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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... kind of grew up around San Diego; I moved there when I was about ten. Howard Larman: I heard that you tried to write country songs—is that true? TW: I used to write a lot of them down there at KSON, which is the big country station. I ...
... kind of an old song about my car, a “car” song. HL: How did you get out of San Diego and into other bookings? TW: I was coming up on the bus and doing four or five songs on Monday nights. I guess I kind of made the big jump into showbiz ...
... kind of about driving down Hollywood Boulevard on Saturday night. Bob Webb and I were kicking this around one afternoon, Saturday afternoon it was, the idea of looking for the heart of Saturday night, hadn't really worked on any tune ...
... kind of putting a good word in for me with Bob and finally he came around and said, “We'll risk it.” And I was the doorman and that was one of the important steps for me because I got to listen every weekend. It was one place you could ...
... kind of like a marketplace, like a slave auction. Everybody's trying to sell what they do. LC: How did you get in with Asylum Records? TW: At first I met Herb Cohen and he signed me to a songwriting contract. I met him at the Troubadour ...
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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 |