THE MAGICAL ARMCHAIR
The Ben Folds Five Digest
Issue #399 - July 18, 1997
Magical Armchair Digest Friday, July 18 1997 Volume 01 : Number 399
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TOPICS IN THIS DIGEST:
Pogoing and Gen-X
Random Poll
Magical Armchair Digest V1 #398 -Reply
"KATE" piano music????
horde info
HORDE Suggestions
horde schedule
HORDE experience
Re: HORDE band order
fortune magazine article
indy horde show and chuck folds
HORDE!!
Oz Tour
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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 20:39:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Smarshal1@aol.com
Subject: Pogoing and Gen-X
When you guys are talking about pogoing and identifying yourself as Gen-Xers,
that kinda ticks me off. By saying this you are classifying yourselves into
one group. Nobody says look at those 40 year olds, Gen-Olders. You get my
drift. The only person you are is you. So just be who you are. thanx for
listenin to my non-BFF content.
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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 20:46:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Eric Patton <shirak@umich.edu>
Subject: Random Poll
I know this is close to sacrilege for bringing this up, but it's
something I was wondering: Who's the better pianist, Ben Folds or Tori
Amos? Personally, I think it's Tori, just beacuse she's..... well, for
lack of a better word, insane. Tell em what you think, and I fully expect
to get flamed for this one. Laters!
ERIC
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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 18:12:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: Celestia <tooms@proaxis.com>
Subject: "KATE" piano music????
Does anyone in the world have the basic piano music for kate? i would sell
my right kidney for it. even just approximate chords would be greatly
appreciated. pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease??? email tooms@proaxis.com
Celestia, tooms@proaxis.com
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/2210
"In a shocking turn of events, the Spice Girls marry
Menudo and their children form a Hanson cover band,
and life as we know it will cease to exist."
- -Conan O'Brien "In the Year 2000" prediction
"She never gets wet, she smiles and it's a rainbow
and she speaks...and she breathes...i wanna be KATE!"
- -Ben Folds Five
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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 22:48:34 -0400
From: rebelgrrrl@juno.com (rachelle r house)
Subject: horde info
>
>Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 09:48:36 -0400 (EDT)
>From: BSCHACK@aol.com
>Subject: Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #397
>
>In a message dated 97-07-15 20:32:34 EDT, you write:
><< Does anyone know the band order for HORDE? Cause I have to leave
>at 7:00and it starts at 3:00! My $40 better let me see Ben Folds Five!
Please
>e-mail if you have info. >>
>
>Speaking of which...as some of you get to see the HORDE show, the rest
>of us would really appreciate some details. I'm in NY, at the tail end
of
>the HORDE tour. I don't care that much about most of the other bands on
>the tour, so for those of us going to see BFF, it would be really
helpful
>to know when they go on, how long their set is, and any other info that
will
>help make our (my) HORDE experiences a little easier!!!! Thanks guys.
>
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if you go to the HORDE 97 web site and look up the show you are going to,
it will give you a list of the order of the bands that are playing and
the approximate times they are playing.
i'm gonna be at the HOrde show at vernon downs , NY on AUG. 5. and bff
aren't playing until about 7:30 there. if anyone else is going to this
show let me know and we can run to the second stage between primus and
beck for our sweethearts--- the good old boys on ben folds five!!!
- -rachelle rae
"At this moment you should be with us, feeling like we do, like you love
to, but never will...again." --perry farrell
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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 23:16:43 +0100
From: kareng@ici.net (karen gannon)
Subject: HORDE Suggestions
I know a lot of us are only going to see a certain trio at HORDE, but lets
not lose sight of why my fellow neohippies started HORDE: To get people to
branch out in musical tastes. So give other bands a chance, and Before you
say "What is this shit, give me BFF!" recall that not too long ago, all the
jock-rock alternaboys were saying "What is this piano shit?!". (Sure, we
beat the everliving piss out of them for it, but it was a good story up til
then, wasn't it? . . . .just kidding. . . it wasn't that good a story)
Josh
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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 00:14:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: TheDanOne@aol.com
Subject: horde schedule
Hello friends.
If anyone wants the line-up for the HORDE tour, go to <A HREF="http://www.h
ordefestival.com">www.hordefestival.com</A>. It has schedules by band and
show. I know the Minneapolis show, Ben Folds Five is playing on the second
stage later in the evening. Speaking of Minneapolis, there's a really good
web page called Rock 'n' Roll is Alive and It Lives in Minneapolis. It's at <A
HREF="http://members.aol.com/TheDanOne/minneapolis.htm">http://members.aol.co
m/TheDanOne/minneapolis.htm</A>.
Dan Haugen
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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 21:15:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Celestia <tooms@proaxis.com>
Subject: HORDE experience
Okay, since so many people are asking, I'll relay my HORDE experience. I saw
them in Portland on 7/13, BFF played at around maybe 6:30 or so, and they
played for a very very very short period of time. the setlist was: One angry
dwarf, fair, Kate, Smoke, Theme From dr physer (pyser? physer?), and
Philosophy. And that's all! i was very angry at the length of the show, and
the string players didn't really add to it, but nonetheless it was a great
show. Robert broke a string during Fair, and so they had to find him a new
bass. Ben talked about stuff while they were working on it. he introduced
the string players, robert, darren, etc. and talked about...well, nothing.
it was great. Fair, Kate, and Philosophy were the best. If you go to see
them at HORDE, my only advice is this: Don't Blink.
Go see the Squirrel Nut Zippers while you're there! they were the best act
there, mostly because bff played for 40 seconds, but still! go see 'em!
Celestia, tooms@proaxis.com
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/2210
"In a shocking turn of events, the Spice Girls marry
Menudo and their children form a Hanson cover band,
and life as we know it will cease to exist."
- -Conan O'Brien "In the Year 2000" prediction
"She never gets wet, she smiles and it's a rainbow
and she speaks...and she breathes...i wanna be KATE!"
- -Ben Folds Five
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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 09:26:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: DEMesserly@aol.com
Subject: Re: HORDE band order
><< Does anyone know the band order for HORDE? Cause I have to leave at 7:00
>and
> it starts at 3:00! My $40 better let me see Ben Folds Five! Please e-mail
> if you have info. >>
>
>Speaking of which...as some of you get to see the HORDE show, the rest of us
>would really appreciate some details. I'm in NY, at the tail end of the
>HORDE tour. I don't care that much about most of the other bands on the
>tour, so for those of us going to see BFF, it would be really helpful to
know
>when they go on, how long their set is, and any other info that will help
>make our (my) HORDE experiences a little easier!!!! Thanks guys.
Try http://www.hordefestival.com. This has the order of the bands, as
well as the times they are playing.
DM
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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 12:55:55 -0400
From: cynthia@people.timeinc.com (Cynthia Wang)
Subject: fortune magazine article
Hi y'all,
Just checkin' in. Two things of note:
1. In the August 4, 1997 issue of Fortune magazine (with "The New Black
Power" on the cover) is a fascinating article called "The crazy record
business: these prices really are insane," about how Best Buy's low-cost
CDs have sent music retailers into bankruptcy. I recommend it as a good
read, but as a bonus, in the gatefold picture of shoppers at a Best Buy,
two stacks of Whatever and Ever Amen can be seen in the front racks, under
"Alternative Nation."
2. The great Eatontown, NJ, station WHTG, 106.3, added "One Angry Dwarf" to
its rotation. I think they did it a few weeks ago.
OK, that's it. Sorta bland, I know. But when you see or hear BFF, even in a
fuzzy photo in a business mag, you wanna let everyone in on it! ;-)
Have a smurfy day,
Cynthia
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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 16:13:07 -0500
From: Lachesis@webtv.net (atropos)
Subject: indy horde show and chuck folds
first off, i want to inform everyone that i am david shapiro. i've been
on the list for a while, but i just changed e-mail addresses. i used to
be clotho@webtv.net.
second, i want to ask if anyone is going to the indianapolis
(noblesville, actually) horde show on the 25th. i've asked before, and
spoken to one person. if anyone else is going, and wants to get
together, e-mail me please, at this address or clotho@webtv.net. both
addresses work.
third, and most exciting, i got an e-mail from chuck folds the other
day. i was just checking my mail and there it was. actually, it was
his wife rachel. she had come across my website (
http://members.tripod.com/~lastpolka/index.html ) and, seeing that i'm
such a big fan of ben, she wrote me. so i replied, and chuck (really
chuck this time) wrote me back. i told him about me going to see ben
and the boys next friday, and to tell ben to say hi to me if he talked
to him. he's a really nice guy. we discussed his bands and stuff.
oooh. i've been having so many brushes with fame these days. first the
whole nuvo thing and now this ;-)
love and nuclear warfare,
dave
"BRICKS ARE OUR CURRENCY!!!"
- --Milk and Cheese
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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 15:39:25 PDT
From: "Stephen Byers" <steve52@hotmail.com>
Subject: HORDE!!
Hey Everyone-
I just want to say that I have been a lurker on this list for a while
and this is my first post. Now I may be bringing some people some very
bad news so prepare yourselves. I'm from MA and the Horde schedule for
MA has BFF playing from 7:10-7:40! A freakin' half hour!! That's it! I
know that it sounds unbelievable but it's true! I'm sorry that this
news had to come from me, but someone had to tell you guys. But look at
it this way, I half hour with the boys is better than no time with them.
Right? I just wish that they were playing longer! Now I've got a
question for the list. Someone posted something the other day about BFF
having a live album coming out Sept. 1. Is this true? If it is where
can I get some info. on it. Thanks for the help and sorry for the bad
news.
Steve
"Everything's Happy Underground!!" -BFF
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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 97 08:34:47 PDT
From: "Scott Hookway" <shookway@powerup.com.au>
Subject: Oz Tour
Has the rest of the Australian tour dates been announced yet?? Maybe we
could ring triple j about it (they are presenting Livid, so I would say
that the spin off tours will be presented by JJJ)
Scott
P.S. Got my Livid ticket yesterday.
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