From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #186 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, August 3 1998 Volume 01 : Number 186 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Frustock aka KoP show review (really long) [rvenkate@spiketrain.npa.uiuc.] "Well, bless Canada for bringing us these boys" [Bell-occhio ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 3 Aug 1998 05:37:08 GMT From: rvenkate@spiketrain.npa.uiuc.edu (Kumar Venkateswar) Subject: Frustock aka KoP show review (really long) Before I start, I have to apologize if I forget anything (like people's names, for instance :-) - my mind really is a sieve, especially this late at night. So if anyone can fill in the holes, go right ahead, though it's ended up being longer than I intended already :-) The playlist: Sahara Jockey Full of Bourbon [gazebo improv] BJ Don't Cry Video Bargainville I Love My Boss Spiderman Fly Boo Time Mistra Know-it-all Pisco Bandito The Greatest Man in America I Will Hold On [dave will be beaten improv] Present Tense Tureen Johnny Saucep'n Philadelphia (?) (something like Let's Play to the Chief?) Missing Her King of Spain/GE&H [w/ lora's theme (?) improv] My Baby Loves a Bunch of Authors Get in the Car Love Potion #9 Michigan Militia [something I couldn't identify] The Drinking Song I'm still disappointed someone beat me to posting about the show, but at least this'll be the first review :-) My cousin (a Fruvirgin) and I left his place in Hatfield around 4:15pm, and thanks to Mary's excellent directions made it there and even knew where to park. We set up stage Murray near Mary and Misty, who I met for the first time (and Misty, if you're Maige, I feel like a real idiot because it didn't strike me until now, but then again I am really bad with names). The opener act was okay, though I'm not really that much into real folky music. I also met John (at least I hope that's your name) and his family from DC, and their Fruvirgin friend Pauline (who comes in again later). When Fruvous came out, I glanced behind, and realized that this is absolutely the biggest crowd I have seen at a Fruvous show, which explains why the announcer made some comment about it being Fruvous Woodstock (along with the jugglers and the scary half-naked guy with a stick, but we'll get to that again). There must have been at least a couple thousand people, I think. Nothing really striking about their clothes, except Jian was wearing an "I dig your boyfriend" t-shirt, which I've never seen before (not that that means much). They started out with Sahara (extended), and then did Jockey Full of Bourbon. (Oh, heck, now I realize my notes don't say who said anything, so anyone who wants to fill in or correct me, go right ahead :-). Since they were playing in some sort of gazebo-like structure, they talked a while about gazebos, and how this is a gazebo-to-gazebo tour, and Murray said that they actually drive the gazebo around from concert to concert, and they launched into an improv that was something like "We're gonna sing in a gazebo". They then sang BJ Don't Cry, with "He'd rather rock in Pennsylvania" instead of "stuffs his letters full of moxy" (can't remember the previous line :-/ ), followed by Video Bargainville. After that, the scary half-naked guy wearing a skirt-like thing walked across, and Mike said, "Look, a Scotsman!". The guy then walked onto a path in the middle of the stage, and bowed down before Jian, and Murray said something about it being like Joseph the Impromptu Musical, and Jian said something like he was carrying the Moslem thing too far. Then he noticed the camera, and decided it was the Viking 7 lander. Then they talked about Philadelphia's thriving economy and launched into I Love My Boss. Then Mike went out into the audience and started webslinging, and explained that the reason they go out into the audience is to get (I don't remember the exact phrase, but it was something like illegal substances) from the audience, and proceeded to get "blackberries in vodka" from Pauline, and drink milk from the Viking lander, then they played Spiderman. Then Jian talked about a request for a song the band got from someone that was breaking up with his girlfriend, and that the KoP concert was the last thing they would do "together", and then they played Fly. The next song was Boo Time (all I have of the scat is Upper Marion/something clarion/something stogie/something hoagies/Valley Forgin'/something encouragin'/Monica Lewinsky/.../Had a little Rush with the King of Pruss). Then they did Mistra Know-it-all, with a really neat bass solo by Murray. Then they talked about Central Ontario and how Americans visit there for the introduction to Pisco Bandito, except they got distracted by the noise from the congas (I vaguely remember a comment about nuclear radiation) before they started the song. Then they talked about when they first came to America (with sound effects) and played The Greatest Man in America. By this time, the "bugs from the Greater Philadelphia area" converged on the gazebo, but they valiantly continued on with gazebo banter, since it is an underused word (gazebo as a spice in an Italian dish, the president gave an address from the Oval gazebo, and something about preferring to refer to rubbers as gazebos). Then they played I Will Hold On, after which Murray made a comment about how being in a band you get used to playing even when a bug descends straight at you, and you exhale through your nose to keep the moth from going to your brain, when Dave made a comment about how it wanted to join its family, which prompted the Dave Will Be Beaten improv. They continued about how the bugs are really an American plot to kill Canadians, known as Gorefest, and that we weren't there to listen to them but to see them eaten alive. Then they launched into Present Tense Tureen, during which "mean and evil" Mary lit her citronella candles and took them to Tobey to put on stage. After the song, Jian made a comment about it being like a Sarah McLachlan concert with all the candles, and then they launched into Johnny Saucep'n. After that, Mike talked about how he came up with a song about Philadelphia two weeks ago when he walked to the bus station at 7am to get a haircut, and proceeded to sing a "little ditty". After that, since the candles weren't working as well as could have been hoped, though they were warming Murray's shins, someone took them Skintastic. Then they played the song I couldn't identify, then Missing Her. Then they started monk-like chants about being eaten by bugs, then launched into the introduction to King of Spain, and someone made a King of Prussia joke, so they made fun of him, and Mike introduced Captain Viagra Falls, the King of Spain! Then they played King of Spain (gazebo overhead instead of roof overhead, Flyers call me up instead of Leafs), which led into GE&H. When they got to the part about the Beatles, Dave's kung-fu reaction to screams at him was confused with a bald eagle (Jian, I think?). This led to slow-motion fighting, which ended in dancing to Lora's theme (?), and when Jian tried to get back to GE&H he cracked up and had to start it again. The next song was My Baby Loves a Bunch of Authors (my baby's hooked on my crucifixion, and an Elvis-like "turning pages" at the end), which led into Get in the Car. After that, Jian told everybody they were crazy for showing up and paying to see them (to which my response is "but it's a _good_ kind of crazy!") and launched into Love Potion #9. The first encore was Michigan Militia, followed by a cover that I couldn't identify (someone posted what it was, but I think the moths in my head ate it 'cause it's gone now). Then they went off, came back on and played The Drinking Song. They seemed pretty tired, which may or may not be a result of not being able to turn the vocals up any higher (as they found out at the beginning of the concert). On the whole, a good show, and an especially good crowd, and I even got to meet Fruheads that I didn't know. Kumar, who's ending it here since he's may fall asleep at any second - -- (Until a sig randomizer is installed, this space is free for organizations promoting the use of elk secretions in perfumes - call 217-ELK-ODOR for info) Ravikumar Venkateswar rvenkate@uiuc.edu http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/rvenkate ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 02:41:24 -0400 From: Bell-occhio Subject: "Well, bless Canada for bringing us these boys" Evenin' Frumongers, I found this tonight and I don't remember anyone mentioning it before. It's a small review but it's quite favorable! http://www.rpi.edu/~goodsd/bum/live/moxy.html Lace (at home, not in King of Prussia *sob*) ------------------------------ Date: 3 Aug 1998 07:19:26 GMT From: ourhamster@aol.com (OurHamster) Subject: Re: fruvous returning to nyc? >Of course, at the Styleens show they said they were going to >back to Albany, which isn't on their schedule either. :) As far as I remember, they only mentioned dates at Buff & Roch at the Styleen's show. Jude said that the shows would most likely be scheduled for November. They're probably not confirmed well enough to post publically. I'm sure they'll find a place in Buffalo at least once, if not twice in November. - --Novac "If you don't believe me, you can ring my doorbell and smell my toilet." --Television Commercial ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 07:39:53 +0000 From: em Subject: Re: Short 'n' sweet: 7/31 & 8/1 Colleen Campbell wrote: > Jian joked about his, "Nome Chomsky." *Groan.* Fruvous made it > through five songs, I think, before they abandoned propriety and > started messing around with us. They serenaded a guy on the balcony > (who was dancing rather enthusiastically in, I believe, a hockey > jersey; don't ask me what team!), who obliged unabashedly with jaunty > moves and later started making arcane hand signals at the guys, which > at least one of them tried to replicate. It was hilarious. Their > impromptu tune segued into a "Triangle Man" reference, similar to the > "Media Lab" song of MIT last year: "Balcony Guy." (Later, when Jian > asked who hadn't seen Fruvous before in the KoS intro, he was shocked > to find that Balcony Guy was a virgin and said he hoped the > deflowering experience was a good one.) Eventually Balcony Guy deserted the show, a fact that was lamented by all when the lads noticed it. > > The "stage" for the show was just a roped-off area between pilons > (with people peering down from the walkway above), so Fruvous was on > the same level with the crowd and the vast majority couldn't see the > band at all. Since most of the first 10 rows of fans were crammed > with those of us who'd seen Fruvous several times before (does that > make us sluts?), we were quite into the game when Jian started > ordering us to sit down and stand up in musical time. We were divvied > into the first five rows, the second five rows, and "the useless > f***ers" (which he amended later, perhaps realizing it was a family > show--including Harry Keates & daugher *smile*) behind us. Group A > sit down! Group B sit down! Useless f***ers, wave! We did all stay > seated during an entire song (I don't remember which one), and I think it was Minnie the Moocher. > remained patiently crammed & crouched until I asked if we could get up > now. Group A get up! It was hilarious, but maybe you had to be > there. During KoS, Murray interrupted Dave to say, "King! King! I > have a question! Do you consider your wardrobe choices to match?" > (They clearly didn't.) Dave snuggled up against Murray and replied, > lisping slightly, "Yes, they match *yours.*" The crowd howled. During KoS, it was also asked why the King of Spain has a Jamaican accent, which was something that "we've all been wondering for about five years, actually," and thn during the not-the-beatles bit of GE&H, Jian suggested ("Now I'm not saying we should do this, but I certainly hope that...") that Dave deserved a beating from five or six of the burlier fans, which Dave said sounded "like a hell of a good time." > > Minnie the Moocher was really fabulous, including a verse about > Chappaquidick (which I'm sure I misspelled) and how we love Kennedy > anyway, and another about Kenneth Starr's ego. There was one about > the rampaging Godzilla and Taco Bell's "little chinchilla; actually, > the real name of the creature is a chihuahua, and I'm pulling off > these rhymes by dint of bravura!" The standout verse, though, was > about how we should lay off Clinton, it was just "old-fashioned > sinnin'," it's time to let him off the "Presidential cooker" and focus > on Chelsea, "I think she's a lesbian hooker." That got a roar! During > "Spiderman," I couldn't even locate Mike while he made the usual > web-slinging noises; finally everyone pointed up and there he was, > appropriately enough on the balcony. And for much of the rest, the > show was spiced up for me by the familiarity of the audience with the > material--the number of people who participated on King of Spain/Green > Eggs & Ham, did the "Stayin' Alive" dance in Love Potion, etc. You'd > think I'd eventually get tired of it all, but I never do. Jian apparently noticed it as well, with his comment about how frushows were turning into the Rocky Horror Picture Show. It was a great show for me particularly because I've been desperate for a frufix since the MIT show, and I also managed to drag two of my friends to the show. They both loved it, particularly my friend Charlotte. I've had them listen to stuff at my house but I think the show itself was a better introduction to the band than I could come up with on my own. Even the other friend I had with me, who wasn't terribly enthusiastic beforehand, told me he was really impressed by the band's stage presence. So a good time was had by all, though we couldn't hang around after because we had a train to catch. em - -- £§£§£§£§£§ s t r a n g e p e r s o n @ h o t m a i l . c o m §£§£§£§£§£ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~e m t h e o d d~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #186 ********************************************