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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... things that I could never find on guitar, so it helps with writing on the piano. I played guitar before I played ... 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 ...
Interviews and Encounters Paul Maher. things mourned for in nostalgia films, books, etc. Yet if you never lived in ... thing. LC: And you got your first weekend at the Heritage somewhere along that time. TW: The first weekend I had at the ...
... things like that. [Starts playing “Depot, Depot”] This is a bit of local color here. This is about Sixth and Los Angeles in downtown Los Angeles. It's about the Greyhound bus depot, about going down to the depot on a Saturday night with ...
... things just float in? TW: No, that's not true. It's not some kind of divine inspiration or anything. There are times when you're moved to write something, but I don't think you quake and talk in tongues or anything. I think that's a lot ...
... things. My T-Bird is temporarily out of service, not in service at this time. I just parked it and I'm going to sell ... thing called “Easy Street,” I was kind of in the bowels of the metropolitan region at the time and writing from that ...
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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 |