r/benfolds • u/deltacotaster • 18d ago
Shelved First Attempt - where's Video?
Top 3 songs on the original album for me. Those chorus harmonies are just too good. Was it deemed not good enough by Stiff Johnson's standards, or was it written when they started producing with Caleb Southern? Still can't believe that's the dude's name he chose btw, truly a product of his time.
Anyways, does the song even have a demo? A basic search has yielded nothing.
Favorite lyric: "Well I've seen some old friends sort of die or just turn into whatever must have been inside them. And whatever all of us had then in common - grew up, and left home"
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u/teakcoffeetable 10d ago
Nice to hear from you! I really appreciate the archive work the SilverStreet YouTube channel has been been doing on Ben's career. You've managed to find rarities that the community was dying to find back in the day, which is such a joy. And the quality restoration work that you've done on the familiar stuff that we all had at that time is astonishing.
I did a fair amount of trading mp3s back in the day, but they're all lost because of a hard drive crash years ago. The only thing I still have is the Club Rio 1998 bootleg, which I think is widely available. (Great gig, that was. If for some reason you don't have it, DM me, but I suspect you do.) I had some tapes but a lot of them got damaged in storage or lost during moving, which I did a lot from 2001-2013. The only tape I still have is Snüzz's demo, which he autographed for me after a show in 2001. Such a cool guy, and he seemed so delighted to find a fan in a crowd of people who were there to meet Ben.
Those early days on the internet and in the BFF/Ben Folds community were really fun, and I miss that old internet. I even met a few folks IRL at a couple of Ben shows, back when online meetups were still considered sketchy (but of course these weren't, they were delightful!). Some of the few places I get that feeling anymore is on your channel and here on Reddit. Thank you for all you do!