i've never posted but with a pokemoby topic i just had to...hehe moby would definately make an incredibly cool pokemon i can just hear him saying "moby! mobyy!"..and he'd just be too darn fast to be hit..someone please make a moby pokemon card?! hehe that'd be too cool..
anyway, i've also recieved a hilarious moby article from a bush list i'm on regarding the campus invasion tour..appearently it's from mixer magazine..as a bush and moby fan i was definately there to see both of them but it's still pretty funny..(sorry about the spacing by the way, it's copied and pasted)
REVENGE OF THE NERD
When the MTV Campus Invasion Tour paired up Moby and Bush, it sounded
like a marriage made in hell. As Moby describes it, that was only halfof it.
As told to Hobley Echlin Photography: Seth Browarnik
The MTV Campus Invasion Tour was originally presented to me as a tour
of universities based in the middle of nowhere. I thought that was
really interesting because if I do my own tours, it tends to be big
urban areas and the surrounding suburbs. There are huge parts of the
country that I've never been to, and I thought it would be really
intersting to go out and try and reach people who otherwise I would
never have the opportunity to play in front of. Also, the people at the
record company were really enthusiastic about me doing it because it
then gave me more stock with MTV. The way it was originally presented to
me was it was going to be the MTV Campus Invasion Tour. I was going to
be on it, and Buh was going to be on it. All of a sudden after the first
couple of dates people started referring to it as a Bush tour. They're
nice guys, but if it had just been presented to me as a Bush tour I
never would have done it. I mean historically Bush has sold way more
records than I have. But with Play, it was a situation where me,
ostensibly the opening act, was selling three times as many records as
the headliners. But still, in these out of the way places, the majority
of the kids were coming out to see Bush.
I do love the idea of finding myself playing in Cape Girardeau,
Missouri or Jonesboro, Arkansas or Omaha, Nebraska, you know, places
that really are off the beaten track. And we'd be playing big venues,
like between 5000-10,000 people. And in front of 6000 people, maybe 1000
people were Moby fans, 1000 people were maybe pleasantly disposed
towards me, or there's some name recognition, but then a good couple of
thousand who had absolutely no idea of who I am or what I do. And that
was really interesting.
The only problem was I found myself in the more provincial places, like
Jonesboro, really trying to antagonize the frat boy contingent. I had
some great one-liners. If there were a lot of frat boys in the audience
I would introduce "Feeling So Real" by saying it was a beautiful disco
song and maybe this was a chance for all the frat boys in the audience
to sort of dance and unleash that disco queen that lives deep within
them. And who knows, maybe they'd feel liberated by it and go back to
the frat house and make out with their friends. That didn't endear me to
the frat community.
Another thing I was very proud of in Jonesboro was that I introduced
"Go" by saying "All the proceeds from this next song have been given to
gun control organizations, specifically ones that work against the NRA,
because I think the NRA is an organization for white uptight
crypto-fascists." I'd never heard so many boos in one place. The irony,
of course, being, is that a year ago Jonesboro was where they had that
school shooting.
Lubbock, Texas was really interesting because we were playing in a
venue where they normally have livestock fairs. One of the interesting
things about touring is that you wake up in a different place every
morning, you're on the tour bus and you wake up and some mornings you
wake up and you're in Las Vegas, some mornings you wake up you're in a
parking lot off of an interstate. In Lubbock, we woke up and the first
thing I saw was a huge parking lot with these giant warehouses filled
with cattle. And the place where we played smelled bad, because it's
where they have their county fairs.
I had one little schtick I did a couple of times. We would do
"Thousand" as the last song, sort of like the finale, but beforehand I
would take off my shirt and scream to the audience "This next song is
the finale," and do the cliche of "Are you ready to rock? I said, are
you ready rock?" And then I'd do an acapella version of "Close to You"
by the Carpenters.
All my dealings with [Gavin Rossdale, of Bush] were just wonderful.
He's really aware, very smart, very kind. It's just strange, because
it's the first time I've ever toured with someone who's a real pin-up
pop star. The 15-year-old girls, they love him. I remember walking
around outside a venue, and there were these EMT people working on a
girl. This girl had passed out, and I walked over and I was like "What
happened?" One of her friends said "Oh, Gavin touched her and she had an
asthma attack and passed out." I'd never experienced that sort of level
of pinup pop stardom. I was walking around in Florida outside the venue,
it must have been like one in the afternoon, and there were already some
girls waiting for Gavin. These two girls came up to me and said, "When
you see Gavin backstage, tell him that there are two blondes outside and
that we'll do anything for him." They were 15!
I have this dream, I probably can't do it now, but on the tour, when I
had these frat boys in the audience giving me the finger and telling me
to fuck off, I really wanted to invite one of them onstage and have a
little dialogue with them. Not a debate, not trying to make them look
bad, but to ask them, if they think I suck, why do they think I suck.
What am I doing that makes me suck more or less than any other type of
musical entertainment that they'e experienced? But it never happened,
beacuse I'm near-sighted and people would only tell me afterwards that
they were giving me the finger and telling me to fuck off. I had noidea.
There are also 4 pics of Moby performing at a show, and two of thecaptions are:
"Why do birds suddenly appear..." Moby sings his favorite Carpenters
song to the sheer horror of Bush's fans.
"Bush fans... for me to poop on!" (in the pic he's bending down)
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Moby is much better touring on his own, his set is much cooler. Although one person i'd like to see him touring with is BT that would definately rock.
*Ambika
- --- "Kimberly Best" <elfmanrules@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>--- - hyponoise - wrote:
> > looking at moby shirt [ the baseball T ]
> > wouldnt moby make a kick rump
> > pokemon? he could run around with his drum
> > machine busting out the rump
> > shakin and screaming "MOBY!". just a thought.
> >
>I'm frightfully afraid of contributing to this
>thread, for my own sake, as it makes me feel like
>a giant teeny-bopper.... but I can see what you
>mean. Except Moby, would be the one setting all
>the other pokemon free, and instead of shouting
>his name, he'd just shout "Go!" or "Love" every
>four measures.
>>>>I have always wanted to see a Pokemoby. ::laughs:: That would be the best
