From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #676 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 Sunday, September 27 1998 Volume 01 : Number 676 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Minneapolis show [drea1@my-dejanews.com] Re: The Rutles (was Re: Songs never heard wish list) [Jeff Michael ] Re: I love Canada from it's (Fru)head to it's toes! [samoq@aol.com (Samoq] Re: I love Canada from it's (Fru)head to it's toes! [samoq@aol.com (Samoq] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 05:06:07 GMT From: drea1@my-dejanews.com Subject: Minneapolis show If any Minneapolis Fruheads can send along some information about hotels close to The Quest it would be greatly appreciated :) Also, let me know if you're planning on going, as it would be nice to know someone there :) Thanks! Drea Caffeine and Fruvous: the accounting student's keys to sanity... - -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/rg_mkgrp.xp Create Your Own Free Member Forum ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 01:25:00 -0400 From: Jeff Michael Subject: Re: The Rutles (was Re: Songs never heard wish list) What, you never heard Jian (as Sam I Am) tell Dave (as Mister Cheese) to lay off the Beatles, authors of such great tunes as ? I thought that was a common segment in Green Eggs & Ham. Of course I knew those were Rolling Stones tunes. ;-) A little more Fru-ish content...the boys wound up their last show in King Of Prussia with "I Shall Be Released." That was the only time I'd heard it, but I have only five shows under my belt. Do they play it very often? Summer Young wrote: > Huh? Whaa? Who are you getting your music information from? Whoever it > is, it's a bad source. > > ->Summer > > >Yeah, I mean they wrote so many great songs..."Riders On The > Storm"..."Break > >On Through"..."Love Me Two Times"... > > > >Summer Young wrote: > > > >> >> Of course that doesn't matter when the sueer has > >> >> much deeper pockets than the sueee. > >> > > >> >"sueer"? "sueee"? I love it--"sueee" sounds like you're trying to > >> call in the pigs. > >> > > >> >But "sueer"--would that sound like "sewer"? You're putting the > Beatles > >> in the sewer? > >> > > >> >HEY!!! *Not* the Beatles, man! > >> > > >> >-- > >> >Jeff Michael > >> > > >> > >> You tell him!! *Anything* but the Beatles (and Moxy Fruvous OF > >> COURSE!!!) !! > >> > >> -Summer > >> > >> ______________________________________________________ > >> Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > > > > > >-- > >Jeff Michael > > > >"Information gladly given, but safety requires avoiding unnecessary > >conversation."--Official notice on MUNI's Judah line, San Francisco > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -- Jeff Michael "Information gladly given, but safety requires avoiding unnecessary conversation."--Official notice on MUNI's Judah line, San Francisco ------------------------------ Date: 27 Sep 1998 09:23:25 GMT From: "Arbie Fru" Subject: Vancouver Sept.24 Well, my first Moxy Früvous concert. Its fair to say that it was everything I expected. It would also be fair to say that it was wasn't more than I thought it would be. This, of course, is the fault of all you ammf'ers who over the last year-and-something have given me such eloquent narratives for my imagination to work on. Really it didn't feel like my first concert, I have been there with you guys before. Please don't think I was disappointed or anything, IT WAS GREAT. I was dead on my feet the next day but I wouldn't change a thing. The only thing I do regret is that in this one chance this year to meet other members of our little group I missed someone, Jenn Grifee (JennCyn) if we had only known you would be there... :>( Next time for sure. :>) So here is my story I hope it comes up to the calibre of all your stories I have had the pleasure of reading: Sept 23: Doug Sheppard pitched up in town and Frücasa West (tm) is officially in business. By the end of dinner Doug had told me every set list of every show on the tour to this point and then once we got to my place he commandeered the computer and wrote most of it down as you've probably seen. Then and only then did he crash for about 12 hrs. I didn't really understand the "fruhead vs. frufan" thread until I met Doug. I thought I was a Fruhead but next to him I see that I am really just a Frufan. Sept.24: George Nowik arrived from Seattle and Frücasa West (tm) is now officially full. I was having a day from hell at work (I'm self-employed so I couldn't phone in sick ) so I didn't get to spend much time with them before the show. Mr. Goodhost I wasn't. The Show: I arrived at R's on R a bit after 8pm to find Doug and George already there and Doug already busy chatting up women. Go Doug go! Tanya and another girl whose name escapes me but who is a music major at Douglas College (my old alma mater) ended up sitting with us, not that anyone but me did much sitting. The room is a large rectangle with the band set up on a decent sized raised triangular stage across one corner. Tables ring a large dance floor and there is a second level "loft" with barstools and a rail/table around three sides of the room. Good view from up there. The bar takes up the rest of the wall beside the band on the long side of the rectangle. Clear? Ya right. Anyway we had a table at the edge of the dance floor about as straight out from the band as we could but a bit stage Mike. This turned out to be the where the tape would be made as George didn't have the correct cable to patch off the soundboard. I would estimate the crowd at 200+ and when Jian asked for a show of hands not quite half had actually seen Moxy before but most seemed to know the audience response routines. I was surprised about that. Dayna Manning started about 9:20. She writes very well and she has a good strong voice (which I wish her sound guy would quit covering up with reverb) and her guitar technique is great. But she is only 20 and she's still got some work to do on presentation. She only has two accompaniment styles, strummed and finger-picked. Each song was either one or the other never both. She never sang a line over a held chord or note or sang any part of any song unaccompanied. She does have lots of talent and she will develop a more mature varied style. And as Doug will tell you at any and all opportunities she is quite pretty (and about 100 lbs. soaking wet). The Lads hit the stage about 10:30 and we were off. And they were off too, as everybody left the table to go do their thing on the dance floor in front of the band and left me doing my thing at the table and watching over George's dat. I go to hear the music and to watch the guys. I can dance to the records anytime. I had a music history prof. who told me I should've been a stage manager or something. I like to watch the way the whole event is orchestrated, how the voices and the instruments are layered together to create the variety of textures of sound which is a large part of what we love about this band. And the tightrope walk that they do through the banter. As to the setlist and the banter see JennCyn excellent post. She nailed it. One thing she missed however was Dave's injury. During Psycho (I think) he broke a guitar string. I noticed that he had something on his left index finger I thought maybe he had overdone it and was getting a blister or something but later I and some others were talking to him and he told us he felt the string hit his finger on the side and he said it was an odd feeling to see it poking out the other side. Apparently it missed everything important, he said it didn't even hurt much when they pulled it out. Later I heard Tobey say he broke every rule of firstaid pulling it out. Ouch and yeeeeeeech. Didn't have very long to talk to the guys, the Dick's staff really were in a hurry to get out of there. :( But did mange to say something to all of them, and Jian knew my name from the ng which was very cool. :>) By the time we waited for the girl's ride to show up and then grabbed something to eat my head hit the pillow about 3:30 and I got up at 7:00 and dragged my sorry ass through another work day. But it *was* worth it : ) - -- Arbie "Brassman" on irc Reply address altered to discourage spammers, sorry for the inconvenience. arbie_fru@bc.sympatico.ca - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: 27 Sep 1998 14:56:06 GMT From: samoq@aol.com (Samoq) Subject: Re: I love Canada from it's (Fru)head to it's toes! Fruwench wrote: >My first visit to Canada was last February for FruCon I and I loved Toronto >immediatly. I can't wait to come back. I just got back from my first trip to Toronto (combining a visit with my favorite cousin with a scouting mission for next February) and loved it, too. And better yet... I found out that the US has changed it's laws on Dual Citizenship (actually, they changed in 1967, but did anyone tell me...? Nooo.) and, to make a long story a wee bit less boring, I'm entitled to call myself a Canadian! Yay! I can be a Canadian as well as a US-er! I'm so excited! My horizons have expanded! Thank you, Mom and Dad! ******************************************************************** Sharon samoq@aol.com "Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away." - Goethe ------------------------------ Date: 27 Sep 1998 14:56:06 GMT From: samoq@aol.com (Samoq) Subject: Re: I love Canada from it's (Fru)head to it's toes! Fruwench wrote: >My first visit to Canada was last February for FruCon I and I loved Toronto >immediatly. I can't wait to come back. I just got back from my first trip to Toronto (combining a visit with my favorite cousin with a scouting mission for next February) and loved it, too. And better yet... I found out that the US has changed it's laws on Dual Citizenship (actually, they changed in 1967, but did anyone tell me...? Nooo.) and, to make a long story a wee bit less boring, I'm entitled to call myself a Canadian! Yay! I can be a Canadian as well as a US-er! I'm so excited! My horizons have expanded! Thank you, Mom and Dad! ******************************************************************** Sharon samoq@aol.com "Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away." - Goethe ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #676 ********************************************