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Ben Lee, appearing Sunday
at Ferndale's Magic Bag,
hopes his music will "bring
people back to tenderness."
few years ago, Australian singer-songwriter Ben Lee
was playing with a Ouija board with some friends.
"It totally worked," the then-22-year-old Lee told a
Web zine at the time. "We were doing it, [but] the ghost or
whatever it was wouldn't answer any of my questions.
"Whenever I asked a question, it would go 'round in cir-
cles, it would just freak out, and so I said to it at the end, 'Is
it because I'm not psychically open?' And it spelled, `Jew.' It
scared all of us, and we packed up the thing and like, went
home.
"Just before we did it, though," he continues, "I remem-
bered learning in Judaism that it's not true or false, you
know, the attitude toward ghosts and things. It's more like,
don't mess with it, because you don't know what you're get-
ting into, and I was really conscious of that as we were going
into the game.
"So first I thought it was that, but then I realized that it
was probably just an anti-Semitic ghost. Because the kind of
ghosts that spend all their time talking to kids doing Ouija,
they're probably not the brightest spirits."