TOM WAITS REPRISE
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Frank's Wild Years (For Frankie Z.)"
Well Frank settled down in the Valley
and hung his wild years
on a nail that he drove through
his wife's forehead
he sold used office furniture
out there on San Fernando Road
and assumed a $30,000 loan
at 15 1/4 % and put down payment
on a little two bedroom place
his wife was a spent piece of used jet trash
made good bloody marys
kept her mouth shut most of the time
had a little Chihuahua named Carlos
that had some kind of skin disease
and was totally blind. They had a
thoroughly modern kitchen
self-cleaning oven (the whole bit)
Frank drove a little sedan
they were so happy
One night Frank was on his way home
from work, stopped at the liquor store,
picked up a couple Mickey's Big Mouths
drank 'em in the car on his way
to the Shell station, he got a gallon of
gas in a can, drove home, doused
everything in the house, torched it,
parked across the street, laughing,
watching it burn, all Halloween
orange and chimney red then
Frank put on a top forty station
got on the Hollywood Freeway
headed north
Never could stand that dog
"Tom Waits For No One...And It Won't Wait For Me" This thread sums up how I feel as I circle the bowl towards the end of 2013. Tom Waits ... This video is perfect. Only Tom Waits would notice an ambulance and some Doppler shift could sound like "Somewhere Over The Rainbow"...Thanks
I sent this post out to some friends in an e-mail.This update is because of their questions. 'Ray' wanted to know if Tom Waits played "Mr. Renfield" in 1979 version of 'Dracula'... I and IMDB don't know...I Guess his dad is the 'Frank' he goes on about. His mention of one of my heroes WILLIAM BURROWS give me an excuse to send out another song. William Burrows answer and collaboration with LAURIE ANDERSON'S >"Sharkeys Day" it's "SHARKEY'S NIGHT"...C_S
Laurie Anderson ♫ Sharkey's Night (feat William S. Burroughs) - YouTube
SOME WAITS' TRIVIA>>>>>
Uses a large collection of electric megaphones to create unusual tonal effects on his recordings. One of his favorites is a 1944 vintage issued by the US Navy Bureau of Ships, manufactured by Guided Radio Corp. of New York.
Shops at hardware stores for items to be used as percussion instruments.
Owns obscure and custom made instruments such as a Chamberlin Music Master 600 (an analog synthesizer manufactured in the 1960s) and a photon clarinet ("[It] sounds like a keyboard lobster dying on a campfire.").
He converted a 4 cubic yard metal box (intended as a debris dumpster) into a musical instrument called a
"Strata Dumpster" (aka "Dumpstalele"). He cut a 2 foot hole into one side, and streched seven piano strings across it, fastening them with two welded bridges. The strings can be plucked, strummed or bowed. He describes the sound as "trainlike and huge, like trash day with a purpose."
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Is a good friend of
Keith Richards who makes frequent appearances as a guitarist on his records.
His father, Frank, was a teacher at the largest high school in Los Angeles, Belmont High School.
Beyond the aforementioned
Bob Dylan and Captain Beefheart, Waits is a big fan of
Frank Sinatra,
Thelonious Monk, the Rolling Stones,
Gavin Bryars, the Lounge Lizards, The Pogues,
Leonard Cohen,
Little Richard,
James Brown,
Frank Zappa,
Elvis Costello,
Paul Simon and
Prince. His number one favorite album of all time "In the Wee Small Hours" by Sinatra.
Personal Quotes >>>>>
Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
No, I don't have a drinking problem except when I can't get a drink.
I like to walk out of a restaurant with enough gas to open a Mobil station.
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
If
Michael Jackson wants to work for Pepsi, why doesn't he just get himself a suit and an office in their headquarters and be done with it?
All hardware items must be admired for their sonic properties: pitchforks, egg beaters, crowbars, fireplace grates, shovels, anvils, rebars [the structural reinforcement rods used in poured concrete], trash cans - the list goes on and on and they're all waiting to be played.
Commercials are an unnatural use of my work ... it's like having a cow's udder sewn to the side of my face. Painful and humiliating.
I knelt at the altar of
Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox.
The blues is like a planet.
I love Burroughs (William S. Burroughs). He's like a metal desk. He's like a still, and everything that comes out of him is already whiskey.