Saying “goodbye”!

I started this blog on February 13, 2005, six years ago. It’s hard to believe how much has changed in that time—but, as we know, change can be good.

Because I’m using Facebook for just about everything and haven’t posted on this blog in a long time, I’m going to shutter it. As of today, there will be no new posts here, ever.

You can, however, visit the new www.loquaciousmusic.com, the website that’s taking the place of this blog.

Thanks for visiting!

-Ben

“We Will Get That Far”

Here’s a preview of my new single. You can download it from iTunes by clicking here!

“We Will Get That Far”

The new single, “We Will Get That Far,” will be out soon.  Visit my Facebook page to find out more!

“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.)