From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #386 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 31 1998 Volume 01 : Number 386 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Yet another 'newbie' [jenncyn@aol.com (JennCyn)] Re: What a Weekend :) [wahrend@my-dejanews.com] Fruvous Escapades [Caitlin ] Songs never heard wish list results... [aeves@alpha.confederationc.on.ca] Re: EFO/Jim's Big Ego ["Jason A. Reiser" ] Re: What a Weekend :) [hKatherine@ehmail.com] Mike's ottawa review (sleep-deprived) [stereopuff@aol.com (StereoPuff)] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 31 Aug 1998 18:19:43 GMT From: jenncyn@aol.com (JennCyn) Subject: Re: Yet another 'newbie' > Us Fruheads can be picky about our laws of grammar. ;) aaaaaarg :) - - j ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 17:58:07 GMT From: wahrend@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: What a Weekend :) > > King of Spain (The big black King of Spain) > > Fame > > Golden Years > > On Broadway > > New Pollution (with lyrics by Mike Ford. Vance's response: Must be a canadian > > song, I'll get all the words wrong) > > Signed Sealed Delivered (not the medley, the whole thing) > > Can't Explain > > at some point "Play that Funky Music Black Boy" also segued into Fred > > Eaglesmith's "When did we Become White Trash?" > > ending with > > I Shall Be Released > > Ha ha ha ha! Man, I am SOOOOO jealous. And you say nobody taped this???!!! Cool review, sounds like they were great shows (minus the anti-setlist chucklehead). "wild" Bill (needs to get back to working on that teleportation/time machine) - -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/rg_mkgrp.xp Create Your Own Free Member Forum ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 11:15:11 -0700 From: Caitlin Subject: Fruvous Escapades OK, does anyone else desperately want to hear the rest of this story? Maybe what we should be compiling is a list of our favourite fru-trip adventures! (Cars breaking down en route to Philly, shopping in Toronto, etc...) *grin* it could be a whole new section on fdc... the pre-show reviews... :) ____ \ /__ Caitlin Xantha Hazen \/ / caitlin@wayward-volvo.org \/ http://www.wayward-volvo.org/xanthe.html On 31 Aug 1998, Starfox wrote: > Chad Maloney wrote: > : Ah, Arkansas, where you can watch Porn on a big screen TV > : from the parking lot of your motel (and make your own soundtrack). > > *falls down laughing* Dude, I had forgotten all about that! > > Starfox "Ah, I feel better now I've had my dose of morning laughter." > -- > Starfox > starfox (at) nationwide dot net > "We each pay a fabulous price, for our visions of paradise." > - Rush "Mission" > > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 19:05:02 GMT From: aeves@alpha.confederationc.on.ca Subject: Songs never heard wish list results... Ok guys, as promised...here are the final results (as of 3pm today) Top "10" Never Heard Songs (with total votes in brackets) Morphee/Gulf War Song (11) Nuits (9) Big Fish/Bed&Breakfast (8) Organ Grinder (7) Love Set Fire/Bittersweet (6) Entropy/Green Eggs&Ham(long)/Fell in Love/Sad Today (5) Honourable mentions: Laika/Misplaced/Lee/La Complainte (4) If anyone is curious about how other songs from their lists did let me know and I'll email you results :) Drea (Your friendly neighbourhood accounting student who's a-counting the days till the Winnipeg show :>) - -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/rg_mkgrp.xp Create Your Own Free Member Forum ------------------------------ Date: 31 Aug 1998 11:59:58 -0700 From: "Jason A. Reiser" Subject: Re: EFO/Jim's Big Ego In article , roB! says... > >On 28 Aug 1998, Fred the Eternal Snail wrote: > >> >> The Ego (in it's new, latest incarnation) has an album coming out >> really soon. I'll post when it's released. It has what I think is >> some of Jim Infantino's best material on it, and I've been a fan since >> before the first Jim's Big Ego album came out. >> > >Actually, if I recall correctly, a recent email mentioned that Jim is >in the process of auditioning a new Ego, as the Ego which played on the >forthcoming album has previous obligations and will not be able to >continue to tour with Jim... I saw Guster at Irving Plaza last week, and who did they have as a guest for several songs but kickin' upright bass player, Kurt Uenala! He was having a hell of a good time, and the crowd really loved it. Formerly of Big Ego fame, I'm told he's now playing with a band called, My Favorite Relative. They're probably worth checking out. - - Jason jreiser@ecoutez.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 20:24:43 GMT From: hKatherine@ehmail.com Subject: Re: What a Weekend :) In article <6seo7e$r4o$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, wahrend@my-dejanews.com wrote: > > > > > King of Spain (The big black King of Spain) > > > Fame > > > Golden Years > > > On Broadway > > > New Pollution (with lyrics by Mike Ford. Vance's response: Must be a > canadian > > > song, I'll get all the words wrong) > > > Signed Sealed Delivered (not the medley, the whole thing) > > > Can't Explain > > > at some point "Play that Funky Music Black Boy" also segued into Fred > > > Eaglesmith's "When did we Become White Trash?" > > > ending with > > > I Shall Be Released > > > > > Ha ha ha ha! Man, I am SOOOOO jealous. And you say nobody taped this???!!! > We would've but Mike's tape recorder AND his camcorder broke at the SAME TIME! Bummer, huh? > Cool review, sounds like they were great shows (minus the anti-setlist > chucklehead). That guy's getting a piece of my mind very soon. > > "wild" Bill (needs to get back to working on that teleportation/time machine) Tell me when you're done. I'll go back to Saturday night and dance with Dave. hKatherine - -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/rg_mkgrp.xp Create Your Own Free Member Forum ------------------------------ Date: 31 Aug 1998 20:37:24 GMT From: stereopuff@aol.com (StereoPuff) Subject: Mike's ottawa review (sleep-deprived) I started to write this at around 10pm after returning home Sunday evening, but was unable to log-on to post it, as a sleeping houseguest was prohibiting me from entering the room containing the computer w/modem... I have also just now recalled that I seem to have left my longsleeved black shirt in Michelle & Neil's van on the ride home, and probably won't be able to retrieve it for another few weeks... I'm considering purchasing a purple replacement. Despite a sometimes-painful hairline fracture in one tooth that can't be tended-to for another few days, it was with great excitement (and an even greater stash of pain-reducing chewing gum) that I headed off to Ottawa on Friday morning for the 5th annual folk festival; a city which I hadn't seen since the mandatory class-trip that all public-school students must take in grade 6. After meeting Ingrid+hKath and heading downtown for an Orange Julius ("bananarilla" flavour... part banana, part gorilla), we embarked on the _LONG_ bus ride to Britannia Park. It was quite a nice location for the festival, in a small park located near a beautiful sandy beach that would be explored in greater detail the next day. After joining up with a few more fruheads (who were in sparse numbers at this festival, unfortunately), we parked ourselves down on the grass near stage-Dave. For some bizarre reason, a long piece of yellow police emergency tape ran back through the middle of the crowd, tied to a metal security-fence at either end. Nobody seemed to know what purpose it served; I thought that perhaps they trying to seperate the anglophone & francophone members of the audience. Shortly before Fruvous were set to appear, the (approximately) dozen of us stood up near the front of the stage... a tubby old hick-like MC then appeared, with facial hair that made him look an escapee from an old Dukes Of Hazard episode (who will hereafter be affectionately referred to as "Zeke"). He said, to and of us, "There will be no moshing. Respect those around you", in a rather cranky and perturbed voice. 8:10pm was NOT the best time to discover that my audio recorder now simply unravels tapes rather than recording onto them. Fruvous' set started at around 8:15, and ran for around 40 minutes, I believe... I didn't write this setlist down, although here's what I can remember of it (this might be missing a song, and probably isn't the exact order...) B.J. Don't Cry Jockey Full O' Bourbon Minnie The Moocher You Will Go To The Moon Michigan Militia Johnny Saucep'n I Will Hold On King Of Spain Green Eggs & Ham Get In The Car Love Potion #9 Medley Banter seemed very minimal, and the performance in general was excellent yet rushed. Jian (very entertainingly) forgot several parts and verse-orders to GE&H. When all was said and done, "Zeke" walked back out onstage very quickly (eliminating any chance for an encore) and felt it necessary to purposely stomp on the hand of a girl reaching for Mike's setlist. I couldn't believe it... what a crotchety old bastard. Who made him an MC? From his appearance alone, I think a better choice of ocupation would be for him to play Some Guy who gets devoured by rabid wolverines in the opening scene of an episode of "Walker: Texas Ranger". The next day, many volunteer stagehands were rather bitter towards fruheads because we were apparently "moshing and trying to steal things from the stage" the night before. I may write an angry letter to the folk festival committee about this, and urge anyone else who was there to do the same. The informal post-festival jam started around 10pm at the bar in the Luxor Hotel, where many of the festival's musicians were staying. Fruvous hit the stage around 11:30 or midnight, after some great performances by a touching balladwriter whose name escapes me, and the Mike Plumb (Plume?) band, who closed their set with a rockin' cover of "Jambalaya" (which I had hoped Dave would guest on, after having seen him sing it at Burk's Falls... he had already sung on one or two songs earlier in their set). I'll have to buy one of their CD's soon, if I can find any. Two minutes before Fruvous started was NOT the best time to discover that my camcorder had seemed committed to joining my audio recorder in Silicon Heaven. Despite even buying a fresh battery the next morning, the unit itself is... dead, Jim. A truly special Fruvous performance was about to begin, with nary a Chris O'Yaweh or similar fellow amongst the crowd. ;p (Although we'll always have the memories [and the upcoming Luxor '98 t-shirts, "brought to you by lard"]) Mike was wearing the same purple shirt seen at the Mel Lastman Square show; a loud request from me for "the Purple Shirt Song!" yielded nothing but a glare from Jian. He would even resort to taunting me with "get out your video cameras, people!" several times throughout the set before playing something rare. Oh, the agony! ;] the setlist: - - That's Any Good !!! I'm glad I didn't waste any money on beer prior to the show, as Fruvous could have called it a night after this one song and still have succeeded in sending me back to my room in state of bubbly ecstasy. I didn't think I'd EVER hear this again after the FruCon. - - Major Tom by David Bowie... I think this is actually called "Ashes To Ashes"... anyone? I can't recall the tune of it, although it definitely wasn't "Space Oddity". - - Starman also by Bowie. They had previously announced that they'd be doing a "David Bowie superset", although that only consisted of these two songs at the time... I was really hoping for Scary Monsters (which they said they'd do) or Velvet Goldmine (glam-folk style!) - - Ash Hash I thought this had been retired for good... still just as energetic as ever. - - I've Gotta Get A Message To You seemed very out of place within this unique set... it would have been beautiful to hear performed off-mic in such a small room. - - The Hunt For The Dangerous Pork Tenderloin Murray & Dave performed this sitting on stools... Jian sat at the bar's drum kit at the back of the stage and would repeatedly try to quietly test the cymbals gently during Murray's introduction, eventually prompting a "would you STOP that??". :) The song seemed to have some different lyrics since the last time I'd heard it, with Dave making some up spontaneously. - - Poor Napoleon This seemed a bit more slow, stripped-down, and sultry than the convention performance - - When Jimmy Falls In Love This was a catchy song by a New England folksinger named Vance Gilbert who had performed before Fruvous earlier that afternoon, bringing the crowd to their feet with his high-spirited set. I picked up his "Edgewise" CD at the festival, and strongly recommend it. After they had finished playing Vance's song, he asked if they could all do a Fruvous song, and started singing "I'm the king of spain, the big black king of spain", which prompted... - - King Of Spain A funky reggae-fied version of KOS, with Dave on the usual lead and Vance contributing random backup vocals (including the "he's gonna try them" chant from GE&H at one point!). After the main bulk of the song had finished, they kept going within that groove while Mike & Dave would sing snippets of assorted dance/pop songs, eventually concluding with Bowie's "Fame" and "Golden Years", and Beck's "New Pollution" (which, Vance said, must be a Canadian song sing he hadn't heard of it). The whole shebang ran on for well over 10 or 15 minutes - - Signed, Sealed, Delivered Sung by Vance... the whole song, not the medley! - - Can't Explain by The Who! Complete & utter pop magic, with parts of the crowd singing along to whatever they could remember. (release this one, guys!!!). Recalling the New Year's Eve setlist, I was hoping that they would follow with Substitute, although they instead opted for... - - I Shall Be Released by Bob Dylan, I think? I can't recall ever hearing the original, although it was definitely a tranquil end to what was possibly the most unique and endearing Fruvous set I'll experience for quite some time. After the performance, Vance, Jian (w/ dumbek) and a few others sat in one corner jamming for a while. We all hung around the bar until closing, then stayed up til around 5am in that magical room 309, sharing Fruvous stories and bringing my waking-hours that day perilously close to 24. Day-2 review to follow soon, perhaps, once I can finally catch my breath... Mike Wood - ---- "best twenty bucks I've ever spent!" ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #386 ********************************************