We’ve also created custom gatefold jacket art for the vinyl release, which is being pressed in white vinyl limited to 1000 copies. Featuring pictures from the Myspace gig and liner notes by Bill Kopp offering Ben Folds’ reminiscences about the concert, this is as close as you can get to being there, and the studio-quality sound may just convince you that you are there if you just shut your eyes. ” Now-just like it did with its release of Ben Folds Five: The Complete Sessions at West 54th-Real Gone Music is bringing this superlative show to CD and LP for the first time with its release of Ben Folds: Live at Myspace, a single CD/double vinyl package featuring all 12 songs from Folds’ Myspace performance along with five bonus tracks from the digital-only iTunes Originals series. My fans and people around me were always really computer savvy, and there was a lot of hyping of. “Well, it felt like someone was,” Folds says today with a chuckle, “But I didn't think it was me. As the first concert offered in real-time by the social networking site, Folds and his band (bassist Jared Reynolds and drummer Lindsay Jamieson) were arguably positioning themselves on the leading edge of entertainment-meets-technology. The hour-long program featured Folds in front of a small audience housed in a custom set built right in Folds’ home studio in Tennessee, performing songs from his third and latest solo album, Supersunnyspeedgraphic, as well as a couple of tunes from his previous group, Ben Folds Five. The artist chosen for this epochal event? Ben Folds. By August 2006, Myspace had over a hundred million member accounts, and, in October of that year, it decided to launch its first-ever webcast. His fourth solo album entitled 'Songs for Silverman' is slated for release on April 26, 2005.Remember Myspace? It was the precursor to Facebook, and, for its time, almost as ubiquitous online. In summer of 2004, Folds co-headlined an American tour with fellow rockers Rufus Wainwright and Guster. The trio also went on to record an four-track EP together, entitled The Bens. On a planned tour of Australia, Folds teamed up with fellow namesakes Ben Kweller and Ben Lee to travel the country together as The Bens, at the suggestion of a fan on Ben Kweller's official website. Some of these include 'Lonely Christmas Eve' for the film How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (2000) and a rendition of the Beatles' 'Golden Slumbers' for the film I Am Sam (2001). While he was with the band Ben Folds Five and since his departure, Folds also provided a number of songs for films soundtrack. He tours Japan and the United States, as well as other parts of the world periodically.įolds also produced and arranged the most recent William Shatner album, Has Been (2004) he previously worked with Shatner on the songs 'In Love' and 'Still in Love' for Fear of Pop.įolds described his former band, Ben Folds Five, as 'punk rock for sissies,' and his oddball lyrics often contain nuances of depression, melancholy and self-conflict.
He currently resides in Adelaide, Australia with his wife, Frally Hynes, and two children, Louis and Grace. In late 2003 two solo EPs: Speed Graphic and Sunny 16 were released, with a third entitled Super D released in mid-2004. Since Fear of Pop is highly experimental and Live is a collection of live solo recordings of mostly songs originally recorded with Ben Folds Five, Rockin' the Suburbs is Ben's first proper solo release. Fear of Pop was released while Ben Folds Five were still together Suburbs and Live were released afterwards. Ben has released three solo albums: Fear of Pop: Volume 1, Rockin' the Suburbs, and Ben Folds Live. He originally gained fame as a member of the rock band, Ben Folds Five. Benjamin Scott Folds (born Septemin Winston-Salem, North Carolina) is an American singer and pianist.