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The Ben Folds Five Digest

Issue #1458 - April 5, 1999



Magical Armchair Digest     Monday, April 5 1999     Volume 01 : Number 1458



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TOPICS IN THIS DIGEST:

    tickets for chicago
    army single in australia
    Thanks everyone
    release date?
    hordern pavilion, sydney
    Re:Truth and Rumors
    Will the real Reinhold Messner please stand up

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Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 22:38:05 -0600
From: "Mark Grzybowski" <jibbers@ivi.net>
Subject: tickets for chicago


Hello all, it is me again, complaining about tickets.  Does ANYONE have =
ANY extras for the May 3rd show in Chicago?  I would be extremely happy =
if someone did.  I cannot wait another year or two to see our boys =
live.....please help me out....

thanks,
mark

"Nine years," said DJ David Silver as
Brandon Walsh drove away in the Beverly Hills nightscape earlier
this month.  "that's a long time for a group to hang out.  High school,
college, the real world.  Death, drugs, depression, raging hormones,
puberty.  You name it, we suffered through it all.  Still are."

"- hey hey, good try -
Tomorrow Wendy's going to die"


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Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 00:57:48 PST
From: "Crystal Cooper" <crystal_bf5@hotmail.com>
Subject: army single in australia

hello everyone
the army single was on the shelves today in Australia (everywhere, even 
HMV had about 6 million copies of it), despite the fact that its release 
date is tomorrow. i was lucky enough to be shopping, and i came across 
it in a cd store and i sort of made a little shrieking noise, and i was 
really excited.
anyway, i put up the lyrics and stuff for the army single, here at 
http://members.xoom.com/DrPyser265/bf5/bffindex.html
click on the link that says something like click here to see the stuff 
about the army single. 
i tried to put up the cover art, but my stupid scanner doesn't want to 
cooperate with me and i can't be bothered making it work, so maybe 
someone else can get that done.
pure coincidence, but last easter sunday was the day i brought my first 
bff single, and here it is easter sunday again and i've brought another. 
i'd like to keep up that tradition.

Crystal

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"and things like that don't happen 
 and things like that don't slip away 
 but sometimes they do"
- --> "Leather Jacket", Ben Folds Five

Coming Up For Air -- Crystal's Ben Folds Five page
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Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 11:32:41 +0100
From: "Will Brady" <will@benfoldsfive.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Thanks everyone

Hey 'chairers,

Thanks to everyone who visited my site following its launch yesterday, and
for making such nice comments. I'm going to try to keep it updated almost
daily, so check back often for the latest developments. I've got some pretty
cool ideas lined up...

See ya'll,

Will.
______________________________________________
Ben Folds Five: The Man From Uncool
http://www.benfoldsfive.freeserve.co.uk
______________________________________________

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Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 05:20:19 PDT
From: "Crystal Cooper" <crystal_bf5@hotmail.com>
Subject: release date?

ok, now, i know this question's been asked before, but... what is the 
australian release date for tuborm? and do we get that limited edition 
video with it? i read sonewhere that the australian release has a bonus 
disc too? i don't know, i'm kinda tired and i could be getting this all 
mixed up. someone straighten it out.
oh yeah, and i recently discovered that they might be giants recorded a 
live at the wireless show for triple j in australia, in 1997 on their 
factory showroom tour. does anyone have a tape of this? if you do, 
e-mail me, cause i'm desperate for a copy.

Crystal

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"and things like that don't happen
 and things like that don't slip away
 but sometimes they do"
- --> "Leather Jacket", Ben Folds Five

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Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 06:56:36 PDT
From: "Alice Childress" <jbpastie2@hotmail.com>
Subject: hordern pavilion, sydney

this's from "THE P BOOK ONLINE"       
hey! it says "venue operational as of
1 october 1999". can anybody tell me
what on earth this means?! (if the
concert is down for august 19th!)
and is this place all ages?

       HORDERN PAVILION 
         Paddington NSW 2021 
         Phone 
       (02) 9449 6433 
         Fax 
       (02) 9449 6053 
         Notes
       LOCATIONS & VENUES 
          Venue operational as of 1 October 1999 
          Contact Jayne Vysnevsky

PLEASE help me with this!
janet
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Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 10:58:21 EDT
From: JKFett@aol.com
Subject: Re:Truth and Rumors

<< Most of what's for sale is promotional material that the sellers received 
FOR FREE. My husband, Mark, manages a record store and we get all kinds of 
stuff from  labels. He's very good about snagging BFF material because I'm 
such a huge fan. >>

Ahh, nothing like the law of supply and demand at work. While you are correct 
that most of the people do get promo items like the T&R disc for free, not 
everyone can get 'em. Not everyone has a husband who manages a record store. 
When it comes right down to it, you're lucky, and, if the rest of us want 
some of the promo stuff, we're going to have to pay for it, and in some 
cases, this may mean top dollar. Yeah it sucks, I know, but I want a copy of 
that disc just as much as anyone else. But if someone came along and offered 
you $500 for a copy of your T&R disc, Mikell, wouldn't you sell it too? I 
know I would, so I understand why people eBay such promo items.
~I'm not missin' the war so I don't want to start one here.
Dan

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Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 11:31:26 +0000
From: Mark & Mikell Brown <brownmm@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Will the real Reinhold Messner please stand up

I'm on Spring Break, which explains excessive posting. (Teachers look
forward to break MORE than the students do. Believe me.) So here goes-

Judi wrote regarding the guys not knowing about the REAL Reinhold
Messner:  "i'm sorry, i just don't buy this at all. how on earth did
they come up
with the name of the album without knowing the guy really existed? not
to
be rude, but i can't begin to believe they just MADE THE NAME UP. ;)
that's like saying they would name a cd "whitney houston, LIVE!" and
would be surprised by the existence of a real whitney houston."

Normally I don't respond, but couldn't resist. You have a valid point,
and I'd be suspicious, too, however you just have to listen to the
interview disc (and read the CMJ article, for that matter). Reinhold
Messner was a name that one of Darren's friends came up with in high
school to use for fake IDs. How he got it, nobody knows, though Darren
says that it sounds like something that one of his friends would know
about. Robert refers to RM as "the patron saint of underage drinking."
You have to hear their responses when the interviewer (on Feb. 9) asks
them if they know who the real RM is. (He found it doing a web search.)
They bullshit a lot, generally, but this is genuine. It's hysterical.
You can almost hear the Sony lawyers in the background screaming, "Find
this guy, NOW!"
On the liner notes, Ben writes "ABOUT THE TITLE":
"....at any rate, we'd love to tell you we're just fucking cool and knew
what we were doing, but alas, the credit goes to our cosmic collaborator
on this album, coincidence. thanks to reinhold messner for being a hero,
and now a good sport."

mikell b

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