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Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by one critic as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock styles such as blues, jazz, and Vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musi...Read More >
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No lie. Tom Waits just released this important press conference in what appears to be designed as a video for youtube release, spread virally through the tentacles of the interweb....
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You can never tell if Tom waits is drunk or not. During his latest press conference announcing a summer tour behind his new album Glitter And Doom, we're pretty sure he wasn't. Waits and his raspy voice kick off June 17th in Phoenix, AZ and the rest of the southern stops follow the constellation Hydra) (sorta). The guiding word of the tour, an anagram of each city that the tour stops in is PEHDTSCKJMBA . Say it with him... PEHDTSCKJMBA . Tom Waits tour dat... MORE
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Tom Waits is going on tour and has a must-see video press conference all about it.
Tour Dates
06/17 - Phoenix, AZ - Orpheum
06/18 - Phoenix, AZ - Orpheum
06/20 - El Paso, TX - Plaza Theatre
06/22 - Houston, TX - Jones Hall
06/23 - Dallas, TX - Palladium
06/26 - St. Louis, IL - Fox Theatre
06/28 - Columbus, OH - Ohio Theatre
06/29 - Knoxville, TN - Civic Theatre
07/01 - Jacksonville, FL - Moran Theatre
07/02 - Mobile, AL - Saenger Theatre
07/03 - Birmingham, AL... MORE
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Tom Waits has annouced a summer tour! Hooray! Here is his rather humorous press conference and dates:
Upcoming Shows & Events - Tom Waits
Tour - Orpheum
Tuesday, June 17, 20089:00 PM<br />Phoenix, US<br />Tour - Orpheum<br />Wednesday, June 18, 20089:00 PM
Phoenix, US
Tour - Plaza Theatre
Friday, June 20, 20089:00 PM<br />El Paso, US<br />Tour - Jones Hall<br />Sunday, June 22, 20089:00 PM
Houston, US
Tou... MORE
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Somewhere…there’s a couple who started the growing tradition of assembling, burning and distributing mix CDs as keepsakes at weddings. So much for matchbooks as marriage mementos. The first wedding CD that I encountered was handed out about five years ago when my longtime fellow nightclub habitué Shannon married her beau Michael. They gave out discs that featured music played during the ceremony and at the reception. Selections included gruff vocalist Tom Waits’ m... MORE
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with the advent of the illegal, downloadable mp3 it became a lot easier to get sick of music. sometimes i hate everything in my itunes library.
then... i listen to tom waits. because i hated him already.
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Tom Waits...who could say it better?????( This video is only the introduction Tom gives before the actual song...I posted it anyway, The rhapsody track is the actual song.)
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A year ago tomorrow is my Mogoversary. Chances are I will be doing a million things and not have a chance to post, so I must take advantage of it today.
I looked back today to see what my first post was, and what I wanted to get out of Mog when I first posted. I still have yet to fulfill my promise of posting more of the talented bands out of Atlanta. Off the top of my head three notable bands that need mentioning are The Selmanaires and Gringo Star (though I really... MORE
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I am not always (or even often) a Tom Waits fan, but "Day After Tomorrow," the final cut off the Body of War companion cd, is a song of unquestionable beauty and power, performed by Waits with an unaccustomed lyricism and grace (the voice on the accompanying video is much more growly).
Having fallen utterly under the spell of this song, I went looking for its provenance and found the following on Wikipedia:
Real Gone, Waits' first non-theatrical studio album since Mule Var... MORE
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oh my wife and i are mourning, big time! and it is not even over, not yet. for the finest show in the history of television( yea, you heard me) is coming to a close, and quick. saying it is as painful as our beloved bubbles coming off smack( but hooray, he is clean in season 5). yes, there are only 2 more episodes in the brilliant 5 year, 60 episode run of "The Wire", David Simon's epic series about the gritty reality of life in Baltimore. and to boot two great characters hav... MORE
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So I'm in the midst of a project at work that has me digging through Minneapolis newsweekly archives from the 80's. I've been coming across some pretty incredible concert and club ads. I'll be posting them here. They are so, so good. Here's a small start, from City Pages in 1982:
I was seven at the time and living in the burbs. I blew it. I suppose it would have looked something like this:... MORE
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Imagine how different your childhood would have been if instead of Geoffrey the Giraffe on those commercials singing about not wanting to grow up you had Tom Waits. The world would be completely different. We'd probably have free health care, but I'm not complaining.... MORE
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WOW ! I guess I overshot my anniversary! One year. Time flies when your having so much fun! It's been like one long Rock N' Roll year long party! So many great MOGsters out there, it sure makes for some interesting reading, listening, laughing, and crying. I'd never been on a forum for more than a week or two, until I crossed paths with MOG . I'd tried photography groups, cooking groups, gardening groups, outdoor, canoeing, and hiking groups, etc..., but I suppose my biggest... MORE
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Lets get something perfectly clear.
Tom Waits can shit on a baseball bat and clock me right over the head with it and I'd still think he is the best.
So 2006 stunk. look at the previous post. I was still dealing with a lot of that and then......My car had all four of its tires ripped off in front of my house. 2 hours later after getting a rental I get to work. A bunch of meetings and Tums later I get a emergency meeting with my superiors/inferiors in Boston and ... MORE
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