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. On June 9, 1997

was one of the first guests to appear on a new series called ''

Sessions at West 54th ''Sessions at West 54th'' is an American television program that featured music performances, and was in some ways a pop music variation on the theme set by the long-lived ''Austin City Limits'', though the featured musicians represented a number ...

''. Because of the 1/2 hour time constraint of the show, only a handful of the recorded tracks made it to air. The DVD contains the entire performance which, for the most part, includes tracks from their just released album, ''

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''. The DVD includes ''Spare Reels'', a 45-minute

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which contains live performances and clips of the band in various and random situations. It also contains clips of

during the studio sessions for their then upcoming album, ''

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''.

Track listing

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" # "The Last Polka" # "Selfless, Cold and Composed" # "

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" # "Steven's Last Night in Town" # "Smoke" # "

Philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

" # "Emaline" # "Theme from 'Dr. Pyser'" # "One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces" # " Underground" # "

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" # "Song for the Dumped" Bonus Feature: Spare Reels Footage # "Battle of Who Could Care Less" # "Philosophy" # "Missing the War" # "Brick" # "Jackson Cannery" # "Song for the Dumped" # "Don't Change Your Plans" # "

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Personnel

Ben Folds Five *

Ben Folds Benjamin Scott Folds (born September 12, 1966) is an American singer-songwriter from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. After playing in several small independent bands throughout the late 80s and into the early 90s, Folds came to prominence as the f ...

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vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

melodica The melodica is a handheld free-reed instrument similar to a pump organ or harmonica. It features a musical keyboard on top, and is played by blowing air through a mouthpiece that fits into a hole in the side of the instrument. The keyboard usu ...

Robert Sledge Robert Ewell Sledge (born March 9, 1968) is an American musician. He played bass guitar in the alternative rock trio Ben Folds Five. Biography Robert Sledge began playing bass guitar at the age of eleven. His brother was playing guitar at his ...

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bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...

double bass The double bass (), also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, the bull fiddle, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched string instrument, chordophone in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions ...

, background vocals *

Darren Jessee Darren Michael Jessee (born April 8, 1971) is an American drummer and singer-songwriter who was the drummer in the alternative rock trio Ben Folds Five. He has also worked as an instrumentalist for Sharon Van Etten and Hiss Golden Messenger a ...

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drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

, background vocals

Production

Sessions at West 54th *Executive Producer: Jeb Brien *Series Producer: Monica Hardiman *Producer: Allen Kelman *Director: Jim Gable Spare Reels *Produced and Compiled by he Jack My Dog Corporation*Executive Producer: Alan Wolmark *Mixed and Recorded by Caleb Southern, John Alagia, Doug Derryberry, Jeff Juliano, Leo Overtoom

References

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