Tom Waits on Tom Waits: Interviews and EncountersChicago Review Press, 1 серп. 2011 р. - 480 стор. Tom Waits, even with his barnyard growl and urban hipster yawp, may just be what the Daily Telegraph calls him: &“the greatest entertainer on Planet Earth.&” Over a span of almost four decades, he has transformed his music and persona not to suit the times but his whims. But along with Bob Dylan, he stands as one of the last elder statesmen still capable of putting out music that matters. Journalists intent upon cracking the code are more likely to come out of a Waits interview with anecdotes about the weather, insects, or medieval medicine. He is, in essence, the teacher we wished we had, dispensing insights such as: &“Vocabulary is my main instrument;&” &“We all like music, but what we really want is for music to like us;&” &“Anything you absorb you will ultimately secrete;&” &“Growth is scary, because you're a seed and you're in the dark and you don't know which way is up, and down might take you down further into a darker place . . .;&” and &“There is no such thing as nonfiction. . . . People who really know what happened aren't talking. And the people who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up.&” Tom Waits on Tom Waits is a selection of over fifty interviews from the more than five hundred available. Here Waits delivers prose as crafted, poetic, potent, and haunting as the lyrics of his best songs. |
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... . . . . . . . . . 30 January 17, 1975—“Tom Waits: Los Angeles Is Poetry” Interviewer: Marco Barla, LA Free Press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 June 21, 1975—“Waits: The Beats Go On . . .”
... Angeles Free Press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 June 11, 1976—“Play It Again Tom” Interviewer: Robert Ward, Syracuse New Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Small Change (1976) ...
... Angeles at the renowned Troubadour on Santa Monica Boulevard, where scores of musicians tried to sell themselves. If Waits was lucky, he was able to sing four songs on Monday nights once a month. Slipping under the radar, for nobody ...
... Angeles. “I came up as often as I could, but I didn't want to move here until something was happening. I just didn't want to wind up in a gas station.” Barney Hoskyns interviewed Walker for his biography of Waits, Lowside of the Road ...
... Angeles Free Press did a big article called “Downtown L.A., Who Needs It?” I've been going there since I moved here—I've been here a year—I go to hang out down there. I live in Silver Lake, so I'm about ten minutes from downtown. I go ...
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January 23 1979Tom Waits for No One | 107 |
Heartattack and Vine 1980 | 113 |
Swordfishtrombones 1983 | 129 |
Rain Dogs 1985 | 151 |
Late 1985Rain Dogs Tourbook | 164 |
Franks Wild Years 1987 | 181 |