Tom Waits

Funny move by Tom, actually. The only reason that story got any press is because everybody was expecting a tour.

"As most of you guessed, it’s a tour…a tour de force!"

nice video as it is though. Reminds me of Up! and also Mario 3 for some reason.

Waits fans - please vote in this one:
What's he POLLing in there? The Tom Waits ballot poll

Cheers for the promotion DL.

http://www.salon.com/2015/05/15/this_tender_tom_waits_tribute_to_david_letterman_will_make_you_weep/

I just saw the truly amazing staging of The Tempest, co-directed by magician Teller and featuring music (new and old) by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan. It occurred to me that I know next to nothing about his wife. Has she ever given an interview? She seems conspicuously quiet given what a huge impact she has had on his career, and that she has co-written pretty much everything of his since 1980.

huh hadn't heard about The Tempest! sounds interesting.
as far as Brennan goes, I don't think I've ever read an interview with her.

The Tempest was nuts, by the way. Incredible illusions plus a Caliban played by two people constantly connected/tumbling/climbing grabbling with one another. This is a still from another production:

http://americanrepertorytheater.org/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_popup/public/images/highres/TSC_Tempest_25.JPG?itok=m-Q_VwUV

http://i.imgur.com/j9juKOg.jpg

lol!

Nick Cave fake hillbilly pecker

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Yo, Tom Waits, what's up?

I found it interesting that he wasn't in that best songs of the 80s list p4k did, I don't think he's very trendy these days

Not touring or releasing albums will do that! But if he did/does tour, those tickets will go like lightning, because trendy or no the dude is cool and people like cool things.

One of the funniest people ever

"the large print giveth and the small print taketh away"

xp certainly, and I'm very happy I got to see him in Paris and I would be first in line for tickets to a new show

all the same I find myself rarely revisiting anything but Rain Dogs and Real Gone, and so as this correlates with little critical and social media attention I get the conspiratorial idea that what sounded new and fresh when I was first exposed to it is perhaps in fact kind of a gimmick and not as original as I thought at first

Speak of the devil and he shall appear.

http://www.sfgate.com/music/article/Tom-Waits-surprises-audience-joins-Mavis-Staples-12192868.php

https://www.instagram.com/p/BY7PXPGn1FX/

look out, mavis! HE'S RIGHT BEHIND YOU.

"
Entire ANTI- catalog newly remastered by Waits/Brennan
Including a new, remixed version of Real Gone
Available Now For Pre-Order On Vinyl & CD

BAD AS ME
11.10.17

REAL GONE
11.24.17

ALICE
11.24.17

BLOOD MONEY
11.24.17

GLITTER & DOOM
12.01.17

MULE VARIATIONS
12.15.17

Also Available For Digital Downloads & Streaming.
Orphans Available 2018."

https://kingsroadmerch.com/tom-waits/

lol that's like sweeping up a junkyard

wtf @ remastering these? they all sound great

They should just add extra vinyl cracks & pops, indeed.

Two of these are less than ten years old. Feels too soon for a makeover

Thankfully there are no extra tracks, so I can ignore this

yeah tom waits records in general are really well recorded and engineered and mixed

also whenever somethings advertised as being remixed by the artist i'm always like oh goody mixed by a non-professional who's ears have been fucking shot since 1993

"Real Gone" is a kind of a weird sounding record, Waits beat boxing as the rhythm track on certain tunes for inst, I'd be curious to hear a remix but never felt the original was lacking, though it is, more then a lot of Waits records, a ymmv sitch.

also whenever somethings advertised as being remixed by the artist i'm always like oh goody mixed by a non-professional who's ears have been fucking shot since 1993

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Most of these are easily available but hey I’ll never complain for more Waits vinyl in the market.

I seriously need a Rain Dogs and Bone Machine reissue tho.

Whether or not they really needed a remaster I am glad that they did it cuz it reminded me of "Alice" which I had not listened to in a minute and is just a great record.

As a former huge Tom Waits fan, I kinda lost track of his work after Real Gone - everything just feels less essential from Mule Variations onwards. Is there anything worth re-exploring on Bad as Me and Orphans?

I love the demo of Alice - one of my favourite things he's done. Never quite enjoyed the fully-orchestrated version as much.

The spoken word disc of orphans is really great

agreed, that 3rd disc has some great weird digressions

yeah i ignored Orphans at first, but most of it is great.

The Alice musical demos are the best. Alice recut as an album 10 years later is less so.

my alice demos are on a DVD-R of MP3s that has suffered sea-change and cannot be mounted in ye drive any longer, alas

I've never heard the Alice demos, but I like the album a lot. It and Blood Money are closer to European art music than the junkyard-folk-blues stuff he'd been doing on Mule Variations. Plus I probably have a soft spot for those albums because that was when I got to interview him.

Mule Variations - other than 1 or 2 tracks is a bit straight and bluesy-woosy for me. Not my favourite style of Tom Waits
Real Gone - Also straight and bluesywoosy but I kinda like it more? Bit too long though
Orphans - Yeah the third disc is a keeper. Enjoy some of the ballads on the second disc. Can't really get into much on the first disc as, again, it's a bit hoary tin-can blues and not my thing
Bad As Me - kind of a nice crystallisation of the previous decade. It's not a cool, conceptual album at all, and it's really just Waits being Waits and not giving a fuck. Some ideas are rehashed from previous albums, but it's got some great moments

Here's a playlist of later Waits stuff (no Alice or Blood Money stuff on here) https://open.spotify.com/user/1153731601/playlist/39Hr6Cn4EkRtYbJnmZgWZl

someone who has those Alice demos should upload them (assuming they are not officially online)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3PFsJaE39A

of course, YouTube :-)

All the remasters (so, everything except the Island albums) are on Bandcamp now.

https://tomwaits.bandcamp.com/

When I was in my twenties and worked in "the biz," I misspelled his name in a letter ("Dear Mr. Waites"). My boss discovered it after it had already gone out, and was (understandably) quite pissed off, ha ha.

so... is he doing the Island albums next?

Appears on the new ribot record

I think I don't need the remasters. Does anyone have any of them? Does one or two stand out?

heard the real gone one was great, perhaps ilxors can comment

Is that one simply remastered or remixed as well?