THE MAGICAL ARMCHAIR
The Ben Folds Five Digest
Issue #159 - November 12, 1996
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Topics for Today:
Re: Favorite bands and BFF airplay
BFF BDO
11/6: Paradiso, Amsterdam
answers to questions
no 157, also...
bf5 in amsterdam
I got BFF Scorebook!!!
BF5-IRC anyone?
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Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 23:39:49 EST
From: john_oc@juno.com
Subject: Re: Favorite bands and BFF airplay
Hello to all. This is my first post. I would like to inform all of you
that I am a radio DJ at my local college radio station. I have made sure
that we play a BFF song just about everyday inbetween 3 and 4 o'clock
everyday as school gets out. It has gotten to the point that people now
request Uncle Walter more so than Underground. Uncle Walter has made
light rotation while Underground is stuck back in the recurrents. The
radio station is 101.5 the Rock in Westerville, Ohio at Otterbein
College, #3 for barron's best buys in Midwestern Liberal Arts Colleges.
Westerville is just north of Columbus, Ohio if you are ever in town, feel
free to drop by the station. I am getting my own showcase next quarter,
and hopefully by then I will have plenty of new BFF to enlighten my
audience with.
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Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 20:17:08 +1100
From: Earthy Rock <custer@ros.com.au>
Subject: BFF BDO
> Just curious re: tour dates in Australia - I hear they will be
> performing in the Big Day Out. Can this be confirmed?
It's concrete. Dead cert...
Ad.
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Date: 09 Nov 1996 09:50:00 +0100
From: Daniel Rodrigues Parreira <parreira@aquawolf.xs4all.nl>
Subject: 11/6: Paradiso, Amsterdam
Is it normal for BF5 to play live *this* late? I just found out they
probably will begin with their concert on the 16th well past midnight! So
technically it's the 17th...
_ _ _
_ | \ |_) |_) parreira@aquawolf.xs4all.nl
(_iao... |_/aniel | \odrigues |arreira parreira@ecsi.chem.uva.nl
parreira@tmbg.org
amsterdam, the netherlands, europe
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Date: Sat, 9 Nov 96 15:28:10 -0000
From: Charles D Folds <4rachuck@concentric.net>
Subject: answers to questions
>...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..
Bingo.
The last couple of times I talked to Ben he mentioned trying to finish it.
So I know it was on his mind, he just didin't have time.
sorry
chuck
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Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 14:28:53 AEST-10
From: HHOR1@CFS01.CC.MONASH.EDU.AU
Subject: no 157, also...
counting crows...
when i heard you guys mention that BFF was mentioned in their song
'monkey' i went out to the local record store just to have a listen.
mmmm, definitley not converted to the crows....
t-shirts...
just so people know the t-shirts are like the cd cover picture, with
a photo of the band in the corner and that piano stick picture over
the top. not particularly sexy, but they do the job!
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Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 09:55:00 -0800
From: gillet@mail.oeonline.com
Subject: bf5 in amsterdam
a message mainly for all the dutch bf5 fans
as you proabably know they will play the paradiso at the 16th of november.
after the screaming trees concert at 24:00 in the small,upstairs room of
the paradiso. you can get in from 23:30 but if you go to the screaming trees
first, bf5 is free. otherwise it's 12,50.
hot news is that also will be appearing in 'leidsekade live'. the radioshow
every sundaynight 20:00-22:00 on radio 3. this is recorded in the same room
in the paradiso sunday afternoon from around 14:45 til 18:00. other bands are
van vollenhoven and the undeclinable ambuscade from holland and ozark henry
from belgium. all bands will play about 3 or 4 songs. tickets are free and you
just have to call the KRO at 035-6713547.
hope to see you there.
joris gillet
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uitgeest, the netherlands radioshow on the local radiostation
gillet@pi.net here in uitgeest, the netherlands !!
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Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 14:49:31 +0900
From: Azusa Motohashi <st31285@srv.cc.hit-u.ac.jp>
Subject: I got BFF Scorebook!!!
Hi , everyone
Today I got the scorebook for "Ben Folds Five " Mr. Alan Wolmark mentioned
in the #152. It's Great!!!!!!
The book has all songs from "Jackson Cannery " to "Tom and Mary" .
These scores are reorganized for piano solo (what I meant to say is these
scores are different from Ben's play. Right hand plays mainly melody and
left hand plays back.). And they are arranged to play easily for us.
( A magazine had only "Philosophy" score before. The score was as same as
Ben's touch. It's very difficult to play .)
Alan said "It will have scores ........as well as previously
unreleased photos
of the band or ones that have only been seen in Japanese magazines.",too.
But it has only one picture in the cover.And we saw this before in the
magazine which is published by same company, I think . Ben ,Robert and Darren
walked with smile on the lobby at the hotel in Tokyo.
I'll enjoy playing the piano all this night.
And I want to tell you another good news .Ben Folds Five got the "Best Group"
prize at J-WAVE AWARD. J-WAVE is a FM station in Tokyo.(BFF was on this
radio station's program when they were in Japan) And the station hold
an annual award. The way the winner are choosen in voting by listeners.
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Azusa Motohashi
e-mail address :st31285@srv.cc.hit-u.ac.jp
address : 817-2 Kitaotsuka
Sakado-si , Saitama-ken
350-02 JAPAN
[The scorebook will be available to US fans via the new WWW site that
the band is setting up. I'll post something when it's available. -fjm]
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Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 20:49:32 -0600 (CST)
From: DANIEL H MEANS <dhm5211@omega.uta.edu>
Subject: BF5-IRC anyone?
Hi everybody!
I was wondering if there is a BF5 irc channel out there already
established that I havn't found. And if not would anyone be interested in
starting one? Such as on EFNet #BenFoldsFive? If anyone's interested we
should coordinate some kind of meeting schedule or something or else just
start showing up whenever. Email me or post to the Magical Armchair if
anyone would like to do this. Bye bye everybody! Daniel.
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