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alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Tuesday, October 20 1998 Volume 01 : Number 830



                               Today's Subjects:
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  Re: Review: Bloominton & NKU (very long)  ["Adam Hartfield" <adamh@javanet]
  Re: the Gospel according to Fruvous                      [Srm9988n@aol.com]
  Online source for Canadian music?  [Positive Paul <debraski@earthlink.net>]
  Re: the Gospel according to Fruvous         [Tim Cain <tcain1@webmart.net>]
  Re: I will hold on                                  [nafio@my-dejanews.com]
  Re: Strange ILMB moment      [jimcclur@ews.uiuc.edu (Jordan I. K. McClure)]
  Re: 10.17.98: Nirvana @ NKU [long!!]          [fruwench@aol.com (FruWench)]
  Re: Cincinnati/NKU show                       [fruwench@aol.com (FruWench)]

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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 21:43:29 GMT
From: "Adam Hartfield" <adamh@javanet.com>
Subject: Re: Review: Bloominton & NKU (very long)

Yep. Another reason to cherish the band.

(/me thinks furiously on how to make this a non-me-too post)

Oh! This morning my VP of CAM development comes over to me and tells me his
son and daughter-in-law saw this great band in Ohio, a Canadian quartet,
that they couldn't get enough of. Said VP then floored his son by
nonchalantly saying, "Oh, you must mean Moxy Früvous." The VP then asked me
how to get tickets for the IH, and I laughed and said he'd have better luck
for the Boston show. :)

I'm expecting the toaster to arrive in the mail any day now.

- --Adam
adamh@javanet.com


- -----Original Message-----

>really do treasure the fact that Fruvous is aware of the online
>Fruheads and addresses things we discuss, however trivial. . .
>
>ceecee
>

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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 21:55:38 GMT
From: Srm9988n@aol.com
Subject: Re: the Gospel according to Fruvous

A.J. wrote:

<a dissertation>

My god, I thought *I* was getting huffy about this.  A.J. did
research!  :)

I gotta agree, though.  If people have ideas, they should either keep 
them utterly to themselves, on the premise that if an idea is not 
well-honed enough to elucidate then it shouldn't be brought up in
the first place; or they should actually spring them on us in all their
hypernationalistic, Ameriphobic glory. (That's just *my* idea about
the mysterious unrevealed idea, of course.)  None of this coy 
smugness, "I could tell you, but I won't -- you wouldn't understand,
and you wouldn't want to hear it."  That presumptuousness in a 
newsgroup, of all things -- we're supposed to be discussing ideas,
remember? -- that pisses me off a lot more than any idea, no matter
how off-the-cuff or unconsidered.

I'm really not trying to fan a flame war here, and I'm not trying to make
this a personal attack.  But this is a multinational ng that for the most 
part gets along very well, and when some post or other appears to voice 
stereotypical or culture-bashing thinking, in the interest of intellectual 
honesty and respect for the various ng members I think it at least 
should be fully explained by the poster, so that we all know what is 
being charged or debated.

- -- Lori
  

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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 17:58:22 -0500
From: Positive Paul <debraski@earthlink.net>
Subject: Online source for Canadian music?

Can anyone tell me if there is a good online source for Canadian bands? 
As many of you may know, it's damn near impossible to get certain bands
(Rheostatics come to mind as well as The Pursuit of Happiness) here in
the US.  So, I've been hunting around.  I found CD-Plus which seems
pretty good.  Are there any others?

Thanks
Paul
- -- 
Come to Debraski's Home for music, stories and good food:
http://home.earthlink.net/~debraski			ICQ# 15758820

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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 17:47:48 -0500
From: Tim Cain <tcain1@webmart.net>
Subject: Re: the Gospel according to Fruvous

"Srm9988n@aol.com" wrote:
>But if some people feel left behind because or that, because they're now
playing to more crowds of a thousand or more and to fewer passerby on
street corners, it's important to recognize that since the indie tape
they have evolved considerably as artists and performers.  They obviously
enjoy doing small gigs; the intimate energy that permeates a room when
there are about a hundred people present is far greater than it is at larger
shows.  They  are obviously comfortable at that level, and I don't expect to
see them  playing an arena anytime soon.  But whether they busk or play
a small  bar or a folk festival or a stadium is their decision, based on
factors
only they can know and judge, and anyone not willing to grant them that
basic right of self-determination and growth must be more concerned with
his own ego and convenience than with the guys' success and happiness.<<

This is an interesting and, for me, relieving vision of what's going on
with the guys right now. I was lucky enough to hit four shows over the past
two weeks (and travel 1,500 miles without having to take vacation time -- I
love my boss!), and the crowds have been phenomenal. A sellout in
Lafayette, a packed room in Bloomington, and a huge crowd in Champaign
(where they didn't sell out, but given how much room is in the Canopy,
selling it out would be maybe 700).

I wanted to hit as many shows on this stretch as possible, because I'm not
sure how much longer they can keep playing these smaller venues. The train
sure seems to be gathering momentum.

The relief I feel is in the realization that the band isn't in it for the
cash, or to be ROCK STARS. Too often in the past when I've been following
bands at this level, I've ultimately been disappointed when they've failed
to show any artistic growth, or been out for nothing more than a grab at
the brass ring. My thought and hope is that these guys are mature enough
and have enough vision to stay true to themselves rather than become flavor
of the month. I'll follow them wherever they want to go, as long as they're
moving forward.

Am I making any sense at all, or is this just some brain-dead hippie ramblings?

> But I'm glad to see these guys
doing so well, and if US public radio airplay and touring gave them a boost
to broader recognition that enables them to keep making and recording
exquisitely original music, I can't find a downside there.<

Ditto. (God, I can't believe I wrote that word.)

- --tc

tcain1@webmart.net
"Trying is the first step to failure." -- Homer Simpson

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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 22:39:14 GMT
From: nafio@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: I will hold on

  Chad Schrock <chad@radix.net> wrote:
> hKatherine@ehmail.com wrote:
> >   gemini@p3.net (Trace) wrote:
> > Uh-oh. I just realised something. Jian has figured out a way
> > to post to the newsgroup without really posting! Argh!
>
> How do we know it was really Jian?  People fake other people's
> identitiy all the time on the Internet.  It could be anyone!
>
> /starting the long awaited fight of "was that *really* jian?"

I was actually waiting for the "was Jian or wasn't Jian kidding" thread.

Fiona

- -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
http://www.dejanews.com/       Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own    

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Date: 20 Oct 1998 23:43:32 GMT
From: jimcclur@ews.uiuc.edu (Jordan I. K. McClure)
Subject: Re: Strange ILMB moment

Marty Blase (mblase@ncsa.uiuc.edu) wrote:
: 
: Do they have any good cha-cha tunes in their repetoire? Waltz?? I'd love
: nothing more than to have a good excuse to turn my entire dance club into
: raving luna... er, Fruheads.

I am about as not-a-dancer as they get, but Fly seems to have that
1-2-cha-cha-cha thing going for it so it might work.  You really need
to get in touch with George from Seattle though... he's a dance
instructor and knows what dance is good for just about every Fruvous
song.  

jordan, thinking "Hmmm... maybe a dance class at Frucon?"

- -- 
"I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart
 people and you've got dumb people."             -Keanu Reeves

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Date: 21 Oct 1998 01:17:26 GMT
From: fruwench@aol.com (FruWench)
Subject: Re: 10.17.98: Nirvana @ NKU [long!!]

>. I even think Moxy may have displaced the
>Spice Girls in my daughters mind for now!

Oh Goodie!  So who is gonna be which FruLad for Halloween?

ladywench


FruSpace - We came, we saw, we slept on the floor . . .

"For we can still love the world, who find a famished kitten on the step and
know recesses for it from the fury of the street" - Hart Crane  "Chaplinesque"

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Date: 21 Oct 1998 01:10:18 GMT
From: fruwench@aol.com (FruWench)
Subject: Re: Cincinnati/NKU show

>Wonder what they'd think of us Nashville boys setting up and juggling at
>one of the shows?  :) 

Several folks did at the King of Prussia show.  During Fruvous's rare adn short
lived Gazebo to Gazebo Tour.  :-)

ladywench
FruSpace - We came, we saw, we slept on the floor . . .

"For we can still love the world, who find a famished kitten on the step and
know recesses for it from the fury of the street" - Hart Crane  "Chaplinesque"

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