Moxy Fruvous
The Bottom Line
New York, NY
1/2/1999

Original master recording Neumann TLM-170 (subcardiods FOB) -> Sonosax SX-M1 -> Tascam DA-P1 DAT (master @ 16/48)

DAT playback:  Sony R-500 -> Sound Devices 722 digital input (@24/48)

Mastered: Soundforge Pro 10.0c - *All file manipulation in Soundforge done at 24 bits*.  Volume normalization, some clap removal.  Sample rate conversion 48khz to 44.1khz using iZotope 64-Bit SRC set higher than "Highest Quality" setting w/anti-alias filter.  Then dithered to 16 bits using using iZotope MBIT+ with Ultra noise shaping, with high dither settings.  Tracked in CDWav.

Early Show
1.  banter - Dan Burns appreciation
2.  Michigan Militia
3.  banter - media coverage
4.  Horseshoes
5.  banter - Bill Clinton
6.  Stuck In The 90s
7.  banter - racial harmony in Canada
8.  The Kids' Song
9.  banter - favorite time of the night
10. The Present Tense Tureen
11. Johnny Saucep'n
12. banter - taking up smoking
13. Downsizing
14. banter - Canadian rock
15. You Can't Be Too Careful
16. banter - a trip to central Ontario
17. Pisco Bandito
18. banter - trouble on planet Earth/THC
19. You Will Go To The Moon
20. Darlington Darling
21. Psycho Killer
22. encore break
23. banter - sneaking in
24. The Drinking Song / Goodnight Irene
25. thanks
(73:19)

Late Show
1.  intro / funny banter
2.  Half As Much
3.  Jockey Full Of Bourbon
4.  banter - Starbucks boycotters
5.  My Poor Generation
6.  banter - working in a dog food store
7.  I Love My Boss
8.  banter - expectorating/improv tune/commercial
9.  Sad Girl
10. banter - only chance to sweat
11. Jane Fonda's Leopard Skin Tights *
12. Toby The Crew Guy *
13. Sleepy Drinker
14. Boo Time
15. banter - 1st American gig
16. The Greatest Man In America
17. banter - bands Rush / Chicago / America / Europe
18. Pieri -> *
19. Beds Are Burning
20. banter - band name
21. I Will Hold On
22. The King Of Spain ->
23. Green Eggs And Ham ->
24. B.J. Don't Cry
25. thanks (over "Love Potion" groove) ->
26. Love Potion No. 9 medley +
27. encore break
28. banter - Arctic live
29. Spiderman Theme
30. banter - inviting out Dan Bern
31. Jerusalem ^
32. crowd
(86:46)

* = improv songs
+ = w/Ohio, Stayin' Alive, Who Will Save Your Soul, Barbie Girl, Thank U, Love Shack bits
^ = w/Dan Bern on guitar/vocals

This was the last of a 3 night co-billed run with Dan Bern, with an early and late show each night.  Dan & Moxy switched off who was opening and closing each night, I believe, and on this night, Dan played first.

Taper notes:
As a companion to BARN110 -- the Dan Bern show from 1/2/99, BARN111 features Moxy Fruvous' sets from the same night.  Moxy and Dan were co-billed for a 3 night New Years' Eve (+ Jan 1 and 2) run at the esteemed (though much loved and hated at the same time) Bottom Line.  They alternated who opened and who closed each night, and on this night Dan played first and Moxy got to close each set.  Though I'd heard their "My Baby Loves A Bunch Of Authors" and "Jockey Full Of Bourbon" in very regular rotation as a listener of WFUV here in NYC, this was my first and only time seeing this band live.  I went to this show as a Dan Bern fan, and got the Moxy sets as a bonus.  I really enjoyed seeing this band, and even though I don't believe I have ever listened to this recording since the night I recorded it (until now, that is), I still had very clear memories to this day of the chemistry and pure joy this band brought to the stage -- as much for the music they performed as the hilarious stage banter between the members and chemistry they had with each-other.

Frankly if this band didn't have a career in music, these Canadians would have made a great comedy troupe -- a la "The State" or "The Kids In The Hall", or "Stella".  Just a short listen to most of the (often rather lengthy, sometimes as long as the music surrounding) banter is sure to get you giggling in your seat!  Track 3 in the early show is a perfect example -- where they dish on the poor reviews they've gotten in the media, particularly the preview of this show they got in the then-new "Time Out New York" magazine.  Or hilariously referring (in the early show) to Dan Bern as "Dan Burns", Scottish singer.  They of course knew his real name -- but they played it so straight, eventually a Dan Bern fan in the audience felt the need to yell out and correct them!  During some of their late show banter they jokingly riff on some of Dan's songs.  But really, any of the banter makes for good entertainement.

How to describe them?  Well, there are songs with keys, banjos, guitars, bass, congas (but no kit drums), accordion, a capella tunes -- some very political, some extremely comedic ("The King Of Spain"), some very happy/poppy, some dirge-like, some made up right on the spot, and a few covers -- a spot-on version of The Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer" an at-least-as-good-as-the-original cover of Tom Waits' "Jockey Full Of Bourbon", and funky versions of Dr. Seuss' "Green Eggs And Ham" (a decade before it was trendy for bands to release kids' records), the original "Spiderman" theme, and The Searchers' "Love Potion No. 9" with a crazy mashup of other tunes in the middle.

This was the only night of the 3 night run that I made it to, unfortunately.  I went to Phish at MSG on New Years' Eve, and then to see local heros (at the time) Deep Bananna Blackout play 2 1/2 more sets after Phish at Wetlands -- and that show probably ended sometime between 6 and 8AM, which led to me sleeping most of the day away on Jan 1, and there was no way I was making it out to The Bottom Line for that show.  But, I HAD to motivate on Jan 2....so this was the only one of the run I got to see.

Again, this BARN is dedicated to Alex Prestin, who specifically asked me about this recording 2 summers ago at moe.down.  He said that even though we didn't know eachother back then, he recalled seeing a pair of Neumann TLM170s set up at this show and figured all these years later they must have been mine.  And he was right!  So it just goes to show that I do take into account all requests -- even if it takes me 2 1/2 years to get around to them.  :)

FYI, Moxy Fruvous served as the backing band for Dan for a significant portion of his late show, so go check it out here:
http://www.archive.org/details/danbern1999-01-02.tlm170.flac16

This band broke up more than 10 years ago and you can't see them anymore, so I hope you enjoy this little bit of history.

Enjoy!

Scott

Here's a rundown of all of my previous BARN archival releases (all can be found on archive.org except as noted):
BARN1 - Col Bruce Hampton and the Code Talkers at Bret & Joyce's wedding 9/17/2005
BARN2 - Col Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit (w/guest Warren Haynes for all of set 2) Wetlands 11/20/1993
BARN3 - moe. Wetlands 7/8/1995
BARN4 - Dan Bern Bottom Line 7/31/1998 (late show)
BARN5 - moe. Birch Hill 10/31/1996
BARN6 - moe. Maxwells 1/20/1996
BARN7 - Dan Bern Central Park Summerstage 9/19/1997
BARN8 - Dan Bern, Bottom Line 8/1/1998
BARN9 - moe. Bayou 4/5/1997
BARN10 - moe. Irving Plaza 4/4/1997
BARN11 - moe. AKA 9/7/1995
BARN12 - Yolk AKA 9/7/1995
BARN13 - Robert Walter/Johnny Vidacovich/James Singleton/Donald Harrison Preservation Hall 4/30/08
BARN14 - Phish Las Vegas, NV 10/31/1998 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN15 - Phish Great Went @ Loring AFB, Limestone, ME 8/16/1997 (on bt.etree.org) - by request
BARN16 - Phish Great Went @ Loring AFB, Limestone, ME 8/17/1997 (on bt.etree.org), includes orchestra set - by request
BARN17 - Phish Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO, 8/4/1996 (on bt.etree.org) - by request
BARN18 - Phish Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO, 8/6/1996 (on bt.etree.org) - by request
BARN19 - Phish Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO, 8/7/1996 (on bt.etree.org) - by request
BARN20 - Phish Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO, 8/5/1996 (on bt.etree.org) - by request
BARN21 - God Street Wine, Irving Plaza, NYC 6/24/1993
BARN22 - Leftover Salmon, Wetlands, NYC 10/1/1994
BARN23 - Anders Osborne, Manny's Carwash, NYC 11/5/1997
BARN24 - Anders Osborne, Manny's Carwash, NYC 11/6/1997
BARN25 - moe. Pool Party, Morganville, NJ 6/2/1996
BARN26 - Widespread Panic, Stone Pony, Asbury Park, NJ 11/7/1992 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN27 - Stew ["Passing Strange"], The Turning Point, Piermont, NY 4/6/2003 (on bt.etree.org. dimeadozen.org)
BARN28 - Stew ["Passing Strange"], Joe's Pub, New York, NY 5/22/2003 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN29 - Percy Hill, Lion's Den, NYC 3/16/1996
BARN30 - Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Irving Plaza, 8/3/1995
BARN31 - Percy Hill, Wetlands, NYC 6/8/1996
BARN32 - Bad Livers, Mercury Lounge, NYC, 11/15/1999 (opening for Leftover Salmon)
BARN33 - Bad Livers, Mercury Lounge, NYC, 11/16/1999 (opening for Leftover Salmon)
BARN34 - G. Love And Special Sauce, Central Park Summerstage, NYC 6/18/1995
BARN35 - The Band, The Great Lawn, Central Park, NYC 5/16/1993 (on dimeadozen.org)
BARN36 - The Band, Mountain Stage Radio broadcast, Charleston, WV, recorded 4/4/1996 (on dimeadozen.org)
*** Start of New Orleans Jazzfest Appreciation mini-series (note that BARN13 technically belongs in this series) ***
BARN37 - Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk, Tipitina's, New Orleans, LA, 5/5/2008
BARN38 - Steve Kimock Band, Tipitina's, New Orleans, LA, 5/6/2001 (2AM show)
BARN39 - The Funky Meters, Tipitina's, New Orleans, LA, 5/6/2001 (11PM show) (on bt.etree.org)
BARN40 - Anders Osborne, Tower Records instore, New Orleans, LA, 5/7/2001 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN41 - Joe Krown Trio w/Walter "Wolfman" Washington, Russell Batiste + special guest Mike Gordon, Tipitina's, New Orleans, 5/5/2008
BARN42 - Russell Batiste and Friends, The Howlin' Wolf, New Orleans, 5/1/2008 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN43 - Global Noize, The Howlin' Wolf, New Orleans, 5/1/2008 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN44 - Deep Banana Blackout, The Howlin' Wolf, New Orleans, LA 5/6/2000
BARN45 - Bela Fleck And The Flecktones, The Saenger Theater, New Orleans, LA 5/5/2000
BARN46 - Medeski Martin And Wood, The Saenger Theater, New Orleans, LA 5/6/2000 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN47 - String Cheese Incident, The Saenger Theater, New Orleans, LA 5/5/2000
BARN48 - Soulive, House Of Blues Parish, New Orleans, LA 5/5/2001
BARN49 - String Cheese Incident, Cajun Queen Riverboat, New Orleans, LA 5/3/2000
BARN50 - New Mastersounds, House Of Blues Parish, New Orleans, LA 5/2/2008
BARN51 - Funky Meters, Bonnaroo, Manchester, TN 6/13/2003 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN52 - George Porter And The Runnin' Pardners, Village Underground, NYC, 5/19/2001
BARN53 - Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Tramps, NYC 10/29/1993 late show
BARN54 - The Meters, Tramps, NYC 5/15/93 late show (on dimeadozen)
BARN55 - The Meters, Tramps, NYC 10/29/93 late show (on dimeadozen)
BARN56 - Wild Magnolias, Wetlands, NYC 2/10/2000 (on bt.etree.org)
*** end of New Orleans Jazzfest Appreciation mini-series ***
BARN57 - Blues Traveler, Livingston Gym @ Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 4/17/1993
BARN58 - Phish, Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, 10/29/1998 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN59 - Jazz Is Dead, Bottom Line, NYC 2/7/1998 (late show only) (on bt.etree.org)
BARN60 - Grateful Dead, Cal Expo Amphitheatre, Sacramento, CA 5/27/1993
BARN61 - The Dude Of Life (w/Trey Anastasio and Jon Fishman for entire show, plus Page McConnell for a bunch), Wetlands, NYC 2/5/1994 - on bt.etree.org
BARN62 - ALO, High Sierra Music Festival Main Stage, Quincy, CA 7/3/2005
BARN63 - Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon, High Sierra Music Festival Main Stage, Quincy, CA 7/3/2005 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN64 - Dan Bern, The Bottom Line, NYC 11/11/1998
BARN65 - Galactic, Knitting Factory, NYC 10/18/1997 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN66 - Bruce Hornsby, Paramount Theater, NYC 12/7/1993 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN67 - God Street Wine, Irving Plaza, NYC 8/26/1993
BARN68 - Warren Haynes Midnight Southern Jam - Wetlands, NYC 8/5/1993 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN69 - Dave Matthews And Friends (Trey Anastasio, Tim Reynolds, Tony Hall, Brady Blade, Ray Paczkowski) Bonnaroo 6/11/2004 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN70 - Rana at Bret & Joyce's wedding, Whitehall, NY 9/17/2005
BARN71 - Soulive - Baby Jupiter, NYC 6/11/1999
BARN72 - Chris Barron, Nightingale Bar, NYC 7/14/1997
BARN73 - Chris Barron, Nightingale Bar, NYC 11/17/1997
BARN74 - George Porter's 60th Birthday w/PBS and friends, Blender Theater, NYC 12/29/2007
BARN75 - Jennifer Hartswick Band with special guest Trey Anastasio, Lion's Den, NYC 11/7/2003 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN76 - moe., Gathering Of The Vibes, Seaside Park, Bridgeport, CT 6/20/1999
BARN77 - Project Logic, Gathering Of The Vibes, Seaside Park, Bridgeport, CT 6/20/1999
BARN78 - Phish - Beacon Theater, NYC 4/13/1994 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN79 - Phish - Beacon Theater, NYC 4/14/1994 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN80 - Phish - Beacon Theater, NYC 4/15/1994 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN81 - The Recipe, Wetlands, NYC 11/12/1999
BARN82 - Ominous Seapods, Wetlands, NYC 6/4/1999
BARN83 - Coby Brown Group, Wetlands, NYC 11/12/1999 (on bt.etree.org)
BARN84 - The Big Wu, Wetlands, NYC 11/12/1999
BARN85 - Moon Boot Lover, Wetlands, NYC 6/5/1999
BARN86 - Percy Hill, Wetlands, NYC 6/5/1999
BARN87 - Miracle Orchestra, Wetlands Lounge, NYC 6/5/1999
BARN88 - Jiggle The Handle, Wetlands, NYC 6/5/1999
BARN89 - Jiggle The Handle, Wetlands, NYC 10/2/1998
BARN90 - Lake Trout, Wetlands Lounge, NYC 6/5/1999
BARN91 - Olu Dara, Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival, South Street Seaport Atrium, NYC 6/6/1999 (on bt.etree.org / www.dimeadozen.org)
BARN92 - Donna The Buffalo, Wetlands, NYC 11/12/1999
BARN93 - Radiators (w/Merl Saunders sit-in), Irving Plaza 10/8/1998
BARN94 - Tiny Lights, Wetlands, NYC 8/18/1993
BARN95 - Tiny Lights, Wetlands, NYC 1/5/1994
BARN96 - Radiators, Irving Plaza, NYC 11/14/1997
BARN97 - Radiators, Manny's Carwash, NYC 5/30/1998
BARN98 - The Wood Brothers (w/Medeski, Wolleson, and special guest Amos Lee), Bowery Ballroom, NYC 5/17/2008 - on bt.etree.org
BARN99 - Pieta Brown, Bowery Ballroom, NYC 5/17/2008 - on bt.etree.org
BARN100 - Jeff Buckley, CBGB's 313 Gallery, NYC 12/18/1993 - on dimeadozen
BARN101 - Tiny Lights, CBGB's 313 Gallery, NYC 12/18/1993
BARN102 - Tiny Lights, The Lion's Den, NYC 2/18/1994
BARN103 - Tiny Lights, Club Sine', NYC 2/3/1994
BARN104 - Ha Ha The Moose, BB Kings, NYC 11/23/2001
BARN105 - Medeski Martin & Wood, Hilton Hotel Ballroom, NYC, 4/29/2005 - on bt.etree.org
BARN106 - Tiny Lights, The Court Tavern, New Brunswick, NJ 11/24/1993
BARN107 - Tiny Lights, Knitting Factory, NYC 10/26/1994
BARN108 - Tiny Lights, Mercury Lounge, NYC 7/13/1994
BARN109 - All God's Children, The Lion's Den, NYC 2/18/1994
BARN110 - Dan Bern, Bottom Line 1/2/1999 (w/Moxy Fruvous guesting in the late show)
BARN111 - Moxy Fruvous, Bottom Line 1/2/1999 (w/Dan Bern guesting in encore)

Recorded, transferred (July 2011), mastered (12/6-7/2011), and posted (12/8/2011) by Scott Bernstein.