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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... tour, which ran from April to June 1973, consisted of Waits on acoustic guitar, piano, and vocals, Webb on stand-up bass, Rich Phelps on trumpet, and John “Funky Fingers” Forsha on guitar. The tour occasioned Waits to explore his ...
... tour and it went real well. I'd never done anything like that. I'd never even been to most of the places that we played, real exciting tour. I went with stand-up bass, Bob Webb, and Rich Phelps on trumpet and a guitar player, John ...
... tour, but it's best to go in with more than you need in order to select the twelve or fourteen or however many you can squeeze on both sides. HL: Do you do that selection yourself? TW: It'll be in conjunction with a producer as far as ...
Interviews and Encounters Paul Maher. Waits began his second tour in November 1973. Though it was a financial loss for Waits, it expanded his name to the East Coast. Bob Webb (who by now had been sharing motel rooms with Waits to save ...
... tours in support of Closing Time did not earn Waits any money. He vented his frustration to Lou Curtiss in January in the following interview. Curtiss's San Diego institution, Folk Arts Rare Records, made it a likely attraction for ...
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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 |