THE MAGICAL ARMCHAIR
The Ben Folds Five Digest
Issue #1551 - May 28, 1999
Magical Armchair Digest Friday, May 28 1999 Volume 01 : Number 1551
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TOPICS IN THIS DIGEST:
Yo, armchairs buds in the San Fran area...
Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #1549
2 BFF Questions
attn: snz fans
More MP3's
Oh, you knew this was coming
yay chicago show!
NYC show
t-shirts?...
Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #1550
Denver Tickets
philipa?
"Please Come..."
Fwd: HARD ROCK LIVE
phx. show, change of venue
Summerstage concert in NYC BABY!!!!!!!
fresh air
Demo Tape
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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 20:51:18 EDT
From: BenFoldss5@aol.com
Subject: Yo, armchairs buds in the San Fran area...
Finally, a San Francisco concert! Everyone in the Bay Area is probably
overjoyed, except for me. The concert is the night of my graduation
ceremony, and I doubt I'll get up to the city until at least 8:30. So for
all of you that are going to get in line at 3, can you do a fellow chairer a
big favor? Help me out and save me a place, or at least don't scream bloody
murder when I push my way up front to the stage.
But seriously, if you are going, please email me. I'd really like to meet
some armchairites, and it would also rock if you could save me and my friend
some room. I'm sure there'll be a bunch of us there, so we may as well meet
each other while we have the chance. Maybe we can organize some request
screaming or something.
Thanks,
Jon.
BenFoldss5@aol.com
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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 15:24:37 -0400
From: Lauren <choplin@bellatlantic.net>
Subject: Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #1549
I've been hearing from a number of people that BF5 will be coming back
to Philly. Seeing as I couldn't go to *either* show last time (I know,
pity me now), I'm wondering if anyone else has heard anything about it.
Possibly at a radio show for someone other than Y100 (?). That's what
I'm hearing, but I really don't think they'd be playing a radio festival
such as that right now.
Either way, I'm going to drive down to DC if and when that date with
Jude is confirmed...
Lauren
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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 18:30:54 -0700
From: Justin Richardson <richpj01@wfu.edu>
Subject: 2 BFF Questions
Okay folks, I've been a BFF fan for a while now. I have only had the
extreme
pleasure of seeing them once (last summer's G105 Big Shindig in Raleigh,
NC).
It
was more amazing than I had imagined. I am going to see them
again...soon...as in
Thursday night.
I just had a couple of questions for y'all (and since I drive on Silas
Creek
Parkway nearly everyday, I figure I have that right).
1) What BFF song(s) do you as an individual do you find most personal?
(Meaning
what song(s) do you identify with because you feel the lyrics have
captured
thoughts or feelings that you have had at some point in time?)
2) What BFF song(s) do you find it impossible to sit still through?
I don't know that I can answer these questions myself. The music and
lyrics
that
Ben Folds Five has produced has really brought me to love music more and
more
everyday.
Anyway, before I start rambling, let me say "goodnight, goodnight -- let
the
moonlight take the lid off your dreams."
shedmun
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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 21:39:07 -0500
From: Jessica Brandt <jbrandt@kent.edu>
Subject: attn: snz fans
Okay this is a little off topic, so if you don't want to read it, please
scroll on by...
I know a lot of BFF fans are also hip to the Squirrel Nut Zippers. Well you
may not know this, but the band is being sued by the Southern Style Nuts
company who now own the Squirrel Brand Co. The Zippers named their band
after the Squirrel Brand Peanut company candy "Zippers" and when the owner
of that company got sick, they decided to sue SNZ...and then they sold the
company and the NEW owners carried on the lawsuit.
Worse yet, Mammoth, their label, has dropped legal backing and the Zippers
have to fend for themselves against this nasty company, thus depleting
their small bank account (sorry, they didn't go platinum...) Because of all
the $ they have to spend, recent tours have been cancelled, and plans for a
new album are scrapped until this gets cleared up.
I was told by Ken Mosher (sax, guitar) that due to a few letters written by
fans to drop the charges, the Southern Style Nuts company is beginning to
sway in our favor. Ken asked me to spread the word that more good letters
to the company might work.
If you are a fan of the band, or sympathetic o the plight of these talented
group of people, please write a NICE letter to
customerservice@southernstylenuts.com asking them to drop charges. You can
check out www.snzippers.com for a few more details.
Thanks in advance, and keep on rockin'!
(ps thanks to all who have entered the BFF contest on the shrub. there's a
few more days left to enter!!)
Jess
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Date: 26 May 99 21:53:39 EDT
From: Rey Anthony <reyanthony@usa.net>
Subject: More MP3's
Caed Mile Failte from New York City,
I've put a few more mp3's up on my page, you can grab 'em at...
http://www.rey.anthony.net/mp3.html
Hugs and kisses,
Rey
http://www.Rey.Anthony.net
"... all alone as I've learned to be,
in this mess I have made"
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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 22:21:54 EDT
From: JKFett@aol.com
Subject: Oh, you knew this was coming
Okay...I'm going to bitch, so if any of you have problems with that scroll
past my message. You have been warned.
Commence bitching: I perfectly understand why BFF will end the tour June 24th
with Ben's kids on the way. No problem with that. Your kids are only born
once. But...they missed out on a lot of huge cities (LIKE DETROIT!) and are
playing Chicago AGAIN! Now, I cannot begin to describe how incredibly
disappointed I am they are passing us up. And then the poor folks in Seattle
who had their show canceled only for Chicago to get another go... well,
that's just not fair. Or should I say, "All is not fair, in tour schedules."
~Feeling awfully ripped off in Michigan,
Dan
http://www.msu.edu/~austind1
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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 21:47:28
From: Nicole <oasis2@execpc.com>
Subject: yay chicago show!
I'm going to the Chicago show too!!!!! I saw your message on here, Sarah
and thought I'd respond. I am SOOOOOOO excited! Its only like 31/2 weeks
away! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! This is my first show, so It's like double the
excitement! yay!!!
- -Nicole
nicole d'amato
http://www.raspberrylemonade.com/nicole
"because life is short, but sweet
for certain." -dmb
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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 23:06:47 EDT
From: Astro111@aol.com
Subject: NYC show
Hey-
anyone live in in Upstate NY who wants to drive me and my cool pal lindsay to
the NYC show on 6/24?
*BIG SMILE*
- -RobinA
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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 20:11:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: Amanda LeFevre <bf5underground@yahoo.com>
Subject: t-shirts?...
im..new
not to ben folds five. im an obsessed lil fan since
the waaayy beginning, but im new to the armchair. im
amanda, from memphis.
im going to the nashville show (yay) and i am more
excited than anyone can ever be.
i was like...numb when i got the tix (yes, the purple
and green is cool)..but i was wondering about this
t-shirt thing. like, magical armchair t's? or bf5 t's?
regardless, i want them!!!!!!!!!!
oh, and could someone kindly tell me how i could get
my hands on a bff sticker? im desperate. i have made
my own stickers, and t shirts, but its not the same!
thanks a lot!!!
email me if you wanna talk bf5, jump lil children,
weezer, fountains of wayne, or cranberries.
aim: Pnkertn
web page: http://www.rockin.to/benfolds5
(warning...under heavy construction)
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desolè, je sui american.
please cook my steak again.
je sui american.
desolè
jene parle francais.
~Amanda
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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 22:37:02 -0500
From: Ryan VanderKoy <ryan747@juno.com>
Subject: Re: Magical Armchair Digest V1 #1550
Yeah, I'm going. I got the ticketmaster tix too and they're those
colors- never noticed that much, but whatever. Anyways, I'm new to the
list but I always but BFF has been my favorite for a while!
Ryan V.
>Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 15:51:21 EDT
>From: SarahMBK1@aol.com
>Subject: my kinda town
>
>does anyone else have tickets for the chicago show?!?! I am soooo
>psyched
>that i have mine FINALLY!!!! wow, has anyone seen the new ticketmaster
>
>tickets? i dont know about anyone else, but i like the lite green and
>purple
>tix, but my bff tix are orange and yellow and DARK gray... reminds me
>of
>vomit..
>anywho, anyone going, lemme know!!!
> sarah
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Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 00:38:28 -0500
From: "Will Flores" <willly@wt.net>
Subject: Denver Tickets
Because of a scheduling conflict, I am no longer going to be able to see the
boys play in Denver on June 4th. Due to this, I have 2 tickets available.
I have one in the third row of the front center section and one in the
fourth row. If you want them, be the first person to email me at
willly@wt.net and be willing to pay 22.50 per ticket. Thanks.
Will
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Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 01:11:40 PDT
From: "Alice Childress" <jbpastie2@hotmail.com>
Subject: philipa?
sorry for using the armchair for this:
if there's a philipa (in sydney i think)
who won the bf5 drum media comp could
you email me please?
thanks, janet.
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Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 15:13:18 EDT
From: Swenev@aol.com
Subject: "Please Come..."
I'm not exactly an expert on the actual business side of pop music, but I've
got something to say. For everyone that has ever written a post that
includes "please come...", although everyone else appreciates the fact that
there are, indeed, BFF fans in the middle of nowhere, these posts do
absolutely no good at all. The band (or their managment) really doesn't
decide where they go. The venues that offer them decent amounts of money are
the ones who decide where they go. So if you really want them to swing by
your town, get a few thousand of your closest friends and tell your nearest
rock'n'roll venue that you would like to see Ben Folds Five rather than
clutter up my mailbox.
Sweney (whose bread someone buttered on both sides today)
P.S. I'm from NE, so don't think I don't know what its like
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Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 15:26:08 EDT
From: HonPrelude@aol.com
Subject: Fwd: HARD ROCK LIVE
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Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 22:50:52 EDT
Subject: HARD ROCK LIVE
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Hey gang,
I, too, had a fucking wierd experience about BF5. I was listening to
them on real audio last night and flipping channels on TV when I get to vh1,
where they are playing on hard rock live. It was over in a minute, as they
were just coming to a close to their half of the show. I was so pissed. I
was wasting my time on the goddamn internet when i could have been watching
them play live.
Somebody tell me it was a rerun! I know there is a possibility it
was because they ended with song for the dumped, but they do play that song
all the time, even now (thats the only song I'm really sick of, by the way)
The show's name also includes the term "live" though, so i'm thinking it was
new. I dont know. Well I'm really surprised that no one made mention of it
if it was. Why didn't anyone say anything? Well, I believe the rerun on
this show is 11:30 central time on thursday night in case anyone cared. But
does anyone know if it was new?????
Later,
Ben
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Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 15:52:21 EDT
From: Beckyn22@aol.com
Subject: phx. show, change of venue
real fast, for any phoenix people who have celebrity theater june 7 tickets,
they will be honored at the june 6 club rio show (which it now is.)
cheers,
becky
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Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 15:53:03 EDT
From: NedGump@aol.com
Subject: Summerstage concert in NYC BABY!!!!!!!
Hey 5r's, I just got my tix for the Central Park Summerstage concert!! Heres
the info I got:
It's $25.00 per ticket thru. tickmaster.
the concert is @ 7:00pm
its RAIN or SHINE
and its General Admission. LETS MOSH!!!!
speaking of which . . who here has ever moshed or have seen moshing at a BFF
concert? how weir would THAT be, huh?
ANYWAY, i say all the MA peeps should meet at the concert like a certin
timebefor the show starts so we all can chill and prove to all those posers
that WE ARE THE BIGGEST BFF FANS THERE ARE!!!!!!!!!!!
Also, I went to the Dave Matthews Band concert at Giants Stadium last night
(5/26/99) My seats sucked, but I snuck down to the front and it rocked.
peace out girl scouts
- -ned gump
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Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 13:33:13 PDT
From: "darla pink" <darlapink@hotmail.com>
Subject: fresh air
A little angel just informed that Ben Folds Five will be on "Fresh Air" on
NPR tomorrow (that's Friday). They'll be talking all about the new record.
Check your local listings I guess...it's on from 3-4 pm here in Washington,
DC.
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Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 16:53:16 EDT
From: SyN3RG3@aol.com
Subject: Demo Tape
Hey
i have a copy of this neat demo tape
that i'm trading for
(TRADING, not offering B+P for right now, sorry)
there is a list of wants @ my site.
(http://members.tripod.com/XdaphneanX/wants.html)
Ben Folds
Demo: Recorded in 1990, Nashville/Greensboro
A
Best Imitation
Kalamazoo
Uncle Walter
Clueless
My Dog
Fair
Burning
Video
Jackson Cannery
Tom & Mary
Half Asleep
Situation
B
Underground
Emaline
Lydian Song
Sports & Wine
Where's Bohemia
I paid my money
ALL versions are different from any other demos i've ever heard except for
the vers. of 'video' - it sounds a lot like the majosha version, but i'm not
sure. There's an awesome answering machine message right before clueless with
a lady going on and on about hers and ben's "oral agreement". Quality is A++,
its good stuff. The tape is just ben folds (No five) and some gospel-esque
women.. "i paid my money" is the same as the FOP Vers. (obviously not the
SAMEsame), with a cute rap at the beginning. great vers. of emaline
like i said, i'm only trading right now. i'll be open to B+P later. S'mother
people also have (are getting v. soon) copies of this tape, and at the risk
of them being harassed by hungry Fivers, i'm going to let them speak for
themselves if they want to trade it..
probably should've kept my mouth shut,
uh-
celine
http://listen.to/bff_live
BFF Bootlegs @ http://www.topica.com - new list, open to all.
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