sure they were all ready for Moxy Fruvous! (This was generally an older crowd. The opener on Friday was a house band that did Irish folk music. The opener on Saturday did country music, which I gather is native to Calgary.) The sets Friday and Saturday were similar, giving the unfamiliar a good flavor of what sets MF apart from any other musical group. The Gospel version of "Message" opened, followed by BJ and then a good mix of the old and new. The special treat was that both nights were two-set shows, with a brief intermission, after which we got some new songs like Pisco Bandito, plus Authors, River Valley and the Drinking Song closed out both shows. Saturday in particular the guys seemed to be having fun -- especially with a running poke-fun-at-Tobey theme. (I was sitting in a spot where I was able to watch Tobey laughing as hard as everyone else at the jokes, too, which was nice.) And although the music was awesome and special, the shows were missing something for me: lots of Fruheads! It was pretty awkward when I realized that Doug Sheppard (Siriliyan) of Saskatoon and I were the only ones singing along to the Drinking Song! Despite that, the performances were great, the people were friendly and the city was pretty nice, too. Another worthwhile Fru-trip for me. Hope to see lots of you at future shows. Doug Levy San Francisco DALevy@NOSPAM.aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 08:08:35 GMT From: petit_chou@juno.com Subject: Re: Revi: Frvous in Saskatoon, 09/17/98 Clamatto is made from Clam blood. Clams are Mollusks (of the phylum Molluska), not, as previously noted in your review, fish (of the phylum Vertebrata). Cathy was drinking, more correctly, "Mollusktastic Tomatosaurus Brew." Great review! Smitties of the world UNITE! Heather Moore _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 08:08:35 GMT From: petit_chou@juno.com Subject: Re: They All Have Guns: Expedition '98 [LONG] For the love and knowledge of Doug (and all who bother to read) Hail forms in clouds and then falls. Sleet forms as rain and then freezes on the way down. And it sounds cooler. (Why am I so compelled to correct all this? Do the words "copy editor" ring any bells?) - -Heather "Smitty" Moore- _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 12:35:14 GMT From: Marie.Claude@canada.com Subject: Re: Name tags for NoHo? > Just beware if you lend someone a pen and DO get it back. [Now thinking back to FruCon] Heh. Never lend a Sharpie to Ofer. I don't know what he does, it's like he just *sucks* the ink right out and gives it back to you bone-dry. - -- Marie-Claude (or *Ingrid* for A.J. -- never let it be said I don't do anything for you, man!) "A true friend stabs you in the front." -- Oscar Wilde - -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/rg_mkgrp.xp Create Your Own Free Member Forum ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 12:33:03 GMT From: hKatherine@ehmail.com Subject: Re: A couple of questions In article <3601CB44.281F@sympatico.ca>, gaspar.11@sympatico.ca wrote: > You know what song took me completely by surprise? Gord's Gold. I > thought for the longest time that it was Murray singing, until I went to > an Ottawa concert and discovered that, well what do you know, it was > Mike. I had no idea he could sing so low! (At that point, I had not read > the article in which one of the guys announced that they were all > baritones. That bit of information was a bit of an eyebrow-raiser for > me, too, but then I never claimed to be very music-savvy.) Now that I've > had time to think about it, the song is really very Mike--he is the best > at putting on characters, I think. Actually, you know, at the Ottawa show last May, one of the members of Malaika (Ottawa-based all-female a capella act) challenged Mike to a bass-off. Apparently she had just won against Murray. Anyway, Mike told her that his voice is actually *lower* than Murray's, and that his dad was a bass. But I'm not sure if he was saying that to scare off the eager female bass singer or if it was really true. Any thoughts? hKath - -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/rg_mkgrp.xp Create Your Own Free Member Forum ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 12:55:49 GMT From: richardbutterworth@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: Yet another Frvous article JianBabe wrote: >Anyway, did anyone else take offense to that article? Or > am I just being oversensitive? Yes and no. (And in that order.) Journalism tends to be about good stories rather than fact, and you can take that statement and multiply it by a hundred for music journalism. Good journalism is a fine and noble art, but the aim of most journalists who are less than fine and noble is to grab themselves attention and one of the best ways of grabbing attention is to be sneering and rude. (By the way, just before I get flamed to a crisp by any outraged journalists here, in one of my more salubrious past lives I was a music journalist and I was sneering and rude, so I'm specifically flaming myself here.) So don't bother to take offense at music journalists, its just what they (we) want you to do. Pip pip Richard `See by our faces, we are all silent and all damned. We express grief for my news server in silence like death.' Edgar Allen Poe. Sort of. - -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/rg_mkgrp.xp Create Your Own Free Member Forum ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 09:33:40 -0500 From: Joshua Doell Drury Subject: Re: The Rhyming Frulad > > > Josh, the other new song they did is called Half as Much :) Too bad I > didn't know that other amm-f people besides Doug (Sirilyan) and I were going > to be there, would've been nice to meet you! The other three have been done > off and on during the summer tour (and seem to get better every time I hear > them). Where were you sitting at the show? > > Drea I was sitting in row G, right in the centre. I would have had better seats, but the person who sold me tickets (at Answers in the U of M) told me they were rush seats so the seat numbers (which ranged from row B to row J) didn't mean anything. Fortunately the ggod people at the West End were able to sort out our tickets and get us all in the same row. I guess it could have been worse, especially if I went to a big show in the States, where seating capacity is in the thousands, not merely 300. - -Josh ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 14:43:20 GMT From: wahrend@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: Yet another Frvous article In article <6u5icl$qej$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, richardbutterworth@my-dejanews.com wrote: > JianBabe wrote: > > >Anyway, did anyone else take offense to that article? Or > > am I just being oversensitive? Ah, before everyone blows up on this one.. too late! I was going to say that the "journalist" for this article is very misinformed, at least as far as I am concerned (well that and the california frucon, did she actually do any research before writing her dribble?). Most of the people that I have met due to my new ability to see shows has proven to me that most frufans/fruheads are a very industrious and intelligent bunch. They are willing to support people that they do not know to offer rides and even a spot in their home only on the fact that like the band and wish to see them. I cannot put into words just how great that is. Personally, I use fruvous as an excuse to go on vacation; see a cool city, drink some good beer, meet up with some cool people, hear some good music.. you really can't beat that. If that makes me one of the lifeless, so be it. I "wild" Bill (who has been called much worse in his time) - -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/rg_mkgrp.xp Create Your Own Free Member Forum ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #646 ********************************************