From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #826 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 826 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: I need a big favor for NoHo [Marie.Claude@canada.com] Re: This could get interesting... [Marie.Claude@canada.com] Re: Strange ILMB moment [Thomas Fazzio ] Re: Review: Bloominton & NKU (very long) [ceelove@ibm.net (Colleen Campbe] what? no more reviews of Columbus and, um, wherever I was in Kentucky? [c] Re: Strange ILMB moment [BBWMinors@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 14:59:05 GMT From: Marie.Claude@canada.com Subject: Re: I need a big favor for NoHo > I know I'll be armed with a > camera, and I'm sure other members of Frucar Buffalo will be as well (right > Chrissy? ;>) Oh, who are we kidding?? You can bet you'll be hearing fifteen hundred cameras go off at every classic photo op. - -- Marie-Claude, thinking of Angel's animated Network Push flipbook ;) "I'm beside myself. I'm over there." - -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 15:13:38 GMT From: Marie.Claude@canada.com Subject: Re: This could get interesting... > >> You know that you listen to/ have seen Moxy Fruvous way too much (as if > >> that was even possible!) when.......*your answeres here*. > > You have a budgie dog tattoo on your ass... I'm sorry folks, no more calls, we have a winner. (but do keep sharing -- this is amusing) - -- Marie-Claude "I'm beside myself. I'm over there." - -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 11:47:55 -0400 From: Thomas Fazzio Subject: Re: Strange ILMB moment Samoq wrote: > the music started, [and we] 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 Could this have been a tune called 'Brazil'? My ex-girlfriend sang it in chorus last year, and sitting there listening it sounded just like ILMB. I remember a post about this maybe 6 months ago... later, tom. PS - Stilling looking for a gig at Clarkson University in Potsdam, NY. =) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 15:58:10 GMT From: ceelove@ibm.net (Colleen Campbell) Subject: Re: Review: Bloominton & NKU (very long) On Tue, 20 Oct 1998 08:56:21 -0500, Chad Maloney wrote: >> 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. I fell out of my chair, too, Chad, which got kind of embarrassing, as I was sitting in a theater row seat with people in front of me and you had an aisle to fall into. I also tried to fall sideways and was chortling into my hand, gasping, because Mark beside me was videotaping. I'm glad someone else remembered to comment on that: I really do treasure the fact that Fruvous is aware of the online Fruheads and addresses things we discuss, however trivial. . . ceecee ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 15:37:00 GMT From: ceelove@ibm.net (Colleen Campbell) Subject: what? no more reviews of Columbus and, um, wherever I was in Kentucky? Well, they're not exactly fresh in my mind, but I'd kind of expected Josh and Chad to pick up the slack, so I'll throw in a few comments on the shows I was fortunate to attend in Columbus on Thursday and somewhere in Kentucky on Saturday. Greaves Theater, NKU, something like that. . . Covington? Or that may be an insult, I'm not sure. :) I was visiting my friends Mark and Michelle in Columbus and, having turned Mark on to Fruvous last September, we decided to have my trip coincide with Fruvous's time in the midwest. It was an odd sensation, getting into that plane: first time I've flown to a Fruvous show since last November. (That doesn't mean I haven't traveled my share, having seen them in six or seven states this year, plus Canada; just that flying, to which I was so accustomed when living in Florida, is thankfully not necessary anymore.) Even odder was being recognized in Kentucky by people I didn't know, who walked up and introduced themselves as lurkers from the newsgroup. One of them, Matt, had danced with my little sister, Heather (my lookalike; she has ceecee-hair), in Nashville. Small world. . . Special bonus was that EFO opened for Fruvous on Thursday, so if Mark had ever had ANY doubts that my taste in music is impeccable ;), they were resolved as he was treated to yet another of my favorite bands. He was, of course, delighted, especially as I pointed out that Mike Clem is just about as far away from the "unassuming, underappreciated" bass player image as one can get, step-kicking with abandon and making "spook" noises and faces. All of EFO made it clear that they're big Fruheads and were equally pleased to be opening for an audience of Fruheads: Julie was wearing an "I love Canadian Boys" baby-T, Robbie made up rhymes about how Mike wants to be Murray, and in the middle of "The Train Song," they paid homage to their favorite "Canadian bluegrass band," throwing in a fast-paced cover of "The Drinking Song." Fruvous reciprocated by praising EFO's work, talking of how they rarely love the groups that open for them but that they all agree on this one. One of the funniest moments of the show, and in fact one of the funniest moments I've *ever* seen at a Fruvous show, was when Jian was speaking of the guest artist to join them on stage: "That's right, it's Mike Ford with the introduction!" Between that, Murray's cover for him, and the real Mike, all three of Fruvous intro'd the King: Murray stepped up to the plate, gave us the smarmiest smile possible, and explained that he was always so prepared for his intro because he used Preparation H. Mike came dashing in then, winded, gasping, "Those EFO fuckers! Especially that Mike guy, who plays the harmonica and the bass at the same time! He. . .he kicked me in the balls." Murray queried, "Why? Why did he do that?" You could just see the wheels turning: beat. . . beat. . .beat. . . "Because I asked him to," Mike whimpered. The audience howled. The whole show was that offbeat and unrestrained; makes me wonder if Mike just came off Valium or something. During the GE&H "Not the Beatles" (except it was "Not the Eagles!") pause, Jian told Dave that this was the part where he soundly beat Dave; or rather, where Mike beat Dave. Mike obligingly came out and started a stage-fight, punching and kicking to Kung-fu type music, then jumped on Dave's back for a piggyback ride, and finally threw himself on the floor and started doing Jane-Fonda-esque leglifts to the tune of "One Night in Bankok." There were also, of course, a couple of improvs, including one about a shirtless Murray Foster (because, I was told, Ohio just passed a law that women *can* go topless in public) to a industrial beat. That night, though, was a fairly standard set--not that I'm complaining about getting the jam version of Sahara, Pisco Bandito, I Will Hold On, Jockey Full of Bourbon, etc (though I was horribly disappointed when Murray teased us with the bass line into to Billie Jean and it turned into Michigan Militia instead--I SO badly miss that medley!), but they've been part of many setlists lately. What knocked me off my feet was Saturday's set. It was a terrific place to see Fruvous; normally I get antsy about sitting down to see them, because 1) I want to dance, and 2) what if that keeps the rest of the audience from getting into the energy?, but this time, I got to jump right behind me to the walkway to jam when I wanted to, and there was never any doubt about the audience being totally swept into the energy. Except for the MIT and Iron Horse shows, I've never seen them fool around with quite so much panache, glee, and freedom. Twice, they interrupted shows to run around the stage, quite literally--which amused me especially, as I'd commented to Mark upon coming in, "Oh, we're going to get `Stop Making Sense.'" I've never seen them get quite so silly during "The Kids' Song" (which is saying a hell of a lot), insult quite so many American cities (Bloomington was their favorite to pick on) or reference so many presidents (Rutherford B. Hayes, "America's only black president), "Kroger" Cleveland (about whom Dave sang a ditty that they all picked up on), Millard Fillmore (who apparently changed his name from "Mallard" because it reminded people of a duck; Jian dissed the crowd for knowing nothing about our own presidents). The odd thing was that the crowd seemed to be largely unfamiliar with their work, or at least with a live show: they were, for example, laughing at all the gently funny bits of Gulf War Song. I forget that the lines *are* funny, because I think of it as such a serious song, until I'm hearing it in the context of someone who isn't expecting "Fighters for Texaco." And it was clearly not a northeastern liberal audience; they clapped for Mr. Cheese voting Republican. And yet, they totally "got" it--everything from the incredible musicality of Nuits de Reve (wild cheers) to the environmental message (buried within the hilarity) of Marion Fruvous to the beauty of I Will Hold On. They were clapping along enthusiastically with MBLABOA, dead silent for Fly, cheering and screaming during Love Potion and Michigan Militia. And the standing ovation was like a tsunami, spontaneous and immediate: no one was watching the rest of the audience to see if everyone else approved. There were actually two standing ovations, the second after Gulf War Song. Thursday's show was the kind of thing where I hurt the next day from laughing and dancing so hard and was, par for the course, hoarse from screaming (partly because Ludlow's, for all that it was a very cool venue, seemed to be taking the Spectre "wall of sound" concept rather literally, with a bar of almost painfully loud speakers directed right at the pit where I stood). But Saturday's, for all that when I left, I wasn't winded and exhausted, was actually one of the more powerful shows I've seen them do. Kudos, guys. Once again, you've proved that you never fail to make it worth my while to see you, no matter where you're playing. ceecee, looking forward tremendously to next week's shows ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 16:34:43 GMT From: BBWMinors@aol.com Subject: Re: Strange ILMB moment In a message dated 98-10-20 12:05:58 EDT, you write: << Could this have been a tune called 'Brazil'? My ex-girlfriend sang it in chorus last year, and sitting there listening it sounded just like ILMB. I remember a post about this maybe 6 months ago... >> I'm sure it was ... ILMB was one of the first Fruvous songs my my husband (the Brazilian jazz musician -- actually, a nice Jewish boy who plays Brazilian jazz for a living) played for me, because of the samba beat ... a lot of the samba songs have that beat, but ILMB definitely sounds just like "Brazil." ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #826 ********************************************