MoXY FRüVoUS!

Credit for my conversion goes to two high school friends: one allowed me to borrow You Will Go to the Moon for a week after semester exams; the other treated me to Bargainville one evening in surround sound. Between these close encounters of the Früvous kind [and my curiosity], I purchased Bargainville just before leaving for Baltimore over spring break '98. Needless to say, I could listen to nothing else the entire trip. Within 2 months, I had acquired every Früvous album available (even those only released, at the time, in Canada...). I am now frü-crazy, and I'd travel with the band everywhere if I didn't have my schooling to keep me grounded. [Heck, even my *parents* are fans.] I've met some amazing people in the frü-community in the process, and I finally understand how half the joy of the live Früvous experience is the camaraderie with one's fellow concert-goers. They're great folk, and with Josh Woodward's wonder FrüHead Dot Com, it's easier than ever to keep in touch with them.

Curiously, though, it seems I was destined to discover this amazingly talented band one way or another. I finally listened to my bootleg copy of TMBG's '85 Demo Tape in the summer of '98 [6 months after I'd received it]. Oddly enough, on the flip side is 45 minutes of Moxy Früvous playing live in Syracuse in '97. The funny thing is, I did the 2:1 trade for the demo tape *before* I'd ever heard of Früvous. Spooky. I was fated to be a Früvous fan, I suppose.