From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V3 #7 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 Tuesday, January 5 1999 Volume 03 : Number 007 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Lowest Priced Music In The World 2889 [hofcsx@radiolink.net] Re: Sorry [hKatherine@ehmail.com] LA show... why i love & hate Fruvous [tmbgirl@juno.com] small kat in big city: NYC review part I, 12.31 ["^kat^" ] small kat in big city, part II: NYC Review, 1.1 ["^kat^" , petit_chou@juno.com wrote: > > Okay, guys, sorry to do this, but does anyone know how to get in touch > with our absent brother George Nowick? He moved to Quebec and all, and I > wanted to know how I could contact him. If you have any information on > the missing person, please contact America's Most Wanted at > petit_chou@juno.com . Thank you for your support. > > And George, if you're reading this, get your ass off of the newsgroup and > e-mail me, damnit! Simple, yet complicated ;P George doesn't have his computer stuff right now, having kept his priorities geared to clothing while packing. But he should be checking in regularly at friends' houses, and since his work address is no longer relevant, his new one is baygledawg@yahoo.com (don't ask, don't tell - I still don't know what baygledawg means.) hKath, who is now speaking like George, god help her. - -- "Don't you hate it when you find out your ex-girlfriend's not fat anymore?" -- Topon Das - -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 05:28:04 GMT From: tmbgirl@juno.com Subject: LA show... why i love & hate Fruvous Oh geez... look at what this band has done to me! so, with a little bit of convincing, my parents have agreed to let me go on a 24 hour greyhound bus trip from Denver to LA with a total stranger... a male nonetheless for, yep, you guessed it, a Frushow :D If it weren't for the fact that i almost died trying to see them last time, i don't think they would have agreed but somehow, it made them feel sorry for me so... Wednesday morning, Tyler and i will be on our way to Frübliss. So you think that's all? ha! I'm gonna be missing one of my finals. And sure, it's only high school but still... i really do plan on going to college next year and i'm thinking this won't be helping me...eh? To top that off... there's a girl on the TMBG mailing list in LA that claims she loves fruvous but can't afford her rent muchless the show so what do i do? of course, I've offered to buy a ticket for her to go with us. (i really think i'm losing my mind here... but i dunno what i'd do if i was in that situation and not be able to see the frulads when they were in my home town) ah well, i'll just keep singing Michael Shelley's "Going To LA" and tell myself it'll all work out :D :::every *thursday* hit the Roxy::: take it easy, JOrdaN http://www2.netcom.com/~arnot/joda/bootlegs.html what's up with all the misplaced commas? ___________________________________________________________________ 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, 4 Jan 1999 23:46:11 -0500 From: "^kat^" Subject: small kat in big city: NYC review part I, 12.31 well, i'm not the first to relate my new york adventures, but i didn't want to be the last, so here we go: my mother, father, friend elizabeth & i left dayton, OH for NYC around 12:30 am monday morning. we spent the week doing touristy things [seeing the UN, going up in the empire state builiding, etc.] and *shopping* -- i swear, there isn't a clothing or shoe store in manhattan we didn't enter. but none of that really concerns any of you, so i'll skip to thursday [new year's eve]... we took the subway to greenwich village around noon, stopping at a starbucks [yeah, yeah, i know, promoting an evil corporate empire] for warmth before we sought out the venue. what struck me as ironic was the writings on the wall inside the restroom: there was a fiery debate about *noam chomsky's* beliefs for society. here i am, en route to a fruvous concert, in a starbucks restroom, reading about noam chomsky... the implications were staggering. ;) so, we found the bottom line, and i convinced my mother to purchase tickets for the early show, as well [we were only going to attend the late show & the early show the next night]. having done so, we wandered the city a bit more, finally bidding farewell to my father & getting in line around 5:30. all was fine until the owner came out & informed us all that this is a "21 & up show and double-proof of ID is needed". this announcement chilled us even more than the icy wind breezing past those of us in line. fortunately, they meant only to purchase *drinks*. we had no trouble entering the establishment, & got seated three seats back at a long table stage dave. perfect. i left the table to change from warm winter wear to concert-attending garb [read: dragon t-shirt & fire pants :) ], and when i returned, we placed an order for food. no one told us that the food there was tastless & *slow*... but we found that out on our own soon enough. ;p we got our frumiles cards stamped (#3), then returned to the table in time for our food to arrive & fruvous to come onstage. let me say that there is *nothing* more decadent than watching fruvous perfom live while eating cheesecake. mmm... the set: THIS BOY -- an a cappella ditty i'd never heard before. they chose the dan bern fan sitting next to the stage at our table for "that boy," which i found rather funny. SAHARA -- non-extended, but still a pleasure. JOCKEY -- w/ the elusive second verse. oooh. audience chatter, reprimanding those people not staying for the later show [as if they'd have something *better* to do...]. however, the reactions were mediorcre. jian told me later he felt like they should've been singing dirges instead... YOU CAN'T BE TOO CAREFUL -- never heard this one before, & it's pretty catchy. even now i'm humming the chorus after only reading the title on my self-made setlist here. i just really couldn't hear what they were saying in the verses b/c the instruments were turned up so loudly. but then, i s'pose that'll be what the next album is for, right? :) SAD GIRL -- *sigh* 'nuff said. they mentioned having a new studio album this year, and that they would be recording it in march. this brought forth many cheers from the audience, prompting murray to commment, "let's hear it for march!" all the songs would be related to march, and dave informed us that the title would be _comes in like a lamb_. watch for it. I LOVE MY BOSS -- oooh. this cracks me up every time i hear it. [and jian's pretty, ah, *entertaining* to watch, as well. mmm.] YWGTTM -- they broke into a piano-improv... well, actually *mike* broke into a piano-improv about the moon before actually singing the real thing. dave, right above us, was letting his facial expressions run wild, while mike & jian kept jumping around each other singing "fa fa... fa fa... fa fa..." it amazes me, even from a technical standpoint, how these guys can play instruments, move wildly, and still keep *singing*! wow. ASH HASH -- this was a total surprise. i really didn't like the song itself before seeing it performed. now, it keeps finding its way into my head. they all had the funniest facials and the song itself was totally rockin'. FLY -- following this, jian posed the question, "tureen or fly?" there was a long moment and some scattered responses before i realized that they were *asking* us. ;p i shouted, "fly!" someone [dave?] commented that the answers tend to fall along gender lines [i leave it to you to decide which wanted which. ;) ] "fly" was the winner b/c, as jian put it, it was requested the last time they were in new york opening for the violent femmes, & they didn't play it. "so, this is for the people who requested it -- that aren't here." a beautiful rendition, as always. GET IN THE CAR -- hmm... no comments here. typical good stuff. LOVE POTION MEDLEY -- excerpts from jewel, alanis, & that barbie girl song. the dan bern fan next to me asked how many albums they had, & seemed shocked when i told her five. i recommended _live noise_... i think they converted many a dan bern fan over the course of the three nights. we cheered awfully loudly for an encore, but the lights came up & we prepared ourselves for dan bern. i'm not sure what i expected [i think my mental picture had a beard...], but he wasn't it. he had some hilarious songs -- i particularly enjoyed the one about God & the other about henry miller & marilyn monroe. (i'm glad i liked those two, 'cause he played them at all three shows...) he really did sound like [what i've heard of] bob dylan, though more humorous & clever w/ his lyrics. nevertheless, i doubt i'll be buying his CD. his lyrics are sharp, but not the kind i'd listen to over & over again. after the show, we moved to the bar area so that they could clear off the tables, then got our hats & noisemakers for the new years festivities. we snagged the same table, but got the 2 seats closest to the stage [enabling eliz to snag a setlist for each of us afterward -- she got dave's, i got mike's & his rhymes for "boo time," also]. we had our frucards stamped once more (#4), and mom spotted a suited figure w/ dark curly hair chatting across the room. eliz & i promptly left our seats & went to talk to jian, who greeted us warmly, commenting that we'd come all the way from god knows where... [ohio, i reminded him.] we talked briefly, with his inquiring as to how we managed to get into a 21 & up venue... *heh* before getting the obligatory pictures & wishing him luck for the next set. dan bern opened this time, & the only 2 songs he re-played were the two aforementioned god & henry miller tunes. his "people" would clap about 4 bars into any song they liked. at one point, they clapped so loud that he had to stop & said, "all my life i've dreamed of something like this . . . and now that it's happened, i'm like 'shut up so i can play the fucking song'." we got the up-close-&-personal view of dan when the wiring to his guitar started to crackle & pop. he unplugged the guitar, stood in front of the monitors *right above* our table, & played. then, at one point, he actually stepped *on* our table, scattering noisemakers & beer bottles. it was quite the performance. so, a brief break and then... fruvous, a mere half hour before the new year. :) the set: DARLING -- a new one for me to hear live. dave was watching his accordion so intently, he looked like he was growling. it was *hilarious*. BJ -- live performances of both this song & the last one really make them sparkle. instead of "as with logic...", mike muttered, "intergalactic planetary planetary intergalactic"... they bantered a bit after this, & jian commented that he'd like a volunteer couple to kiss onstage so that we could all live vicariously through their "sex act." the couple looked like [meaning no offense] a pair of aging hippies, but they certainly loved each other, as was evident by the "sex-act preview" we witnessed before... HORSESHOES -- w/ a *real* piano. as dave said, an appropriate song for new year's resolutions. HOLD -- as soon as jian prefaced this song, i was mesmerized: "a song that some people see as happy... but even happy events can have a sad side, as well." this is shaping up to be my favorite fruvous song yet. it's just so beautiful... after "hold" we had only a minute & a half until the new year, so the countdown began, w/ jian drumming in the background. as the clock struck midnight, the balloons on the ceiling were released, but the static from the plastic bags they were in kept them all from falling at once. periodically, balloons would fall throughout the rest of the night, just sort of slowly floating above our heads. the lights went out onstage, so we missed seeing our couple kiss. oh, well. the band members hugged one another while we tossed streamers & made noise. [apparantly my mother got kissed by some drunk fellow sitting next to her. ;p] we broke into several choruses of auld lang syne, after which the lads joked about there being no truth to the Y2K myth, since everything still seemed to be working. mm-hmm. sooo, we were then treated to the first appearance of 1999 for... KING / GREEN -- *perfect* song to follow the new year's festivities. we were all standing anyway, so we just kept dancing & singing & overall celebrating. and i've *almost* got all the words to "GE&H" down... BOOTY -- more dancing & general revelry... here's mike's bridge, straight from his own paper: bottom linin' * auld lang zinin' * guy lombardo * waiting 4 godot * harry carey * bells st. mary * shilly shally * chris [written "father"] o'malley * henry miller * phyllis diller * bottle chivas * marion fruvous * ... and then something about new year's eve & fruvous for the repeated line, i think, but he changed it the second time through after jian laughed at him. i never quite caught all of what he was saying. whoops. MICHIGAN -- funfunfun. elicited many cheers from the audience. ORGAN -- whee! this was a *treat*, absolutely. yet another song that sparks when you can feel the energy zipping from one band member to the next on the verses... SUBSTITUTE -- that's what i thought it was called, & what it says on mike's setlist... but i'd never heard it before, & could barely understand what the guys were saying due to the high level of the instruments. *shrug* it was appropriately loud & rockin', tho'. happy new year. :) SPANISH -- yeah, and i had no clue what this song was, either... someone posted here that it was "walking spanish" by tom waits. there was a tom waits fan named jason who only attended the early show that was dazzled by their cover of "jockey." he should've heard this. sorry, jason. PSYCO [sic] -- after this song, the crowd was on their feet cheering for an encore, which we got. thankfully. i was upset when fruvous didn't come back, even for one song, for the early set. AUTHORS -- murray said "my crucifixion," jian said "i was looking straight". i couldn't help grinning, considering my resolution to read works by all these authors. atwood is my first... SAUCEP'N -- i have "duck skwawk" scrawled on my handwritten setlist... i can't remember why, though. i *do* remember jian's problems w/ the penny whistle, however. he dashed into the stage R audience looking for a glass of water, during which mike covered w/ a johnny cash song. *heehee* the water did the trick, fortunately... DRINKING -- my, the end of the evening came all too soon, even tho' fruvous stayed a bit past when they planned to stop playing. my mother surprised me by singing the chorus -- she's now a full-fledged fru-convert. *grin* i did the appropriate hand motions, tho' not many others did [as far as i could see]. it's so unifying to have a roomfull of strangers singing & swaying to the same song. god, do i love fruvous shows. :) we dashed out immediately after the show b/c it was nearing one am [the time my father was to come to pick us up], only to find him standing in the lobby of the bottom line. we hopped in our station wagon, drove back to the hotel... & proceeded to talk about fruvous [ok... we talked about *jian*] until 3 am. :) and yet, the best part was, there would be another show the next day... ^kat^ "oh, to dream -- those impotent bones of extinction, flying graceful and free..." ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 06:04:42 GMT From: petit_chou@juno.com Subject: Re: School ^kat^ sez: >thank you, heather, for this message of moral support... though I'm >among the lucky ones here in Ohio who, due to a freak snowstorm over the >weekend Okay, shut up I am so so jealous of you. : ) We had ONE little tiny bit of snow on the 23rd of Dec which scared everyone (it was REALLY heavy all night, resulting in several inches of snow and ice) until the heavy rains the next day wiped it out ENTIRELY thereby canceling out my chances for a White Christmas YET AGAIN! Grrrr. Pretty cool for you, though. Hope you're enjoying the snow and are safe (that goes to all of you Midwesterners). >my condolences on your missing that Canadian history class! may the >scheduling gods shine on you next semester... Thank you, thank you. Keep your fingers crossed. A Canadian Literature class is going to be offered next quarter, and I'm going to sign up for it in the hopes that it goes through. (*please*please*please*) Heather Moore (ob fru-content: I am taking on the New Year's Resolution tossed out by a clever poster on this ng and am going to try to read one book from all the authors mentioned in MBLABOA) ___________________________________________________________________ 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: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 05:17:37 GMT From: vika@ibm.net (Vika Zafrin) Subject: Re: Dan Bern Bonnie Conrad delighted us with: >I just had to post a few words about Dan Bern. I came out of the >Bottom Line shows a much bigger Dan Bern fan than I was previously. >Dan, like Fruvous, is utterly original and by definition won't appeal to > everyone, but he is the finest songwriter I've run across since finding >the fru-four three years ago. Suffice it to say I sat in stunned silence >at the beauty and the emotion of the last song he did at the early show >on Jan. 2 (the one about his family from Lithuania). It's been awhile >since that happened. Agreed, that song is beautiful (though I wasn't at that particular show, I know the song). And Dan is definitely one of the more talented people I've ever seen perform. But I can definitely relate to people who didn't like him for the profanities, or the ... er, frankness. My first experience with his live performance was less than stellar: in February (or so) at the Iron Horse I was thoroughly enjoying his set until he went and sang something so completely and totally irresponsible and crude (yes, about Russians. Eastern European immigrants as well. I'm really touchy on the subject. Does it show at all, ever?) that I got all huffy and offended and can honestly say that he is, to date, the only amazingly talented person I refuse to cook for. Even if I get an opportunity to. Why? Because I saw the people's reaction to his comments. I don't remember exactly what they were anymore, but the people reacted as though they were meant literally. To me, it was obvious they weren't meant that way, especially knowing his roots. But they weren't *perceived* that way. There were whistles, and shouts of agreement, and the whole thing made me cringe and want to run and hide. That's where the performer's responsibility comes in, and I don't believe he held up to his responsibility that night. As far as I was concerned (and I saw the faces of the few people who saw what was going on, confused and sometimes hurt; I know it wasn't just me), Dan had propagated the Cold War feelings mindlessly, didn't seem to care. Either he was giving his audience more credit than that crowd deserved, or he really just didn't care about how he came across. Having seen a bit more of his performance, I tend to think the latter, in most cases. And it's his prerogative, I guess. But I still don't think it's right. Are you still reading this drivel?? Shame on you, go do something productive! - -v, opinionated Vika Zafrin vika@ibm.net "The wonderful thing about Shakespeare is that when it's done well, it makes people feel smarter than they are. As opposed to dumber than they are. There is really no in-between." - Spencer Golub ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 05:27:25 GMT From: koogle@clark.net Subject: 12-31-98 Bottom Line, First show I took a poll, and decided to go with separate reviews for each show. It may take a while to do them all, but I'll try. 12-31. I stopped by the club to pick up my tickets, and the guys were soundchecking. IWHO sounded very warm, which led me to believe we were going to get a nice, loose show. I couldn't have been more wrong. I was with two friends who knew Fruvous from Bargainville, but really hadn't kept up since then; neither of them had ever seen the guys live. We were at a table far Stage Dave, kind of behind a pole. The drinks seemed ridiculously expensive and the club was cold. I was sure I'd feel better once Fruvous went on. Setlist That Boy Sahara Jockey You Can't Be Too Careful Sad Girl Boss Moon Ash Hash Fly Get in the Car (Chelsea Morning intro) Potion They started off with That Boy, all gathered around one mic. Good sound, but it was clear from their posture and breathing that they'd been off the road for a few weeks. Still, I was into it. The classic doo-wop is a nice change. Jian started the chattering by talking about playing two shows that night, so they were going to save something for the second show, just in case some of us would be there for both. Of course, he said, the people who weren't going to be at both shows were implying that there was something better to do in NYC on New Year's Eve. So Jian said they'd be holding back, but they'd still do a great show. "As much excitement as four songs in an hour can be!" Mur quipped to a murmur from the audience, most of whom seemed to be there to see Dan Bern. Like Phish, suggested an audience member. "No, even more boring than Phish," was Jian's response. (Has Jian ever seen Phish live? I don't think so...) It seemed like there was a little much talking at the beginning of the show. The guys were obviously trying to find a groove. Sahara seemed forced, but segued into a nice Jockey. Mike really rocked out on that. (That's what my notes say "Mike Rocks Out.") They intro'd Careful as a new song, which it is, and Dave said it's Double Edged. As they were playing it, I found it not even single edged, lyrically; although the tune was nice and they played it with a lot of energy. Mur aptly called it a rocker after it was over. Sad Girl followed, with Dave on piano. He was nattering around for a bit, and Murray remarked that Dave was the most entertaining piano player you were ever going to see. Not the best, but the most entertaining. At that point Dave went into Misty, except that he changed the words to reflect how Mur was being snotty. Boss was possibly the lowest highest point of the show. They seemed to be in good voice, and finally settling in a little, but when Jian held out the mic to the audience after "Fruvous luncheon date" there was little reaction. Like the other a-capella numbers, Boss was very fast and tight. That can be good, or it can be off-putting; tonight it was off-putting. I had never seen Ash Hash live, and it was as entertaining as I'd always assumed. The crowd wasn't biting, and I felt a bit weird cheering. Jian mentioned that Fly was requested the last time they played in NYC, but that the person who made the request probably wasn't there. Standard version. The Chelsea Morning intro to Car was actually very cool, I wish I could remember why it happened. Dave sang the first verse and then paused for a split second before going into "I'm All Right..." It worked for me, and I thought this was the best song of the set. Closed with a fairly standard Love Potion medley, I think it rocked harder than usual. It was tight, as all the songs were. As I said, sometimes tight is good; but sometimes it's just a sign of nerves. Fruvous left the stage quickly and Dan looked downright mellow in comparison when he came on next. His set was entertaining and engaging, and the crowd loved him. The friends I was with were disappointed that they didn't do anything from Bargainville, I was psyched to see no songs from Bargainville, but I'd like to have seen another new song in that set. I was quite relieved when my friends stopped complaining and left; I wondered what the next set would be like as those of us who were staying for the second show were herded into the "bar area." Stay tuned...This was a hard one to write. - --Amanda - -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 01:21:40 -0500 From: "^kat^" Subject: Re: Authors... >(ob fru-content: I am taking on the New Year's Resolution >tossed out by a clever poster on this ng and am going to try to read one >book from all the authors mentioned in MBLABOA) *grin* how appropriate that you mention that in a response to yours truly... 'twas my own humble suggestion, and i'm currently attacking _good bones & simple murders_ by margaret atwood. the inside flap sounded intriguing when i picked it up at our local half-price book store, & i'm enjoying it thus far. tho' i *really* should get to that calculus & bio II homework i haven't done yet... but that's what the day off tomorrow is for, n'est-ce pas? ;p anyone else joining us in our journey through the fruvously mentioned authors? perhaps we can turn this into a book-a-month club, with one month off for good behavior. :) the 11 authors are, in alphabetical order: Margaret Atwood William S. Burroughs Pierre Burton Robertson Davies Bell Hooks W.P. Kinsella Doris Lessing Gabriel Garcia Marquez Salmon Mousse Ondaatje Mario Puzo there. my work here is done. now i'm finally going to bed... ^kat^ "i'll catch you, spread my tiny wings & fly away" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 01:01:44 -0500 From: "^kat^" Subject: small kat in big city, part II: NYC Review, 1.1 ahh, the first day of 1999. jan. 1 dawned bright & *very* cold. we spent the day visiting with relatives before driving to the bottom line & becoming the first ones in line around 4:45. we chatted w/ someone named bonnie, another early arrival, before others appeared. we'd been waiting up by the marquee, but the Dan Bern Lady i'd been sitting next to the previous night informed us that the line always starts back farther, so we should all move back. [last night there'd been a metal chain up to define the start of the line; no such marker was out today] so, about 12 of us move back. then... others appear. and line up in *front* of us. that was a bit upsetting. i don't think i would've cared nearly as much if 1) they didn't all seem to have carloads of friends pulling up & joining them in line, & 2) it was *really* cold. & we'd been suffering outside for longer then they had. justice rang out when they brought forth the missing fencing, around 5:20, and defined us as the front of the line. [if you were in the front & moved back, we meant no disrespect. hopefully you found fine seats & enjoyed the show as thoroughly as we did.] we chatted among ourselves, and i met andrea, amy, and bruce [? i think that was his name...]. they identified themselves as the pumpkin people, & i complemented them on their artistic abilities. turns out andrea used to live in centerville, OH [my hometown] & both she & bruce enjoy returning to kings island for the rollercoasters. :) wow, small world... we sat with the three of them once we were inside, stage dave once more [in, actually, the same seats as the early show the previous night]. after restoring circulation to my fingers [i'd already lost all hope for my feet], i got a table-wide game of uno going. the problem was the red lighting: blue/green & red/yellow colors were nearly indistinguishable. we had to keep holding cards up against the light to determine exactly what color they were... kinda added a new spin on an otherwise mindless game. ;p when we sorta gave up on playing, eliz & i got our frucards stamped (#5 for me, #3 for her). she redeemed her card for the keychain. me, i'm still trying to figure out how i can get 25 more stamps in one year... ;p tobey commented that i wasn't wearing my fire pants tonight. *heehee* i told him no, new year's was just a special occasion. we returned to our seats in time for fruvous to enter the stage. the set: banter about their new name, "paradigm shift." this became a running gag throughout the set. at some point, also, jian commented on the horrible picture in the new york post that not only eliminated mike & dave, but made jian look stoned. [murray didn't fare much better, either...] *shrug* my NYC relative is sending it to me, so i'll be able to judge for myself soon enough. :) HALF AS MUCH -- didn't recognize it at first... can't remember if i've heard this one before or not. really wish i could discern what they were saying. i liked the melody, though... SPIDER -- i was disappointed that mike didn't run through the audience with wild abandon, as usual... but i s'pose neither the acoustics nor the packed tables surrounding the stage lent themselves to such an act. "eight legs good, two legs bad..." YOU CAN'T BE TOO CAREFUL -- yes, i like this song a *lot*. it's darn catchy, with some amazing harmonies. i don't think the new album can come out soon enough... a bit of banter about "sad confetti," and the remains of the party the night before. jian untwined a "happy new year" tiara from his drum kit, looked at it distastefully, and tried to put it back... but it fell. a few more balloons released themselves from the static cling & floated silently past the stage. HORSESHOES -- i can never hear this song too many times. it's wonderful, particularly w/ mike on a grand piano. followed by banter about yo yo ma, "the world's most *fly* cellist." :) I LOVE MY BOSS -- oooh. rowrr. andrea asked me after the show, "did you enjoy 'boss' as much as i did?" i dare say i was inclined to agree... more banter, this time about the US annexing canada: it's not difficult, really, since 97% of the population lives within 7 miles of the border. just send 4 tanks across the border w/ a megaphone saying, "you're all american now." it won't even get a headline. the headline will be, "Puerto Rico Votes on Independence," & at the bottom of the People section will be a 2 line blurb: "US annexes Canada. 51st state announced." :) KIDS -- highly appropriate for the "all-ages" show. this song always elicits some wacky dancing from the lads, i've decided... it got lots of laughs from the audience. i shouted, "NO!" to quebec separating, but not many other people realized that they were being asked, i guess, 'cause not many others responded [that i could hear, anyway]. oh, well. I WILL HOLD ON -- ohh, i was *so* happy to hear this a second time. they could perform this at every show i see & i will never tire of it. makes up for not hearing "no no raja" [the only other jian-song i would've liked to catch live once more... but i'm not complaining. no sirree. ;)]. KING / GREEN, BJ -- all ages, many kids -- i expected these. still fun, nonetheless. i think, at some point during BJ, everyone was *doing* something, so that i couldn't place where to look. i was too close to the stage to see all four of them at once, so i kept shifting my gaze back & forth frantically, so as not to miss a bit of it. now, for how many performers can you say such a thing, i ask of you? hmm? ;) rhymes: "looks like phyllis diller / runnin' like henry miller..." DANCING QUEEN -- oh, when they started the "doo doo"s for this, i nearly shrieked with excitement. i'm a closet ABBA fan, tho' fruvous does this with more flair than ever ABBA had, i do believe. *grin* afterward, we shouted for an encore... & we got one, all right: GULF WAR SONG (off mic) -- i'm pretty sure this is my favorite way to end a show. they stepped to the stage just above where we were sitting... and sang. a few snickers from the back on the humorous lines... it was prefaced as a song that they wished weren't still applicable today... but yet is painfully so. a beautiful ending. during the brief pause before dan's set, mom spotted mike in the audience, so i went over & said a brief "fantastic job" or somesuch before he was engaged in conversation. i sat down for yet another dan bern show... and was pretty darn surprised to hear him open with "tiger woods" for the all-ages show. but, from what several songs i've heard, he doesn't seem to have an "all-ages" show in him. either that, or he just doesn't care. fruvous was pretty good about respecting the children & kept the curse words to a minimum. oh, well -- to each his own. suddenly, mom nudges me: *jian* has appeared by the bar. [i don't know how she's able to spot these guys, having never attended a show before this...] eliz & i went to the bar, on pretense of getting water, and sipped it until he came toward us. i gave him a hug... and boy, did he smell *good*. mmm. i told him we were leaving after the show, & he informed me that they had a show in *dayton* coming up in early february! this was news -- *fantastic* news -- to me, and tempered the bittersweetness of having seen our last NYC show. it'll be *much* nicer only to drive 25 minutes to see fruvous, instead of an hour... or two... or twelve. ;p so, we sat back down for the rest of dan's set, & heard that god song again... but w/ fruvous references this time ["even planes going from, say, new york to toronto, go through phoenix"]. and the next thing i knew, fruvous was coming out *onstage* to play with him! it really sparked up dan's set... no offense to the dan bern fans out there, but he needs a backup band sometimes. they did 3 or 4 songs together, one of which was about his being the messiah, one being the long one about the thanksgiving day parade... & the marilyn monroe / henry miller ditty i enjoy so much. & with fruvous along for the ride -- wow. :) made me *extremely* glad we didn't perversely leave in the middle of dan's set. even his encore was fruvous-related: instead of singing "cheese, cheese, cheese..." we all sang "moxy moxy fruvous, moxy moxy fruvous..." and dan concluded with "all i eat is moxy fruvous." *heehee* at last, we parted ways with our newfound fruvous friends after the show. we had to pack; we needed to leave before the worst of the storm hit saturday; we weren't sure we could sit through another of dan's sets. but we left with amazing memories, and a new year unfolding before us. my mother is a permanent fan now, & swears she's going to buy a separate set of fru-cd's when i'm off with mine at college next year. [she also forgot to get her *own* frumiles card, but she plans on showing tobey her ticket stubs at the dayton show]. as for me? i spent the day today making my own "fruvous conversion tape," and dubbing copies of it for three people [using, as tape covers, my overexposed photos from NKU... hopefully the pics i took w/ the 400-speed stuff will turn out better]. and i keep closing my eyes and returning to that little table in the bottom line, immersed in harmony and hilarity. but that will have to wait until another time. happy new year, everyone. may 1999 bless you with much happiness and many fruvous experiences-- ^kat^ "i'll hold the hope that we won't part, and i'll hold off death so i can live with you" ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V3 #7 ******************************************