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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... perform live on the radio. I think we were the only live music program in L.A. at that time. One thing I can remember was that I gave Tom a dollar to buy a Rolling Stone magazine to see the review CLOSING TIME (1973) 5.
... remember about Tom and Howard was that they got along well. He must have enjoyed doing the program, as he came back again. He said things on the program at that time that we are no longer allowed to say, something about his “monkey-shit ...
... remember, they still give you a kick of being new, exciting, and different. Tom's an original. A nice guy who's getting somewhere without forgetting where he and his listeners have been. THE HERITAGE (a folk club in Mission Beach begun ...
... remember me from a year ago. So, looking forward to going. Journalist Kenny Weissberg on the first time he interviewed Waits: “There were only scant hints that he would go on to become one of the most influential and imitated musicians ...
... talk.” “Yeah, great . . . in between shows. Just remember, I'm a rumor in my own time. Or is it a tumor in my own brain.” Waits smiles and shuts his eyes. I wonder if there will be a show. The kid 52 TOM WAITS ON TOM WAITS.
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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 |