THE MAGICAL ARMCHAIR
The Ben Folds Five Digest
Issue #155 - October 30, 1996
THE MAGICAL ARMCHAIR, Issue #155
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Topics for Today:
Boxing Day
Jump, Little Children
BFF and BNL
Re: pictures
BFF and F&J
Australian Tour?
Re: boxing
ben folds three?
coincidences
Who else is going to Dingwalls/The Foundry
Re: THE MAGICAL ARMCHAIR, Issue #152
Brits!
Uncle Walter (Attn: BF5 mailing list)
Ben's answers and Major label debut
Big Day Out 97
Uncle Walter
Crowded House
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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 12:49:24 -0300
From: Daniel MacEachern <dmaceach@is2.dal.ca>
Subject: Boxing Day
Hello, a Canadian here to reply to the interpretation of "Boxing"
as referring to Boxing Day. Boxing day is the day after Christmas, and as
far as I know, we don't give gifts on it. If we do, I've been getting
ripped off for the past 21 years because I've never received any. It's
another holiday meant for visiting friends, returning gifts you don't like
(putting them back in their "boxes?" I'm not sure where the name comes
from) and for numerous chain stores to hold Boxing Day Sales. Their prices
get so low, you would think they're insane! Maybe I'm numb from twenty-one
years of advertising...
Daniel
Halifax
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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 11:52:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: redwing1@tir.com
Subject: Jump, Little Children
Ok, im really sorry this has nothing really to do w/BFF but i'm trying to
find someone.
Someone from the Armchair nad i had some email going about a great
band from South Carolina called Jump, Little Children. Well whereever
youare, i lost your email and mine changed! Please email me!
Why i'm on the topic of other bands, has any one down in South
Carolina heard of the indie band Mountain Express? They opened for
widespread panic down there....email me anyone if you have :)
Ben folds five kicks ass!
glad that kamea finally knows what's going on......
Shannon
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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 09:39:05 -0700
From: Doug Swan <dswan@path.org>
Subject: BFF and BNL
J.W. said:
I'm just wondering how many of us hold dual memberships here and in
Bedside Manor (Barenaked Ladies mailing list). Seems like quite a few.
And, is it just a coincidence that Barenaked Ladies are neither
barenaked (at least not in public), nor are they ladies, while Ben Folds
Five has three members, not five?
Not so fast there J.W. Yes, I've seen a connection between the two lists (I
belong to both), but I must take exception to the Barenaked Ladies not being
naked! They do in fact, sometimes treat their audience to an encore, sans
clothes, even at times waggling their wiggly's for all to see! Such a
wretched bunch of nudists, they are!
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Doug Swan EMAIL: dswan@path.org
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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 13:23:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Donna L. Hokanson" <hokansod@goldey.gbc.edu>
Subject: Re: pictures
Does anyone who has a BF5 page have pictures on their page. I would like
to view some pictures. If anyone is interested i have some Bf5 pictures
from the 1st and 2nd row at the SXSW show last March -- some really good
(I think) and if I can find help from someone here I can scan them onto
the computer and then someone could link them to their page.
Just a suggestion.
Donna
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Got Ben Folds on my radio right now
--Counting Crowes (Monkey)
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By the way that is a good CD. I recommend it. I bought it on Wednesday
night an have listened at least 10 times.
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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 13:08:21 -0500 (CDT)
From: samuel jacob lewis <sjlewis@students.uiuc.edu>
Subject: BFF and F&J
In response to Gillet's inquiry about Flemming and John, I hear that the two
bands are pretty tight and that Ben Folds is a big fan of Flemming and
John (and he even played some drums on their album - as Frank mentioned).
Yes, they have a great single called 'Love songs'. I bought the album
about 3 months ago and I love it. John has constructed some wonderfully
fresh riffs and Flemming (female) has vocals from out of this world that
will stick in your head all day after listening. Concluding that if you
like Ben and Ben likes Flem, then you too should like Flem (the transitive
property of music appreciation doesn't always hold true, but I believe it does
here.) Go get your copy TODAY!
*As a side note, I live near Chicago and I have never heard BFF on the
radio, so quit your whinin'!!
Also, thanks to all those who responded to my Jellyfish for BFF bootleg
trade post. Soon I will have a respectable collection of BFF boots and
will happily trade for somemore. Rock n' Roll.....BLEH!
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Sam Lewis
sjlewis@students.uiuc.edu
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Date: Sat, 26 Oct 96 14:24:47 +1000 (EST)
From: thompson@mpx.com.au
Subject: Australian Tour?
Well, like evreyone on this mailing list, I am a BF5 addict, so when a good
friend tol me they were touring here early next year, they had to peel me off
the floor....
Soo...I was just curious as to whether this piece of unfathomable news was
truely fact, or merely fable....
If you can help..my psychiatrist would greatly appreciate it....
Thanks,
Erika.
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Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 10:12:01 -0500
From: BNDVDSN@aol.com
Subject: Re: boxing
<< I was talking about boxing with this one guy I know, and he
seemed to think that this song was about boxing the holiday. >>
I don't remember where I read this, but I remember that Ben said that when he
was young his father and his father's friends would come over and watch
boxing. He talked about how it was almost poetic, and so he wrote that
wonderfull song about it. Frank, thanks for running this list which we all
love.
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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 00:01:24 +0900
From: shinya iguchi <s-iguchi@ka2.so-net.or.jp>
Subject: ben folds three?
I know this is a stupid question and I'm sure its been asked a million times
before but I only recently joined. Can someone PLEASE tell me why its BF5 a
nd not BF3?
[Ben says it's because five sounds cooler than three. -fjm]
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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 10:57:16 -0500
From: SharynN@aol.com
Subject: coincidences
Hello, all -- This is my first post. BFF rule, and I listen to them every
morning. My beau is a keyboard player (loads of vintage gear) and he was the
one who shoved the CD in my hands....
I'm an editor, and was talking to a new author of mine last week. She's from
Durham and went to UNC-CH, and I mentioned BFF. Turns out that one of her
friends used to date Robert. Don't know any more than that, though....
Sharyn November
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/4135
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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 96 22:17:31 UT
From: Tim Young <Mr_Tim@msn.com>
Subject: Who else is going to Dingwalls/The Foundry
I am just interested to know if many list members are going to the gigs here
in London and Birmingham ... that way I will be able to judge the certainty of
a decent bootleg being made and me being able to get a copy of it!!!
Tim (Mr_Tim@msn.com)
http://www.geocities.com/sunsetstrip/alley/4169/
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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 21:17:35 -0700 (MST)
From: robert g del campo <rdelcamp@unm.edu>
Subject: Re: THE MAGICAL ARMCHAIR, Issue #152
Jay, the guy with the bootleg from Hoboken, please get in touch with me.
I can't seem to mail you. Please let me know about that tape, I really
would love to get my hands on that tape. Thanks.
-Rob DelCampo
rdelcamp@unm.edu
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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 11:36:06 +0000 (GMT)
From: Matthew Bloom <mbloom@newport.ac.uk>
Subject: Brits!
Okay, we've had the Australians crying out for other fans...but what
about us in the UK. Are there many others like me out here? I know it's
not the outback, but the Queen's country still needs its Ben Folds fans.
Speak up!!
Matt
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Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 03:33:24 -0600
From: Julianne <dank420@optional.yokel.org>
Subject: Uncle Walter (Attn: BF5 mailing list)
Here's a cool story that is kinda related to BF5,
My grandfather's name is Walter and he's kind of like Uncle Walter in the
Ben Folds Five song "Uncle Walter" because sometimes he just goes on and on
about everything he's seen and done, but he doesn't have a magical
armchair! :)
So he was telling a war story or something like that last Christmas and my
sister and I were sitting on the couch, and I was like [singing] "you're
Uncle Walter, going on and On, 'bout everything he's seen and done" and she
laughed and it was pretty funny.
Then she went upstairs to get the CD and we put it in but Grandpa Walter
was already done with his story.
Cool huh?
Julianne
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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 20:33:26 -0500
From: Paul Teeple <bteeple@cyberdrive.net>
Subject: Ben's answers and Major label debut
I'm sure this question has been asked before, but when is Ben going to
finish answering questions as promised in the first installment of them?
Also, I noticed on the liner that a good part of the songs were produced by
sony music, which might lead me to believe that BFF's major label debut is
going to be out on sony. And last yet not least, I know I've been asking
you this since about issue #15 Frank, but do you have any BFF tour dates for
Cleveland in the coming future????
Sorry I haven't posted here in a while. Hope to hear soon!
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-Paul
[The major label debut is on Sony 550/Epic...I have not heard back
from Chuck on the rest of the answers - I assume Ben got busy with the
tour and recording, so it might still be a while...tour dates are kept
updated on the web page. There are no bookings currently for the US. The
UK/Europe tour is posted, and they are starting to book dates in
Australia for January. There will probably be an announcement here when
dates are updated as well. -fjm]
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Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 20:51:56 +1100
From: Earthy Rock <custer@ros.com.au>
Subject: Big Day Out 97
I'm writing to inform all Australian BFF fans that we're in for a treat!!!
Some will already know, but Ben Folds Five are confirmed for the Sydney Big
Day Out on the 27th of January!!! YAY!!!
Anyway, they were rumoured before, now they;re confirmed... I'll be
front row. I bet there;s gunna be 40000 people behind me too... Oh well,
if REM turn up, like it looks like they might, it'll be the best festival in
Sydney town ever!!!
Hope to see you all there with your pianos under your arms...
Ad.
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Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 21:15:12 +1100
From: Earthy Rock <custer@ros.com.au>
Subject: Uncle Walter
I'm sorry I'm sorry.
I saw a review of Uncle Walter the single today in this Australia
paper... Quite good... It basically says that Billy Joel and Elton John
made the piano unpopular and Ben is doing something to change that. I could
type it out, but some people get a bit irate!!!
Anyway, it must mean it's a local Australian release now, I think. I'm
going to have to investigate!!!
Ad.
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Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 21:56:52 +1100
From: Earthy Rock <custer@ros.com.au>
Subject: Crowded House
Sorry, sorry sorry. I meant to put everything in one message, but I
forgot it all!!! Anyway, as it's said the many BFF fans are also Crowded
House fans, I'll just let you all know that very soon in November, Crowded
House are playing their final show... It's in Sydney on the Steps of the
Oper House... 100000 people are expected and it's free free free!!! I
can;t wait!!!
Ad.
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