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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... keeps it there. Though many have tried to grease the same wheel as Waits, most fail, coming across as pale pretenders, more arrogant and clueless than wizened and dignified. Waits is also a formidable stage presence; his rare concert ...
... keep the group together in order to do that. I guess writing is the most difficult thing and the one thing I'm trying to do the most of. HL: While writing for Herb Cohen, did you drop out of performing? TW: I just hooted at the ...
... keep one foot in the jazz idiom. Howe recalls: “I told him I thought his music and lyrics had a Kerouac quality to ... keeps his show on little scraps of paper in his pocket. We'd go to the session, and sometimes it was just Tom and me ...
... keep me moving. I've been an opening act for many artists including Frank Zappa and the Mothers, Buffalo Bob and the Howdy Doody Review, Charlie Rich, John Stewart, Billy Preston, John Hammond, Jerry Jeff Walker, Bob La Beau, Danny O ...
... keep developing—even “Diamonds on My Windshield” is different now than on the record, right? TW: Yeah, it is. Everybody that writes has got spare parts and it's just a matter of tearing down and rebuilding. It's like a carburetor. I ...
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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 |