“Mediate”

You can download my cover of INXS’s “Mediate” (which includes an instrumental version and the music video) by clicking below.  Did I mention it’s FREE?

“Mediate” | (20.3 MB ZIP file)

You may have noticed…

…that this site hasn’t been updated in, like, forever.  That’s because I’ve moved pretty much everything over to Facebook.  So why don’t you click on the “Contact” tab at the top of this window and come on over?

Mali Benefit Concert

I will be performing “Remember Brian Wilson” and “Oh Yeah” at Friday night’s benefit concert.  Click here for more information about the show!

“Raoul and the Kings of Spain”

Here’s a lovely lost gem from Roland Orzabal:

Sorry, Bob.

Bob Dylan, on hot mastering:

You listen to these modern records, they’re atrocious, they have sound all over them. There’s no definition of nothing, no vocal, no nothing, just like—static.

Bob Dylan’s new single, “Beyond Here Lies Nothin’”:

Record companies, your EPIC FAIL absolutely astounds me.

“Class Dismissed” now on iTunes!

After a very short wait, really, my new album, Class Dismissed, is now available on iTunes for the bargain price of $5.94. Enjoy it!

1982 Volkswagen Quantum Brochure

Just taking a break from music here to let you know that I’ve scanned the brochure for the range of 1982 Volkswagen Quantum models (sedan, wagon, coupé) and posted it online.  Click on the cover below and you will be transported back in time.  To download the entire thing as a .zip file, just click here.

It’s appropriate (but entirely coincidental) that the stock license plates in all of these photographs are New Jersey’s old blue-and-white style markers, as my parents bought our 1982 Quantum GL wagon (with power windows, cruise control, and crank sunroof) at Jack Daniels Volkswagen in Fair Lawn, N.J. My father used to call it “the first luxury car” they ever owned, which is amusing, inasmuch as it had a whopping 74 bhp and was relatively non-luxurious (except for those beautiful velour seats, the smell of which used to make me carsick).

I suppose that, compared to dad’s previous work-related vehicles, this was quite a top-of-the-heap production.  The Quantum replaced a 1980 Chevy Malibu wagon (which my father drove into a pond) and was replaced, in 1989, with a gold BMW 525i which is still going strong to this very day.  (And who can forget the 1985 Toyota Land Cruiser, which we bought from A1 Toyota in New Haven, and that I drove throughout high school?  No one, that’s who.)

Class Dismissed and Darius Goes West!

For the next week—from Sunday, February 22nd until Sunday, March 1st—I will be donating 100% of the profits from CD and digital sales of Class Dismissed to the Darius Goes West Foundation.

Buy Class Dismissed at CDBaby!

Darius Goes West is an organization founded by some incredible folks out in Athens, GA to promote awareness about Duchenne muscular dystrophy, the number one genetic killer of children worldwide. You can find out more about the organization and about its namesake, the amazing Darius Weems, by visiting their website:

Darius Goes West

I am donating a portion of the profits to DGW anyway, but for the next week, that “portion” will equal 100%. So head on over to CDBaby, one of the largest sellers of independent music on the web, and buy a copy or download the MP3s.

Buy Class Dismissed at CDBaby!

“If I Do This, Will It Change?” (1996-2008)

In preparation for the release of Class Dismissed on CD on February 10th, I’m proud to announce the release—right now—of If I Do This, Will It Change?, a huge, career-spanning retrospective of nearly all of my songs recorded from 1996 until 2008.

While not everything is represented here, this is most of it.  Covers?  Check.  The albums Education in Reverse, Roomful of Losers, The Paine Road E.P., and Bloom?  Check.  Song sketches, unreleased demos, and more?  Oh, most definitely check.  There’s even an eight-page set of liner notes on each of the songs.  I’ve never released anything like it—and I never will.

And it’s free.

That’s right.  If I Do This, Will It Change? is available as a free download from loquaciousmusic.com.  You might want to click on the link below and then go, like, do your laundry or something, because this is a BIG file.  But just think: when it’s done, you’ll have almost every Ben Gott song ever recorded.  And you now have three weeks to listen to them before Class Dismissed hits the streets!

“If I Do This, Will It Change? (1996-2008)” | (309 MB ZIP file made up of 68 MP3 files and 1 PDF file)

Class Dismissed

Welcome to Class Dismissed, my new album!  It will be released on CD on Tuesday, February 17th!

A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Darius Goes West Foundation to help to find a cure for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Read more about DGW by clicking here.

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