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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... tape of that “Dirty Joke Workshop” he took part in with his buddy and fellow musician Ray Bierl. “From Bouncing to Hooting to Playing the Road” San Diego Reader January 13, 1974 (issue date: July 18–24, 1974) Lou Curtiss and Stephen ...
... tape to Asylum Records and I was signed for recording. So that's where I am now. I'm under contract for an album a year. LC: What does it feel like to go into a studio with all this super equipment that you've never seen before? TW: It ...
... tapes of Kerouac reading his poetry from the Beat Generation in a hotel room. I told Waits I'd make him a copy. That sealed it.” Howe also knew how to best capture the soulful resonance of Waits's baritone, and Howe's knowledge of how ...
... tape over the gas gauge, knowing you could always make it to Gila Bend.” I suggest a Mercedes-Benz or a Porsche, possibly with skis resined to the roof. “Uh huh. I gotta think of my image, but what I'd really like to find is a creative ...
... tape Murray Saul's “Jabberwocky” talk show and do a short visit with Kid Leo on the air), I noticed that his street garb was wrinkled, smelly, tattered, and worn. If he's putting us on, I thought, he sure has gone the whole route. We ...
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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 |