Moxie Fruvous???

Subject: Moxie Fruvous???
From: dwditty
Date: 06 Aug 00 - 09:39 AM

I just caught the bit of a spot on this band on CBS. OK all you Toronto 'Catters, what's up with these guys. Four street musicians putting out indy releases that go gold (Canadian currency?) with songs about a fish who robs people. They sounded great from the other room, but I didn't get a chance to really hear them "up close." Is this a band I should be checking out?

dw

Subject: RE: Moxie Fruvous???
From: InOBU
Date: 06 Aug 00 - 09:45 AM

HEY! Turn off the computer and watch CBS! Don't you want to hear about Dominic La Piere?

Subject: RE: Moxie Fruvous???
From: Clinton Hammond2
Date: 06 Aug 00 - 12:17 PM

Moxy Fruvous is a wonderful band!! I've had their original 5 song indy tape in the car for years!! Anything by them is great.. sorta quirky jazzy, kinda Arrogent Worms meet the Shuffle Demons... With a little Captain Tractor tnrown in for good measure...

Fun music!

Subject: RE: Moxie Fruvous???
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 06 Aug 00 - 01:44 PM

They are truly bizarre and quite fun to watch. I was sorry I didn't get to hear them sing "The Tents are Coming" at Falconridge this year.

Subject: RE: Moxie Fruvous???
From: bob jr
Date: 06 Aug 00 - 11:56 PM

they are from toronto alright and we are well and truely sick of them up here they couldnt sell out a two table establishment up here ,most of us get sick of all these stupid canadian novelety bands(like the bare naked ladies etc) so we stop listening to them (and playing their crap on the radio ) and they have to go to the states to continue their careers and you cats are welcome too em

Subject: RE: Moxie Fruvous???
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 Aug 00 - 01:29 AM

I saw Moxie Fruvous at the Mariposa Folk Festival in Orillia this summer and they were great! Very funny and original. See them if you get the chance. I don't doubt that Toronto is sick of them by now. I am sick of Toronto, having lived there for 15 years. I escaped in 1985 (thank God).

Subject: RE: Moxie Fruvous???
From: GUEST,Mark
Date: 07 Aug 00 - 01:49 AM

Is that name from Lewis Carroll Mr Dobson?

Subject: RE: Moxie Fruvous???
From: GUEST,KingBrilliant
Date: 07 Aug 00 - 12:51 PM

I remember seeing them years ago at Womad in Reading. They were great fun. Quite similar to the Bare Naked Ladies at the time though.

Kris

Subject: RE: Moxie Fruvous???
From: Clinton Hammond2
Date: 07 Aug 00 - 03:36 PM

Novelty band, my butt!

Subject: RE: Moxie Fruvous???
From: Kim C
Date: 07 Aug 00 - 03:43 PM

I don't keep up with a lot of popular stuff, but golly, I saw the Bare Naked Ladies on Jay Leno one night and I kinda liked em. "Moxie Fruvous" does sound like it's from Jabberwocky or something like that...

Now, bob jr, if you wanta talk about getting sick of bands, come down to Tennessee and get sick of Skynyrd for awhile. They been dead for years and we still can't get em off the radio.

Subject: RE: Moxie Fruvous???
From: bob jr
Date: 07 Aug 00 - 05:24 PM

well toronto is a hotbed for crap like these guys they are about as folk as bobby goldboro and more offensive as for you little hawk how can you complain about toronto and then live in an armpit like orilla? dont even ask us why we want to leave ontartio and look after ourselves down here

Subject: RE: Moxie Fruvous???
From: Mbo
Date: 07 Aug 00 - 05:44 PM

Hey, BNL is cool! I'm not sure about Moxie though...Max played them once on Mudcat Radio...sounded a lot like the Backstreet Boys with a banjo.

And Bobby J, I think you'd have less room to complain about everything on the radio if you STOPPED LISTENING TO IT. I stopped listening to the radio a year ago, and I don't know any of the popular stuff anymore. And don't give me that line about "it's everywhere you go." I am a college student, and hang around campus sometimes 15 hours a day, and BELIEVE me, it's NOT "everywhere."

And if it's that offensive to you, you can always employ a useful little thing humans are capable of, called "ignore it." I ignore the booming rap that emanates from most cars around here, but you don't see me knocking it.

Hey, BNL even has some wisdom for folksingers! "It's all been done/it's all been done/it's all been done before!"

--Matt as a hatter

Subject: RE: Moxie Fruvous???
From: Skivee
Date: 08 Aug 00 - 05:30 PM

bob jr. is welcome to his opinion... dead wrong though it is. I'm glad Toronto spawned this band. These guys are fun, talented, innovative, really far out there. They have a following that spans a remarkable swath. I've seen old fogies, teens,old folkies, rockers and goths all having a great time at their shows. They are my band's favourite pop band.

Subject: RE: Moxie Fruvous???
From: MandolinPaul
Date: 08 Aug 00 - 09:34 PM

They are very talented, and a lot of fun to see live, as are, the Barenaked Ladies and the Arrogant Worms. But in my opinion, they are only meant to be seen live. I would sooner wipe my arse with nettles than own one of their CD's.

Paul.

Subject: RE: Moxie Fruvous???
From: Pinetop Slim
Date: 09 Aug 00 - 04:31 PM

The way I heard the story, Moxie Fruvous was the real name of the mother of one of the band members' best friends. They reminded me of the Chitons and the Bobs, who sang at many of the post-dinosaur hunt parties.

Subject: RE: Moxie Fruvous???
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Aug 00 - 04:50 PM

Paul S, I agree, they're great to see live, but I wouldn't buy their CD either. I have a friend who insists on playing the Arrogant Worms CD all the time, and it's driving everyone nuts. He's the guy who plays the didgeridoo all the time and drives everyone nuts with that too. We are planning to ship it to Bill Clinton for use in the oral office.

Bob Jr...I don't think you know Orillia...or the great acoustic folk music scene we have here, including the Mariposa Folk Festival which started here and has returned this year, probably to stay for good.

Oh, and all of central Ontario is chock full of people who are thanking God they're no longer in Toronto. Just ask 'em. I loved Toronto when I was in my twenties, but it has gone way downhill since then. It's still, of course, a great place for restaurants, live music, movies, and so on...a good place to spend money. And it has some nice neighborhoods. And it has the 12th Fret. Still, Orillia is a paradise in comparison to any big city that I know of.

Where are you living now? You left "Ontartio" you say? Where is Ontartio? Haven't heard of it.

Oh yeah, I don't live in "orilla", I live in Orillia. Orilla may be an armpit for all I know...

Have another beer, ya flippin' hoser!