Tom Waits
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As this is the festive season and we're talking about Waits, try this infamous song...
...now where did I put that whiskey...
...now where did I put that whiskey...
nervas
more crickets than friends
Tom Waits is on of my fave artists! I like his early stuff, but for some reason cannot stop spinning his later releases all on the anti record label.... so lately, I would recommend the following albums:
Mule Variations
Blood Money
Alice
Real Gone
I think all of those albums are some of his best work. Very weird, and certainly not for everyone, but all works of a genius if you ask me!
Mule Variations
Blood Money
Alice
Real Gone
I think all of those albums are some of his best work. Very weird, and certainly not for everyone, but all works of a genius if you ask me!
Well, they're certainly very weird. I previewed some of those at the store. I could hardly stand keeping those earphones on. swordfishtrombones and rain dogs sound good. I think I may get the one with 16 shots from a 30 ought six on it. That was a cool song. So was Clap Hands.
yeah, it's a fine one. Very good athmosphere.
New Waits song.
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His website (www.tomwaits.com) is due to have an announcement today from the man himself. I presume it will be a new album. Perhaps he will be joining Scott Walker in some donkey flogging for this one.
I've made a mistake:
when whatsay posted his link, I was able to watch it, but didn't download the new song immediately.
Now, only a few days later, when I click on it, it tells me, that in my country this video isn't available due to copyright reasons. Happens often in Germany. I shoulda known.
I was wondering - since there might be a way to download the song - if someone of you cats in other countries, where it's still available, would do this ?
when whatsay posted his link, I was able to watch it, but didn't download the new song immediately.
Now, only a few days later, when I click on it, it tells me, that in my country this video isn't available due to copyright reasons. Happens often in Germany. I shoulda known.
I was wondering - since there might be a way to download the song - if someone of you cats in other countries, where it's still available, would do this ?
Anyone seen him play live? Share your experience with a virgin.
(guessing some of you are half dead & saw some earlier shows too)
(guessing some of you are half dead & saw some earlier shows too)
Digney in Burnaby
donkeys live a long time
Just saw this post. Tom Waits opened for The Mothers of Invention at the Agrodome in Vancouver, BC, sometime in 1974. (March 14th, the web says.) Horrible echo chamber of a cow palace. And, for some reason, people wanted us standing in front of the elevated stage to sit down on the concrete floor. Lots of grumbling and the set didn't last long, partly because the grumbling got pretty loud and we philistines essentially chased him noisily from the stage. I remember Waits alternating from guitar to piano and making, what seems like to me now, a lame "colder than a brass monkey" joke between the few songs he did.
(And I'm "half dead" only on my good days....)
Far out! I just made a trip through Nashville and my three main things I do when i show up in some town to visit people is 1) go to the top of a tall building and take pictures 2) go on a boat tour and 3) visit used book stores and ask about bsp Bukowski. Well, I managed to get my hands on a Black Sparrow edition of Septuagenarian Stew, took my girlfriend and her nephew on a boat tour of the Cumberland (they even made a balloon hat for the kid and let him drive the pontoon). No tall buildings open to the public in Nashville.
Anyhow one of those book stores didn't have any Bukowski but in the DVD section where I often see if they have any Dog Whisperer I spotted what looked like a Tom Waits bootleg. Turns out to be a real deal re-edition of concert footage from a show he gave in 1978. Awesome stuff. His more recent shows seem cool in a way, but he seems to me to have become weird-for-the-sake-of-weird, a carnival of banging metal that turns my ears around. I dig Mule Variations, Cold Water is one of about 15 songs I ever learned to play badly on a guitar.
Long story still long grabbed this "Romeo Bleeding: Tom Waits live in Austin" dvd for 7.99. I'm not master pricer but I brought it up to the counter and asked the shopkeep lady if it was a bootleg or what and she said I hope not. Took it home and just popped it in the player and opened up the computer to see what it goes for on amazon and sure enough, the lowest price is 40 plus shipping. They put out the audio too, but it only seems to be available on vinyl.
Bottom line, anybody who is remotely into Tom Waits I can't imagine not digging this sound right here. Vinyl is on for $21 plus ship, dvd like i said is on for $40. Super stuff. As I type he slid from Romeo is Bleeding into Silent Night (yes, the Christmas song).
And David, the gas pumps are there on stage. He did his first piece, spoken word with muted trumpet accompany, sitting on a tire.
Is it an act, as some posters said? Sure, it's a performance but damn if the man don't feel it, too, and get to the heart of some things. When the man uses the words "red beans and rice" in a poem, it sounds like it was the meal that brought him back from the edge.
Anyhow one of those book stores didn't have any Bukowski but in the DVD section where I often see if they have any Dog Whisperer I spotted what looked like a Tom Waits bootleg. Turns out to be a real deal re-edition of concert footage from a show he gave in 1978. Awesome stuff. His more recent shows seem cool in a way, but he seems to me to have become weird-for-the-sake-of-weird, a carnival of banging metal that turns my ears around. I dig Mule Variations, Cold Water is one of about 15 songs I ever learned to play badly on a guitar.
Long story still long grabbed this "Romeo Bleeding: Tom Waits live in Austin" dvd for 7.99. I'm not master pricer but I brought it up to the counter and asked the shopkeep lady if it was a bootleg or what and she said I hope not. Took it home and just popped it in the player and opened up the computer to see what it goes for on amazon and sure enough, the lowest price is 40 plus shipping. They put out the audio too, but it only seems to be available on vinyl.
Bottom line, anybody who is remotely into Tom Waits I can't imagine not digging this sound right here. Vinyl is on for $21 plus ship, dvd like i said is on for $40. Super stuff. As I type he slid from Romeo is Bleeding into Silent Night (yes, the Christmas song).
And David, the gas pumps are there on stage. He did his first piece, spoken word with muted trumpet accompany, sitting on a tire.
Is it an act, as some posters said? Sure, it's a performance but damn if the man don't feel it, too, and get to the heart of some things. When the man uses the words "red beans and rice" in a poem, it sounds like it was the meal that brought him back from the edge.
PhillyDave
“The essential doesn't change.” Beckett
GB: I have that dvd and stumbled upon it too. Great stuff.
they rerun that every so often on Austin City Limits.
Bukfan
"The law is wrong; I am right"
I found an article on Tom Waits and Bukowski called "Loneliness and Waitressses: Tom Waits and Charles Bukowski".
I don't know if it's been posted before but here it is:
http://www.beatdom.com/?p=966
I don't know if it's been posted before but here it is:
http://www.beatdom.com/?p=966
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Thanks. I enjoyed reading that.
I think I found that site once before (via StumbleUpon).
I think I found that site once before (via StumbleUpon).
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I remember this one waitress from my L.A.days who worked the graveyard at Canters and the breakfast shift at Langer's on
7th and Alvarado. Incredible. A pro's pro.
7th and Alvarado. Incredible. A pro's pro.
PhillyDave
“The essential doesn't change.” Beckett
There's a great diner here, Little Pete's, that is the kind of diner described in poems, novels, movies that i just love. The waitresses all call you "hun" and always refil yr coffee asap. Every visit creates a cool, lasting memory. Pros indeed.