From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #263 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 Sunday, August 9 1998 Volume 01 : Number 263 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: BNL and The Drinking Song [Geenius at Wrok ] Re: Itinerary Update! [dgodwin1@aol.com (DGodwin1)] Re: perch? [dot0926@aol.com (Dot0926)] Re: moxie [dot0926@aol.com (Dot0926)] Re: nyc tape.... [danaloi@aol.com (Danaloi)] Re: Moxy never sent CDs [ctyner@my-dejanews.com (Adam Tyner)] Returning to DC [thewolkes@earthlink.net (Fred Wolke)] Re: Returning to DC [epbuckley@mindspring.com (ellen p. buckley)] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 08:08:01 -0400 From: Geenius at Wrok Subject: Re: BNL and The Drinking Song On Sat, 8 Aug 1998 nafio@my-dejanews.com wrote: > The big thing I noticed was this song "Alcohol". I read the lyrics, trying to > find the punchline.. and couldn't. They don't even sound all that sarcastic on > the album. It's mainly a song about how great alcohol is, especially in social > situations and as an emotional crutch. The first time I heard it I stopped the > CD, and reached for Bargainville. It just seemed like a cruel rebuttal to the > Drinking Song. I like BNL a lot, I really do, but "Alcohol" reminded me of all > the emotion involved in each performance of Drinking Song, and it felt likea > real slap in the face to that. My interp is that the listener is supposed to be able to recognize what a complete moron the song's narrator is. "While I cannot love myself / I'll use something else"? Hardly seems like a straight line. That said, "Alcohol" is probably the song I like least off that album. - -- "I wish EVERY day could be a shearing festival!" -- The 10 Commandments =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Keith Ammann is geenius@albany.net "I notice you have a cloud of doom. Live with honor, endure with grace I must admit it makes you seem www.albany.net/~geenius * Lun Yu 2:24 dangerous and sexy." ------------------------------ Date: 9 Aug 1998 14:20:57 GMT From: dgodwin1@aol.com (DGodwin1) Subject: Re: Itinerary Update! >Subject: Itinerary Update! >From: Moxy Fruvous >Date: 8/6/98 4:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time >Message-id: <35CA0F1C.3EB9@passport.ca> > >Hello everyone! > >Here is an updated tour itinerary. Please keep your eyes on the >newsgroup for more dates, as many are still being confirmed! > >Fri Aug 7 Toronto, ON Mel Lastman Square >Sat Aug 8 Burk's Falls, ON Heritage River Music Festival - Fairgrounds >Sun Aug 9 Toronto, ON Taste of the Danforth >Fri Aug 14 - Sun Aug 16 Owen Sound, ON Summerfolk >Fri Aug 28 & Sat Aug 29 Ottawa, ON Ottawa Folk Festival >Wed Sept 16 Winnipeg, MB West End Cultural Centre >Thurs Sept 17 Saskatoon, SK Louis' Pub - U of Sask >Fri Sept 18 Calgary, AB Calgary Folk Club >Sat Sept 19 Calgary, AB Saturday Night Special -Braeside Community Ctr >Mon Sept 21 Edmonton, AB Sidetrack Cafe >Tues Sept 22 Salmon Arm, BC Salmar Theatre >Thurs Sept 24 Vancouver, BC Richards on Richards >Tues Sept 29 San Fransisco, CA Slim's >Fri Oct 2 Denver, CO Swallow Hill - opening for The Nields >Sun Oct 4 Boulder, CO Fox Theatre - opening for The Nields >Tues Oct 6 Champaign, IL venue tba - with guests The Nields >Thurs Oct 8 Minneapolis, MN The Quest - with guests The Nields >Fri Oct 9 Madison, WI Club Tavern - opening for The Nields >Thurs Oct 15 Columbus, OH Ludlow's >Fri Oct 16 Indianapolis, IN Second Story >Sat Oct 17 Cincinnati, OH venue tba >Fri Oct 30 & Sat Oct 31 Northampton, MA Iron Horse - 2 Night Halloween >Extravaganza! >Wed Nov 4 Cleveland, OH Case Western Reserve University >Sat Nov 7 Rochester, NY Harro East >Wed Nov 11 New York, NY Irving Plaza (all ages) >Fri Nov 13 Alfred, NY Alfred University - Powell Nightclub >Sat Nov 14 Katonah, NY Harvey School - Clearwater Coffee House >Thur Dec 3 Clinton, NY Hamilton College - Filius Events Barn >Fri Jan 29 Windsor, ON Mackenzie Hall > >As always, please call (416-368-5599) or email (moxy@passport.ca) if you >have any more questions! > hey Zard...here are the dates..... Daniel Never be critical of someone else until you've walked three hundred miles in their shoes...that way you be 300 miles away from them, and have their pair of shoes (Rockapella Banter) ------------------------------ Date: 9 Aug 1998 14:46:11 GMT From: dot0926@aol.com (Dot0926) Subject: Re: perch? >epbuckley@mindspring.com (ellen p. buckley) wrote: >but the technical term for what you are if you >still eat fish is... *drum roll* > >a pescetarian. no, i am not making this up. thanks ellen, i have but one more simple query, how do you pronounce that? :) - -nora ( still 21 days) ********************* "bear left fozzie.....right frog." - - kermit the frog and fozzie bear ( the muppet movie) nora cohen (dot0926@aol.com) snafru on irc **************** ------------------------------ Date: 9 Aug 1998 14:42:31 GMT From: dot0926@aol.com (Dot0926) Subject: Re: moxie >melissa wrote: >ALRIGHT! a fellow moxie lover! youre right, it tastes best cold, warm moxie >can really get to ya. i know, ive had it. glad to see im not alone! ill bring >some along with me on halloween. > well, i've never had the privilage to drink something that tastes like burning rubber :) could you spare some for me as well on halloween ? - -nora (21 days left at home) ********************* "bear left fozzie.....right frog." - - kermit the frog and fozzie bear ( the muppet movie) nora cohen (dot0926@aol.com) snafru on irc **************** ------------------------------ Date: 9 Aug 1998 15:08:50 GMT From: danaloi@aol.com (Danaloi) Subject: Re: nyc tape.... I was one of the leafs on that tape tree, for the Dec 31 96 NYC show (if that's the one we're talking aboot here...) and never got it. Anyone help me out? Have lots of BNL, Odds, etc. to trade. I did tape a Fru show in Ithaca last year but sound quality's not so hot. Dan Daniel Aloi danaloi@aol.com keeping the world safe for pop music ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1998 15:26:29 GMT From: ctyner@my-dejanews.com (Adam Tyner) Subject: Re: Moxy never sent CDs I'm experiencing this too... I ordered the 2 CD's in March, and I think I've been told 5 or 6 times that it would definitely be here within a week. I'm hoping they really will be here soon...I'm dying to hear them! :-) - -Adam On 8 Aug 1998 23:40:21 GMT, june529@aol.com (June529) wrote: >We ordered the 2 CD's back in January. They arrived in July (after we had >already purchased them at live performances) with a heartfelt note of apology >from Jude. My feelings however are that you can't have too many Fruvous CD's! >Appaerntly things are really hopping and backed up in "Fruland". I hope you wil >be patient and forgive them. They are well worth the wait. ...June G. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1998 15:20:01 GMT From: thewolkes@earthlink.net (Fred Wolke) Subject: Returning to DC Does anyone else recall the guys promising to be back to the DC area in the fall, when they performed at the Birchmere? I do, but my wife says I'm imagining it. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1998 12:34:54 -0400 From: epbuckley@mindspring.com (ellen p. buckley) Subject: Re: Returning to DC In article <6qkerj$5he$1@birch.prod.itd.earthlink.net>, thewolkes@earthlink.net (Fred Wolke) wrote: >Does anyone else recall the guys promising to be back to the DC area >in the fall, when they performed at the Birchmere? > >I do, but my wife says I'm imagining it. as i recall, they didn't say anything about it it the ramshead-- just mentioned the birchmere show the following night. at the birchmere, i'm pretty sure that they said they *might* be back in the area before the year was out, but that was it. and then at K-o-P, i thought i remember them saying (much to my dismay), that they doubted they'd be down this far again this year. =/ peace, ellen ************************************************************ "sometimes the songs that we hear ellen p. buckley are just songs of our own..." ************************************************************ ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #263 ********************************************