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Sodajerker On Songwriting

Episode 31 - Ben Folds Five

Sodajerker On Songwriting

Sodajerker

Music, Music Interviews

4.8912 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2012

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Ben Folds, Darren Jessee and Robert Sledge, known collectively as Ben Folds Five, sit down in person with Simon and Brian for a special edition of Sodajerker on Songwriting. In this video podcast, the band talk about the writing of songs like 'Brick', 'Battle of Who Could Care Less', 'Philosophy', 'Steven's Last Night in Town' and songs from their new album The Sound of the Life of the Mind, such as 'Do it Anyway', 'Sky High' and 'Michael Praytor, Five Years Later'.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're going to. Well, down Jesse, Van Folds, Robert Sledge, aka Venfolde,

0:26.2

aka Venge Venn Folds 5. Thank you so much for doing this.

0:29.5

Yeah, really appreciate it. So we're surrounded by all this sort of

0:34.0

faulty and imagery here. Are we wondering if you could just give us an idea of

0:38.4

exactly what's going on? Well they're photographs that I've made over the last 10 years. I like film and when I'm on tour gives me something to do.

0:52.0

And then I normally print them all these have been printed in the in the dark room

0:57.3

But the the ones that we have in here are much larger than I can print in the dark room. I usually print pretty small.

1:05.0

And so they are printed the modern way.

1:08.0

And yeah, that's what they are.

1:10.0

They're all this little moments.

1:12.0

I play piano, you know. There are all this little moments.

1:12.6

I play piano, you know.

1:15.0

I'm not a professional photographer as a day job,

1:21.0

so I'm just thrilled'm thrilled to you know have my stuff up.

1:25.0

And is there anything about these particular works and the ones that have been selected

1:29.0

that are communicating any particular thing or is it just a wide spread of stuff?

1:33.0

It's just a wide range of stuff that I've shot.

1:38.3

The stuff that was available and printable and I just sort of shot from the hip on on what I chose

1:46.9

I just went through the images and thought like that one.

1:50.3

And do you use any specific equipment?

1:54.0

You sort of like Jeff Bridges roaming around with a little vintage camera or anything?

1:58.0

He is a monocule.

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