Frampton Comes Alive, the third record which Ben Folds ever bought, made a massive impact upon his impressionable young mind:
"My babysitter painted her toenails one day -- purple like her bellbottoms -- this is true -- and played the eight track in its entirety," Folds once recalled. "I thought I could be as cool as her if I just had that record."
But? "I never painted my toenails," he mused. "Maybe that's what went wrong."
[Folds (who once claimed that -- such was his impatience -- he tended "to just eat the Tootsie Pop whole, wrapper and all") also declared: "I think we're the most normal band I know."]
Sources
Rolling Stone
