From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #825 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, October 20 1998 Volume 01 : Number 825 Today's Subjects: ----------------- You Know You're A Fruhead/fan When... [Marie.Claude@canada.com] Re: Highland Heights, KY show! [Chad Maloney ] Strange ILMB moment [samoq@aol.com (Samoq)] Re: The Gospel According to Frvous [wahrend@my-dejanews.com] Re: Review: Bloominton & NKU (very long) [Chad Maloney Subject: Re: Highland Heights, KY show! Matt Kenigson wrote: > Anyway, had a great time at the Perkins afterwards! "Emo, I'm going to > expel you" "You'll have to catch me and eat me first!" :) Which Perkins were you at?!?!? *grin* Excuse me, waiter, there's a price tag in my cocoa. - Chad ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 09:09:35 -0500 From: Chad Maloney Subject: Re: This could get interesting... ShawnHark wrote: > 17) When you feel compelled to respond to almost every item in the NG, and feel > like you hold back to avoid dominating the conversation. Hey!!! Oh... sorry. - Chad ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 09:11:43 -0500 From: Chad Maloney Subject: Re: I need a big favor for NoHo Christi218 wrote: > > Drea wrote: > > >Sure, just add to the suspense *lol* Anyway, I know I'll be armed with a > >camera, and I'm sure other members of Frucar Buffalo will be as well (right > >Chrissy? ;>) > > Um.....no....sorry....I *never* take my camera to Fruvous shows. > *laughs* =D And she never dives onto the stage to get set lists either... - Chad ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 09:01:59 -0500 From: Chad Maloney Subject: Re: Frudegreens Josh Woodward wrote: > This is most likely a mistake. Jian, at NKU, put a *huge* stress on both > words: > > "Maybe something... *BANNED*, maybe something formerly *BANNED*." Make those ...'s a good sized pause and those Banned really really stressed with a look on Jian's face that more or less meant "Listen to me this time, okay". It was quite quite funny for those of us who read the ng. - Chad ------------------------------ Date: 20 Oct 1998 14:55:34 GMT From: samoq@aol.com (Samoq) Subject: Strange ILMB moment The other night I was watching (don't laugh now...I only watch it for Myron Floren) the Lawrence Welk show, and the dancers came on to do some rhumba or samba type dance... the music started, and my husband and I looked at each other and said incredulously, "Isn't this...I Love My Boss?". It was! I swear, it was the same melody line! In a couple of places, the chordal progressions were different, but the similarities were amazing. I have no idea what the song was, since I wasn't really paying attention before it began. I guess my questions are, does anyone have any idea what the heck I am talking about? Was ILMB inspired by some old rhumba song? Am I nuts? Should I continue to watch the Lawrence Welk show, hoping to hear a cha-cha King Of Spain, or a waltz Michigan Militia? ******************************************************************** Sharon samoq@aol.com "Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away." - Goethe ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 14:32:34 GMT From: wahrend@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: The Gospel According to Frvous In article <3BSW1.11566$Ig6.4243894@news.rdc1.on.wave.home.com>, hugrod@home.com (Hugo Rodrigues) wrote: > In article <19981019204503.06061.00001708@ng55.aol.com>, fruwench@aol.com (FruWench) wrote: > >My sincere apologies if any Canadian FruHeads are offended. But according to > >news articles, etc, the Canadia fervor over Moxy Fruvous declinded rather > >sharply. That was all I intended to present with that bit. Honest. > > I'd like to chip in that the Canadian media and WEA lost that fervour. Then > when the band stopped aggressively touring Canada, the general public who > could have been swept into Fruheadedness never got the chance. Hmmm... this wouldn't be the same Canadian public which made the first album a huge success in canada and then didn't accept Wood, now would it? Or are we talking about a different Canadian public, perhaps the public that only comes out after night? The Vampire Canadians! :-) And the general public not having a chance, really? You Canadians (I mean this in the most general sense) have had much more of an outlet to fruvous than Americans; Wood and B not being released in the US also until recently, actually being able to see fruvous videos or hearing them on the radio (also until recently). I think they have been more than fair. > The band is doing well in the US due to 5 years of almost non-stop agressive > touring there. Had they done that in Canada coast-to-coast they would have had > a much better fate. And rightly so, they put on a kick ass performance and people respond to that. But I can walk around this place and I bet I am the only person that has ever heard of them here and I also bet (I'm doing a lot of betting today) I could walk through many places in canada and 1 in 4 know of them or have at least heard them, too me that would say that they have had more success in Canada. > I have my own ideas as to why certain decisions were made, but I won't post > them here. Please, if you don't want to post 'em, send them to me, I love a good conspiracy plot. :-) Here are some of my reasons: 1. bargainville did great, wood didn't; people in US didn't at least appear as fickle. 2. US population is 10 x the size of Canada's (roughly, last time i checked), if you want your songs to appeal to a larger audience you tour there. plus in the distance travelled to go from thunderbay to minnesota (*wink*) you can probably reach 10x more people in the US than you do in Canada (when you're touring I would imagine that its nice to have stops, especially ones that pay). 3. the US market is 25 x the size of Canada's, its a good idea financially to at least pay attention to that fact, especially if you like being a singer and like eating. well, I'd post more, but I should be working... plus I am sure I've pissed enough people off for one day. "wild" Bill - -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 08:56:21 -0500 From: Chad Maloney Subject: Re: Review: Bloominton & NKU (very long) Not to replace my full review later, but here are some additions to what Traci wrote... Trace wrote: > > Ok, this is my first ever review, and I'm hoping someone else can fill > in the holes. I'll try =) > The opening act was a local band called the Ballroom Roustabouts (I > think) who played some interesting, twangy music. Very eclectic, but > maybe I'm just too East Coast. They weren't set up on the stage, so > when they finished it was a short wait for Fruvous. They were actually pretty entertaining to the geek side of the Fruvous duality. They set up on the floor in front of the stage, so Cal didn't have to deal with realigning sound and such afterwards. When Andi and I came in, there was a bass drum with a kick pedal on the floor. The kick pedal faced towards the wall, so to play it, you'd be facing the wall. Plus there were some make-shift PA stuff. When the people came out at first, there were 4 of them I think (sorry if this description isn't really great - Andi and I were off to the side over by Toby through the opener). One had geek glasses and was had the typical nerd look popularized by the Revenge of the Nerds. He had an accordion and a kazoo and later pulled out a banjo. Another guy, more of a larger lazlo looking guy with a butler from Rocky Horror hat (at least that's how I think of those hats - I could be completely wrong about that). He had a clarinet and a banjo. Then there was a lady with a floppy baseball hat who sat on the bass drum facing the audience and played the kick pedel with her heel. She had this silly percussive stick (not to be confused with TMBG's Stick) which could do a lot of things: various cymbals, the Murray's fish scrape sound, and a small tom on the bottom. She had a multi rod that she'd use to "play" the thing by fish scraping, toming, shaking the multi-rod (which gets a kind of short lived shaker sound), and pounding the stick. Finally, there was a bass player playing an acoustic bass guitar (oh, the sanity of it all). They started into their first song and once the novelty wore off, it was pretty entertaining. They were good musicians and had talent for their instruments. We were guessing they were a bunch of poor music students (though I don't think you can major in banjo or kazoo or backwards-bass-drum-multi-rod-hitting-percussive-stick playing). After the first song, a new lady walked in the door and setup her washboard (or warshboard if you are from Kentucky (Hi Andi)). The second tune the accordion kazooist (yes, at the same time) and the clarinet banjoist (not at the same time) paraded around the audience. After the second song, a trombone player walked in and joined them and played on the third song. At this point, I wish I had my tuba so I could sit in. Andi had a comb, but there was no tissue paper to be found. We were out of luck. I really enjoyed their show. It was really entertaining. They have a CD coming out soon it sounds like and if I get it, I'll have the crazy image of them opening for Fruvous while listening. They had a song that, at the beginning, they asked if any knew anything about music. At this time, I was walking up to the bar to get s'more drinking and I raised my hand and said a small yeah. They then asked if anyone could name the 4 types of contrapunctal motion. I quickly put my hand backdown, mumbled about only being a bass player, and walked over to the bar. After the song, we could remember 3 of 4 types: Parallel, Oblique, and Complimentary. Any help on the 4th type is appreciated. At the end of their set, they thanked the venue and advertised their next show in the basement of a church up the road. They then asked everyone to stick around for . They laughed that off and tried again, eventually getting the name right. The opener also stayed around and watched the Fru-set too. I hope they enjoyed it. > The Set: (Courtesy of Murray's "Certified Setlist") [...] > Mistrah (wasn't played due to time constraints *boo, hiss*) I didn't even catch the fact that they skipped this at all. Ji whispered a bit to Murray and they laughed, but I figured it was a joke or something. Needless to say, there are certain songs that can be skipped in a set list. There are also certain songs that can't be skipped in the set list. I don't think anyone needs a hint as to which kind Mistra Know-it-all is. Of course they made up for it in Highland Heights. They made up for a lot in Highland Heights =) > 1st encore: Dancing Queeen (yay!) > 2nd encore: Drinking Actually, on my scorecard (you don't score at home when you see frushows?) I had those both on the first encore. > It was a fairly standard set, but well done. I didn't see it as standard at all. It was a nice treat and very different from the shows lately. I hadn't heard Down from Above (one of my favorites) in a long time and they enjoyed Authors so much on stage =) > The crowd was quiet but > very appreciative for the most part. That was one thing I noticed. All those polite Indiana people just ate up all the cheesy jokes. All the jokes that I chuckle at for a second or two because I know they are gonna be there, crowd in Bloomington gave a good sized laugh-out-loud. Ji false starting into Boss. Mike's improving in Boo Time. The King of Spain intro. The crowd was just eating it up and it felt good to be there. Very enjoyable. There was one a**hole who felt > the need to ruin the intro for the Kids Song by yelling out "The > Kids!" before the guys could do their parts It actually wasn't that bad. Jian cleanup that up really quick and he didn't push it. Ji just did the "there was one group that wasn't asked" intro and paused a bit. He said: "Who was the group that wasn't asked" and then paused before asking Murray. The guy in the crowd thought Jian was asking him and he answered. Jian laughed a bit and said hold on a second, we'll get to that. Then he asked Murray (who answered something like "the pointy people" or something). Then he asked Mike (who answered those guys who get up in the morning and say "Honey look, I pitched a tent". Then entire crowd blew up at that one and Mike added "camping enthusiasts. F**king people. What were you thinking". Then he asked Dave (who toked a bit from a virtual-joint and said "Snowboarders" to which Jian answered, you mean Canadians?) The intro was a good one (though I heard my favorite into on a Fredonia tape last night. Paraphrase of course: Jian: Who was that group? Murray? Murray: No, no. It wasn't me. I was asked. And actually, I'm not really a group. I'm more of an individual. Mike: I was asked too actually. Jian: Me too, that leaves Dave I guess. Dave: I don't think they were talking about us. They were talking about a group. A group of kids. Murray: Ah, Dave. What kind of group of kids, Dave? The tall kids? The young kids? Dave (trying to get out of the hole he put himself in): Umm... all of the kids. The group of all kids. Um... here's a song called the Kid's Song. ) Boy, do I get rambly when I post. Anyways, Bloomington Review coming eventually. I just moved all my furniture around in my apartment, so maybe tonight... > Anyhow, on to NKU! > Video: (Ok, the recent Mondegreens thread concerning panned vs banned > in Video made it onstage. Jian *clearly* enunciated the line as > "...maybe something BANNED, maybe something formerly pause> BANNED." I nearly fell out of my chair laughing. I did fall out of my chair laughing or trying not to laugh and biting my hand. > Spidey: (off-mike with ALL of them running around in the audience. > Mike gives a kid in the audience what I believe was a piece of candy > *awww*) It was a cookie. They were running all over the place on the aisle between the lower seats and the upper seats. I was the only person sitting in a chair in the aisle. Needless to say I was pretty scared, but got away. I woulda taken that damn cookie, Mike. It would have been nice. I guess I just wasn't cute enough... [Dream sequence: Mike: Spiderman comes today to Northern Kentucky University to seek and deliver... to search and destroy... to strew gifts upon the masses. Spiderman comes to the middle of the audience to give Chad a cookie! Here Chad! Audience: Awwwwwwww. Mike: That's right, a cookie laced with lysergic. Chad: (dies) Mike: (laughs maniacally and runs off to finish the song) ] > Mistra: (Yay! The guys made up for the miss in Bloomington! It > sounded great and I just LOVE Murray's solo) The solo was really good. He stayed low for most of it and was more groovy and fit more into the feel of the song. Very nicely done! > Kids Song: (Mike was HILARIOUS, hunched over with his hands on his > legs. "Captain Kirk, I want you to look at my legs." The others > joined in the fun as well) This was purely hilarious. I was rolling on the ground again biting my hand. Mike just sat there bouncing back and forth with his hands on his knees grinning. Murray stared at him for probably 20 seconds and said "You're Crazy". Jian walked over and so does Dave and they all end up in a line. Jian says "Hey, that looks like fun" and they all start doing it. It was great. > Raja: (after extremely funny banter about a certain dead president, > "Groger" Cleveland, and the"Canadian Rock") Don't forget Millard (accent on the first syllable) Fillmore and the only black US president Rutherford B. Hayes (where does Mike come up with this stuff). > Marion: (Wow! I've never heard this played before and I LOVED it! > This show was really turning into something special) This was the point where I knew it was gonna keep getting better and better. With the large stage, the guys had room to get crazy. And the did get crazy, but they also played some special musical tunes too. > And so ends my first attempt at a review. I'd also like to say thanks > to Chad for giving me his seat; not every guy would give up a first > row seat in order to tape (and yes the show was taped! Woohoo!) Taping, no. Didn't you hear the guys talking about this on stage? Taping is illegal. Very very illegal and no should be doing it. If you see someone taping, grab their little tape recorder and break it right then and there. Well, that's a long post for neither being a full review or a made-up story. But here, have it anyway... - Chad ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #825 ********************************************