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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... wherever he plays. He's got one vote here, dads, 'cause Tom Waits is . . . if you can dig my drift, Charlie . . . ah, like copacetic! Waits on being the voice of everyman: Excerpted from “Sweet NIGHTHAWKS AT THE DINER (1975) 59.
... Excerpted from “Bitin' the Green Shiboda with Tom Waits,” DownBeat June 17, 1976 Marv Hohman Marv Hohman: Some guy sitting in front of me during your set the other night said, “Where does he get all those one-liners?” It seems to me I ...
... Excerpted from unidentified interview with Chip White “One night is Tom Waits's birthday and we had been playing 'Pasties and a G-String'—you know, that song on his album, and the road manager decided to hire a lady to come onstage in ...
... excerpted from “Memorable Nights at the Shaboo—Concert Saturday Marks Twenty- Fifth Anniversary of Roadhouse's Closing,” Hartford Courant August 12, 2007 Eric R. Danton “There were like twelve people the first night we booked him, and ...
... excerpted from open e-mail to Blue Valentines (Italian Tom Waits Fan Club) Don Roy King It was a great hook, I thought. He started his set in character, sort of a half-buzzed derelict with the voice of a bulldozer, slurring his way ...
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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 |