Tom Waits

Self · Post by **Self** » Tue January 01, 2013 10:23 pm

Crawlin' my way through Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards, tonight. The man is a badass.

Post by **epilogue** » Tue January 01, 2013 10:32 pm

Post by **epilogue** » Tue January 01, 2013 10:33 pm

Now this place is starting to feel like home.

I worked my way through (what I own of) his discog on vinyl last night. Great way to celebrate the end of 2012 and welcome in 2013.

Strat · Post by **Strat** » Thu January 03, 2013 6:23 pm

Big Joe and Phantom 309

Damn. Not sure how I overlooked that track for so long. beautiful.

Simple Torture · Post by **Simple Torture** » Thu January 03, 2013 6:36 pm

Strat wrote:Big Joe and Phantom 309

Damn. Not sure how I overlooked that track for so long. beautiful.

Me neither, I really only sat down and listened to it once I got the vinyl. Aaaaaand then I realized that is where the Large Marge story from Pee Wee's Big Adventure came from.

So Tom is going to be on The Simpsons this Sunday...?

Gods' Die · Post by **Gods' Die** » Thu January 03, 2013 10:54 pm

I'm on my way to Miami Beach tonight (flight leaves at midnight)...I do believe I'll be listening to the Orphans discs.

harmless · Post by **harmless** » Thu January 03, 2013 10:55 pm

Amazing three disc long player.

Post by **stip** » Fri January 04, 2013 5:14 pm

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/mu ... 5987.story

about fucking time

Post by **epilogue** » Sat January 05, 2013 2:56 am

Stip wrote:http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-tom-waits-simpsons-character-20130103,0,3855987.story

about fucking time

Really bummed that this wasn't a tour announcement.

Strat · Post by **Strat** » Tue January 08, 2013 2:56 pm

hehe

http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2013/ ... e#playlist

Post by **epilogue** » Tue January 08, 2013 3:09 pm

VinylGuy · Post by **VinylGuy** » Wed January 09, 2013 2:06 pm

Nice song...Keith and Tom should do a full album of songs like this...reminded me of That Feel.

i love that song.

Kevin Davis · Post by **Kevin Davis** » Wed January 09, 2013 2:09 pm

That Tom Waits continues to choose to collaborate with Keith Richards when he has a guy like Marc Ribot in his address book is, to me, subtle proof that the guy is fallible after all.

Gods' Die · Post by **Gods' Die** » Wed January 09, 2013 9:48 pm

Kevin Davis wrote:That Tom Waits continues to choose to collaborate with Keith Richards when he has a guy like Marc Ribot in his address book is, to me, subtle proof that the guy is fallible after all.

Oh come on...he's got many different sides (and a shit-ton of Ribot songs). A couple of his songs with Keith Richards are pretty damn good.

Plus if he wasn't so enamored with Keith we may not have gotten Rain Dogs the way it came out...and tell me what's fallible about that record?

Kevin Davis · Post by **Kevin Davis** » Thu January 10, 2013 4:13 am

His guitar playing on Rain Dogs means nothing to me, and I hate his backing vocals on "Blind Love."

The more Ribot the better as far as I'm concerned.

Gods' Die · Post by **Gods' Die** » Thu January 10, 2013 5:07 am

Kevin Davis wrote:His guitar playing on Rain Dogs means nothing to me, and I hate his backing vocals on "Blind Love."

The more Ribot the better as far as I'm concerned.

I was talking about the album itself and its roots to Exile. If Anywhere I Lay My Head means nothing to you then shame on you.

McParadigm · Post by **McParadigm** » Thu January 10, 2013 2:33 pm

Gods' Die wrote:
Kevin Davis wrote:His guitar playing on Rain Dogs means nothing to me, and I hate his backing vocals on "Blind Love."

The more Ribot the better as far as I'm concerned.
I was talking about the album itself and its roots to Exile. If Anywhere I Lay My Head means nothing to you then shame on you.

It's almost impossible to exaggerate the impact of the Stones on post 1980-Waits. They're up there with people like Howlin' Wolf and James Brown in terms of how distinctly their impact shines through. It says enough that, when the record company asked Tom if there were any musicians he'd really like to see play on his new record (Rain Dogs), he immediately shot back "Keith Richards."

Ribot might well be my favorite guitar player of all time, but Tom's work with Keith has a distinctive slurring, bleary-eyed groan to it that is unique to those pieces and which I'm glad is a part of his palate.

Gods' Die · Post by **Gods' Die** » Thu January 10, 2013 5:26 pm

McParadigm wrote:
Gods' Die wrote:
Kevin Davis wrote:His guitar playing on Rain Dogs means nothing to me, and I hate his backing vocals on "Blind Love."

The more Ribot the better as far as I'm concerned.
I was talking about the album itself and its roots to Exile. If Anywhere I Lay My Head means nothing to you then shame on you.
It's almost impossible to exaggerate the impact of the Stones on post 1980-Waits. They're up there with people like Howlin' Wolf and James Brown in terms of how distinctly their impact shines through. It says enough that, when the record company asked Tom if there were any musicians he'd really like to see play on his new record (Rain Dogs), he immediately shot back "Keith Richards."

Ribot might well be my favorite guitar player of all time, but Tom's work with Keith has a distinctive slurring, bleary-eyed groan to it that is unique to those pieces and which I'm glad is a part of his palate.

Me too...and Christ, do I love the era of Stones that he's most influenced by. Exile is my favorite record of all-time and while Rain Dogs isn't my favorite Waits record it kind of opened him up to everything that came after and is a spectacularly good record in its own right.

Post by **epilogue** » Thu January 10, 2013 6:03 pm

Plus, ain't nothing wrong with a dude throwin' down with other dudes that he likes throwin' down with. He obviously has a great time recording with Richards. Tom Waits has earned a little bit of fun.

Gods' Die · Post by **Gods' Die** » Thu January 10, 2013 6:25 pm

durdencommatyler wrote:Plus, ain't nothing wrong with a dude throwin' down with other dudes that he likes throwin' down with. He obviously has a great time recording with Richards. Tom Waits has earned a little bit of fun.

Plus Ribot seems quite a bit darker, but that might just be me assuming...and some of the brighter (albeit usually with some tinge of irony) songs can really shine through on his records.

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