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Jean-Michel Basquiat grieves for Andy Warhol.As a desheveled, strung out Basquiat watches old home movies of Warhol, the music of Tom Waits in this scene says more than any dialouge ever could.Tom Waits - 'Tom Traubert's Blues' MP3~~
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Underrated Uses Of Music In Film: Episode #4
Tom Waits Kicks Off Glitter And Doom Tour
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Tom Waits played a two hour set spanning though his 20 album catalog at Orpheum Theater in Phoenix, Arizona last night. It iss the first of 28 dates Waits will play in the United States and Europe.For a blow by blow of the show last night, CLICK HERE The below video is footage of a special press conference where Tom explains the tour and the speiclal meaning behind Pehdtsckjmba. Tom W...
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Tom Waits does YouTube Press conference - says he dated your Mom!
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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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With This Mix, I Thee Wed
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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 ceremo
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Tom Waits Interviews Tom Waits
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A very insightful interview Tom Waits conducted with, well, Tom Waits was recently published online. In it we discover some of the deeper personal meanings behind some of his songs, a list of some of the most influential artists upon his life and why, as well as just the general tomfoolery we've grown to expect from Waits. I must admit, before meeting Tom, I had heard so many rumors and so much...
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My second favorite Tom Waits song of all time...
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The first mogger to guess my #1 Waits song wins a beer...the payment part will be figured out somehow...it may involve travel...or maybe in a month or two we will be able to download beverages, mog is getting better all the time, you just never know
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You don't meet nice girls in coffee shops
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One of my favorite ways to find out about music that I have never heard is to hear about it from a band or artist that I already love.Case in point, while at one of the gazillion Pearl Jam shows I attended during the mid-90's they played 'Daughter' and during the interlude Eddie threw in these amazing lyrics that I had never heard before! I spent the next three weeks on a mission to find out wh...
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That Voice
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Anytime I mention Tom Waits to my contemporaries, I usually get a shoulder shrug, face scrunch "I can only take him in small doses" response. Some told me Bob Dylan on his worse day sounds better. I guess it is just something you have to "get" Heck, I don't need to change the world, I just need to make mine better and with Mr. waits taking up residence, I believe it is. This version is taken fr...
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More rare Tom Waits...
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From 1973-08-12 KPFK folk scene studios in LA. Tom played 11 songs with great interview segments in between each. A highlight for me, albeit a pretty popular song, is "I Hope I Don't Fall In Love With You". Hope you enjoy!Tom Waits 08/12/73"Folk Scene" radio show KPFK1. Virginia Avenue3. San Diego Serenade5. Ol' 557. Semi Suite9. Fumblin with the Blues11. Rosie13. Depot, Depot15. I Hope I Do...
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The long way home
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Ah...this song come up via the shuffle tonight and reminded me of an old girlfriend. The only girlfriend I have ever lived with. She was a great person...but we were just in different places in our lives. She was the kind of girl who had been planning her wedding since she was like 6...i was the kind of guy who had trouble committing to a two hour movie.It's not that I didn't love her, because ...
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Tom Waits Recording w/ NOLA´s Preservation Hall Jazz Band
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“Why wouldn’t Preservation Hall do a project with Tom Waits?” mused Ben Jaffe, musical director and son of Preservation Hall founders Allan and Sandra Jaffe, in a 2006 piece on the post-Katrina New Orleans music scene in the NY Times.U2’s the Edge...
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Tom Waits´ Daughter Unveils Portraits of Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Pope Benedict XVI & More
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Though many children of rock stars have proven to be decent artists in their own right (Harper Simon, Sean Lennon, etc.), they usually lack their parents’ ability to push the envelope or—in the case of Lennon especially—shock us. Enter Kellesimone...
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Tom Waits Awarded Key To El Paso, when he least expected it
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Tom Waits was awarded the key to the city of El Paso, Texas. Although the key was bestowed to the legendary bluesman man in a unceremonious way Waits was visibly moved, reports NME.He was not expecting the honor when a uniformed officer walked on-stage at El Paso's Plaza Theatre, where he was performing. "I paid all those tickets," Waits quipped when he saw the officer, adding "She was dead w...
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Tom Waits Has Dated Your Mom; Tours Along The Constellation Hydra This Summer
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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":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydra_(constellation) (sorta). The guiding word of the tour, an...
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