This looks like it will probably be a good watch and listen http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08g8hj3
Tom Waits : BBC4 Sun 19.02.17
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Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post....Yes thank goodness Kathleen Brennan came along....just looked at wiki....numerous collaborations with many many people I've mostly never heard of....
....shame they didn't play one track from beginning to end....
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I have none of his albums but first stumbled across him in the 70's ....I'm not much good at decyphering or remembering lyrics which is a definite disadvantage ....and for me (as with me on many things)it is the atmosphere and stage craft, plus audacity that I love most....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw2MjRcVO4gbong ching
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Originally posted by eighthobstruction View PostI have none of his albums but first stumbled across him in the 70's ....I'm not much good at decyphering or remembering lyrics which is a definite disadvantage ....and for me (as with me on many things)it is the atmosphere and stage craft, plus audacity that I love most....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw2MjRcVO4g
I saw him in Edinburgh in the mid-80s with a bunch of pals - he was fabulously enthralling.
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Originally posted by johncorrigan View PostI love this vid 8th...In the Neighbourhood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLDA3GQpYJ4 - they played a bit of it last night.
I saw him in Edinburgh in the mid-80s with a bunch of pals - he was fabulously enthralling.
That clip made me think of the procession in Fellini's 8½. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTmiA-uNSD8 (+ the exquisite Claudia Cardinale)
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Originally posted by johncorrigan View PostI love this vid 8th...In the Neighbourhood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLDA3GQpYJ4 - they played a bit of it last night.
I saw him in Edinburgh in the mid-80s with a bunch of pals - he was fabulously enthralling.bong ching
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Originally posted by gurnemanz View PostWish I'd seem him. He may not come to UK again.
That clip made me think of the procession in Fellini's 8½. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTmiA-uNSD8 (+ the exquisite Claudia Cardinale)bong ching
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Just finished watching this wonderful programme - many, many thanks for the heads-up, 8thOb. Waits has sort-of hovered on the periphery of my awareness for decades, but I've never had the opportunity to get to know his work in much detail before. Remarkable range of output; I was particularly taken by the Bone Machine extracts - I hear the Weill similarity, but ... I think I prefer Waits.
Loveliest bit - we'd seen him presenting himself as this bardic wise fool barfly bum in other interviews, but the extract from the Late, Late Show with Gay Byrne, when his wife was talking about how they met (and telling a colossal fib in doing so) - didn't he look all shy and embarrassed ... and even cute!? Of course, that itself might just have been another "front" - but that would be itself a testament to his versatility!
Highly recommended to anyone who hasn't seen it yet.[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]
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Originally posted by eighthobstruction View PostThis looks like it will probably be a good watch and listen http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08g8hj3
Actually, while I love his first two clear phases in different ways, I'm not so keen on Bone Machine and afterwards. Two other people who could have been mentioned are Dylan and Bowie for their reinvention and I do think of Bone Machine in a similar way to Tin Machine. Bits and pieces from that point were really good and others not so. In some ways he was lucky with technological timing. MTV when it arrived was just perfect for his natural cinematic style. But I do wonder whether cinematic music is always enhanced by filming. The aforementioned romance - a word used often in the programme - is in a connection of emotions pertaining to environments. That doesn't need a film maker's own stylised interpretation. That might just be the problem that I have in general with the detailed observations of his distinctiveness. He often works along the lines of "but I've felt like that"!Last edited by Lat-Literal; 24-02-17, 07:33.
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