From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #999 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Monday, November 9 1998 Volume 01 : Number 999 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Tragically Hip? ["Aye, who's asking whom?" ] Re: Can we get all four, folks? (was Fruvous Jerseys) [Chewbacca ] Re: Halloween Setlist [pit1812a@aol.com (PIT1812a)] Re: Has anyone ever noticed? [tmbgirl@juno.com] Re: Rochesterites! [Gabe Shepard ] Re: Tragically Hip? [shweiss17@aol.com (SHWeiss17)] Re: Has anyone ever noticed? [petit_chou@juno.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 21:34:30 -0500 From: "Aye, who's asking whom?" Subject: Re: Tragically Hip? Okay, let's see if I can help. The Tragically Hip are five guys from Kingston, Ontario. Their self-titled debut came out in 1988, and around that time I saw a segment on Venture (the Sunday-night business journal on CBC) about their record company, MCA Canada, trying to figure out how to promote a rock band on what was then a very r&b label. I'd like to argue I was the first American to buy a Tragically Hip album, but I doubt it (Kingston is only three hours from my house, so anyone on the border could have purchased a copy a month of two earlier). Since then, they've established themselves as the definitive Canadian rock band through extensive touring and through an impressive output of albums. One of my favorite TH albums, "Up to Here", is a great way to see why. Lots of tight, boot-pumping tunes with lines you never want to forget ("He's 38 years old, never kissed a girl", "Some kind of Elvis thing"). There is a country influence, but it's nothing in-your-face nor taxing. It's the good parts of eighties rock (actual singing, tunes, "a good beat you can dance to") with the good parts about country (good writing, lyrical mnemonic devices, guitars). As I'm used to being the only person for miles that has heard of TH, I was in shock when I went to bars in Montreal and found EVERY TH album in most juke boxes, in place of Journey and Black Sabbath. (Look, they don't change the discs at my favorite bar too often, okay?) It's odd to think of them as a form of jock-rock, but I suppose it's the nature of their music. Catchy, and great for road (Apples) trips. Yeah, I like 'em a lot. Fully, completely. - -get behind anything, Dante ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 21:08:05 -0600 From: Chewbacca Subject: Re: Can we get all four, folks? (was Fruvous Jerseys) Chad Schrock wrote: > invierno is Spanish, French, and Portugese for winter. (Which Actually, the french for "winter" as I learned it was "Hiver." I understand that it's probably the canadian french, but still, has ties to the "vier" part if nothing else :) Also, we could settle for my friends Melissa Winter and Spring Wilbur. That'd finish the seasons, eh? Arabel ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 03:13:27 GMT From: "A.J. LoCicero" Subject: Re: Has anyone ever noticed? The esteemed Vika Zafrin wrote: > > nicole.twn.is@ana.ng.at.tmbg.org (Nicole the Wonder Nerd) delighted us > with: > > >So, at the risk of playing devil's advocate: are chain stores *always* > >a bad thing? > > Well, when they're a franchise, it may be that they aren't a bad > thing. I don't know if Starbuck's is franchised, but for some reason > I'm thinking they'd be more sensitive to the needs of their local > community if they were - you know, the decisions wouldn't be made by > someone thousands of miles away. I agree with Vika there. A franchised chain can be quite locally focused if the owner is the enlightened type. There are some franchise McDonalds that are worth eating at just to see the decor. The thing I don't like about chains is that they tend to leach all the diversity out of different locales. Howard Johnson's, one of America's first chains, was created because it used to be impossible to get a dependable meal on the road. Cooking was so regional that visiting another state could be like visiting another culture. Chains have brought us predictable business that look the same all over the country (and all over the world). There are many advantages to this, but the price we pay is the loss of diversity. Chain stores are easy to patronize. Chances are that you know the menu by heart, or know the layout of the store. You know what brands are carried, and about what a particular item should cost. When you walk into an indie store you are entering the wilderness. It is far more interesting, but no where near as easy. Chains kill local stores because they offer consistency, longer hours, large, predictable selection, and often pricing that stores with lesser volume cannot match. I often lament the loss of mom and pop stores, but when I need something right now, do I head for some little store that may or may not have what I want, or do I go somewhere that I know can fill my needs, and within which I know I can easily find what I'm looking for. Unfortunately, I often pick the chain for convenience and price, much as I dislike them for having no soul. A.J. - -- Q: How many art directors does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: Oooooh, Does it HAVE to be a light bulb? _____ _ / ____(_) | | _ ___ ___ _ __ ___ | | | |/ __/ _ \ '__/ _ \ | |____| | (_| __/ | | (_) | \_____|_|\___\___|_| \___/ @wwnet.com ICQ#: 13117113 ------------------------------ Date: 10 Nov 1998 03:36:42 GMT From: pit1812a@aol.com (PIT1812a) Subject: Re: Halloween Setlist > >If I'm not mistaken the band has also requested that this concert not be >extensively traded. At least that's the impression I got when some of the >finer details of my video-taping were being discussed. > when i spoke to the sound dude from fruvous at the show about getting a copy he said plenty of people would be taping so ask them to trade. i never heard a whisper of unhappiness with taping the halloween show. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 04:29:03 GMT From: tmbgirl@juno.com Subject: Re: Has anyone ever noticed? >There's a mall named after you in upstate NY, somewhere off of Rte. 17 >on >the way from Ithaca to Buffalo. >"Arnot Mall" "is too" "Arnot" <-quotes from a roadtrip. oh yeah, i get that all the time and i also hear "to be arnot to be... that is the question" take it easy, JOrdaN http://www2.netcom.com/~arnot/joda/bootlegs.html ___________________________________________________________________ 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/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 23:29:41 -0500 From: Gabe Shepard Subject: Re: Rochesterites! "Jack S. Porcello" wrote: > >>Hometown: Penfield, New York > > >another rochesterite, eh? > > *snip* > > Yay Rochesterites!!!! Who else, eh? Me too, although this is the first time I've ever actually posted anything :> From Canandaigua actually, but going to school in Cleveland. (Caught their CWRU show last week....sitting on the floor during a show isn't as bad as it sounds :>) - -Gabe ------------------------------ Date: 10 Nov 1998 04:21:04 GMT From: shweiss17@aol.com (SHWeiss17) Subject: Re: Tragically Hip? I love The Hip! Stop what you're doing right now and go buy Phantom Power - their newest CD - I can't stop listening to this one! It's wonderful! I love Day for Night too, it was my favorite Hip CD 'til the new one. Fully Completely and Road Apples are also great, but I'm not too fond of trouble at the henhouse. You might want to check out their live CD - Live Between Us - it's been out for about a year or so in Canada, but just recently released here in the US. I'm sooooo psyched that they're coming to Philly on the 27th!!! - - Sue * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * "Nothing really matters like you think it does anyway" - Francis Dunnery ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 04:26:42 GMT From: petit_chou@juno.com Subject: Re: Has anyone ever noticed? Aw, but Elliott Bay is so nice! Then you'd make a horrid smell permeate the EBBookstore! Let's throw it in Lake Washington or something. YEAH! ::::raising fist into the air as a sign of defiance:::: Heather Moore On 10 Nov 1998 02:15:42 GMT jenncyn@aol.com (JennCyn) writes: >All right, Washingtonians, demand your rights! It's time for the >Seattle >Coffee Party! Let's storm the waterfront and dump all the Starbucks >coffee we >can get our hands on into Elliott Bay! WHO'S WITH ME?! > >- jenn > ___________________________________________________________________ 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/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #999 ********************************************