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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... live with no overdubbing. It was done on a direct two-track machine; everything was done on the spot while it was being recorded. I like the album. It's got spoken word on it, ballads, and a little comic relief here and there. JG: On ...
Interviews and Encounters Paul Maher. TW: Yeah. The third, being a live studio album, had no overdubbing. JG: Are you ever going to slacken your pace? TW: Meaning what? JG: I mean, will you ever tour less or record less ever? TW: I don't ...
... Live. “The. Ramblin'. Street. Life. Is. the. Good. Life. for. Tom. Waits”. Country Rambler December 30, 1976 Rich Trenbeth The shoes are those pointy, black Monkey Ward jobs of garbage-can vintage. The dark, narrow-lapel suit looks like it ...
... live at Bedlam and Squalor. It's thataway. BG: I think we all lived there at one time. [Gimble glances at the bottle in front of his guest.] It's kind of strange to have a guy sitting here with a bottle in front of him. TW: Well, I'd ...
... live in a hotel—” “—minute, wait a minute. You know, I don't. . . . Either I . . . either I did a really poor job of explaining myself or you took it the wrong way. I don't know which, but I wasn't saying any of that shit. I was just ...
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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 |