From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V3 #431 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, May 25 1999 Volume 03 : Number 431 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: OT: Bagels (so good they deserve their own thread) [Cameron_Ross@ufac] Re: OT - Starbacks [cookie ] Re: Why no Philly Shows? [fruwench@aol.com (FruWench)] Re: A Question On Spam [fruwench@aol.com (FruWench)] Re: OT - Starbacks [fruwench@aol.com (FruWench)] Re: Roch fru-crew (and others) get together... ["A.T. Schrader" ] Re: A Question On Spam ["KatieWow" ] cool site alert (OT) [Taryn Chase ] The Fruvous Dance [Revell Sara E <4ser4@qlink.queensu.ca>] Re: OT - Starbacks [katrin@dimensional.com (Katrin)] Re: A Question On Spam [katrin@dimensional.com (Katrin)] Pennsylvania 6-5000 (Spring Gulch review) [ACW ] Re: A Question On Spam [snonsumr@aol.com (Snonsumr)] Josh Woodward where are ya???? [piscopinto@aol.com (PISCOPINTO)] NY Fleadh spare tix for sale [dalevy@aol.com (DALevy)] Re: Thornhill [Mindy J Munson ] Re: Fruvous article in canoe.. [Mindy J Munson ] Re: A Question On Spam [David G Garcia ] Re: Why no Philly Shows? [chad schrock ] Re: Thornhill [katrin@dimensional.com (Katrin)] Re: Thornhill [tmbgirl@juno.com] Re: Thornhill [srm9988n@aol.com.LoriM (Srm9988n)] Re: A Question On Spam ["KatieWow" ] Re: Why no Philly Shows? ["KatieWow" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 04:53:53 GMT From: Cameron_Ross@ufacademy.com (Cameron Ross) Subject: Re: OT: Bagels (so good they deserve their own thread) > >Montreal bagels, then Great Canadian. There are bagels better then Great Canadian????? I shall have to look for this Montreal Bagels some time - - Life101 - "Life is a placebo masquerading as a simile" -They Might Be Giants ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 07:00:44 -0700 From: cookie Subject: Re: OT - Starbacks Katrin wrote: > > In article <19990521130635.12901.00000005@ng-fi1.aol.com>, nasust@aol.com > says... > > Ron Sexsmith performed there... > > Y'know, of all the permutations in which that name could be misread, I > must wonder why my brain chose to parse it at first as "Rex Smith." > > k@ For the same reason I did the exact same thing. What happened to him, anyway? Cookie ------------------------------ Date: 25 May 1999 11:14:49 GMT From: fruwench@aol.com (FruWench) Subject: Re: Why no Philly Shows? Ya know, I thought I heard mention of some Florida dates. ladywench FruSpace - We came, we saw, we slept on the floor . . . "For we can still love the world, who find a famished kitten on the step and know recesses for it from the fury of the street" - Hart Crane "Chaplinesque" ------------------------------ Date: 25 May 1999 11:17:32 GMT From: fruwench@aol.com (FruWench) Subject: Re: A Question On Spam >What's Sp'am? A poor substitute for Scrapple. :-) ladywench FruSpace - We came, we saw, we slept on the floor . . . "For we can still love the world, who find a famished kitten on the step and know recesses for it from the fury of the street" - Hart Crane "Chaplinesque" ------------------------------ Date: 25 May 1999 11:16:13 GMT From: fruwench@aol.com (FruWench) Subject: Re: OT - Starbacks So does little old Delaware. Matter of fact sundried tomato bagles with garlic or veggie cream cheese are my favorites. ladywench FruSpace - We came, we saw, we slept on the floor . . . "For we can still love the world, who find a famished kitten on the step and know recesses for it from the fury of the street" - Hart Crane "Chaplinesque" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 15:56:07 GMT From: "A.T. Schrader" Subject: Re: Roch fru-crew (and others) get together... > Can I ask what the Cornhill Festival is? Being my > first summer actually > in Rochester I'm not really familar with the > festivities > > Dan Thr Cornhill Fest is general considered an art/craft type festival...but it's alot more then that. It take up about 3 miles in the Cornhill neighborhood in downtown Roch and although there are 300+ vendors selling all kinda of stuff (from paintings to jewlery to t-shirts and what-nots) there are also 5 stages with a variety of music and a whole section devoted to food from all over the world (and Rochester...if i'm not mistaken i think Nick Tahoe's always has a tent)...this tends to be one of my favority parts ^_^ IMHO it's great fun....to check out more go to http://www.cornhill.org/festival.html Amy === "Wouldn't it be great if the band never stopped playing!" ~Great Big Sea "It's not easy to run when you carry a load let the questions be done and FOLLOW THE ROAD" _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 16:37:36 GMT From: FruKid Subject: Re: A Question On Spam Ladywench said: > A poor substitute for Scrapple. :-) And what, pray tell, is Scrapple? And why is it better than Spam? Is it a *high-class* meatscum? Or is it real food? FruKid The Vegitarian - --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- - ---Share what you know. Learn what you don't.--- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 14:31:12 -0400 From: "KatieWow" Subject: Re: A Question On Spam oh dear. clare, to be honest--you don't want to know what's in scrapple. it's only found in the philadelphia area, and it's just better that we not get into its actual contents :). ~~kate - -- kate leahy kleahy@loyola.edu katiewow@frumail.org ***************************************************************** evil is just special with a criminal record. - --doug, 3.26.99 everybody loves a happy ending but we don't even try we go straight on past pretending to the part where everyone loves to cry - --elvis costello **************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 19:29:27 GMT From: Taryn Chase Subject: cool site alert (OT) since we've had several choice discussions on the topics of literature, film, and music on this NG--i just wanted to let all you crazy fruheads in on this keen site i found where you can create a self profile and list all your favorite (or least favorite) books, movies, and music... you gotta check it out: http://www.listology.com/users_t.html and it *is* semi-Fruvous related, since i included them in my Essentials list, so if you do a Music search for them--you at least get me! taryn /wondering if anyone really wants to "get" me.... hmmmm. ------------------------------ Date: 25 May 1999 20:25:39 GMT From: Revell Sara E <4ser4@qlink.queensu.ca> Subject: The Fruvous Dance I was perusing the Centre for the Easily Amused (http://amused.com) and discovered that they have created a page that lists many of the difference "dance" pages that are out the (following in the vein of the Hamster Dance). So of course, it crosses my mind to scan through and look for The Fruvous Dance. It's not there...but I think the creator of the page should submit it to them (sorry, I can't recall now who made it but it was terrific!!!) Sara _______ The secret of life: breathe in, breathe out, repeat. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 14:22:45 -0600 From: katrin@dimensional.com (Katrin) Subject: Re: OT - Starbacks In article <37495B8C.50D5@2cowherder.com>, cookie@2cowherder.com says... > Katrin wrote: > > Y'know, of all the permutations in which that name could be misread, I > > must wonder why my brain chose to parse it at first as "Rex Smith." > For the same reason I did the exact same thing. What happened to him, > anyway? Ah-ha, Cookie - you fear my mind's trivia-retaining capabilities, but I see your Schwartz is as big as mine. No idea what happened to Rex; I stopped paying attention to him after "Pirates of Penzance." Wasn't he on some soap opera or other recently? k@ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 14:33:55 -0600 From: katrin@dimensional.com (Katrin) Subject: Re: A Question On Spam In article <19990525032548.28599.rocketmail@send205.yahoomail.com>, alaynamac@yahoo.com says... > Does anybody remembe when Muppet's Treasure Island > island was in the theatres? There was a character > called Sp'am. He was a tribal pig sort of guy. Hormel > threatened to sue Henson productions for useing thier > brand name and causing it to be associated with "evil > canabalism". Brian Hensons reply was something along > the lines of "Bite Me". I remember - The character was named "Spa'am," and I think Hormel did try to sue. IIRC the case was either thrown out, or Henson Productions won the case, because the name was pronounced distinctly as "Spa'am" and would not be confused with the meat product (Anyone remember the particulars more clearly?). Muppets Tonight also had a sketch called "Bay of Pigs Watch," featuring a star named Spamela Hamderson. k@ Big ol' Muppets fan who, as a child, often came home from school to find notes reading "Mom working late. Spam in microwave." ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 21:19:24 GMT From: ACW Subject: Pennsylvania 6-5000 (Spring Gulch review) (Narrative, not fully show review. Just relax and take it all in.) We started looking forward to Spring Gulch way back in February, when Jack Ross announced that the festival was going to be paying the guys a lot to play there. Ellen and I left her place in Columbia about 10 a.m., fairly psyched to be seeing Fruvous after a long-ish layoff. Our drive took us through little towns with names like Intercourse and Bird-in-Hand, where Amishness is an industry. Aaah, Pennsylvania. Damn, those towns were quaint. We found the campground with no incident, except that the buggies on 340 slowed us way down. We hadn't even entered the actual festival grounds when we encountered our first Fruheads of the day: Jen and Trace. We took a gambol around the grounds and determined that every hippie east of the Mississippi was present here in Central PA. Hadn't spotted very many geeks yet. We climbed up a steep-ish hill to the pool, where we enjoyed being in the water; though it was too crowded to really swim. At one point I turned to Ellen and said I felt like we ought to be playing Marco Polo. Within a minute, a game sprang up among some young folk. We had led them over to the dark side. Later, we found some vacant grass close to the front, just left of center. We were surrounded by chairs and blankets, but no people to speak of, except the woman we dubbed the Cigarette Smoking Woman. Trout Fishing in America was playing when we got back down the hill. They were entertaining. Bass fanatics take note: the bass player (sorry, I don't remember whether he's Ezra or Keith) was wearing a baseball cap with the bass clef marker on it. Later in the afternoon, TFiA did a workshop with Fruvous, which was interesting to say the least. The workshop theme was No Rules, and while they didn't exactly instruct us on how to break, flout or ignore rules, they did switch off songs. There was a little interaction between the groups, who had apparently workshopped together in the past. Fruvous started off with Boss, which was pretty standard stuff. I have to confess that I'm a little tired of it. I still like Mike's part, though. "They go real heavy on the sauce" seemed appropriate, as Mike wore a pink and orange striped shirt. Ellen said she used to have one just like it. Their second number, reportedly written that morning, played off an article in the Lancaster paper about the festival that featured TFiA and didn't mention Fruvous at all. We dubbed it "The Also Rans." It was slow, and slow getting started. Jian sang the main vocal and the last verse was the best. "They may be better dressers, classy guys (a melange of adjectives about TFiA spoken by all the guys here) but they're still from Arkansas." The workshop also featured a really great Early Morning Rain, with TFiA adding guitar and a little bass. It seemed like Murray's vocal was stronger and more confident, or maybe the sound was just better. The energy was good on stage, and I can imagine that TFiA shows are a lot of fun. Fruvous finished with the Kids Song, very effective because of the large number of actual kids. Segments of the population: Mur: "The Glum." Mike: "No, the people of Alberta were asked. Dave?" Dave: "The Gleeful?" Jian: "The Glam Folk?" Later, Gaelic Storm played. They were *way* too much fun, and I'll definitely go see them again. They played Irish music without it being cheesy, and they definitely carried themselves with a hint of irony. I liked that about them. The fact that I took a power nap during the second part of their set doesn't reflect on the band's ability. Honest. I felt much better after sleeping for 20 minutes. An a capella group, Artisan, followed Gaelic Storm. They closed with the Rise of the Mary Ellen Carter, which was cool. Mur was peeking out from back stage while did their last song, interesting. The rest of their songs made me cringe in an "oh, Boomers had it *so* tough" way. There were three of them, two altos and a baritone, all singing in the same range; their between song patter sounded rote and I couldn't really find much to identify with in their performance. I looked over to my right and noticed that the CSW had been through three packs of Parliaments, and that her son was banging on a drum that seemed to be entirely made of cowhide. And then it was time for Fruvous. We moved down front, as much because it was dark now and cooling off as for any other reason. Ellen and I were standing Stage Murray and had a pretty good view. Dave got things started by shouting "Are you ready for some Folk Music?" while waving his fist in the air. They opened with a sound check, which was actually pretty funny. No, I couldn't tell you about it, but after they had levels straightened out, Mur re-introduced the band: "Please welcome the only touring band with an underwear endorsement deal, Moxy Fruvous." And the crowd went wild. About that time I looked over my shoulder and noticed what looked like several thousand people cheering. The first song was Half as Much, which sounded much smoother than it did before. I think there was more Murray in the vocal, always a good thing. The instruments seemed more in control, if that makes any sense. Too Careful was next, also sounding a little more polished. I thought back to the first time I heard it, back on New Year's Eve. It's just too catchy. Horseshoes -- Dave on acoustic, Mike on electric, no keyboard. I still love Horseshoes and it's a great song for a festival set because it showcases their vocal talents so well. IWHO -- Weird without the backing vocal. I might get used to this, might not. Minnie -- mildly amusing. Rob J. made a comment about liking Minnie better as a rarity. I can't disagree, but it's not bad for a festival. The lyrics were fresh, except for the Chelsea Clinton line, which most of us up front shouted at Mike. He looked a little surprised, but I can't imagine how. They skipped Michigan Militia, encouraging us to sing it to our friends who hadn't heard it, but might need to and went straight into Johnny Saucep'n. They jokingly asked if TFiA wanted to join them, "Ezra and Keith knocked us on our asses with that Coffee Pot song, and I wonder if they'd like to join us for this one..." said Dave. There seem to be more and more audience members joining in, I can only get so far. KOS/Green The king was psyched about the Leafs victory, 'nuff said. As they started into Psycho Killer, it started to rain. Jian told us not to worry, but as Murray continued the bass line and people spread tarps over the monitors, Jian shushed the whole crowd. It was almost silent in the part as he started 'I can't seem to face up to the fact.' Very cool. They encored with The Drinking Song, but no sing-along verse. It was OK, as everybody was singing the whole song anyway. The rain had picked up a little. We stopped to chat with Zard and Chris for a few minutes, asking about Rodney. Chris said he was responding to stimuli, particularly people telling him jokes. We talked about getting together to take him a copy of Thornhill when it comes out, assuming he's up to visitors other than family by then. The drive out wasn't fun. It was raining hard, and dark, and the road just looked different. The streets that had looked so quaint on the way in seemed to be blind alleys in the wet night. Eventually we made it back to civilization by way of Baltimore, where we stopped at the Double T diner on Rt 40, also known as "the National Pike." It was prom night at a lot of high schools. This couple in amazingly coordinated outfits sat across from us. It was like Dance Fever meets Star Trek in silver hologram-lookin' lame. This was the weirdest thing I'd seen since the woman in the Cathy Rigby as Peter Pan shirt in the Spring Gulch food tent. --Amanda "Been there, debunked that." - --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- - ---Share what you know. Learn what you don't.--- ------------------------------ Date: 25 May 1999 22:35:09 GMT From: snonsumr@aol.com (Snonsumr) Subject: Re: A Question On Spam >it's only found in the philadelphia area, and it's just better that we not >get into its actual contents :). KT: not true... i've seen scrapple here in Buffalo (in the meat section... right next to the gardenburgers). and let's just say that scrapple is somewhere between sausage & hot dogs. *shudder* - -Amy... spam & scrapple free for 21 years ****************** Amy Brunner aka Snow In Summer email: snowgirl@spamfree.frumail.org ------------------------------ Date: 25 May 1999 23:12:01 GMT From: piscopinto@aol.com (PISCOPINTO) Subject: Josh Woodward where are ya???? Hey!!! Hey!!! I need you, dude! Write me here okay??? Angel PS. Have a 2nd-hand Peter Mulvey story for ya!@ ------------------------------ Date: 25 May 1999 23:25:33 GMT From: dalevy@aol.com (DALevy) Subject: NY Fleadh spare tix for sale Looks like I may have an extra two tickets for the Guiness Fleadh in NYC, which I'll sell at face value ($45 plus whatever Ticketmaster charged me). Any takers? Please email me asap. Thanks. Doug Levy DALevy(at)aol(dot)com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 01:03:59 GMT From: Mindy J Munson Subject: Re: Thornhill does anyone else think it would be hella cute if the lads baby (or kid) pix were in the album due to the fact thats its named after the place that they grew up in? fruchild, *canoodle!* ___________________________________________________________________ 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: Wed, 26 May 1999 01:17:04 GMT From: Mindy J Munson Subject: Re: Fruvous article in canoe.. >Maybe the band is just in denial that they are growing older and are >trying to remain in the glory days of their youth by sticking with >their younger selves in their promo pictures. > >-- >Strike any user to continue. > too bad. I think they look better now. Like a fine wine, they grow better with age =+) fruchild, *canoodle!* ___________________________________________________________________ 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: Tue, 25 May 1999 21:07:18 -0400 From: David G Garcia Subject: Re: A Question On Spam Snonsumr, in response to some other person's diseased imaginings, rambled something along the lines of: > >it's only found in the philadelphia area, and it's just better that we not > >get into its actual contents :). > > KT: > not true... i've seen scrapple here in Buffalo (in the meat section... right > next to the gardenburgers). and let's just say that scrapple is somewhere > between sausage & hot dogs. *shudder* It's in Baltimore too, but you'll never get me to try it. I've seen ladywench eat scrapple, though, and it killed my appetite. It's considerably _below_ hot dogs, more akin (imho) to finely diced roadkill. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 21:11:08 -0400 From: chad schrock Subject: Re: Why no Philly Shows? Kelly D Affannato wrote: > > I know the guys have been really busy, what with the new album > and the tour for it, but no Philly shows yet? Well, gee, let's see... The go to Philadelphia... ...and get parking tickets ...get locked out of the club ...get treated extremely rudely by the club ...etc. The come to Maryland... ...no parking tickets ...no rude clubs ...great crowds on odd nights (like Mondays) ...all of the Philly people without having to go to Philly ...etc. Gee, that's a hard choice. :) Oh, and both have 'XPN, so that isn't a large plus anymore. > I'm not trying to be evil, I just want my live FruFix! (Ah, > when LN just can't "do it" for ya the same old way...) Come down to Maryland, where we like Fruvous and it shows. :) (At least in Baltimore, Annapolis, and the People's Republic of Columbia.) heh heh heh chad - -- chad at radix dot net catsitting and car shopping ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 20:02:04 -0600 From: katrin@dimensional.com (Katrin) Subject: Re: Thornhill In article <19990525.205459.-154505.7.SHAZALINREA@juno.com>, shazalinrea@juno.com says... > does anyone else think it would be hella cute if the lads baby (or kid) > pix were in the album due to the fact thats its named after the place > that they grew up in? Oh my god, that would be such a wonderful idea. What do you think the chances are that the album-designing powers that be would take our request for that? (Assuming all that isn't a done deal already, that is.) k@ Just really really wants to see those pictures ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 02:31:43 GMT From: tmbgirl@juno.com Subject: Re: Thornhill >does anyone else think it would be hella cute if the lads baby (or >kid) pix were in the album due to the fact thats its named after the >place that they grew up in? i was totally thinking that the other day. I also thought it would be really groovy if they pulled the Nerf Herder action and listed what they liked growing up (the members of NH are like "steve collects pez machines, charlie collects action figures...") i dunno, i thot it'd be groovy. take it easy, JOrdaN http://www2.netcom.com/~arnot/joda/bootlegs.html Come on.... AVS vs. LEAFS... we all want it :D ___________________________________________________________________ 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: 26 May 1999 02:27:00 GMT From: srm9988n@aol.com.LoriM (Srm9988n) Subject: Re: Thornhill Mindy proposed: >> does anyone else think it would be hella cute if the lads baby (or kid) >> pix were in the album due to the fact thats its named after the place >> that they grew up in? AWWWWW!!!! :) :) :) :) then k@ said: >Oh my god, that would be such a wonderful idea. What do you think the >chances are that the album-designing powers that be would take our >request for that? (Assuming all that isn't a done deal already, that is.) According to Mike, it's been a done deal for a couple of weeks. That's not to say brilliant minds (or sheep) don't think alike and they've not already done this. :) >Just really really wants to see those pictures hell yes, me too. :) - -- Lori, full of smiles tonight :) ********** Trust the people for whom living is a sport ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 22:38:18 -0400 From: "KatieWow" Subject: Re: A Question On Spam oh dear . . . it's made it that fa? i pity the people of buffalo :). ~~kate - -- kate leahy kleahy@loyola.edu katiewow@frumail.org ***************************************************************** evil is just special with a criminal record. - --doug, 3.26.99 everybody loves a happy ending but we don't even try we go straight on past pretending to the part where everyone loves to cry - --elvis costello **************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 22:32:13 -0400 From: "KatieWow" Subject: Re: Why no Philly Shows? let's see . . . philly is the place where 'michigan militia' went to number one and the home of the greatest radio station in this country. i think we have some distinct advantages :). ~~kate - -- kate leahy kleahy@loyola.edu katiewow@frumail.org ***************************************************************** evil is just special with a criminal record. - --doug, 3.26.99 everybody loves a happy ending but we don't even try we go straight on past pretending to the part where everyone loves to cry - --elvis costello **************************************************************** ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V3 #431 ********************************************