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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... Streets” Interviewer: Todd Everett, Los Angeles Free Press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 June 11, 1976—“Play It Again ... Street Life Is the Good Life for Tom Waits” Interviewer: Rich Trenbeth, Country Rambler ...
... Street bar. In his many bootlegged recordings, one hears a man confidently interacting with an appreciative audience. He engages a bold synergistic dynamic, effortlessly achieved either by being himself, or by putting on one of the ...
Interviews and Encounters Paul Maher. members of a street gang (Rumble Fish), or Satan himself (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus). For me, the only reason to sit through some of these films is to savor the precious screen time taken ...
... street and window shoppers beat the cement stroll and I sit scowling over this week's special Norm's pancakes and eggs $.69 trying to stretch out in the bowels of this metropolitan area. I've tasted Saturday nights in Detroit, St. Louis ...
... references to Denver's notorious Larimer Street, the skid row section that his heroes Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac passed through in the late 1940s. Waits was all too THE HEART OF SATURDAY NIGHT (1974) 29.
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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 |