http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0E00422E9BAC5114?artistid=778058&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=1


tickets on sale tomorrow at 10am...

1/22/2009 9:47:16 AM

No five?

1/22/2009 9:49:54 AM

the Ben Folds Five reunion was a one-time thing

and I was lucky enough to be there!

1/22/2009 9:51:48 AM

yeah i know, i just couldn't afford the steep scalping.

1/22/2009 10:02:24 AM

Quote :

"NO SLEDGE NO DICE"

1/22/2009 3:06:12 PM

i can't believe it took you that long

you must be slipping at your old age

1/22/2009 3:09:06 PM

i was busy trolling the dmb thread, man

1/22/2009 3:16:17 PM

good effort, by the way

1/22/2009 4:04:18 PM

anybody know ticket price?

1/22/2009 4:42:14 PM

Quote :

"NO SLEDGE NO PROBLEM"

1/22/2009 4:46:40 PM

saw Ben Folds solo back in like 2003

i think once was enough

1/22/2009 4:48:54 PM

WANT

1/22/2009 4:49:27 PM

Tickets for the Baltimore show are $44 a pop.

I think I'm skipping this one

1/22/2009 5:03:24 PM

saw Ben Folds solo back in like 2008

i think once was enough

1/22/2009 6:39:21 PM

tickets are $30.50 each

1/23/2009 10:02:15 AM

Ehhh think I'm gonna pass on this due to money, the overall shitiness of Way to Normal, and the fact that I just went to the BFF reunion show.

1/23/2009 10:06:03 AM

got my tix

1/23/2009 11:05:38 AM

my dad bought me pity tickets

1/23/2009 11:19:39 AM

got my tix too

1/23/2009 11:26:22 AM

got em! woohooo

1/23/2009 3:11:24 PM

where are everybody's seats?

mine are section C GDTR, row H, seats 109-110

1/27/2009 9:07:20 AM

Quote :

"Box Office Opens @ 10am Parking Lots Open @ 6:00pm Lobby Doors Open @ 6:30pm Miniature Tigers will start at 7:30pm Loreleis Group at 8:20pm Ben Folds comes on at 9pm"

2/23/2009 2:14:14 PM

I'm fuckin hyped!!

2/23/2009 4:55:03 PM

i'm in C ORCH row V

2/23/2009 6:54:27 PM

bttt

SO EXCITED FOR TONIGHT


probably goign to get there a little before Ben goes on

2/25/2009 8:55:24 AM

A friend of mine bought tickets but is unable to go.....He has two available PM if interested, just trying to get his money back...I think $30 / ticket

2/25/2009 4:19:03 PM

tix are gone.

[Edited on February 25, 2009 at 5:53 PM. Reason : .]

2/25/2009 5:39:28 PM

Miniature Tigers suck. after the show, their singer was standing outside desperately trying to be noticed.

Ben Folds, on the other hand, was all kinds of awesome!

2/25/2009 11:42:35 PM

We came in between Minature Tigers and the Lorelei's Group performing

Can I just say that this crowd is SO MUCH BETTER AND MORE RESPECTFUL than the one that was at the BFF reunion show?

I was sitting in the top balcony in the back and there was this one girl who started to clap (out of sync) to every BF's song and I think somebody told her to either get some rhythm or shut the fuck up

And there was a clearly wasted girl dancing to every song like she was in a rap video...I gotta admit it was very clever how she booty danced to 'Emmaline" and "Philosophy"

2/26/2009 7:12:06 AM

^you must have been in Grand Tier around row E then...

2/26/2009 8:59:18 AM

yeah we were in row H

did you see white girl dancing? or hear the person clapping with no rhythm?

2/26/2009 9:06:46 AM

my bro had tickets, so I went with him and it was a pretty rockin' show. we had great seats, orchestra, section K, real close.

the lead singer of Mini Tigers was seriously lame, but their music wasn't half bad. The Loreleis were a nice surprise. The second chick who sang had a really sexy, sensuous voice.

Ben Folds was good. I only knew about half the songs, but it was all good stuff. The bassist kept pissing me off with how nonchalant he was acting, but he had talent. I also couldn't get over that Triangle player, he was not fucking around, killing that triangle and it was cracking me up.

[Edited on February 26, 2009 at 9:39 AM. Reason : .]

2/26/2009 9:37:11 AM

he takes his job VERY seriously

so I've seen Ben Folds 4 times in not even 2 years...I want to break 5 before the year is over!

2/26/2009 9:52:35 AM

I was sitting 3 seats down from that drunk bitch.

2/26/2009 11:01:34 AM

It was funny when she started to teeter over and leaned up against the person sitting to her left and then started dancing against him

i hope she knew him

2/26/2009 11:18:04 AM

she didn't know him. that was GenghisJohn that she was yapping to about the goddamned Chili Peppers for what seemed like far too long.

2/26/2009 11:22:26 AM

ahaha

it didn't seem like that guy was in to the girl dancing up on him


so i had a tww spotting and I didn't even know it!

[Edited on February 26, 2009 at 11:37 AM. Reason : f]

2/26/2009 11:37:06 AM

overall good show.. happy he played lullabye and emmaline. thought the story about the leaks was funny.

minor annoyances: everyone in my row must've gotten up during the performance like 3 times. and there was a drunk guy who apparently thought he could sing better than ben folds, because he was SCREAMING THE LYRICS.

but yea, overall, good show. can't wait for him to come back!

2/26/2009 7:02:23 PM

In case anyone was wondering about the set list:

Bitch Went Nutz (fake)
Effington
Brainwascht
Annie Waits
Alice Childress
Way To Normal
Bastard
You Don't Know Me
Lovesick Diagnostician (Dr. Yang fake)
Dr. Yang
Hiroshima
Landed
Free Coffee

Solo:
Fred Jones Pt. 2
Boxing
Emaline
Lullabye

Entire band:
Kylie From Connecticut
Zak and Sara
Rockin' The Suburbs
Kate
Army
Not The Same

Encore:
Fair
Philosophy, ending with Theme From Dr. Pyser

I got lucky and had third row center orchestra seats courtesy of the fan club. I really enjoyed the two percussion guys on stage with the band. The french horn blew me away in Alice Childress. Army was kick ass when the crowd started to sing the horn parts without being prompted to do so. I had a good time.

2/27/2009 12:20:56 AM

^being in the fan club, did you buy the cd of the fake songs? I think I heard that it was only being sold to people in the fan club


I'd love a copy

2/27/2009 7:34:17 AM

My brother and I were talking about that after the concert that we'd like the fake songs too but we guessed they had the same name as the real song so it would hard to find online.

2/27/2009 11:36:30 AM

amazon.com has it for $12.99

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001P4OADI?ie=UTF8&tag=epicrecords-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001P4OADI

it has 2 cds (the first cd is the original Way to Normal cd) but you can put it in your computer and mess around with the tracks and stuff

the 2nd cd is a "cleaner" version of Way to Normal w/o all the synthesizers and shit. and it also has some of the fake songs.

2/27/2009 1:17:01 PM

I got the fake tracks when they were originally leaked online. Ben did follow up and posted them each on his myspace for downloading but it doesn't look like they are up now.

All the fan club members were sent a free copy of Way to Normal: Stems and Seeds. I got mine in the mail maybe two weeks ago and it looks like it's autographed too.

As described by Ben: One disc is a remix, remaster, re-sequence of "Way To Normal" along with the now legendary (in our own minds) 'fake' tracks, the Japanese version of "Hiroshima", the Conan Rehearsal of "You Don't Know Me" and the Piano Orchestra version of "Cologne" - a total of 20 tracks.

The other disc is like Fhqwhgads said, it contains the "stems" of Way to Normal tracks where you can remix a track yourself.

Like he said at the concert, some fans like the fake tracks better than the real ones. I like the fake versions of Bitch Went Nutz, and Dr. Yang better than the originals. I knew they had recorded the songs in just one day in Ireland but I had no idea they even wrote the lyrics on the plane and did the music that same day too. Pretty cool.

2/27/2009 10:03:46 PM