From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V3 #148 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 Friday, February 12 1999 Volume 03 : Number 148 Today's Subjects: ----------------- New album thoughts etc. [drea1@my-dejanews.com] Re: Richard Scent (was re: *Yawn*) [jon@mrrl.lut.ac.uk (Jon Knight)] Re: Amanda's Campaign: Early Morning Rain on the upcoming album. [koogle@] Re: Need a little wind here! (was FruconTix Lost) ["KatieWow" ] Re: Immortal purple monster! [gemini@p3.net (Trace)] Moxy Midis [Ambush Bug ] Re: basketball sacrilege (or hi! i'm a fruhead) :) [shalini trivedi ] Re: Smarties [Gruneberg Veronica J <6vjg@qlink.queensu.ca>] 9:30 Club Review (probably long) [Chad Maloney , Groovy Spice wrote: > In article <79vdli$f11$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, > koogle@clark.net wrote: > > Thoughts? It seems like a long thread of "this would be a great idea!" on the > > newsgroup would be a good place to start the campaign. > > i could get behind EMR being on the new album, BUT if there were only going to > be one cover, i'm afraid i have to ditch EMR and beg piteously (again) for > I Shall Be Released. every time i've heard them do it, it's taken my breath > away. I can't remember being more surprised by anything Fruvous has done than I Shall Be Released the first time I heard it. I think my remark was "I didn't think this band could do that song." I'd love to hear it again live, but I agree that I'm not sure they could recapture it in the studio. I don't have that worry about EMR. - --Amanda - -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 11:17:47 -0500 From: "KatieWow" Subject: Re: Need a little wind here! (was FruconTix Lost) i agree lori--but how could i pass up the opportunity to have my first legal drink _ever_:)? ~~kate - -- **************************************************************************** Kate Leahy kleahy@loyola.edu **************************************************************************** nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight - --bruce cockburn, "lovers in a dangerous time" and so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches. - --douglas adams, "hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" we're splitting into two camps--mike, i'm with you. - --jian ghomeshi, bottom line, 1/1 *************************************************************************** Srm9988n@aol.com wrote in message <1405b9a9.36c449b1@aol.com>... >the generous Phil Schwan suggested: > > > Ok, friends...time to offer the help. Would anyone be able to join me in >having one less drink at each show and pitch in that money to make sure he can >get into the shows if he can't afford to rebuy them? > >As i don't drink at FruShows (who needs any more intoxication than what >the band provides?) the drink money's irrelevant to me, but I'll pitch in a >toon >for the cause. :) > >(Fruheads .... geez. Giving total strangers money, just because they're >Fruheads too. Which means they're friends we haven't met yet, right?) > >-- Lori ------------------------------ Date: 12 Feb 1999 16:25:18 GMT From: jon@mrrl.lut.ac.uk (Jon Knight) Subject: Re: Oh...hi, by the way KatieWow (kleahy@loyola.edu) wrote: : does anyone know if there's any truth to the rumor that the last twinkie : rolled off of the assembly line in 1986? i read that somewhere and was : wonfering if it was rye sarcasm or an actual deterrent. I don't know about that, but I've got a Twinkie in my office drawer here that a US exchange librarian sent me three years ago (after we'd had a discussion just before he'd gone home about how Twinkies are indestructible food stuffs that eat mould. That conversation over tea confused the other librarians here who'd never heard of Twinkies). I've just pulled it out and laid it on my keyboard and apart from looking a little crushed from the box of ZIP discs that were sitting on top of it, its not showing any signs of aging yet. I'd heard of Twinkies in talk.bizarre before my one and only visit to Canada some 10 years ago and so was not at all surprised to discover a packet in the back of one of the cupboards in my brother's new house. Neither he nor my sister-in-law would admit to buying them. I'm of the opinion that builders in North America leave them in houses to consume any fungii that might otherwise appear. I did however make the fatal mistake of actually trying to eat one. Not a mistake one makes twice. - -- Tatty bye, Jim'll ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 11:13:20 -0500 From: "KatieWow" Subject: Re: Fruvous and Musicals (was Philly and stuff) yes! murray's voice is perfect--good call. it's cinderella's prince and the wolf that are played by the same guy (robert "god" westerberg in the original broadway cast). ~~kate - -- **************************************************************************** Kate Leahy kleahy@loyola.edu **************************************************************************** nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight - --bruce cockburn, "lovers in a dangerous time" and so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches. - --douglas adams, "hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" we're splitting into two camps--mike, i'm with you. - --jian ghomeshi, bottom line, 1/1 *************************************************************************** petit_chou@juno.com wrote in message <19990212.072653.-204031.0.petit_chou@juno.com>... > >kate said: >>into the woods: >>murray--rapunzel's prince or jack >>jian--cinderella's prince/wolf > >Ooooooh, I must beg to differ. Would not *Murray's* voice be PERFECTLY >suited to sing the Wolf's parts? Yum yum. He'd do the lower prince's >part (isn't that Cinderella's? -- aren't the wolf and Cinderella's prince >usually done by the same guy when the parts are doubled up?) just >wonderfully. Raowr. > >Heather Moore (delighted with the idea of Murray growling some of the >Wolf's parts) >___________________________________________________________________ >You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. >Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html >or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 11:15:15 -0500 From: "KatieWow" Subject: Re: Musical theatre and license plates (was Philly stuff) grr. i know how you feel chad. as a big MYSD fan, my friends whine and beg for gordon all the time. screw 'em, says i. i'll take "great provider" over "$1 million" any day. not that gordon's not great (i _adore_ "blame it on me"). ~~kate - -- **************************************************************************** Kate Leahy kleahy@loyola.edu **************************************************************************** nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight - --bruce cockburn, "lovers in a dangerous time" and so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches. - --douglas adams, "hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" we're splitting into two camps--mike, i'm with you. - --jian ghomeshi, bottom line, 1/1 *************************************************************************** Chad Maloney wrote in message <36C43B10.CCDD3012@rosevc.rose-hulman.edu>... >BBWMinors wrote: >> Okay, getting into really obscure musical theater, a few days ago someone >> called "GE&H" Fruvous' "If I Had a Million Dollars." Now, the only song I know >> by that name is from "The Me Nobody Knows" (and I went around singing it all >> day except I only know two lines so that kind of sucked). So a) what is the >> other "IIHAMD" > >It I had $1,000,000 is (at least in my opinion) Barenaked Ladies' King of Spain. >I know a lot of my friends that I tried to get to like the Ladies (before >One Week came out and they all "suddenly" discovered this great Canadian >band all on their own) got hooked up on If I had $1,000,000 and couldn't >get by it. Whenever I'd want to put in some Ladies, I'd offer up Maybe You >Should Drive and the inevitable "Is that the one with the $1,000,000 song >on it?" followed. > > - Chad ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 11:16:47 -0500 From: "KatieWow" Subject: Re: Interviews at Colleges well, my mother's an executive MBA student there, and not only has there been a rash of personal computer thefts lately--two of her fellow classmates have been stabbed in the last month in attempted muggings. these aren't college students--they're corporate executives. which may be an answer in itself . . . ~~kate - -- **************************************************************************** Kate Leahy kleahy@loyola.edu **************************************************************************** nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight - --bruce cockburn, "lovers in a dangerous time" and so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches. - --douglas adams, "hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" we're splitting into two camps--mike, i'm with you. - --jian ghomeshi, bottom line, 1/1 *************************************************************************** Srm9988n@aol.com wrote in message ... >Kate said: > >> have you >> thought of penn? you'll need a bullet-proof vest, but it's a great school >> with a kick-ass atmosphere. expensive, yes. > >HeyHEy! No fair Kate! > >I never went to Penn (a Villanova brat, myself) but University City is just >NOT that bad. I know; I live 3 miles away. Yes, there are incidents, and >some have been highly publicized. Yes, it's a highly urban neighborhood, >and sometimes walking around alone at 2 a.m. is not the most prudent >thing one can do, whether one is male or female. But there are common >sense issues at work as well -- and the Penn campus and immediate >neighborhood are a lot safer than those of some other urban schools >(think New York. Think Washington DC. Think Chicago.) Penn is a >top-flight Ivy League university with tons of cultural and social resources, >linked by public transit or within walking distance of anything you'd want >to do in Philly. Many of those things you'd want to do are on the Penn >Campus itself -- everything from sports to the Banff Film Festival tour. >Don't let fear of crime keep you away from one of the best universities in >the world -- more bucolic campuses are hardly crime-free either. > >Kelly, do you want to hop in here? > >-- Lori > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 16:42:36 GMT From: gemini@p3.net (Trace) Subject: Re: Immortal purple monster! On Thu, 11 Feb 1999 23:37:00 -0500, Lisa Schapiro wrote: >Tee-hee! Now I'll go to bed remembering the monster incident, and the >look on Mike's face after the concert when he asked me "what *is* >that???" :) Mike wasn't the only one who wondered. BTW, what *was* that??? :) - -- Trace gemini@p3.net *sniff* Target is within sniffing range. Hailing on all frequencies. *woop woop* Visual acquired. Our bogie is at 9:00. Fire when ready. - 1/1 BL dum tek ca tek tek ca tek tek *snort* ARGH *glare* Follow THAT one lads.... - 1/2 BL ------------------------------ Date: 12 Feb 1999 16:26:32 GMT From: Ambush Bug Subject: Moxy Midis Hi all, I find myself in need of a midi file of You Will Go to The Moon. I have no plan on using it to make money, and I, of course, have the CD. I'll give full credit to Moxy... OK, ok, I'm going to be trying out for a local, community theater, production of The Fantastiks, and I need to sing an up-tempo song at the audition. I decided on YWGTTM, but my voice isn't that great and I think a bit of background music would help me immesurably. (fortunately, The Fantastiks has a major part which requires no singing at all). In any case, does anyone have or know of a midi copy of YWGTTM? Sheet music? (Is there such a thing for an a-capella song?) Recording of just the background parts? Thanks, Mike - -- "What could be more perfect than to see your head explode?" -- Moxy Fruvous Try Koplio's Story, please! Get it at http://www.aliensoft.com. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 10:56:47 -0600 From: shalini trivedi Subject: Re: basketball sacrilege (or hi! i'm a fruhead) :) that was the libra-calling canopy club show....loved it so much i'm hooked irrevocably, and i'm fru-tripping now...should be fun! :D and by the way, i'm not technically from chambana...i'm a city grrl from chicago like what seems to be almost everybody else who goes to u of i.... but that's neither here nor there... hope you had a nourishing lunch! ************************************************ * "...not in the * Shalini Trivedi * * American sense; * Chemical Engineering * * that would be * College of LAS * * insane!" *University of Illinois* * - Jian Ghomeshi * Urbana-Champaign * ************************************************ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 16:37:27 GMT From: gemini@p3.net (Trace) Subject: Re: Philly City Paper Troc Piece On 12 Feb 1999 03:05:16 GMT, srm9988n@aol.com.no.spam (Srm9988n) wrote: >Mikey informed us: > >>A Trocadero representative declined comment because the show was actually >>booked by New Park Entertainment. Jesse Lundy, who promoted the show for New >>Park, would not discuss Ghomeshi's message, except to express his displeasure >>that such a big deal was made of the incident. (New Park is handling two >>other >>WXPN shows at the Troc, The Nields on Feb.20 and Dan Bern on March 25.) > >See, this is what i thought was the highly comedic part of this article. A >little paramilitary unit of aggrieved commoners, and the band they justifiably >adore, actually stuck it to the suits and made a difference! And boy are the >suits unhappy with that unaccustomed turn of events! Especially with the Big >Stink (and Big Lost Dollars) that result from this little revolution . Hee >heee heeee! I was also quite amused Lori. We are Fruheads, hear us roar! However, I did find it a bit freaky that something posted on our lil newsgroup made it to the outside world. Is there a spy in here???? I realize this is a public forum and all, but I guess I just never thought people from the outside would be paying attention. /me looks over her shoulder. Big Brother is watching :) - -- Trace gemini@p3.net *sniff* Target is within sniffing range. Hailing on all frequencies. *woop woop* Visual acquired. Our bogie is at 9:00. Fire when ready. - 1/1 BL dum tek ca tek tek ca tek tek *snort* ARGH *glare* Follow THAT one lads.... - 1/2 BL ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 10:59:23 -0700 From: katrin@dimensional.com (Katrin Luessenheide Salyers) Subject: Re: Oh...hi, by the way In article <36C434C5.DBD077B8@rosevc.rose-hulman.edu>, opercmm@rosevc.rose-hulman.edu says... > All in all, there were like 2 brownies missing and no one, I repeat > no one had eaten one Twinkie (well, set of Twinkies because they > come in a package with two which may be where the "twin" comes > from). You're right; that *is* why they are called that. It's also why Minnesota's baseball team is called that. k@ ------------------------------ Date: 12 Feb 1999 17:48:13 GMT From: Billy Subject: Re: Amanda's Campaign: Early Morning Rain on the upcoming album. Groovy Spice wrote: > > In article <79vdli$f11$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, > koogle@clark.net wrote: > > Thoughts? It seems like a long thread of "this would be a great idea!" on the > > newsgroup would be a good place to start the campaign. > > i could get behind EMR being on the new album, BUT if there were only going to > be one cover, i'm afraid i have to ditch EMR and beg piteously (again) for > I Shall Be Released. every time i've heard them do it, it's taken my breath > away. > > and besides, it's *Dylan*. ;) > > peace, > ellen (of course, it might lose something in the studio, so as long as i'm > begging, might as well beg for a *live* version) > > ********************************************************************* > May you build a ladder to the stars > And climb on every rung > ********************************************************************* > > -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- > http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own I'm so lucky... I produce a morning radio show in Rochester NY, and last time MF was in town I got them on the show. They performed both "I Shall Be Released" (we were also giving away tix to see Bob Dylan that day), and "Early Morning Rain" live in studio for us. They explained that a few years ago they were asked to record that song for a Gordon Lightfoot tribute cd, but Lightfoot (or Gordy, as they called him) prevented the cd from coming out. Oh well...maybe some day. Billy ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 13:07:25 -0500 From: Chad Maloney Subject: Re: Richard Scent (was re: *Yawn*) Jon Knight wrote: > > Chad Maloney (opercmm@rosevc.rose-hulman.edu) wrote: > : Hey everyone, how does Richard smell? > > Through his nose like the rest of us? :-) I propose a scientific experiment to be conducted to ascertain whether this is true or not. Through the use of the scientific method, we should be able to ascertain whether Jon's hypothesis is indeed correct. First, we define potential pieces of Richard's anatomy that could potentially, indeed smell. For decency's sake, we'll choose Mouth, Nose, Left Ear, Right Ear, Left Eye, Right Eye, and Belly Button. We will then choose 5 pairs of spherical containers that are opaque. The first pair shall consist of one sphere containing garlic and the other sphere containing nothing (the control sphere). The second pair shall be peppermint/control. The third shall be black licorice/control. The fourth will be Arrid XX Gel Active Fresh scent/Control. The fifth will be rotten eggs/control. The experiment will consist of placing spherical containers, one at a time, up to the defined anatomical pieces and asking the question "What do you smell?" Using the data as collected, I feel we can make a solid case of whether Jon's given hypothesis is true. Of course all this is assuming a willing subject. Once done, we can plot the data in meaningful ways showing different experimental results and how they lead to the truth of the hypothesis. We can only hope these experiments can be recreated around the world so that conclusive proof of how Richard in fact does smell can be arrived at and agreed to throughout the world and used as a building block for other scientific breakthroughs that better society. Nobel Prize, here we come, Jon!!! - Chad ------------------------------ Date: 12 Feb 1999 19:23:45 GMT From: "Hell Hotel" Subject: Re: what we want on next album >We know jian reads this group, so it couldn't hurt... >sadly i've only seen 'em live once, so i can make no decent suggestions... > God, how I wish Fruvous fans put as much bootlegs online as TMBG fans... >JOKING (well, sorta) > >Am i the only one who starts singing MBLABOA after singing "the daves i >know?" You know, by bruce? > I am always willing to trade or trade for Fruvous bootlegs!! I have acquired a decent number in just a short amount of time. If you do want to get some Fruvous Boots, please check out my web page http://i.am/HellHotel - -Eric HellHotel@tmbg.org Http://i.am/HellHotel **************************************************************************** fruvous: (froo`ves)n 1. Magical monk-baked pastry loaf. 2.High stakes Mesopotamian board game. 3.Sound produced when yogurt dollops are dropped in searing liquid. adj 1. Unflappable(after legendary crusader Marion~) 2. Multi-legged and aural. see MOXY FRUVOUS **************************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: 12 Feb 1999 19:15:37 GMT From: Gruneberg Veronica J <6vjg@qlink.queensu.ca> Subject: Re: Smarties Send me an address, and I'll send you a box of Smarties. :) Veronica (who feels it only right that the world's geatest candy should be shared. Just not my box.) - -- *************************************************************************** "Never look at the trombones, | Veronica Gruneberg it only encourages them." | Dept. of Biology - Richard Strauss | Queen's University | Kingston, Ontario ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 14:08:27 -0500 From: Chad Maloney Subject: 9:30 Club Review (probably long) I say probably because I haven't written anything yet. But, well, you know. And I cheated a bit for the review, so sue me. The 9:30 Club is nestled in the middle of downtown Washington DC in not one the best neighborhoods, but I braved parking my car on the street and it all turned out fine. The Club itself is a really nice place. Large and spacious, the stage was one of the largest I've seen them on. It was a real rock club. Lighting, sound, the whole nine yards (~3 metres). When you walk in, you have to choose between the balcony and the lower floor. We walked out into the lower floor and it was huge. We weren't too far back in line, but most of the people ahead of us were upstairs sitting or up near the stage. Even with the probably hundred people in the place, it seemed spacious and I couldn't imagine having been in the middle of the lower floor watching the show, packed with people around me. We went up to the balcony after checking out the front of the stage. Yes, the polish keyboard is still working. Genuine polish craftmanship I guess, though their reputation doesn't precede them. The Balcony had a bar (there were 3 bars in total, one on each side of the lower floor and one in the back of the upper balcony) plus a little coffee/cigarette guy in a booth and a coat check. The balcony made a U, so you could be closer to the stage along the walls. Plus there were movie theatre style seats in the middle with a small (maybe 4 feet) walkway in front of it. We ended up standing in the middle of the walkway on the front of the balcony right above the soundboard. It was an incredible place to see a show. We had a wonderful view of the full stage and all instruments on it and could see the entire crowd on the floor as well. Boy, was it ever great to see the place packed solid for Moxy Fruvous. Jess Klein opened. The place kinda ate her up. She played well and pockets of the crowd payed attention. She interacted some of the people in front of her. Hopefully in the 1200 people there she made a couple fans. But she looked so small, one woman and her guitar, in the middle of the huge place. Finally, Fruvous. The dumbek was setup and a stool was placed, so grins started to form as various asundry Fruheads starting getting the picture of what was gonna take place. The lights dimmed, and announcer announced, and the droning keyboard started up extended Sahara. EXTENDED SAHARA Boy, was this hot! The lighting, the screaming fans, the wall of sound. This was a real concert. This wasn't a little folk show where the electric instruments sounded out of place. This was a rock show where things screamed and shouted. Extended Sahara rang on and you could tell the guys were into this (Bargainville time flashbacks?). They were grinning and moving to the music jamming along not getting too sloppy wild, but letting themselves go enough to bring a musical presence to fill the room. They didn't waste time doing anything and the timings were pretty much on the whole night. Sahara went from just Murray and Jian then added Dave and Mike rather quickly, but didn't leave things under developed. Very nice. Murray was adding some crisp bass fills and Dave's electric was adding a lot of body helping to fill out the song. LAIKA Extended Sahara led straight into Laika. Laike drove straight on with Murray adding a little buh-bowa-bowa-bow-bow at places. The bass really helped fill this one out a lot. Mur was playing around a little and was doing well/getting lucky and it paid off. The show had started really aggressively and the crowd was really into the music ingeneral straight off. Good song placement. VIDEO BARGAINVILLE Murray was really enjoying the beginning of this one playing with his pick and picking at notes and sliding them around, sometimes strumming. The beginning slowed things down a bit, but not really. Things were kept up pace. The crowd did well singing the first "2" but Jian asked for another and this one filled the place up and got the crowd proud of themselves for screaming so well. Normally, I kinda zone through Video Bargainville, but with a combination of set list placement and general energy it kept my attention. Jian losts the lyrics a bit in the 'behind the excersize video rack' and just started mumbling in rhythm for a bit and brought it back in for 'Disco double pack'. Murray got the headbanging in during the bridge and really drove the bass line coming out of the bridge. After the song, Murray and Jian both said "Thank you, thank you very much" at the same time. Then Murray quipped on how it was really weird to play to a crowd that looks like the cast of Mad Max behind Thunderdome. Some guy in the audience yells out "Four will enter. None will leave" which pleases Jian who liked his metal voice. It was pointed out that some people see Moxy Fruvous and the umlaut and think it a metal band like Dokken so they have to toss in a little metal each night to make them happy. Jian wants the guy to come up on stage (not realizing the guy was in the back of balcony *Grin*) and Dave calls him on. Dave didn't think some guy screaming out some line from the movie was worth inviting him on stage. Murray asked him what you would have to scream out to get on stage and Dave said maybe some dirt on Tina Turner's private life. Murray thought that that was a very People Magazine approach to things. Jian just liked the some dirt on Tina Turner thing. This turned into a Mel Gibson jam which Mike started by screaming out Give Me Back My Son! to Jian's drum beat. They each joined in, while they through of other Mel Gibson lines. Jian was the first to try his new one, "You can't handle...". At about that point he realizes that was Nicholson and drops it and goes back into "Give me back my son". Murray takes it and runs with "You can't handle my son". Dave draws them off into Tequila Sunrise (son-rise ;) which Murray takes into American Woman. Jian brings it back around to "Give me back my son" then stops it so he could talk about the movie Ransom from which that line is from. He said he and all his friends were seeing that movie and hated it until Gibson up and roared "Give me back my son!" to which they all stood up and roared, which Jian did very visually, tosses his arms over his head and exposing his belly button much to the delight of the audience (who weren't, despite what anyone else may thing, at all cheering for the line from the movie or Mel Gibson at all). Now, they'd been talking for like 5 minutes at this point. In about 75% of the shows they do, the do this. They break after the 3rd song to screw around. And in about 50% of those, it ruins all timing in the show and they gotta start over. Not tonight! No! They kept all the talking upbeat and kept the pace up and actually gained momemtum in the banter! Whoa! How cool is that? Jian instantly, without letting things drop, started up Horseshoes. This was almost perfect. One of the best 3 + banter's I've seen them do. Sharing the stage, each one was on in their own way and together it really took stuff. HORSESHOES Normally the polish keyboard slows Horseshoes down so they could really put feeling in it. I like the slowed down version a lot because it develops differently. But this time, they kept it upbeat, but still had the feel that polish keyboard gives them. I guess what I mean is normally I'm going along at a fast pace at this point in the show and then, assuming my vibe was doing eighth notes, Horseshoes would hit in at half notes and it would string me out a bit, you know? More than likely you don't know and I'm just looking like a fool, but these are the things I think in terms of when I'm listening to a show that I really like and am trying to figure out why I love it so much. Anyways, this time, Horseshoes wasn't at half notes. It was more quarter notes which didn't slow me down too much. And the crowd sang "Look Straight at the Coming Disaster" reasonably well. After the song, Jian asks the people in the balcony how they are doing and points out that there are other ways to show you like what's going on than just clapping. If you want to, after one of the more upbeat songs, he said the balcony should just throw someone off. "We love that song." "Awwwwwwwghgngh". But it was pointed out that the person thrown off would have to be thrown off willingly. All it takes is one martyr. Then the press coverage would take off. Jian pointed out that it worked for the Who. (Cue one of my favorite lines the whole night) Murray: "Who were they, pardon the pun, who were they before Cincinatti?" Jian: "They were a huge supergroup actually before Cincinatti" This led into a talk of huge supergroups which Dave starts fitting to some song I didn't recognize. The others join in singing about filling the whole world with huge supergroups. Mike starts putting names of supergroups like Asia and Yes and Genesis into song and it drops into another song they sing for awhile that they end up teasing Mike about not knowing "his" part for. YOU WILL GO TO THE MOON Dave takes this really well into an intro to moon and how we are using all the resources up on the earth, like supergroups. And Dave, often being very paranoid, wondered where he would go when he had used a lot of stuff of and everyone was chasing him. Generally okay Moon version. Seemed lower than normal by maybe a step? Dunno. They did take their note off the bass though. I guess no one has bought Murray a new pitch pipe yet. After the song, Jian starts pandering to the audience and admitting it. He more or less seemed amazed that there were this many people being here seeing a Canadian band that doesn't get lots of exposure down here. Murray thanked us because it makes them feel good because at home, they are all in different supergroups. Murray is from a band called ToddddddD with 7 albums. Dave is from an inuit band called Nuck-ti-tuck-tuck. Jian is from the Alanis band back when she was a dance queen. And Mike is from the Incredible Kick-up-a-fuss Rhythm, Commerce, and Maple Syrup Collective which is, you guessed it, government sponsored. This all broke down into an attempted intro to Sad Girl which failed miserably (well, a funny sort of miserably). The pace had kinda broken down by now but it was still a good show. But the first 4 songs were incredible. Anyways, Mike brought the intro to Sad Girl to a complete halt with some pops on the bass. Murray picked it up instantly and using every ounce of his drumming prowess started hammering sixteenth notes on the hi-hat. Nothing else, just the hi-hat *grin* He points out that he was the drummer in ToddddddD. Jian then kicked them into 16/9 time which pretty much ground that whole thing to a complete halt. Murray said the ToddddddD fans would love that one. SAD GIRL Good Sad Girl. Mike is getting stronger on the bass part and keeping it smooth and doing a bit more with it and Murray is looking a little more comfortable on the drums. Jian's voice is really doing well sticking to the song too making the whole thing seem a lot stronger. It still isn't as good as a "real" song where they actually play their instruments, but it's much better than the first time. Near the end of the song, Murray noticed a box of Smarties on the stage. Jian asked if they were American Smarties or Canadian Smarties and Murray pleaded ignorance of the whole American Smarties thing (which in my ever so humble opinion suck). He was semi-happy he had the good ones, but wondered why he got them here when he could just pick some up for himself on Sunday, not that he wasn't happy to get them. Jian thought he sounded pretty ungrateful which led into Mike singing "He's a very ungrateful man. He's dressed up like a pumpkin to-night" (sidenote: Mike's shirt looked more Orange than Murray) This went into the Smarties song (so, do you eat the red ones last). All during the song, Murray would toss Smarties over his shoulder whenever he echoed the "I'm a very ungrateful", but then he changed to eating one or two when he rhymed 'man' with "I'm eating what I can". Mike took the candy road into movies into... SPLATTER SPLATTER This is one of my favorite new songs. Good driving tunes and sounds different. Semi-eerie at time and good movement throughout the song. I think it's kinda about cookie-cutter horror movies. Mike describes different contrived scenes in a horror movie leading into the chorus "This is the best I've ever seen. I wanna see it again and again and again". Polish keyboard pounding adds a lot to the song too. Mike's voice goes really well too. Mike moves right along to another movie where people drive Lambourghini's like the movie Splatter Splatter and are embarrassed at parties. Someone from the audience guesses Rain Man which entertains Mike a lot. He laughs at the people in the audience trying to guess what he's talking about while Dave does Dustin Hoffman impersonations behind him. Mike brings it back to the parties and complaining about people getting pissed and running out onto the lawn and yelling... GET IN THE CAR Kinda out of place. Didn't seem as upbeat as usual for some reason. I think I'm sold on this song as an end-of-the-set-driving-toward-the-finish song (did I use those hyphens right?) and not meat for the middle. Anyway, it wasn't bad or anything, just a little misplaced. This went immediately into... I LOVE MY BOSS Good crowd pleaser, but kinda got lost in the large place. Musically pretty on though. Who knows what Bill Gates will be bringing from dear old boss (Bill Gates). Right at the end, Murray starts into a slow bass line and everyone shrieks at Grandpa Fruvous. Granpda reminisced about driving around the beltway squashing cats the size of the rats with some old guys and some actor. He then griped about CNN and how everyone just sits around the house and doesn't know the value of good sing along. Grandpa then asks politely if everyone wanted to do a singalong and after the crowd roared their approval, he tossed in "Eh, whatever" and kicked into... MINNIE THE MOOCHER Mikey did a great job with lyrics tonight. He played into the hand of the nations capitol really. The first was a comparison of Minnie's heart and Peter Bondra, probably the best player on Washington's Hockey Team, the Capitols. The next verse talked about Washington being built on a swamp, but Mike didn't write the last two lines of the verse, so he took a sip of his Mexican Beer. He then tossed in Nafta while holding up the beer before the Gotham City Dream Sequence (George Clooney and Val Kilmer not included). The next verse talked about people scared about that Y2K bug and others who just give it a shrug. Others who are scared of the millenium derby and some that just go home and jerk off to their Furby. Jian really hammed up the Energizer thing and came out for a bow after it much to the delight of the crowd. Mike's next verse had to do with the Superbowl and how Canadians didn't understand it. The game sent TV rating soaring but could the game be any more f**king boring. Last verse was the Lesbian hooker verse about Clinton. All in all a very good Minnie. Mike got really into it. He brought it out with Impeach Hyde! And all those other f**king dead white guys! Take it home boys! Take it right home! After the audience response sutff, the crowd was really riled up. They started yelling out songs and stuff. Dave's response was that they weren't going to play Lighter Shade of Grey (or something like that) until the encore. Jian chipped in, hinting that they might play Freebird now. Then he started comparing the show at this point to a union workers meeting. To this, Mike started rambling off in the character of a lathe worker from sector 37B and wanted to know what this meant for the little guy. This led into a short improv about joining the Canadian Communist party which led straight into... YOU CAN'T BE TOO CAREFUL Liking this one more and more. To me, this is probably the song that benefitted most of the rehearsal break between the New Years shows and Windsor. The guitar work is really good and it has lotsa nice texture through out the song with a couple change ups thrown in. This is one of the new songs where I can ignore the words and really enjoy the music or I can listen to the words and not be disappointed either. Splatter Splatter musically is like that as well for me. The crowd is still yelling things at this point, so Murray threatens them with the fire hoses they had set up. Jian said that they'd turn the hoses off if they kept acting up. This more or less a cover for the banjo getting into the mix, so everyone cheered, so Dave did a tune on the banjo. "Well the same old news in Washington. They can't leave it alone. It's the biggest rock, The president got blown" Gotta love the banjo. Dave, talking about string cheese from Wisconsin, then jaunted next door to Mich-igan (pronounced Mitch-igan)... MICHIGAN MILITIA The unruly crowd went right along with this one. Bass was a little low in the mix (but maybe I'm a bit biased on that one *grin*) but all in all a good version. Not too fast and the crowd enjoyed it. Right after Militia, Jian introduces the Pro-food movement and their pro-food mascot. Murray encouraged people to, even if it is Smarties. Jian teased him about eating them now where he was ungrateful before and Murray started tossing them over his shoulder again. Jian said that Murray had audacity to do that and Mike broke off into a verse: "He's captain audacity. He's wearing an orange short. He's captain audacity. Giving me some Smarties wouldn't f**king hurt". Jian wanted Mur to throw the Smarties out into the crowd but Murray said no, he was gonna *hand* them out instead. Jian pleaded the case of the people in the back, the poor people while Dave told a joke about how to get 4 Canadians out of a pool (Please get out of the pool). Jian steals a couple Smarties and heaves them out into the audience before Dave gets back on track with the Saucep'n intro. JOHNNY SAUCEP'N It was Johnny Saucep'n. It was like a minute long. People liked it. After Saucep'n, Jian apologized for the length of the show and Dave broke out into a song. Jian called Dave a tease and launched off into some story. During the first sentence of the story, Jian couldn't remember someone's name, so he asks Murray who Johnny Davies's girlfriend was in like 9th Grade. He tries sounding it out. Asks Mike if he knows by relating it to Patty Davies, Johnny Davies older sister. Finally Murray comes up with Camela Ross and Jian asks if he remembers her. He then calls her a tease and compares Dave to Camela Ross. Mike goes off into a senate hearing style "Does the senator remember Camela Ross? Ich bin ein Camela Ross" which Jian takes off into "Ich bin ein Springfielder" and Mike goes into the "I'm sorry Springdon, there will be no encore". That's 3 Simpson's reference for the night ;) FLY Dave, with a little get on with hinting, starts playing the Fly guitar intro in the background and Jian gets back on track. I won't complain any more about Fly being misplaced in Set Lists. You know I do it, so imagine it here. The version of the song was actually pretty good and the crowd didn't get too restless during it. Straight into... INDEPENDENCE DAY Still loving this song. Not as long as Fly. I don't know of a lot songs that don't really have any action in them really. If I could paint, I'd like to paint a one picture scene that is this song and the song would be describing it (with children flying away of course). I could also see a great video for this one in my head. This is probably my favorite of the new songs. Great use of chordings, imagery, polish keyboard, bass, guitar, and drums all together. Maybe a better ending (another verse before the chorus leads out?) and some more bass noodling up high would improve it, but it's definitely a keeper to me. Straight into... SPIDERMAN (LOUNGE VERSION) Jockey started up again. Murray was playing around up high in the beginning again. I still like this song flow wise from Independence Day. It doesn't immediately jump back up into high-speed. Good polish keyboarding in the song as well. Ending was kinda funny. Jian dragged it well after Murray thought it was gonna end so Murray had to draw out his ending to coincide with everyone elses. After Spiderman, Jian talked about the respect he had for all the crowd for their predescessors becoming a Republic, the republic of the USA, the RUSA. He introduced the member of Moxy Fruvous inc. as very anti-monarchy and they join with the Austrailians (who it seems have been going through some referendum for over a year to overthrow the monarchy) in wanting to displace the monarchy in their home. And now, the sexiest ex-King ever... Mike Ford. Mike then introed a guy who was wearing a patch with Orrin Hatch and whose cutlet was purloined with Strom Thurmond, the King of Spain. KING OF SPAIN/GREEN EGGS & HAM The King was a big fan of Jewel's shit poetry, but only because he had trouble sleeping. Mike pointed out that he's knowm internationally as "That badass King". Murray was so entertained with Jian's "King, why are you such an asshole?" that he laughed through his entry for what the people say. Mike said "Fruvousgate!". The Caps did call the King up to drive the zamboni. This led straight into the short version of Green Eggs and Ham which the crowd very much enjoyed. The crowd screamed at Mr. Cheese for not liking the Beatles, fueling one of the best "Hey Not the Beatles" sections I've heard in a while. Jian accused Mr. Cheese of ruining the show. Ever since he got into the "I look like the lead singer of the New Radicals" thing, he'd really changed. And not in a good way. Jian felt that he wanted the old... at this point he stared at Dave and thought. He knew not to call him Dave. No, not the King of Spain. Finally he came out with Mr. Cheese. He just wanted the old Mr. Cheese back, you know? What happened to the Beatles-loving fun, Norwegian Wood sort of guy we used to know and love? Mike: This bird has flown. Norwegian Wood [this bird has flown [Good Guy] ]. Jian came back in asking where that Mr. Cheese went and Murray wondered if he could just click his heels (click click) and he'd come back. Mike appealled to the sensible side of Mr. Cheese, remembering the good times and how precious he was and the dance the old Mr. Cheese taught, the old Norwegian Wood [this bird has flown [good guy]], which consisted of writhing on the floor to a hot dance beat that Mr. Cheese joined in on. At this point, Mike rejoiced at the return of the old Mr. Cheese, but Jian called him on it saying don't be fooled. Murray pointed out it's not that easy and Jian kicked the song back in with "You don't like green eggs and ham?". After the end of the song, Dave picked up the accordion, looked over at Jian as Murray was playing the Psycho Killer lead for the last song, and Dave took off the accordion and got the electric. I'd guess we skipped BJ or Darlington Darling. Jian plugged grassroots over the top of the beat and thanked the crowd, the club, and the record label VelVel/Bottom Line. PSYCHO KILLER Nice rocking ending. Dave was playing harmonics before the beginning which was pretty neat and he crunched chords on the first of the two Fa fa fa's on each verse which was great. It was the right place to end with a rocking song like this. They got back to filling the room again after the less instrumented pieces and Dave really got the electric working for him through the whole thing. ENCORE 1: Good crowd reaction. The place was loud with applause and screaming. That felt really good to be in the middle of. When the guys came back out, it got quiet again and some people started yelling requests again. Jian said it's a very special night and introduced a guest from New York City, former leader/singer for the Velvet Underground, the poet of New York City, ladies and gentlement.. Lou! It was pretty funny. Instead of being on stage with his back to the audience, Lou entered from off stage. That threw Jian off a lot, but Lou walked on when called for to screams of LOU from the audience. Dave invited Lou to say something, and he brought on some poetry about the mods and the rockers and about some ass outside the Smithsonian who sold him blublockers. Dave said Lou still had the poetry, and Lou retorted with "Not that you need to tell me that". He then called them to do this thing that they do. Someone from the crowd yelled for Freebird and Lou came back with "You don't know Skynyrd like I know Skynyrd. They were my boys". Murray then picked up the bassline to... DANCING QUEEN MEDLEY This went over really well. A lot of the non-dancers in the back of the floor were getting into it. A couple of the people by the bar that had been talking all night grinned big and got into it as well. Another good set list choice for the place. The audience really picked up the clapping at the end. Encore 2: The crowd stayed in it for this as well. A couple shows the second encore has been painful to get, but here it was no problem at all. The crowd roared and screamed Fruvous and clapped and banged, screamed Moxy Moxy Moxy and clapped more the whole time. The band came back out to another loud roar when they realized all the work was being rewarded with a second encore. Jian thanked the crowd for keeping with them, even though they have lotsa things to do, since this is the heartbeat of the nation. This and Flint Michigan. Jian thanked everyone for coming and Dave tossed in afterwards "Yeah, thanks so much. We came too" (the other really great line of the night). After a couple Pittsburgh cracks and a short intro, they closed with... THE DRINKING SONG Lotsa people arm in arm and good singing levels in the place. We had the whole front of the lower balcony swaying arm in arm and the floor looked like it was pretty lined up as well. This was a great show. Really, this was the first Fruvous show that looked and felt like a rock show with professional everything for me. It felt good to enjoy a show with 1200 other people and I think the guys performance lived up to what those 1200 people wanted. The first 4 songs were possibly one of the best set of 4 I've seen and they controlled themselves, saving up great banter to all use at once and just got down and played the music well when they had to. The feel of the show was exciting and I came out of it excited for them and where things are going. All in all great stuff, ladies and gentlemen! - Chad ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V3 #148 ********************************************