From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V4 #359 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 Thursday, August 24 2000 Volume 04 : Number 359 Today's Subjects: ----------------- North Star Concert-Mon, 8/21 [lisardbeth@aol.comnojunk (Lis Boriss)] Re: EFMF Review (LONG) (part 2) [Lisa Carpenter ] Review- North Star - 8/22 [LONG] [trace@fruhead.com (Trace)] Re: Review- North Star - 8/22 [LONG] ["Daancing Queen" ] Set List for 8-21 [saphiracat83@aol.com-remove- (SaphiraCat83)] North Star: 8.19.00 [spychicr@aol.compoot (RAI-- Random Access Insanity)] FHDC Trouble? [Taylor Nelson ] Re: FHDC Trouble? [Josh Woodward ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 23 Aug 2000 04:13:14 GMT From: lisardbeth@aol.comnojunk (Lis Boriss) Subject: North Star Concert-Mon, 8/21 the show was INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!! I must say before hand that this was only my 3rd Fruvous show (I know, isn't that sad??) but it was my favorite so far. I was soooo close to the stage i could have tied Mike's shoes! And speeking of Mike, he was a bit sick at the show, poor guy. He had amazing energy in spite of that, you wouldn't have known. Get well soon, Mike!!! they had a great set at the show. They played most of my fav songs, like "Sad Girl", "Kick in the Ass", "the Kid Song", and "Michigan Militia" (my dad, Mike, is from Michigan.. & Plays accordian! whee!) along with others. And the improves were great too. After the show, I got Dave to sign my drawing I did at collingswood. thanx dave!! And I got a Picture taken with Jian. I got to sit on his lap, too :^) Thanx again Fru-dudes for a fantastic show. You all were fantastic! - -Lis Boriss (the "Art Chick") www.lisardbeth.homepad.com - -Lissy (the artist chick) www.lisardbeth.homepad.com "The older you get, the more you learn to see what you've been taught to see. When you're a kid, you see what's there."-- Steven Wright ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 00:12:59 GMT From: Lisa Carpenter Subject: Re: EFMF Review (LONG) (part 2) Cara Kozack wrote: > Pisco - the song that Erilee was wating for, for she had made....get > set...a WAY cool Pisco fish out of a beach towel! So during the intro > (can't remember it at all) she brought it out and Jian pointed it out! So > during the song we passed it back and forth while grooving! and tobey, who was watcing from the far side of the stage, was laughing his ass off! >grin< lisa ******************** and these were our words our words were our songs these songs are our prayers these prayers keep me strong and i still believe..... ******************** ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 15:36:06 GMT From: trace@fruhead.com (Trace) Subject: Review- North Star - 8/22 [LONG] Whew, what a fun night. First off, since my news server hasn't spit out any posts about this, I'll charge right ahead. The Campfire Songbook is finished and available for 15 Frumiles stamps or $20. It has the lyrics and chords for 12 songs and is liberally sprinkled with Mike's artwork. It is entitled, "Fireside Fruvous." Ok, here's the setlist, followed by some comments on other stuff concerning the show, and the setlist was only half the fun. EMR River Car Shit Heatseek Horse Fly Boss Spidey Pisco BJ Mistra Rush Ash IWHO MPG Michy Sauce Dance - ----------- Hard Day's Night (improv) Video - ---------- Drinking The guys seemed to be having a lot of fun last night, and were throwing improvs all over the place. The setlist Colin tossed to me after the show bears only passing resemblance to the actual show. In addition to Jian complaining about how the audience quieted down, folded their arms and waited for a song to be played during the first encore, which led to them improving "Hard Day's Night," they also played "Saw Her Standing There" earlier. In the first quarter of the set, Jian explained that they played most of their funny, fast paced songs the night before, during the all ages show. For the older, more mature audience Tuesday, they were going to play their slower stuff so that the over the hill audience wouldn't get over-excited and hurt themselves. In fact, he said, they planned on playing some of their fast songs, but with a really slow tempo. They then proceeded to play slowed-down "Jewish" versions of some of their songs. I remember them playing snippets of MBLABOA, Splatter Splatter, a sing-along KOS, a long version GE&H tease, and a Jian song that I'm forgetting. The problem was that the slow tempo threw them all off and none of them could remember more than two lines of any of the songs. :-) They said they planned on rounding out the evening by playing side b of "Dark Side of the Moon," or rather their DSotM, which is that really crappy album called "Wood" which should only be listened to at 3am when you're having trouble falling asleep. They broke into cover song medleys at least twice during the set. I can't remember song order, and I know I'm forgetting a bunch of songs, but here's what I can remember being included. Funky Town Sweet Dreams (are made of this) The Wall Planet Earth Notorious View to a Kill Goldfinger Ring My Bell It's Tricky You Can't Touch This Too Shy (audience member requested) We learned that Jian was caught between Murray's desire to have the tempo of Mistra slowed down, and Dave's desire to have it sped up, but Jian was sympathetic to Dave because when Jian gets the tempo right, Dave's hips start swinging. A demonstration followed. During the intro to Boss, Boss Type A (Murray) forced Jian to take off his shoes. Boss Type B prompted Jian to recite a monologue from "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and Boss Type C wanted to know what Jian *really* thought about Boss Type A. Bad blood erupted onstage between Murray and Jian, but Mike stepped in to remind everyone about their last $140 session, in which they were told to stop arguments by focusing on their point of commonality, which is that "Dave is a dick." Because Jian's "twin poles" were conflicted - his AC/DC you might say - they went right into a turbo boosted banjo version of "Shook Me All Night Long." I know the words, but couldn't sing along because it was so fast. I was impressed with Dave's, um, oral gymnastics. :-) I recall Lou Reed claiming that Gene Shay likes to hump inflatable dolls. Uh huh. Finally, I remember Mike and Murray having a guitar/bass duel during the middle of Video. I remember the audience chanting their names to cheer them on. I also remember Murray transforming into Mr. Cool, unbuttoning the top of his shirt, putting his bass on the floor and then literally *stomping* on it. Too funny. What else can they *possibly* do tonight? - -- Trace trace at fruhead dot com Maybe we're just looking at a funhouse mirror and loving our reflections ~MPG~ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 12:43:58 EDT From: "Daancing Queen" Subject: Re: Review- North Star - 8/22 [LONG] >Whew, what a fun night. First off, since my news server hasn't spit out >any >posts about this, I'll charge right ahead. The Campfire Songbook is >finished and available for 15 Frumiles stamps or $20. It has the lyrics >and >chords for 12 songs and is liberally sprinkled with Mike's artwork. It is >entitled, "Fireside Fruvous." If somebody managed to pick this up, could they share with the class which songs are included? Thx, Sara ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 14:59:16 -0400 From: Paul Baker Subject: 8/30 Rochester Ticket For Sale I have (1) ticket for the Rochester show at Milestones on Wednesday 8/30 to sell... The person I was going with backed out. Email me if you are interested in it. Thanks-- Paul B ------------------------------ Date: 23 Aug 2000 20:58:04 GMT From: saphiracat83@aol.com-remove- (SaphiraCat83) Subject: Set List for 8-21 Here's Dave's setlist from the show (that Bender snagged): (General Banter) Nowhere Laika (really long improv about keeping clothes separated) Heats Splatt (not played) Sad Lazy Ass Pisco Booty Video (Disco version) Tureen Sauce Guinea Kids (Boyscout Rant) Fly Nuits King GEH Authors Car Psycho - ---Encores--- Message (Some guy requested (screamed) it and they decided to do it. Not on SL) Mich Cher And that's it. - -Saph *~~*~~*~~*~~*~~* "If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands." - --Dirk Gently http://www.geocities.com/saphiracat *~~*~~*~~*~~*~~* ------------------------------ Date: 23 Aug 2000 21:27:37 GMT From: spychicr@aol.compoot (RAI-- Random Access Insanity) Subject: North Star: 8.19.00 Review: I had a BLAST! The end. Oh, wait you want more than that? Dang. First a few things about the North Star: It's TEENY. As in itsy bitsy. (HA! Now i've earwormed you all with the song "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yelllow Polka-dot Bikini.") An the stage is practically on the floor at some points. It has three levels, kinda. Stage leverm and a middle level about a foot below the stage which I was on, and a bottom floor-type thing three feet below the stage where at, say, a Korn concert there would be beaucoup de moshing. But it was nice. Very intimate. (At one point, I pointed out that "From here, we could probably see Murray's nosehairs.") The opening act was Martina Sorbara. (Before she went on, I accidently kicked her out of the bathroom. Whoops. But apparently, you have to be 21 to pee in the bar part of the bar.) Whoever said she was playing on the whole "I'm so cute!" thing was right. She's definitely going for that. I didn't think she was bad, but she was definitely lacking something substantial in her music to make it her own. I kept saying, "She sounds like this person and that person." I think she might have been trying to go that way. Her drummer was good, though, and had my drummer friend Katie completely in a trance. It was funny. The show opened with... banter. Jian or Mike said something along the lines of missing the oppertunity to start the show off just by getting onstage and playing. Then Jian noticed how close my friends and I were to the stage (we were right next to it on that one foot ledge I mentioned earlier) and said that they should "Call the nice security guys from the Troc." to control us. I'm glad he said that 'cause that was my first concert and any reference to it makes me smile, even if it was a bad one. Finally they started the music, "opening" with Nowhere Man which I thought was particularly beautiful having not heard it before. And, before they could get to a chord in the next song, they started a bit of banter about Mike's cold, which lead into the "Bad Cold Song" improv. At one point, the only person playing was Murray who lead the song into the "Gotta Keep 'em Seperated" part of The Offspring's [1] "Come Out and Play." Then they went into ANOTHER song which I really should know, apparently, but don't. Sorry. Other songs (from memory, I don't have a setlist [2]) in no particular order included Laika (which I was SO happy to hear since I've taken that name as an alter ego of some sorts), Present Tense Tureen, Nuits, Fly, Saucep'n, KoS --> GE&H (that was the most improv-y version of KoS I've ever heard, but it was funny), Psycho Killer, Kids (after the line "Should Quebec separate?" line, some guy in we audience yelled, "What's Quebec?" just as the yeses and noes were dying down), Heatseeker Boy, Lazy Boy, Guinea, Michy, GITC, MBLABOA, Message (which wasn't on the setlist, but was played because a 19 year old guy wanted to hear it and requested it from the audience. Go him. ) and ended with Believe. Banter included a LOT about Al Gore (complete with impressions) which lead to (to me) kinda boring Clinton banter which I kinda zoned out on until Jian just said randomly "I'd like to go down on him." which got a BIG laugh from we audience. Mike: "Going for the easy laughs tonight, huh?" Jian was pulling the whole gay act (or not, who knows) all night (including "I was looking STRAIGHT" in Authors), but this lead to a point. (Yes, Jian had a POINT tonight. Surprising, I know.) He told we audience about this Boy Scout Philly Chapter meeting he was invited to and how he learned that 900 (or 600, I don't remember the exact number) synagogs refused to hold Boy Scout meetings after the verdict that gay kids couldn't be boy scouts. He said it was the only way that the ruling will be overturned, so we should try and do something like that. 'Twas a good point. Imagine that. Anyway, the show was awesome. I defintely had a ball. I got to meet a few new people and sas some peole I've met before (*wink* Shells!) and just had a fun time. But really, how could I not? [1] Weren't they just Offspring when this song came out or am I making things up again? [2] I would have had a setlist if the following didn't take place: I was a pushover. I was right underneath Murray and I was kinda excited 'cause I might get a setlist afterwards and my friends that were all around me said that since I converted them, I was entitled to it (no one else really was in reach of it 'cept this one girl, but I'll explain that later). But I gave it up because of that whole setlist debate on the newsgroup about fighting over setlists and the (fish)girl who showed up near me said she wanted Jian's setlist after I said something about Murray's, but his was harder to get since it was close to the people on the floor. This woman on the floor was reaching for Jian's setlist before the first encore but Fishgirl (names spared to protect the innocent) grabbed it out from underneath her, at which I scolded her and gave the setlist back to the woman who put it back because she didn't want to seem like the bad guy either. Then, after the first encore, Fishgirl grabbed it again and the nice lady asked for Murray's and I gave it to her.... but it was in my HANDS. Hmph. Someone please tell me I did the right thing by giving it to that woman and the Fishgirl. I was just trying to be nice, but now I feel like a pushover. --Rai --Oh, also, I would like to apologize to anyone who was bothered by my taking pictures with a flash. You see, I knew that at past concerts flash photography wasn't allowed, but I wasn't sure if it was okay or not to do it that night 'cause no one said anything beforehand (or if they did, I was in the process of kicking Martina Sorbara out of the bathroom). I even kept Fishgirl from taking pictures until I saw someone else doing just that, so I figured it was okay. 'Twas fine until Tobey came over during, I think, GITC and scolded us. I apologized to him afterwards and he accepted my apology and said he liked my jacket. But I just wanted to apologize to whomever I bothered, including any Fru-dudes lurking out there. ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~* ~ This realization came to me: I am a teenybopper at heart. Dang. ::goes back to listening to her new Hanson CD in shame:: ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 18:06:46 -0700 From: Taylor Nelson Subject: FHDC Trouble? Is anyone else having trouble reaching FHDC? Wahhhh *sob* I want my FHDC back. ;) - -taylor ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 19:28:37 -0700 From: Josh Woodward Subject: Re: FHDC Trouble? On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 06:06:46PM -0700, Taylor Nelson wrote: > Is anyone else having trouble reaching FHDC? Wahhhh *sob* I want my > FHDC back. ;) FHDC and FDC are down due to a power outage. They have no ETA when it will be back up. :-( - --- Josh Woodward Technical Yahoo - Yahoo! 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