JustOneStar :: View topic

JustOneStar
Antony & The Johnsons

FAQ

Memberlist

Usergroups

Profile

Tom Waits
Goto page Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

JustOneStar Forum Index -> Music (General)

View previous topic :: View next topic

Author

Message

birdantony

Joined: 16 Sep 2005
Posts: 1241

Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 9:34 am Post subject:

but I completely re-edited the file last night. added a 3D sound effect (to enhance tom's voice), equalized (to emphatize high and low frequences) and compressed (to increase the sound power). so I win anyway

philoxus
Site Admin

Joined: 09 Oct 2005
Posts: 5803
Location: London, U.K

Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 9:38 am Post subject:

You always win, something smells fishy around here......... Px

mara

Joined: 17 Feb 2006
Posts: 3305

Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 9:13 pm Post subject:

... did enjoy very much listening to it, thanks! (As it is, without any editing )

Carina of Sorrow

Joined: 23 Sep 2008
Posts: 148
Location: where Leonard Cohen's originally from

Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 3:08 am Post subject:

Dear Mr.Waits, COME TO CANADA!!!

philoxus
Site Admin

Joined: 09 Oct 2005
Posts: 5803
Location: London, U.K

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 5:00 pm Post subject:

guardin.co.uk wrote:

Can the man live up to the legend?
Barney Hoskyns valiantly searches for the real Tom Waits, despite the singer's relentless self-mythologising, says Tim Adams

Tim Adams
The Observer, Sunday 8 March 2009
Article history

I should declare an interest; I once had a contract to write a version of this book myself. Reading this one was both a cause for regret and relief: regret that I'd never got the thing off the ground, and relief for the same reason. Tom Waits - the ultimate cultish troubadour - presents a double bind for a biographer. On the one hand, the details of his life have been the subject of such wild and intense mythologising - primarily from himself - that you feel a bit of truth wouldn't go amiss; but then the myths are so entertaining, and so much a part of who Waits is as a performer, why would you want to be the one to spoil them with the facts?

Lowside of the Road : A Life of Tom Waits
by Barney Hoskyns
pp610, Faber , £20

Buy Lowside of the Road at the Guardian bookshop
It was this awareness that did for me, I'm afraid, and I'm guessing it almost did for Barney Hoskyns. That he has overcome it to produce these meticulous 600 pages is testament to his NME-inspired sense of rock-writing as a calling, as much as anything.

Hoskyns lets Waits, his refusenik subject, get his retaliation in first. The opening of the book is an argument for why it should not be written. Waits's attitude to journalists always seemed to me to be contained in the rasping refrain of his song "Tango Till They're Sore": "I'll tell you all my secrets, but I lie about my past ... " He's a garrulous, baroque interviewee, but nothing he says ever adds up; it's of a piece with his onstage rambling between songs, part hobo-muttering, part sideshow huckster, part one-liner genius. This strategy is not so much a matter of temperament as philosophy. In an interview with Hoskyns some years before this project was under way, Waits told him what he told everyone: "The stories behind the songs are less interesting than the songs themselves ... So you tell somebody, 'This is about Jackie Kennedy.' And they go, 'Oh, wow.' Then you say, 'No, I was just kidding, it's about Nancy Reagan.' Well, it's a different song now. In fact all my songs are about Nancy Reagan ... "

Few artists have ever created as limber and affecting a persona as Waits has done over the past 40 years - it is what gives his songs their troubling brilliance and comedy; it's also why Waits's legion of fans, Hoskyns and myself among them, love him. No songwriter, except Bob Dylan, distrusts sentiment in the way that he does and yet has his gift for it.

Waits is well aware of all of this - he is keen to preserve not so much the mystery of himself as the mystery of his collected songbook - and it is why he not only refused to co-operate with Hoskyns but why a lifelong cast of friends and admirers refused to co-operate as well. One by one - Keith Richards, Elvis Costello, Chuck E - they politely decline Hoskyns's invitation to talk. At one point Hoskyns even gets turned down by an old hack who once ran into Waits in the 1970s, but on balance prefers to respect the singer's privacy. "Jeez," Hoskyns thinks. "If I can't even get ageing rock critics to talk to me then I really am screwed."

His piecing together of Waits's formative years from such collective silence is a serious piece of investigative work. It's also the best part of the book. Waits has always liked to suggest he was born to the life he made: "I was conceived one night in April 1949 at the Crossroads Motel in La Verne, amidst the broken bottle of Four Roses, the smouldering Lucky Strike ..." If Hoskyns can't corroborate that particular scene, he does check out most of the other locations of Tom's genesis: the pizza place where he worked in San Diego and discovered the closing-time milieu that he made his own, the 1955 Buick that he lived out of, the Troubadour theatre in West Hollywood where he began to create his legend.

Waits could always half-smile at entertainers who liked to think they had "some kind of wounding early on, either a death in the family, or a break-up of the family unit, and it sends them off on some journey where they find themselves kneeling by a jukebox praying to Ray Charles". As Hoskyns demonstrates, though, this was also something like the truth of Waits's own beginnings: his father, Frank, was an alcoholic Spanish teacher with a love of mariachi bands, who ran away from his family. Initially, perhaps, Waits was trying to make sense of some of that fact in his songs, which dwelt on the charisma and brokenness of drunks. Having developed that character, though, and lived it himself on and off, Waits took it to strange and unexpected places. He sobered up, married his musical collaborator Kathleen Brennan, raised a family on a farm in northern California, and played with his bar-room alter ego to such subtle and brilliant effect that he could incorporate a whole history of American music in his outlandish grunts and aching melodies. Hoskyns, who can be wonderfully insightful about songs and their origin, captures a lot of that progression, but inevitably in its efforts to contain multitudes his book lapses into musicology, and conjectured psychology of the kind that Waits would loathe.

As Hoskyns points out, "Waits's deepest conviction was that truth was overrated." He quotes the singer ranting about a "deficit of wonder in the world. We live in an age when you can casually say to someone, 'What's the story on that?' and they will run to the computer and tell you within five seconds. That's fine but I'd just as soon continue wondering." On this occasion, I'm with Tom, and despite all his efforts, by the end, I've a suspicion Hoskyns is, too.

Peter F

Joined: 08 May 2007
Posts: 118

Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 10:40 am Post subject:

Hi, Here's an audio rip of this DVD (file size 75MB, no password). http://www.play.com/Music/MusicDVD/4-/2561678/Tom-Waits-Burma-Shave/Product.html http://rapidshare.com/files/223288805/Tom_Waits-_Burma_Shave.rar I'll leave it up for about a month, I hope a few people like it! Peter

birdantony

Joined: 16 Sep 2005
Posts: 1241

Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 10:48 am Post subject:

Peter F wrote:

I'll leave it up for about a month, I hope a few people like it!

Peter

count me among the few people!
Smile

lyre_byrd

Joined: 15 Sep 2005
Posts: 2218
Location: Prince Edward Island

Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 1:55 am Post subject:

Peter F, many thanks. On the Nickel =

elise

Joined: 22 Sep 2005
Posts: 5468
Location: Lille, France

Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 6:28 am Post subject:

Quote:

> Tom Waits pour Thanksgiving (13/10/2009)
L'immense chanteur sortira pour le 24 novembre un double live intitulé "Glitter and Doom". Le premier disque comportera 17 titres, alors que le second offrira des interludes, dialogues ou histoires que le musicien partage avec son public lorsqu'il est au piano. Les titres ont été enregistrés pendant la dernière tournée de l'artiste, sur 10 dates différentes.

what a good idea !!!
he is going to record 2 cds and the second one will be only composed with interludes and banter with his audience
just imagine if antony was doing the same thing !
Site : http://www.tomwaits.com/

Eclecticus

Joined: 09 Nov 2005
Posts: 1461
Location: Polyphonic State of Mind

Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 8:05 am Post subject:

elise wrote:

Quote:

a deluxe edition with dvd would be gorgeous...

sivi

Joined: 02 May 2007
Posts: 2785
Location: C.R.A.C.O.W, Poland

Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 12:12 am Post subject:

Quote:

The Words and Music of Tom Waits (The Praeger Singer-Songwriter Collection) Summary:

By Corinne Kessel

* Publisher: Praeger
* Number Of Pages: 192
* Publication Date: 2008-11-30
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0313349061
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780313349065

Product Description:

Tom Waits's distinctive, bourbon-soaked growl, his unique persona, and his incorporation of musical styles from blues to experimental to vaudeville have secured for him a top-shelf cult following and an extraordinary critical respect. The idea of the Wanderer - someone who seeks an escape from all of life's problems, and dreams himself into oblivion - serves as the fundamental personality type around which all Waits's music revolves. Ten years of producing and touring with Waits's macabre folktale adaptation across Canada and the U.S. has given author Corinne Kessel direct access to his work, creative process, and his associates. In this comprehensive analysis, Kessel examines all of the many characters that have appeared throughout the course of Waits' musical career, from Closing Time (1973) to Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards.

His raw form of expression and his evocative lyrics work together to form an emotional chronicle of society's misfits, outcasts, and lowlifes. He is not the sort of composer to chase after shiny red fire trucks to awesome blazing fires, but instead looks after the intangible dreams found dissipating in the last wisp of smoke from a cigarette, held in the weathered hands of a broken soul. Here, author CorinneKessel pursues Waits into this distinctly murky and unsettled atmosphere to address in particular Waits's enduring questions of reality, landscape, and identity.

Summary: Supremely Intelligent Thoughts on the Lyrics of Tom Waits
Rating: 5

Sorry..keeping this short. Corrine goes further than any other writer, including Barney Hoskyns, in delving into the world of Tom Waits lyrics. A true sense here of a real master's thesis, and not another tell all, review, or regurgitation of Tom's life. This book is actually a challenge. Thanks for making it. Andre in S.F.
(Mosses........)

mind the little blue link to rapidshare on the page
http://ebook30.com/magazine/music/109220/the-words-and-music-of-tom-waits-the-praeger-singer-songwriter-collection.html

Wink

btw-a nice book cover!

mcarli

Joined: 30 Aug 2008
Posts: 1618
Location: New York, NY

Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 4:10 pm Post subject:

I really love Swordfishtrombones right now.

birdantony

Joined: 16 Sep 2005
Posts: 1241

Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 4:18 pm Post subject:

actually this was his first record as newyorker..

Display posts from previous:

	JustOneStar Forum Index -> Music (General)	All times are GMT Goto page Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Page 9 of 9

You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum