![]() Tambourine Man" and all that great stuff.įOLDS: Yeah, that's the same one. SAGAL: We're talking about William Shatner's famous spoken word sung album, "The Transformed Man," with "Mr. And you're like, no, this man needs a new record.įOLDS: Well, you know, that record had captured my imagination as a child. SAGAL: You actually, because we all grew up listening to William Shatner, you know, "The Transformed Man," doing "Mr. Of course, I'm talking about William Shatner. For example, you went back and got a singer who was famous in the 70s, who had faded into some obscurity and you produced an album for him. ![]() SAGAL: Yeah, well I mean you have done stuff to maybe accentuate the geekiness. SAGAL: I want to talk to you about your image because it is somewhat geeky, is it not? And I threw my drums, dramatically, into Lake Osceola in the middle of the University of Miami.ĪMY DICKINSON: Geez, would they make like a basketball player play with a broken hand? That's crazy.įOLDS: Yeah. ![]() Yeah, so I flunked that test and lost my scholarship. So foolish me, I stepped in to try to defend my roommate and ended up in South Dade Hospital for the night.Īnd it was really dramatic, a cop car delivered me back to my drum percussion test jury, where I was forced to play it, even with the broken hand, because if I was a real musician, I would have to show up to my gig and play or be fired. So had it been a drum off, he'd have been in the hospital.įOLDS: It doesn't work that way. The guy was - I was there on a music scholarship but this cat was there on a wrestling scholarship. How did that happen?įOLDS: Well, you know there was this guy who came specifically to mine and my roommate's room to pick a fight with my roommate.įOLDS: And I guess I stepped in and I shouldn't have. I had stitches in my nose and in my lip, but I had to play. SAGAL: And you couldn't do it because you broke your hand in a bar fight.įOLDS: Well, almost. SAGAL: And there's a story that like there's the big final exam concert and you're going to come out and play. It seemed like you were at the University of Miami studying percussion. SAGAL: We were looking at your early career. A guitar doesn't really require that much, so there's a real art behind making it look much harder than it is. It's a lot more of a physical instrument the piano is much more physical. How do you play piano in a rock and roll type way?įOLDS: Well, I guess you can apply the same pelvic motions but they're just slightly obscured by the instrument.įOLDS: I mean, I play guitar too. SAGAL: We all know how you play guitar in a rock and roll way, with lots of gestures and facial expressions and pelvic motion. Thanks to the hard work of, you know, my two band mates, myself and a guy named Trey who was on unemployment. I never played on anything but that piano. And we moved the piano ourselves for three years. For someone who is not familiar with your music, can you describe a typical Ben Folds song? We once heard you describe your music as punk rock for sissies.įOLDS: Yeah, that was - when we started, we were ourselves carrying a baby grand piano into punk rock clubs. SAGAL: Do people come see you and thought you were the opening act for the actual band?įOLDS: Or two of us were sick or, you know, there was a stereo track running in the background like there are with a lot of live bands. Why do you call your band the Ben Folds Five when there are three of you?įOLDS: And judging by the laughter the first time around, which was about three people, that's about how funny it is. But Ben Folds, welcome to WAIT WAIT.DON'T TELL ME. Their new album is "The Sound of the Life of the Mind." There are still three of them. It did not keep the band from being a huge success.īen went on to have a solo career, but he has gotten the band back together. Years ago, musician Ben Folds started a band with his two friends and called it the Ben Folds Five. And now, the game where talented people use none of their talents, it's called Not My Job.
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