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Recent shots of 1910 Fruitgum Company performing for senior citizens on what looks to be makeshift stage situated next to a public washroom facility.

http://1910fruitgumcompany.com/tourdates.html

*hangs self*

― maypang (maypang), Thursday, 4 March 2004 05:44 (twenty-one years ago)

appalled the 1910 fruitgum company could sink so low?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 4 March 2004 05:51 (twenty-one years ago)

actually even more depressing is the fact that their logo features the names of some of their hit songs!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 4 March 2004 05:52 (twenty-one years ago)

"that's where you know us from!"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 4 March 2004 05:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm impressed that they still perform Indian Giver.

― maypang (maypang), Thursday, 4 March 2004 05:55 (twenty-one years ago)

what were you doing looking at current tour shots of the 1910 fruitgum company anyway?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 4 March 2004 06:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't like where this is going.

― maypang (maypang), Thursday, 4 March 2004 06:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Too much candy is no good so now I'm closing the shop.

― Hunter (Hunter), Thursday, 4 March 2004 06:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I love that the guy in the fist picture wearing a dark blue t-shirt is just standing there doing nothing.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 4 March 2004 06:17 (twenty-one years ago)

"Recently VH-1 filmed the group for an upcoming Bubble Gum Rock Special that aired in November."

I wouldn't mind seeing that.

― maypang (maypang), Thursday, 4 March 2004 06:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Radiohead - realising you paid for a ticket.

― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 4 March 2004 07:55 (twenty-one years ago)

World Domination Enterprises - with a new drummer after Digger went to the Jehova's Witnesses. Guy called Simon, I think, just couldn't cut it. Never took off the way they used to. Band leaves stage, nutter grabs mike and tried to engage the crowd in a singalong of "Ghetto Queen", but entire audience shrugs and goes home. Band never seen again.

(At least the stone roses at reading was funny)

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 4 March 2004 10:31 (twenty-one years ago)

How about "Stewkey's Nazz?"

http://www.stewkey.com/Stewkey2.htm

...Nothing you have seen or heard about STEWKEY'S NAZZ can adequately prepare you for the sheer power, range, and adventure that this band possesses! As was evident to all who attended the August 1st "kick off" show in New Jersey, the band is not only capable of recreating searing letter-perfect 4-part harmony driven versions of Nazz classics, but the band actually has the collective creative smarts to bring the Nazz experience up to yet some other level.

STEWKEY'S NAZZ is daring enough to turn the Nazz legacy inside out whenever the muse strikes them; electric songs are done acoustically ("When I Get My Plane"), acoustic songs morph into epic atmospheric improvisational vehicles ("It's Not That Easy")...so you never quite know just how they'll approach your favorite Nazz song - and that, friends, is an essential part of the fun of hearing this vital new band!! Not surprisingly, this sense of adventure is what Nazz was all about in the first place...

Stewkey is clearly far too smart, far too creative, and has waited far too long to have merely assembled some sort of "Nazz nostalgia" act. Instead, surprising everyone, he has created a platform for ever-evolving creativity by assembling 5 ceaselessly creative individuals and allowing this creative "soup" to form its own identity. What's thrilling for the audience, is to see and experience this discovery evident on the faces of each and every band member, as they too, find themselves overcome by the surprise of their own collective invention. One gets the feeling that the songs, the walls, and even the instruments they're playing, can barely contain them! It is a rare thing indeed to witness the birth of such promise, and if a major label doesn't jump all over these guys in a New York minute, it is a collective shame on the recording industry indeed!

(note: The first two Nazz LPs are among my all-time favorites, yet I would only go see this out of morbid curiosity)

― mike a, Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I love that the guy in the fist picture wearing a dark blue t-shirt is just standing there doing nothing.
He's their Bez.
― rainman (rainman), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

with the 1910 Fruitgum Co. he should be called Pez
― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry, forgot to close the italics.

― rainman (rainman), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Don Caballero yesterday...what a mess.

Shame On, Damon.

― ddb, Thursday, 4 March 2004 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Don Caballero yesterday.....

Please extrapolate.

― mzui, Thursday, 4 March 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

to all of you who are concerned about the sad fate of a great bubblegum band, it should be pointed out that none of the nice men on that makeshift stage next to the public washroom facility had anything whatsoever to do with "simon says" or "1, 2, 3, red light" or any of those songs.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 4 March 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

and as for the vh1 special, "bubblegum babylon," it -- like all vh1 shows -- gets repeated every so often, most recently this morning.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 4 March 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I believe Floyd and Frank are original "members". Apparently Joey Levine's too good for this stuff now though.

― maypang (maypang), Thursday, 4 March 2004 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i believe the only original "member" who had anything to do with their records was singer mark gutkowski. though perhaps floyd and frank were on the one they made in the early '70s when they abandoned kasenetz and katz and made a jammy hard-rock album. which i've always sort of wanted to hear, though i never have.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 4 March 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Man, this thread refers to senior citizens, indian giving, Bez and a fist picture. The title really doesn't do justice to the content.

― Jonathan (Jonathan), Thursday, 4 March 2004 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

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