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There are OTHER Fruheads in the Boston area? ~is very surprised~
I've seen them in concert 8x...I love them!!!

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I moved here in August 1999 and I think the only local show I saw them at was one at the Somerville Theatre when they were promoting Thornhill.

My husband and I just recently moved closer to the city (we were in Dracut) so we're hoping to go to more shows now that it's not such a pain for us to get to them. We recently went to the Great Big Sea show at Avalon. We missed Eddie from Ohio though. We just had too many things going on and needed a break.

I've added cosmusic!

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chanaleh.livejournal.com

Ha!!! It was me! -- er, it was I.
I make 1" buttons. And that's one of the ones I actually kept for myself.

If people are interested, maybe I should bring my wares to Diesel or something for a viewing??

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cemeterygates.livejournal.com

i am always up for a good button! lol!

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I actually followed you onto the escalator to get a closer look at the button to see if it actually said what I thought it said. I knew a true livejournal addict using the Davis Square T stop would be in this community! I would definitely buy one of the buttons if they were for sale.

You missed my little drama by walking up the escalator. My umbrella got caught in the escalator toward the top and I couldn't get it out, realized I had to drop it or be thrown down the escalator and I let out a really loud "CRAP!" Luckily the umbrella finally broke loose and some nice gentleman behind me picked it up and returned it to me. The umbrella was broken but it was better than nothing because that was one long walk to Powderhouse Square last night in all that rain.

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leenah.livejournal.com

HA! i saw fruvous when they played harvard square, outside HMV.

that was ages ago now. *sigh*

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enochs-fable.livejournal.com

So that's who that was...

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Other fruheads in Boston?!?! Doesn't Boston have, like, more fruheads than any place outside of Canada?! (Hrm, maybe Buffalo has more.)

I saw them 36+ times that year and half when they first had Fruhead cards. My friends introduced me to them in fall 1994, just in time to see their first show in Boston, at the Middle East, upstairs, to a crowd of like 20 people :) That was fun. I organized two Fruvous concerts at MIT (in 98 and 99, I think). The second one sold out (~550 people, I think).

The far cooler thing in your interest list, though, is the Dead Milkmen!! Rock on. They were almost before my time. I got to see them play in North Carolina a month before they disbanded. I was in high school and my uncle chaperoned me and my cousin to the show, and we had to leave early -- the set had hardly even begun! -- and I felt like the leats punk-dressed person there :) ... Must get my hands on more albums from their later projects ...

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Whoa...you're from NC? Where? I grew up in Henderson, went to high school and grad school in Raleigh, college in Greensboro and lived in Chapel Hill for three years before moving to Boston.

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Cool!

I don't consider myself a Carolinian much any more. Boston's been my home for 10 years, and my immediate family doesn't live there anymore and I changed schools a lot, so I didn't have a lot of friends in one place to come back to. I do miss the food, though! It's a little easier to get grits up here, but just try ordering biscuits and gravy or a sweetened ice tea around here. Sheesh.

I was born in Raleigh, but we moved to Charlotte in the first year or two of my life, so I don't remember it :) I lived in Charlotte until I was 12, when we moved over the border to Rock Hill, SC. I was in Hartsville, SC, for a year, and then 1993-1994 I spent in Cary, with my aunt, uncle, and cousins, going to Cary High and taking a class or two at NCSU. A lot of my relatives still live in Cary/Raleigh/Durham; in fact, I'm flying down tomorrow.

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I've been in Boston for the past five years but North Carolina will always be home. All my family still lives there so I have an excuse to visit.

I know what you mean about the food. The first time I went home after being up here for several months I had my mom made all my favorite (fried) foods. I was sick as a dog by the second day because my body couldn't handle the grease :-).

Oh man, I'm so jealous. I'm dying for a burger, fries and milkshake from Char-grill! Have a great visit to NC!

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Last time I was there, my dad drove me out towards Halifax, NC, (where he did historic excavation work for the state many years ago) and on the way we stopped at a mom and pop kitchen and had fried okra and fried chicken livers. *drool*

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Buffalo and Rochester (the latter being my hometown of sorts) finds a huge Fruvous following. And 30% of Bostonians under the age of 35 are from the Upstate NY area, scarily enough.

36 times? Well, that's certainly a coup to my 8! I adore their quirky sense of humor - always a good live show. I was introduced to them in Spring of 1994 when they opened for Rusted Root in Rochester. My friend CJ snuck backstage and was bumming cigarettes off one of the guys. They signed a postcard for me, scrawling "Anderson Mar - you have the name of poet...or an astronaut!"

My high school yearbook voted me "Most Likely to Become a Groupie for the Dead Milkmen" (seriously!) I finally got to see them Spring 1993 I think it was - at Scorgies in Rochester.

Such a shame that Dave Blood died a few weeks ago - I was hoping for the stereotypical 15-year-reunion tour....sad...

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Whoa. I didn't hear about Dave Blood. (Some fan I am.) Yes, sad.

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Yeah, he died on March 10th.
http://www.markprindle.com/blood-i.htm

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chanaleh.livejournal.com

I knew a true livejournal addict using the Davis Square T stop would be in this community!

That is so funny. I hadn't thought of it that way. :-) I actually don't belong to this community because I live in Central Square -- but I was going to a rehearsal for my a cappella group, at someone's house on Kidder Ave.

Sorry to hear about your umbrella! We'll have to meet sometime and I'll sell you a button :-)

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We'll have to meet sometime and I'll sell you a button :-)

Sounds good!

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cos

Wait, I just came back to this, and realized you might have been serious - I read it as joking at first :) Were you living in Boston in the mid/late 90's when fruvous was touring a lot? They always came to Boston and always filled their venues.

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cos

Oh, hi! I remember you :)

The MIT shows were May 17, 1997 and May 15, 1998 (and two of the best fruvous shows ever, though I'm still trying to get a recording of the second one)

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cos

I've added cosmusic

Cool, now come to some shows :)

I just looked at your userinfo and noticed you have a Canadian husband, you may be amused by my April 30th post on

cos

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I moved to Boston in 2001. Before that, I lived in Portland, ME, for 6-7 years, and saw Fruvous there every time they were in town - and prior to that, I saw them in my hometown of Rochester, NY. But no, I have never seen them at a Boston venue.

Where did they used to play, The Middle East?

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cos

Ahh, by 2001, you'd pretty much missed them. They only played in Boston twice in 2001, once at TT's and once at House of Blues. They didn't play the Middle East very often as far as I recall, though they did a few times. Actually, the first time they were in Boston when I knew of them, they did a Middle East show. I first saw them live at Falcon Ridge 1996, that July, and loved them. I got them to come play my live music series at WBRS at the end of the summer, and on that same swing into Boston they also did shows at Wellesley College and the Middle East. That Middle East show is actually one that I remember as one of the weakest fruvous shows I ever saw :) But, it was also the show I dragged a reluctant

safetybitch to, and she immediately bought a CD and started following them around on tour. Even at their weakest, they did great shows :)

That 1996 show is the only time I remember seeing them at the Middle East. Several of their best shows ever were the two at MIT in 1997 and 1998, and some of the shows they did in the other side of our state, at the Iron Horse in Northampton. In Boston they also played the aforementioned TT's and several times at House of Blues and the Paradise, as well as Club Passim, Sanders Theatre and Somerville Theatre, several colleges, and some outdoor shows, including Harvard Square and Quincy Market. They loved the Iron Horse and almost always played there when they toured the northeastern US - I think they may have played there more often than any other venue. I certainly saw them there more often than anywhere else.

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