Ben Folds Five - Kate (from Sessions at West 54th)

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  • @timsullivan67
    @timsullivan67 2 роки тому +70

    Can we just take a second to appreciate these freaking 3 part harmonies

  • @lmp9726
    @lmp9726 4 роки тому +125

    Excellent version. Kate is my niece. Ben played at the wedding reception.

    • @ahjonny
      @ahjonny 4 роки тому +9

      Lucky you!!

    • @katemuccinogandhi
      @katemuccinogandhi 3 роки тому +10

      As a Kate, I love that!

    • @amyfoss9078
      @amyfoss9078 3 роки тому +6

      Awesome!

    • @RyanWilliams222
      @RyanWilliams222 Рік тому +7

      Well that’s awesome. Do you know if she has any extra copies of the Bhagavad Gita lying around?

    • @jimmiranda7181
      @jimmiranda7181 Рік тому +4

      She never gets wet, she smiles there's a rainbow

  • @steverebman7918
    @steverebman7918 5 років тому +111

    I've always loved piano in rock & pop music. It's because of Ben Folds style of playing that inspired me to seriously take up piano this year at the age of 43. Never stop learning, Never stop challenging yourself. Personal challenges are what makes life an adventure, you can sit on a couch watching TV for a year or you could learn to play an instrument in the same amount of time and that is something no one can take away from you.

    • @bennett420316
      @bennett420316 4 роки тому

      I'm the guy on thr couch for 38yrs

    • @pphaguss
      @pphaguss 3 роки тому +1

      Hell yea dude. Hope it’s going well for you

    • @greatscott175
      @greatscott175 Рік тому

      Hope you're still crushing it Stevie boy

    • @marcellinamartin6388
      @marcellinamartin6388 Рік тому

      Aww love this! Feeling inspired by your simple but profound insight.

    • @dovthiessen
      @dovthiessen 2 місяці тому

      I used to teach classical guitar in college. One of my first students was 55+

  • @DerekCOlsen
    @DerekCOlsen 3 роки тому +128

    Rumor has it you can still hear the snare drum in that room till this very day.

    • @jp783
      @jp783 2 роки тому +3

      Great snare sound for sure, but the time is kind of all over the place here

    • @djcsessions674
      @djcsessions674 2 роки тому +9

      @@jp783 it’s because it’s not played on the typical 4 beats you would count in a typical song like this, it’s played amazingly, the drums are just played on the down beat of every bar

    • @jp783
      @jp783 2 роки тому +1

      @@djcsessions674 No, that's not what I'm talking about. I mean the drummer/band as a rhythm section, lost the pulse. I can tell the difference. And what he did on the album and what he's trying to do here isn't rocket science. They lost the pulse.
      If you can play a rhumba on the drums or think of the inverted rhythm as a "rockified" rhumba, it makes the figure a lot easier. You're playing a basic rock beat, albeit inverted (which is why knowing the rhumba pattern is helpful e.g's Repitition & My Little Suede Shoes by Charlie Parker) - or with the snare accent on the weak beats of 2 and 4. Not hard. What is more difficult is keeping the pulse totally steady for less advanced players from one section to another where the snare lands on 2 and 4 and the cymbals seem accented on the strong beats (not the upbeats), so in a live situation, the time needs to be solid and, in this performance, it's not.

    • @brotendo
      @brotendo 2 роки тому +17

      @@jp783 You're wrong. The timing is perfect.

    • @jp783
      @jp783 2 роки тому +4

      @@brotendo Um, no I'm not. Try buying a metronome.

  • @karllager2214
    @karllager2214 2 роки тому +34

    This drummer is a titan. Absolutely boss performance.

    • @tomralfe5428
      @tomralfe5428 Рік тому

      He has a name.
      It’s Ian Drum.

    • @timharrell3245
      @timharrell3245 Рік тому

      @@tomralfe5428 Sure it's not a young Alan Tudyk? 😂

    • @TommyTumma
      @TommyTumma Рік тому

      Bro that snare sound is absolute perfection!

    • @BenjaminGlatt
      @BenjaminGlatt 2 місяці тому

      Darren Jessee. He's just a generally great musician.

  • @banff9858
    @banff9858 3 місяці тому +3

    Some years back, my wife drove me to Philly for a surprise Anniversary gift: Ben Folds, solo at the Filmore. One of the best gifts you can get.

  • @Dancehip
    @Dancehip 5 років тому +84

    Wow, they sound so good live....

    • @cacho2112
      @cacho2112 5 років тому +11

      Ben Folds Live

    • @ezrac704
      @ezrac704 4 роки тому +4

      @@cacho2112 The L in "Live" is an upside down F

    • @roswell_that_ended_poorly
      @roswell_that_ended_poorly 4 роки тому

      @@ezrac704 mind blown :0

    • @darkknightnate
      @darkknightnate 3 роки тому +2

      That's usually what happens when a musician has talent. That's uncommon nowadays. 😜

    • @johnrandall9934
      @johnrandall9934 3 роки тому

      Is it a recording? 1:20 you can hear Ben’s voice but he isn’t singing in the shot. Could be wrong.

  • @imightbedrunk7240
    @imightbedrunk7240 2 місяці тому +2

    im 16 years old, Ive been to one ben folds solo performance. My dad has now been to five, both solo and ben folds five. I so wish id had the chance to see them together, their chemistry and coordination is so incredible

  • @killerspudly
    @killerspudly 4 роки тому +20

    Fuck me they are such a really good tight band. Everything is perfect. The bass player sounds like he Bass and guitar. The drummer is hold it all together and Ben is amazing

  • @TaxinGigs
    @TaxinGigs 8 місяців тому +5

    That drummer is an absolute monster on the kit. Impressive to say the least.

  • @vinagreberry
    @vinagreberry 7 місяців тому +5

    Los TQM, Ben, Darren y Robert.

  • @yikster
    @yikster 6 років тому +38

    This is a real banger

  • @jasonhenley9332
    @jasonhenley9332 10 місяців тому +3

    Song still hits. Half jazz half rock. Bad asssshhhhh

  • @sharpcheddar7305
    @sharpcheddar7305 4 роки тому +22

    Thank you for putting this up. I hadn't listened to Ben for years. This just reminded me how much I love this group. Sometimes you need a kick in the ass.

  • @mitchfricano
    @mitchfricano 5 років тому +20

    very underrated band

  • @pclindholm
    @pclindholm 2 роки тому +5

    Wow. They don't make 'em like that anymore. Those 3 dudes are dialed in.

  • @garymickelson7279
    @garymickelson7279 Рік тому +3

    Walks through the garden so the roses can see ~ FANTASTIC LYRIC

  • @PRWolf
    @PRWolf 6 років тому +27

    Love Ben Folds!

  • @Metatron141
    @Metatron141 Рік тому +1

    This Is Us brought me here. Great song.

  • @vailima49aston99
    @vailima49aston99 3 роки тому +6

    Thank you Ben folds for the music and the memories

  • @JosephVisaggi
    @JosephVisaggi 4 роки тому +5

    My favorite Ben Folds Five song!

  • @タリンロメランテ-y4p
    @タリンロメランテ-y4p 4 місяці тому +1

    Great Power Pop Song 👍️

  • @stevencorsoe9575
    @stevencorsoe9575 2 роки тому +2

    The greatest independant sound of an independent band...discovered the on WXPN many years back and still a stable band with great sounds!!!

  • @bgbstrm2352
    @bgbstrm2352 Рік тому +1

    This was the first I heard by BFF. I witnessed how a young teen girl was hit by a car and later she died. Took me a year or more to get over. This song helped me get through...
    Been a BFF fan ever since. 💯🎵🎶

  • @MS-rc8vr
    @MS-rc8vr 10 місяців тому +1

    Absolute genius

  • @stevencorsoe9575
    @stevencorsoe9575 4 роки тому +4

    Always loved these guys.

  • @caraher
    @caraher 2 роки тому +1

    Ben is such a technical master of music. I did not appreciate that fully until recently. Watching the older stuff, brings back great memories and shows off his technical rock chops.

  • @jonathanpacemusic
    @jonathanpacemusic Рік тому +1

    I love this song

  • @brotendo
    @brotendo 2 роки тому +8

    This is so perfectly paced. A lot of bands, out of excitement, play their songs a little too fast when they're live. This is perfect.

    • @markbrowning4334
      @markbrowning4334 2 роки тому +6

      So true. So true.
      Most impressive here though, is the vocal harmonies are on point.

    • @SteveCrozier
      @SteveCrozier 2 роки тому

      Felt a little rushed from the bridge on, but maybe not

    • @jimdellarocco5
      @jimdellarocco5 Рік тому +2

      Tempo is all over the place. I’m a drummer and I’m OK with that. It adds to the excitement and tension of the music. So many musicians I play with expect metronomic timekeeping and sometimes that’s OK but for songs like this, the pull in push adds to the live nature of what’s going on.

    • @brotendo
      @brotendo Рік тому +1

      @@jimdellarocco5I'm also a drummer and I stand by this being paced well.

  • @zeddblue
    @zeddblue 4 роки тому +2

    Saw Ben folds live in Murray Kentucky.. Phenomenal!

  • @paulcorinth631
    @paulcorinth631 3 роки тому +2

    There is so much to ❤️ love in this song

  • @stefanrichard4986
    @stefanrichard4986 5 років тому +24

    1:28 feels a sneeze coming... nevermind.

    • @backyardjuggler
      @backyardjuggler 4 роки тому +1

      LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL ... thanks for catching that!!!

    • @johnrandall9934
      @johnrandall9934 3 роки тому

      He had really bad allergies actually

  • @aricfroze8971
    @aricfroze8971 Рік тому +6

    this song makes me fucking cry dude it’s so beautiful wtf 😭😭😭makes me think of my gf

  • @jeromeforman1777
    @jeromeforman1777 3 роки тому +3

    Who's here in 2021? Good rock never dies

  • @tootsweet2476
    @tootsweet2476 2 роки тому +1

    What a song, what a performance and yet, the audience is potatoing out, how that is possible is beyond me.

  • @marby.
    @marby. 5 років тому +5

    Sounds great live. BF5 4 eva 👌🏾

  • @jfailure8788
    @jfailure8788 3 роки тому +1

    He can write songs

  • @teecee3866
    @teecee3866 5 років тому +2

    thank you for posting a clear version!

  • @rockestee
    @rockestee 5 років тому +2

    Dang. Fantastic version!

  • @PinchieMcPinch
    @PinchieMcPinch Рік тому +1

    She plays wipe out on the drums
    The squirrels and the birds come
    Gather around to sing the guitar
    Oh I... have you got nothing to say
    When all words fail she speaks
    Her mix tape's a masterpiece
    Walks through the garden
    So the roses can see
    Oh I... have you got nothing to say
    And you can see the daisies
    In her footsteps
    Dandelions, butterflies
    I want to be Kate
    Everyday she wars the same thing
    I think she smokes pot
    She's everything I want, She's everything I'm not
    Oh. I...
    Have you got nothing to say
    She never gets wet
    She smiles and it's a rainbow
    And she speaks and she breathes
    I want to be Kate
    Down by the Rosemary and Cameron
    She hands out the Bhagaved Gita
    I see her around every couple days
    I want to meet her so that
    I can say... hey Kate!

  • @Wintis_Swizzle
    @Wintis_Swizzle 4 роки тому +5

    I’m going to learn how to play piano 😀❤️❤️

    • @Rehash84
      @Rehash84 2 роки тому

      How's it going guy?

  • @cleverclover7
    @cleverclover7 3 роки тому

    My favorite.

  • @scottkeys2319
    @scottkeys2319 9 місяців тому

    This girl I worked with not long ago, this song seemed like her (though her name I found out was Sandra)... I always found myself calling her Kate!! I finally had to share this song with her... she laughed... I laughed... she didn't change her name from Sandra, but always says HI back when I say "Hi Kate!" :-)

  • @kathistwin
    @kathistwin 4 роки тому +1

    Kate!

  • @RandyQuaker
    @RandyQuaker 4 роки тому +15

    Break out the cattle prods on that audience

  • @uubuuh
    @uubuuh 4 роки тому

    wow... super organic tempi...

  • @jeffa4110
    @jeffa4110 3 роки тому +3

    Fucking Ben Folds. Love this guy and what he's done for music!

  • @zacksawyer7748
    @zacksawyer7748 2 роки тому +1

    Shoutouts to Kate who asked me out during work. I would’ve taken your number in hindsight, I was just so taken aback and flustered that you did that. Let’s hope we make the connection and be friends!

  • @AhhGeeProductions
    @AhhGeeProductions 4 роки тому +1

    KATE!

  • @wincup
    @wincup 4 роки тому +7

    My most favorite songs in this album was not the famous "underground" nor "philosophy" but this song and "Sports and Wine".

    • @louissewell6792
      @louissewell6792 4 роки тому +9

      This song was released on a different album than the other 3

  • @Euthymia
    @Euthymia 3 роки тому +3

    When you first heard this, did you think he was singing "she hands out the bong of Evita?" Me neither.

  • @rossdonnan1267
    @rossdonnan1267 5 років тому +6

    Where the hell did they get the audience from?

    • @thaterasound
      @thaterasound 4 роки тому +2

      They're observing. Chill out

    • @ezrac704
      @ezrac704 4 роки тому +1

      I wonder if any of them actually went on to listen to Ben Folds Five... I hope so

    • @derdin8
      @derdin8 4 роки тому +6

      @Ross Donnan - Sessions at W. 54th St. is a PBS production. The audience is a reflection of that - they were probably instructed to be quiet because it was being recorded for broadcast. This wasn't a typical concert.

  • @sethmc36
    @sethmc36 2 місяці тому

    Was the audience being paid minimum wage to be there? How can they be so still during this? One woman has her arms folded! I can't keep my head from nodding along to this music!

  • @cacho2112
    @cacho2112 5 років тому +10

    Bassist got major Shaggy vibes

  • @its-MK...
    @its-MK... 9 місяців тому

    Every girl in the world named Kate has never felt cooler. Not that I'd know. 🙃

  • @geofffitz1497
    @geofffitz1497 4 роки тому +1

    So. Much. Fucking. Talent.

  • @kevinwhelan9607
    @kevinwhelan9607 26 днів тому

    A hymn to male heterosexuality, ie the lifeblood of rock 'n' roll. More please!❤❤❤

  • @leonholstegge
    @leonholstegge 3 роки тому +1

    1:58

  • @uubuuh
    @uubuuh 4 роки тому +4

    too bad no facing shots of Sledge... he's doing lots of fun stuff

    • @whatdothlife4660
      @whatdothlife4660 3 роки тому

      He is a really nuanced and gifted player throughout their catalogue.

  • @har234908234
    @har234908234 2 роки тому

    Have I gone crazy or have the the vocals have been inserted from directly from the record. Why? Also, the intro is almost perfectly in time with the record... then the rest of it moves somewhere between 103 and 104% speed. Weird. It can't have been that bad...

    • @steeno861
      @steeno861 Рік тому

      i think you may be. there’s little groans and the such that aren’t included in this performance

    • @har234908234
      @har234908234 Рік тому

      ​@@steeno861 I can't remember but I think I later lined it up all the vocal parts from the CD with this recording in software. Not all of the CD vocals exist here, only the one's that were needed - and a few more like 1:19.

    • @steeno861
      @steeno861 Рік тому

      which ones would you say were the "needed" ones? i think 1:19 is copy and pasted from earlier in the performance, or darren.@@har234908234

    • @steeno861
      @steeno861 Рік тому

      actually 1:19 is copy and pasted from the first "have you got nothing to say"

    • @har234908234
      @har234908234 Рік тому

      @@steeno861 Maybe... I'd note the vocals on "Whatever and Ever..." in those parts are very close anyway. (They sound very close when you overlap them and pan them left and right.) Anyway, if you time compress the studio version to 97% you can line up the phrases (the West 54th tempo changes) If you can isolate the vocal and put the two tracks in each ear you can hear either one of two things... 1. copy and paste from the record with a bit of VocAlign or other (I think I saw a demo of that in 2001) 2. The worlds greatest live vocal ever... (with a great doubling effect in just the right spots) The bit that stands out is the bits not used like "Oh I..."

  • @albrady1472
    @albrady1472 Рік тому

    ugh my ears.

  • @rixxy9204
    @rixxy9204 3 роки тому +6

    I love how sedate the audience is

  • @juliemoll3047
    @juliemoll3047 2 роки тому

    Who doesn't? KATE!

  • @Euthymia
    @Euthymia 3 роки тому

    Aw, look at Ben, so young. My favorite band from the moment I heard "Battle of Who Could Care Less" in 1997. I was 36, Mr. F would have been 31. A Generation Jones masterpiece to be sure. Ever see the lost Ron Howard "classic" Cotton Candy? Charlie Martin Smith was Ben a decade before Ben was Ben: ua-cam.com/video/jxl-puPkgcU/v-deo.html

  • @nickgodfrey1148
    @nickgodfrey1148 11 місяців тому

    This lot need to get back together. Especially with the shite around today.

  • @markbauer827
    @markbauer827 3 роки тому

    Error in this song. There is no Rosemary and Cameron intersection in Chapel Hill. They are parallel streets.

    • @halluhmee
      @halluhmee 3 роки тому

      Not necessarily an "error" but anyway. Fun fact (for me) i used to go get free dinner from the Hare Krishnas on campus in the early nineties. I got a Baghavad-Gita from them too, but I'm pretty sure I remember it was a guy who gave it to me, and he made me give them a couple bucks for it. It's still on my shelf, i have to read it one day. (It may never get done)

  • @robertmoser8882
    @robertmoser8882 Рік тому

    Glen Ben and sara

  • @bonvivantinsf
    @bonvivantinsf 3 роки тому +1

    Gen X Patient Zero.

  • @bodhisattva99
    @bodhisattva99 4 роки тому +1

    big joe jackson fans I see...

  • @Tranchera
    @Tranchera 6 місяців тому

    Not sure about all the comments saying they play perfectly. Sounds are very crisp, but the song speeds up to almost twice the bpm in the first 30 seconds.

    • @hklinker
      @hklinker 5 місяців тому

      Yes. All sorts of timekeeping issues across the songs in this performance. Live it all anyway.

  • @Rehash84
    @Rehash84 2 роки тому

    I always lose the downbeat in this song. Anyone else?

  • @randomvidschannel803
    @randomvidschannel803 3 роки тому +1

    This is absolutely a recording. Listen to this other set ua-cam.com/video/0ypc5BxKDWU/v-deo.html sounds exactly the same. You can also see Ben not singing but we can hear his voice in this video. 1:28.

    • @halluhmee
      @halluhmee 3 роки тому +3

      Ben's not even on screen anywhere around 1:28, it's on the drummer. They have no reason to fake a live performance.

    • @johnrandall9934
      @johnrandall9934 3 роки тому

      @@halluhmee look at the screen at 1:20. And other comments. It’s for sure a recording. Watch other live tapes of there’s and you can tell they used recordings at some live shows.

    • @halluhmee
      @halluhmee 3 роки тому +3

      @@johnrandall9934 at 1:20 the drummer is singing. It's not a recording.

    • @johnrandall9934
      @johnrandall9934 3 роки тому

      @@halluhmee not sure how you are missing this. Literally at 1:19 you can see Ben in the background mouth closed and his voice is in the recording. Watch other live videos they often use a recording.

    • @halluhmee
      @halluhmee 3 роки тому +3

      @@johnrandall9934 ...I hear Darren Jesse's voice.

  • @Nono-hk3is
    @Nono-hk3is 3 місяці тому

    No wonder BFF broke up, if all their audiences were as passive and boring as this one.