Ben Folds Five Digest
Issue #12 - January 4, 1996
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 00:14:57 -0500
From: Opus
Subject: Barry Black
Oho, BF5 fans! I have some excellent news for you!
Call me Mr. Scoops. Call me Dr. Insider. I have found ANOTHER recording
that features Ben Folds.
It is called Barry Black, the pseudonym of Eric Bachman, who also plays in
the excellent North Carolinan band Archers of Loaf. It features Ben on nine
of the fourteen tracks, either playing piano or drums. Admittedly, there is
nothing to pick his playing out from the rest of the musicians, but it is
an interesting fact, anyhow.
The music itself (and I can't make THAT much of a judgement, I'm listening
to it for the first time right now) is very interesting. Mostly, it is
purely instrumental, and far removed from the Ben Folds Five or the Archers
of Loaf. At times it gets jazzy, or serene, at one point it even seems to
go into a pseudo-polka. I don't know much about the album right now, but I
think I'll be listening to it quite a bit.
Here's the best part though: Also featured on the album is a singer named
"Summer Burke". Summer B., to you and me! I have yet to scan the names for
any other BF5 references, but I think that's pretty nifty, to have found
the original Summer B that we all know and sing along to.
Thank you, thank you, shower me with praises. I have made the Ben Folds
scoop o' the year. I win the big cheese log a the top of the hill. But I'll
share it with all of you, too.
Oh, one last note, to Frank. As you can see, I'm no longer at
"Moreschi@apollo.commnet.edu", I'm here, at "Opusmo@tiac.net". So if you
could re-subscribe me to this location, I would be forever grateful.
has boxing been good to you?
-opus
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Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 01:27:31 -0800
From: Adam Kovacevich
Subject: Sign me up!
I learned about BFF on the Barenaked Ladies mailing list, and was
pleasantly surprised by how good they were when I picked up their
CD. It sounds like that they are a pretty decent live act, just like
BNL (a lot of other bands sound worse live). Anyway, I am a student
in Boston, so I would love to see this group come to B-town for a
show. I'm sure it's only a matter of time. Please sign me up on your
mailing list; thanks a bunch.
Adam Kovacevich
kovacev@husc.harvard.edu
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Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 05:05:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Marc Nathan
Subject: another tour date
Brownies - NYC - 1/17
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Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 14:18:35 EDT
From: Ned Norland
Subject: tour dates...
these are supposedly confirmed...I just found 'em...
-ned
nnorland@walnut.prs.k12.nj.us
Here are some confirmed dates for January and February with more to come:
January 11 Chapel Hill NC Cats Cradle
12 Charlotte NC Tremont Music Hall
13 Raleigh NC Brewery
14 Charleston SC Music Farm
16 Asbury Park NJ The Saint
17 NYC Brownie's
18 Hoboken NJ Maxwell's
20 Danbury CT Tuxedo Junction
21 Northampton MA Pearl Street
22 Albany NY Bogie's
24 Pittsburgh Rosebud
25 Cleveland (?)
26 Pontiac (Detroit) 7th House
27 Chicago Lounge Ax
29 Madison WI Club De Wash
31 Minneapolis 7th Street Entry
Feb 1 Lawrence KS The Bottleneck
2 St. Louis Side Door
3 Cincinnati Top Cats
6 Nashville Exit Inn
8 Atlanta The Point
9 New Orleans Voodoo Groove
More dates to come in Austin, Houston, Albuquerque, Tucson, Phoenix, San
Diego, San Francisco, Los Angeles.
The band goes to Japan for a sold out week of shows at the end of February.
See you on the road.
-----Princeton Regional Schools takes no responsibility for the
accuracy or content of the above message.
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From: eye4@interlog.com (eye SITE)
Newsgroups: eye.news,rec.music.misc
Subject: MUSIC: So you wanna be a modern rock star
Date: 3 Jan 1996 21:51:17 -0500
Organization: eye -- Toronto's Arts Newspaper
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JASON "THE JACKAL" ANDERSON'S PICKS
* BEN FOLDS FIVE/Ben Folds Five (Virgin/EMI) ODDS: 9 to 2
The rock critz were just using the wrong angle on these dapper North
Carolinans. Though acclaimed along with Sub Pop's Eric Matthews as the
highly evolved, orchestral-pop spawn of the exotica/cocktail scene
(like Combustible Edison... but with vocals!), Mr. Folds' group sound
uncannily like two more commercially viable precedents: Squeeze and
Night And Day-era Joe Jackson. According to Billboard's Hottest Hot
100 Hits, Squeeze's "Hourglass" is the 4574th biggest hit of all-time!
C'mon, Ben, you can beat that!
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[Thanks Marc and Ned for finding the tour dates! I've updated the web page
accordingly. And for folks in Canada, looks like Virgin/EMI is the label
that's released it there. Now, if only we could get someone down here to
release Moxy Fruvous' "Wood"...]