Tom Waits Appreciation Thread

[territa]

There are far better reviews than I can write, though, out there in internet land, including those you have posted.

I know what you mean. I know how you feel. I've been there.
But we only care about what you saw and felt. Not what you forgot to write down.

[Esther]

Well, thanks, DzM, O'Blivion and territa! I am in hopes that I can still remember the show by the time I ever can get around to writing about it! It has been a most crazy month around here...

Meanwhile, I thought this news would please all you Tom Waits fans out there:

(from Anti- website:)

SHOW FROM WAITS’ “GLITTER & DOOM” TOUR AVAILABLE JULY 29; JOINS NPR MUSIC “LIVE IN CONCERT” SERIES

July 28, 2008; Washington, D.C. – Iconic singer-songwriter Tom Waits is adding an extra stop to his sold-out “Glitter & Doom” summer tour: NPR Music’s “Live in Concert” series. NPR Music is the only place to hear a full concert from Waits’ tour, which will be available for both free streaming and podcast at http://www.NPR.org/music beginning Tuesday, July 29.

During the show, recorded at Atlanta’s historic Fox Theater on July 5, Waits gives a stunning, two-and-a-half hour performance, featuring songs he’s never played outside a studio. The 25-track set includes “Hold On,” “All the World is Green” and “Hoist That Rag,” followed by an encore of “Anywhere I Lay My Head.”

Waits is the latest musician to have an entire performance streamed by NPR Music, which frequently webcasts rock, pop and indie concerts as part of its expanding “Live in Concert” series. The series has featured more than 100 events to date. In March, NPR Music and Member stations traveled to Austin, TX, to live webcast and broadcast 14 concerts from the influential music festival South by Southwest, among them R.E.M., My Morning Jacket, Vampire Weekend, Bon Iver and Yo La Tengo. This summer, NPR Music is also webcasting and broadcasting performances from the Newport Folk Festival and JVC Jazz Festival Newport in Rhode Island.

NPR Music launched in November 2007 as a free, comprehensive music discovery destination, featuring content from NPR and 12 NPR Member public radio stations, as well as original-to-NPR Music features such as live performances, studio sessions, interviews, reviews and blogs. Specific sections of the site are dedicated to rock/pop/folk, classical, jazz/blues, world and urban music. The site culls from NPR’s and the stations’ extensive music archives to present thousands of features; its popular Concert section offers hundreds of regional and national web concerts, with more than 15 new performances added each month. NPR Music also has dozens of original music podcasts.

[O'Blivion]

AWESOME! Thanks for that bit of news, Esther.


I'm still patiently waiting for your report
(I was quite excited to see you had posted
on this thread), but this will hold me over
for awhile.

[firehazard]

Review of Mr Waits in Edinburgh, from today's Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/jul/29/1

Oh how I wish I'd been there.

[Smoz]

Well the day of the show finally came round, It was my turn for to experience the magic of a Tom Waits gig for the first time, it seems like an eternity ago that I bought the tickets (only actually two months ago).

Monday night's show at the Edinburgh Playhouse was truly memorable, Tom Waits backed by a tremendous six piece band, put on a two and a half hour show. He played just about every song that I was hoping for (God's Away on Business, The Eyeball Kid, Singapore, 9th and Hennepin) plus many more.

I was fortunate enough to be sitting in the sixth row of the stalls so I got a full dose of the Glitter and Doom experience both figuratively and literally when the stage was showered in glitter at the end. Well worth the journey to Scotland and back, even though the air con on the train home had packed up.

[dublinrambler]

Dublin, July 30th Reviews

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/bre ... king38.htm

http://www.hotpress.com/news/4685852.html

sigh

[philipchevron]

Dublin, July 30th Reviews

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/bre ... king38.htm

http://www.hotpress.com/news/4685852.html

sigh

Don't shoot me. Ticketmaster released lots of tickets in the last few days, and yet I could not bring myself to buy one. Something about watching him from row Z in a tent depressed the hell out of me. So I guess my Tom Waits experience has to remain me and Elvis Costello watching him at a theatre in Paris (1985) and me and James Fearnley watching him from a dress circle box in the Olympia Theatre, Dublin, in 1986 or 7, not to mention the time most of us Pogues went to see him in Frank's Wild Years in Chicago in 1986. I know I missed a great show and I don't doubt Tom can make a huge circus tent as intimate as a barroom, but these are perhaps not risks you take when your Waits experience is already 100% perfect.

[Smoz]

Don't shoot me. Ticketmaster released lots of tickets in the last few days, and yet I could not bring myself to buy one. Something about watching him from row Z in a tent depressed the hell out of me. So I guess my Tom Waits experience has to remain me and Elvis Costello watching him at a theatre in Paris (1985) and me and James Fearnley watching him from a dress circle box in the Olympia Theatre, Dublin, in 1986 or 7, not to mention the time most of us Pogues went to see him in [i]Frank's Wild Years[i] in Chicago in 1986. I know I missed a great show and I don't doubt Tom can make a huge circus tent as intimate as a barroom, but these are perhaps not risks you take when your Waits experience is already 100% perfect.

I think I can see what you mean. The Edinburgh gig on Monday night was exceptional (as were the seats I had), the next day I saw that the TM website had some seats for the Dublin shows, my finger hovered above the buy ticket button until I decided that there was no point in spending (another) fortune on going to a show which couldn't possibly match the one I had just seen.

However if I was closer to Dublin and/or had not had the opportunity to see Tom Waits perform before, I would not hesitate to go along, well worth the extortionate ticket price.

[philipchevron]

Don't shoot me. Ticketmaster released lots of tickets in the last few days, and yet I could not bring myself to buy one. Something about watching him from row Z in a tent depressed the hell out of me. So I guess my Tom Waits experience has to remain me and Elvis Costello watching him at a theatre in Paris (1985) and me and James Fearnley watching him from a dress circle box in the Olympia Theatre, Dublin, in 1986 or 7, not to mention the time most of us Pogues went to see him in Frank's Wild Years[i] in Chicago in 1986. I know I missed a great show and I don't doubt Tom can make a huge circus tent as intimate as a barroom, but these are perhaps not risks you take when your Waits experience is already 100% perfect.

I think I can see what you mean. The Edinburgh gig on Monday night was exceptional (as were the seats I had), the next day I saw that the TM website had some seats for the Dublin shows, my finger hovered above the buy ticket button until I decided that there was no point in spending (another) fortune on going to a show which couldn't possibly match the one I had just seen.

However if I was closer to Dublin and/or had not had the opportunity to see Tom Waits perform before, I would not hesitate to go along, well worth the extortionate ticket price.

If Edinburgh Playhouse had put seats on sale within days of the event, you would not have [i]seen me for carbon footprint. But it's a proper theatre, like.

[MacRua]

Don't shoot me. Ticketmaster released lots of tickets in the last few days, and yet I could not bring myself to buy one. Something about watching him from row Z in a tent depressed the hell out of me. So I guess my Tom Waits experience has to remain me and Elvis Costello watching him at a theatre in Paris (1985) and me and James Fearnley watching him from a dress circle box in the Olympia Theatre, Dublin, in 1986 or 7, not to mention the time most of us Pogues went to see him in Frank's Wild Years in Chicago in 1986. I know I missed a great show and I don't doubt Tom can make a huge circus tent as intimate as a barroom, but these are perhaps not risks you take when your Waits experience is already 100% perfect.

Shane was less sentimental, obviously.
Or he managed to score better tix

[DzM]

Enjoy:

http://www.npr.org/templates/player/med ... m=92921388


Ooo!

So NPR also allows the concert to be downloaded via the Live Concerts Podcast. Some hacking around to find the Podcast XML for that show tells me that the entire concert can also be downloaded as an MP3 file from:

http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr ... 013340.mp3

If you feel like getting all crazy you can now use a program like Audacity to split the concert up into standalone tracks.

[Jon]

So NPR also allows the concert to be downloaded via the Live Concerts Podcast. Some hacking around to find the Podcast XML for that show tells me that the entire concert can also be downloaded as an MP3 file from:

http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr ... 013340.mp3

If you feel like getting all crazy you can now use a program like Audacity to split the concert up into standalone tracks.

...and there I was with my MiniDisc connected to my laptop recording the gig 'old school'

[Eric 5]

Thanks DzM. Can't wait to see this.

EV

Enjoy:

http://www.npr.org/templates/player/med ... m=92921388


Ooo!

So NPR also allows the concert to be downloaded via the Live Concerts Podcast. Some hacking around to find the Podcast XML for that show tells me that the entire concert can also be downloaded as an MP3 file from:

http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr ... 013340.mp3

If you feel like getting all crazy you can now use a program like Audacity to split the concert up into standalone tracks.

[CraigBatty]

Yay! Cheers, DzM! Something to download and enjoy later on! Nice one, BossMan.

[anfield boy]

This Atlanta show is also available for free from iTunes in the NPR Concert Series Podcast.