Tom Waits

[Simple Torture]

There’s never a thread I get worried about more when it’s bumped.

What are we all so convinced this is ever imminent?

Probably because of how little music he’s done over the past ten years (although he’s done some memorable acting). I’d say there’s a good chance he’s just enjoying an unannounced retirement.

[Simple Torture]

It’s funny, I’m not so worried about Neil Young even though he’s a similar age and has had many more (public) health concerns, but he releases stuff so frequently, that a bump just feels like a bump.

[epilogue]

Man, I love that -- thanks Strat.

Interestingly, there's a verse in there ("Jesus of Nazareth told Mike of the Weeds...") that was cut from the final version and later used in "Sins of the Father" on Real Gone. Love little windows into the creative process like that.

I noted the addition, but missed that it is in Sins of the Father. Get Behind the Mule is an all timer for me. Sins of the Father is not one I could recite.

It's way past time you fixed that.

[stip]

There’s never a thread I get worried about more when it’s bumped.

same! but i figured this was about get behind the mule

[stip]

Man, I love that -- thanks Strat.

Interestingly, there's a verse in there ("Jesus of Nazareth told Mike of the Weeds...") that was cut from the final version and later used in "Sins of the Father" on Real Gone. Love little windows into the creative process like that.

I noted the addition, but missed that it is in Sins of the Father. Get Behind the Mule is an all timer for me. Sins of the Father is not one I could recite.

It's way past time you fixed that.

its a weird block. its not like i dont enjoy marinating in a long lyric forward tom waits song. I mean how’s it gonna end is one of my all time favorites and its not that dissimilar

[Jorge]

There’s never a thread I get worried about more when it’s bumped.

What are we all so convinced this is ever imminent?

Probably because of how little music he’s done over the past ten years (although he’s done some memorable acting). I’d say there’s a good chance he’s just enjoying an unannounced retirement.

It's because he's looked 70 for over 20 years

[Simple Torture]

There’s never a thread I get worried about more when it’s bumped.

What are we all so convinced this is ever imminent?

Probably because of how little music he’s done over the past ten years (although he’s done some memorable acting). I’d say there’s a good chance he’s just enjoying an unannounced retirement.

It's because he's looked 70 for over 20 years

This is true.

[epilogue]

There’s never a thread I get worried about more when it’s bumped.

What are we all so convinced this is ever imminent?

Probably because of how little music he’s done over the past ten years (although he’s done some memorable acting). I’d say there’s a good chance he’s just enjoying an unannounced retirement.

It's because he's looked 70 for over 20 years

This is true.

But so has Neil

[Strat]

Rumor has it he is writing again for a new album

[epilogue]

Rumor has it he is writing again for a new album

That's been a rumor for about two years now. Last year there was even talk of a new album THIS year.

I hope the rumors are true...

[VinylGuy]

guys he died

[VinylGuy]

hahaa

nah, Mule Variatons will be repressed!!

[The Argonaut]

AL VG

[stip]

guys he died

the ONLY reason I didn't panic reading this post in the half second before my eyes moved to the next one is that there are 20 threads above it

[Jorge]

Just saw this nice little video of Tom improvising on the piano on the set of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs



Very Asylum Years vibes

[contamination]

I had never seen this one before, Tom & Eddie sharing a stage, starts around 4:20:



Background vocals: Eddie Vedder, Ani DiFranco, Steve Earle & Tim Robbins. Tambourine: John Densmore

[VinylGuy]

yeah one of my favs dvd!! bought really cheap in Osaka in 2017, got the legacy thing with the cd.

[Kalevi]

I wonder what the Ed in this video would say about the ed who plays shows in hokas

[Strat]

I wonder what the Ed in this video would say about the ed who plays shows in hokas

Calm down. We all wear hokas someday.

[Kalevi]

I wonder what the Ed in this video would say about the ed who plays shows in hokas

Calm down. We all wear hokas someday.

Not Tom waits