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Does Ben Folds sit down while he pees?
f*ck no, man! I hang from the ceiling with a massive splash guard.
Getting the guys back together, you know, it's actually a pay cut for me. But I'm into it because this is inspiring.This surprised me. Given how quickly the reunion show sold out and how good the new record is (in my opinion), I thought BFF reuniting would be a cash cow (relatively speaking).
I'd played solo gigs before [BFF got together], so even though, I don't know, I had 100 fans, that was our fanbase. So we put my name in it, but I don't think we wanted to do it too earnestly.Never knew this.
"You would have never heard me in an interview in 1999 [the year before the breakup of the Five] say that I played with the best bass player in rock and roll, but I did. Why didn't I say that? It's true now, too," Folds says. On the live recordings, Folds says, "I would hear myself talking at the shows and just go, 'Who in the hell was this guy? This guy's just a jackass.' And then I would hear the band play together, and it would seem so evolved."
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"I've given up my ego enough to be able to submit myself to the band, and I think it's been really rewarding," Folds says.
You seem to have reached that moment in your life where you can do anything and people will love it. In other words, you’re just like William Shatner. So when is your spoken-word CD coming out?
That’s so funny. Ben Folds [who produced William Shatner’s 2004 CD Has Been] is a good friend of mine, and we became friends 10 years ago, and I really care about him. We had him over for Thanksgiving. He’s a great guy and we always talk about doing something together. We have a really high regard for each other. I directed Dirty Work and wanted him to be the composer, but he was in Australia on tour and couldn’t do it.
Wait a minute. You’re saying there’s a possibility you would do something like Has Been?
I definitely want to do something with Ben one day. I don’t know what it is—besides dinner. I did do “Bitches Ain’t Sh*t” with him at the Wiltern. I read it off my iPhone … (Raps) “Bitch can’t hang with the streets, she found herself short/So now she’s takin’ me to court …” I had a little American Idol moment at the end of it.
I would have loved to put some Shatner stuff on it, I would have loved to put some Fear of Pop on it, but the answer is just to make another Fear of Pop record.Yes please
We’re gonna record and make an album. And that’s a good thing. Anytime you have something to offer, that’s a good thing. We’re hitting a point where, if we don’t do it, we’re kind of being stingy if that makes sense.I agree
We don’t have to follow this up with a tour, we don’t have to make another album, we don’t have to do anything.I disagree
Standing in the historic RCA Studio A on Music Row where Ben creates, produces and engineers his music as well as music for other world renowned artists, he and Giancarlo Guerrero presented keys from Folds’ former tour grand piano that was damaged in May of 2010 when flood waters deluged Soundcheck Nashville storage facility where it had been stored.
Ben said he wanted to give new life to the piano on which he had performed around the world by salvaging, autographing and then donating each key to the Symphony to help kickoff a “Keys to Music City” campaign that will benefit the Symphony’s many community initiatives, including providing instruments to students in Nashville’s public school music programs.
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Autographed keys will be available to the public for a minimum donation of $88 each. Personally signed by Ben, these collectible keys can be purchased online at www.nashvillesymphony.org/keys .
(Please note that not all keys are from Ben’s piano, but all have been personally signed by him.)