THE MAGICAL ARMCHAIR
The Ben Folds Five Digest
Issue #1061 - June 12, 1998
Magical Armchair Digest Friday, June 12 1998 Volume 01 : Number 1061
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TOPICS IN THIS DIGEST:
Addicted To Noise
BFF in Pittsburgh!
Starlake Concert (pittsburgh)
Extra Hard Rock Live Ticket?
big fat ole nontent!
Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #1058
JOYGASM
Ben Folds in Vinyl
RARE BEN FOLDS FIVE DEMO MP3 (Lonely)
Smoke on the water??
G.A. seating revisited
If you're feeling sure you know what Philosophy's about...
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Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 11:27:32 -0400
From: Adam Tyner <ctyner@clemson.edu>
Subject: Addicted To Noise
Ouch. Addicted To Noise just called 'Air' BFF's most recent remake of
"Hello, It's Me". I thought all the webzines finished bashing Air a few
weeks ago.
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Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 11:33:23 EDT
From: Nycurator@aol.com
Subject: BFF in Pittsburgh!
I just got back from the Elliot Smith/BFF (my first! whoo-hoo!) /Beck show at
Starlake, and I'm absolutely wired right now! Here's my rendition of the show:
Elliot Smith, that ~Kill Rock Stars~ darling, was cool but not that many
people were into it... the pavillion started filling up when Ben's piano was
wheeled on stage.... the set list went something like this-- Jackson Cannery,
Alice Childress, Emaline, Uncle Walter, Air, She Don't Use Jelly, Boxing,
Brick, One Angry Dwarf, Song For the Dumped. I was kinda disappointed because
they only played for 35 minutes, but I can't say I wasn't warned by all of
your previous posts!
During BFF's set, I was up and dancing the entire time, proud as hell to know
all the words to all the songs (how scenester of me!), and probably pissing
everyone else in Section 5 off, but I really didn't care... I absolutely went
nuts when Ben started beating the hell of his piano with the stool. The boys
had SO much energy, and put on a rad set. By the time "Brick" came on, the
crowd started really getting into it (only 2 lighters spotted, hee-hee) which
made it even cooler when the kids around me chanted "FUCK YOU TOO!" during
"Song For the Dumped." Very surreal.
Random moment-- I was *so* absolutely wired during the BFF set that I
absolutely had to stop dancing and sit down mid-way through Beck's set for a
little bit. One of the two guys in front of me who had seen me light up a
cigarette earlier turned around with $4.50 cups of beer in hand and said to
the other, "Whoa, look at that chick. She's all dead from smokin' them joints
and shit." I don't know, that just seemed really funny to me because I
*hadn't* been, I was just excited as hell.
Another plea to anyone who taped the show-- please e-mail me, I'd love to have
a copy!
Lesly
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Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 10:13:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Timmy Piper <timmypiper@yahoo.com>
Subject: Starlake Concert (pittsburgh)
I have to say that the Beck/Ben Folds Five/Eliott Smith concert was
probably the best concert i've attended. Eliot Smith was okay, me and
mis amigos didn't really watch all of him, we went over to a side
stage and watched our favorite local band, Seventh House, perform
(http://www.seventhhouse.com). They did a better job opening than
Eliot did, I hate to say, but Eliot was the main reason there were so
so many little girls at the concert. Ben Folds was just as I had
expected...completely crazy. Ben started off by mentioning how sweet
Robert's ass was looking tonight, and sledge spent most of the concert
shaking his behind at the crowd. I think this was the setlist:
Jackson Cannery.
Emaline.
Alice Childress
Brick
Air.
Boxing.
She Don't Use Jelly
One angry Dwarf and 200 solemn faces
Song de los Dumped.
Song for the dumped lasted about 15 minutes and it was worth every
penny to watch. Beck was suprisingly good as well, but this is the
bff mailing list, so I won't mention anything but the fact that Where
it's at was their second encore number at it lasted FOREVER. Okay i'm
done now.
Timmy
P.S If ben or robert or darren is reading this, you guys gotta sell
bumper stickers at your concerts...thanks
==
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Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 11:17:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: Scott Wagar <swagar@yahoo.com>
Subject: Extra Hard Rock Live Ticket?
I'd be very, very grateful if any kind soul with an extra ticket
to the Hard Rock Live show on Friday would e-mail me (thanks again to
Rey Anthony for the generous offer, even though I was too late).
Thanks!
Scott
swagar@yahoo.com
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Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 20:01:29
From: mikgle@globalnet.co.uk
Subject: big fat ole nontent!
> And what the hell is
>NBFFC? wait, I just figured that out, but it took me a really long time.
>Hey, let's write Non-BFF content! like this post. Ugh, maybe I'm just a
>little too tired.
>
>sean
NO. Let's write NONTENT, patented copyright @nn@ (ie i made that word up
myself! ~ goddamn, my life is fulfilled.)
>By the way i do believe that a dork is a whales penis!
heh heh. Is Leslie the Asian Dork Princess still on this list?
@nn@
@ir pianist extraodinaire
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Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 17:10:48 EDT
From: BlueJellow@aol.com
Subject: Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #1058
In a message dated 98-06-10 21:18:41 EDT, you write:
<< Your a real fan if the music is a part of your life. >>
You know what? BFF takes up a ton of time in my life. I mean, it's in my
clothes, in my car, in my ears, on my walls, and definitley a reason to take a
trip. Music is everywhere here, especially BFF. They are great
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Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 17:20:23 EDT
From: BlueJellow@aol.com
Subject: JOYGASM
Ok, I don't remember who exactly, I think it was Erik.
you need to bring ~JOYGASM~ back. I miss it terribly.....
Lucy
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Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 17:42:57 EDT
From: Beatles050@aol.com
Subject: Ben Folds in Vinyl
This post has no real content, (how hypocritical of me) but I would just like
to spread the massive joy-gasim I had the other day when I found WAEA on
vinyl. Maybe this is not something uncommon for the rest of you...but for
little old me here in Minnesota, it's a big deal. Needless to say I bought
it. (along with the "Underground" single.) One more
thing: I saw the words "Puff Daddy" and "Brick" in the same sentence in a
previous post. Then I got an idea....a horrible, horrible idea. I betcha
sooner or later Puff Daddy will redo "Brick" into some hip-hop schmack.
That'll be cool! (*duck* *crash*) I better go before I start more trouble.
Daryl
"Hey! I bought that pig at Pink Floyd's garage sale!"
--Peter Frampton
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Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 18:05:05 EDT
From: Keyserdan1@aol.com
Subject: RARE BEN FOLDS FIVE DEMO MP3 (Lonely)
hey people of the armchair...
I just put up an MP3 of Lonely. If I'm not mistaken, Ben is playing all the
instruments on this one. While you're there...Check out my bootleg list. Damn
fine stuff. And PLEASE.....NO 2:1 REQUESTS. I have NO time for that. Last
thing...I had to make the file kinda shitty b/c AOL allows you NO space...but
those of y'all who haven't heard it....Well..You do the math.
http://members.aol.com/Keyserdan1/Index.html
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Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 18:45:02 EDT
From: Sarah85520@aol.com
Subject: Smoke on the water??
So, today I popped in my Sessions tape and always watch it with the volume
cranked and I sing along. What can I say?? I love all the songs on it... But
after the host guy talks to Ben, they go back to the studio and Ben says,
"This one is called 'Smoke on the Water.'" Then most of the crowd starts
laughing and I never got why... The songs' 'Smoke' anyways, so did they think
it might be the boys version of Deep Purple's 'Smoke on the Water?' I'm just
curious... I've never laughed at that part and never knew what the humor was
to it...
Sarah
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Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 19:00:00 -0500
From: quinnt@scc.net
Subject: G.A. seating revisited
Jordan wrote:
<<<Now asking for a favor. What the hell is G.A. seating?>>>
Then Marcus Kamp wrote:
<<Since nobody's bothered to help this poor soul out, lemme step forward
(as I am wont to do!). GA stands for "General Admission".>>
I'm picturing it now: A young man stands alone alongside the information
superhighway. He is tired. He is thirsty. Thirsty for information.
He holds up a sign saying "What the hell is G.A. seating?" But no one
stops to help him. They all just whiz on by. One driver has the nerve
to shout a wisecrack at the thirsty pedestrian. But will he stop to help?
Of course not. What a dark, damp, musty day for humanity.
No, actually, I'm the guy who made the "gay airhead" wisecrack. What I did
was send Jordan the serious answer privately, because it was off-topic
(NBFFC, grr). I even explained to him what General Admission means - just
in case he didn't know. I'm sure others answered him privately as well.
I posted the joke answer here because it had a BFF reference and I figured
a fair chunk of the MA readership would find it funny.
Elvin
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Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 19:07:17 -0500
From: quinnt@scc.net
Subject: If you're feeling sure you know what Philosophy's about...
One thing I've never seen on the Armchair is a convincing theory
as to the meaning of the "Philosophy" lyrics. Who's sure they know?
How 'bout if we rule out any theories that maintain it's literally about
construction. I'm pretty sure the construction references are meta-
phorical.
I'm aware of Ben's statement about the lyrics in the NBP liner notes -
it's about whatever you want it to be about. But I think he had
something specific in mind when he wrote it.
I think I know what it is, but I'm not saying.
Elvin
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