Red Mosquito

stip wrote:You know what kind of sucked? Neil youngs RnR HoF introduction of Tom Waits

True. It was pretty weak. I don't know why they chose Neil or who chose him. Keith Richards would have been a better choice. They've at least worked together.

Listening to Swordfish....Man, what a great one to enjoy it on vinyl.

VinylGuy wrote:Listening to Swordfish....Man, what a great one to enjoy it on vinyl.

AAAAAAA-men!

I actually rank it above Rain Dogs. Mostly because of the vinyl experience.

I got kinda nervous when I saw this thread bumped just above the David Bowie one.

ABNorman wrote:I got kinda nervous when I saw this thread bumped just above the David Bowie one.

Holy living fuck, me too.

Oh shit, guys, I'm so sorry!

I didn't even think...

Its fine. Tom Waits is immortal.

Strat wrote:Its fine. Tom Waits is immortal.

Jinxed.

Well quit posting in here, otherwise others will panic as well.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Well quit posting in here, otherwise others will panic as well.

The call is coming from inside the house, ruddo.

Heh

Do you think when he does die, there's going to be a wave of "Waits" based puns?

I kill someone.

I do know that my facebook will not be as lit up with Waits posts as it is bowie posts and I suppose that kind of makes me sad.

When Tom Waits passes, he will be easy to invoke. Just push your hands into the soil, or smell the rusting things that outlast their owners.

McParadigm wrote:When Tom Waits passes, he will be easy to invoke. Just push your hands into the soil, or smell the rusting things that outlast their owners.

I love you.

Bowie and Waits both irrevocably altered my life.

Waits, however, had the bigger impact and the later date. I was in my 30's when I got into Tom Waits. And I'd long given up on the idea that an artist could affect me like that anymore. I thought I was done with all that. Surely, no artist could gut me the way Pearl Jam and Nirvana and David Bowie did when I was in my teens. Or the way the Beatles did when I was in my 20s. How many of those experiences can one have as they age?

Tom Waits blew the barn doors right off. He changed everything. I thought I'd seen/heard too much. I was too old, too cynical maybe, too set in my ways for sure, to have that experience again. Fuck all that, said Tom Waits.

For that reason, because he literally changed my life and my heart, altered my perception and gave me faith, revoked my cynicism and inspired me in brand new ways... when he goes... guys, it's gonna be bad when Tom Waits goes.

McParadigm wrote:When Tom Waits passes, he will be easy to invoke. Just push your hands into the soil, or smell the rusting things that outlast their owners.

No lie.

I cried just now.

durdencommatyler wrote:Bowie and Waits both irrevocably altered my life.

Waits, however, had the bigger impact and the later date. I was in my 30's when I got into Tom Waits. And I'd long given up on the idea that an artist could affect me like that anymore. I thought I was done with all that. Surely, no artist could gut me the way Pearl Jam and Nirvana and David Bowie did when I was in my teens. Or the way the Beatles did when I was in my 20s. How many of those experiences can one have as they age?

Tom Waits blew the barn doors right off. He changed everything. I thought I'd seen/heard too much. I was too old, too cynical maybe, too set in my ways for sure, to have that experience again. Fuck all that, said Tom Waits.

For that reason, because he literally changed my life and my heart, altered my perception and gave me faith, revoked my cynicism and inspired me in brand new ways... when he goes... guys, it's gonna be bad when Tom Waits goes.

We can run off together.

durdencommatyler wrote:

McParadigm wrote:When Tom Waits passes, he will be easy to invoke. Just push your hands into the soil, or smell the rusting things that outlast their owners.

No lie.

I cried just now.

You're a modern man, Joey. Never change.