From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #193 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 Tuesday, August 4 1998 Volume 01 : Number 193 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Frustock aka KoP show review (really long) ["amyn" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 3 Aug 1998 15:01:08 GMT From: "amyn" Subject: Re: Frustock aka KoP show review (really long) Hi all-- I've been lurking around here for months now, but I've finally worked up the nerve to actually post -- how could I not after last night's show? I've actually seen the guys three or four times now (all in the past 3 months!) and I'm now an official Fruhead wannabe. But I've decided that I must be Grandma Fruhead, because I'm a little old for this. However, I don't feel so bad about it because I met Mike last night, and when I made the Grandma Fruhead comment to him he was very reassuring about the age thing, especially because he is a couple of years older than I am. He told me a story about having a dream about being 18, and then waking up and realizing that that was half a lifetime ago! Sorry about the rambling, guess I have more to say than I thought! Anyway, I hope I can also add some info here -- Colleen Campbell wrote in article <35c5b659.639540307@news2.ibm.net>... > On 3 Aug 1998 05:37:08 GMT, rvenkate@spiketrain.npa.uiuc.edu (Kumar > Venkateswar) wrote: > > >(something like Let's Play to the Chief?) > > An improv? > Actually I think that was the one about Rush Limbaugh -- The Greatest Man in America? (not sure of the title) -- I love that song! > >Missing Her > > A new one? A cover? An improv? Give us details here, peoples! What > did you think of it? What was it like? > Mike sang this one, and introduced it by saying it was a common affliction for the band. It's a new one, and I thought it was very pretty -- sort of ballad-like -- but my memory for actual lyrics is hazy. The other new one that I really like (it was the second time I'd heard it) is I Will Hold On -- I thought Jian did a nice job with it last night. In fact, I thought the whole show last night was fabulous. I've been going to that concert series for the past five or six years, and I have never _ever_ seen a crowd so huge. I was sitting pretty far back so I can only imagine what it must have looked like from the guys' vantage point -- they seemed pretty amazed. I just want to say that I believe Fruheads are among the nicest groups of people -- both online and in person! I hope to see many more shows, since now I am hooked -- just sad that they won't be back until at least the fall and possibly next year :( --Anyway, thanks for making the experience so great. Maybe I'll even post again (but I'll try to keep the babbling to a minimum!) - --amy (aka Grandma Fru -- or maybe just Auntie Fru? -- or maybe just the Fruwannabe!) ------------------------------ 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 #193 ********************************************