Talk:Freur

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There's one thing I will always remember about Freur. At the time they were promoting "Doot Doot", one of them (Rick Smith, I think) was playing a strange instrument, a sort of electronic metal stick. He held it like a guitar or a fretless bass. I never saw anything like that again. Recently I got hold of some videos, and it looks like it was fake, like the sound was from a synthesizer, and Smith smashed one of those sticks at the end of nearly each performance. If anybody knows something about this mystery instrument, I think this is the right place to ask!

Ciao, Andrea.

You are right, Rick Smith used a stick as an "instrument." It was mainly for theatrics as the sound came from a synthesizer. He did smash the stick. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7rbId3feNw&feature=related and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWkccmluYOs&feature=related On a sidenote, is it me or does it seem that a lot of the 80's and early 90's musical acts owe a great deal of gratitude to Freur. They seemed to have covered a wide range of sounds before they became established genres and sub-genres.--Leonidas1982 (talk) 04:46, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

I remember Doot Doot achieved its highest chart position in NZ. There aren't listed as a No1 for 1983 at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_number-one_singles_in_1983_(New_Zealand) so I guess they didn't get that high. My memory is of a phone call some of the member of the band made to a NZ radio station (probably Radio Hauraki, it all I listened to back then) thanking NZ. So, can anyone confirm the chart position Freur acheived in NZ? Commandlinecowboy (talk) 16:52, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

Pronunciation

So the squiggle is pronounced "Freur", but how is "Freur" pronounced?  --Lambiam 08:18, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

• From the way it's pronounced on the B-side of the original "Doot Doot" seven-inch, basically the "e" is silent, and the last "r" should be rolled as much as one can manage. --86.131.26.232 (talk) 21:38, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

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