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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... Waits's history. In one interview Waits said, “Music paper interviews, I hate to tell ya but two days after they're printed they're lining the trash can. They're not binding, they're not locked away in a vault somewhere tying you to ...
... Waits, says Walker, was smarting from a tattoo he'd just had done in a downtown parlor. “Thursday afternoon, sober as a judge,” he said of the heart and flowers design. “And yes, it hurts.” As Jeff and his photographer girlfriend Kim ...
... Waits songs and stories, references to Roadmasters and musical Dynaflow transmissions and an older, out-of-phase value system, where comfort was the essential item and, as he says it, “You put a hunk of tape over the gas gauge, knowing ...
... says, smacking his lips and glancing contentedly around the dimly lit restaurant, “but I like it.” Tom calls his two albums, Closing Time and The Heart of Saturday Night, his “diplomas,” explaining that “having a record out gets your ...
... says that he has to be going. You might think he was headed off to ride the freights, read poetry with Ginsberg in some all-night jazz club, or get drunk with Kerouac. But Tom has never ridden the freights; he doesn't know Ginsberg; and ...
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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 |