Tom (in his raspy voice): Mom, I wish you had eaten some barbed wire too. At least you would not be yelling at me. You see, I am incapable of yelling back just coz of this damn barbed wire.
I heard an interview where Tom claimed he copied his voice from his uncle (can't remember the name, maybe Ron?). He told him mum who replied,"Tom, uncle Ron has throat cancer"
You can hate his voice or not care for the style of music, but only a philistine can't see the sheer genius of a Tom Waits song, performance...everything.
Well, yeah. But it's one thing to be a genius, and another thing to be a genius who makes some of the most satisfying, interesting, creative, moving, wonderful music on the planet. Or off it, probably. I admire the genius, but I l-o-v-e the music.
I'm gonna be that ass and COMPLETELY disagree with you. Call him an artistic genius or a song writing genius and I may come along for the ride. Often his music is simple. He writes awesome songs with great narrative and his band are great players. I would say guys like Frank Zappa and Tigran Hamasyan are musical geniuses
I've seen many really good concerts, some great ones, but Tom's show in DC on this tour back in '88 stands alone for its sheer genius and theatre art. Waits is simply a totally unique experience. Once you enter his world, you're hooked.
That's awesome man. Your so lucky. I missed him on that 88 tour cause I just joined the Navy. My buddy got us tickets for The beacon theater show in NYC but I got called up to go to bootcamp earlier than I expected.
unexpectedly got sucked into the sublime Waits musical vacuum in 1981 after ‘borrowing’ a copy of SFTrombones from my high school library. Damn, I’ve been a disciple ever since. Sadly, I went to the Beacon box office when tix went on sale but passed on tix😡as they were too expensive for me & I have never gotten another opportunity to see him again😢. I did however get to meet him & shake his hand at a Springsteen concert in NJ(1985?). Great memory but I would trade that moment for a chance to see him perform which I fear I will never get😌
Hearing his album Franks Wild Years on a cassette tape when I worked as a dishwasher in a small art deco diner as a teen in the late 90s made me appreciate music that had a different sound than everything that sounded the same that was on the radio at the time and helped give me the strange taste in music that I have now.
This is the antithesis of commercial music, and the essence of art. He was always going to be a cult artist, because he didn't compromise. Who the hell writes lyrics like 'Never drive a car when you're dead'? And comes back with more like them. No wonder the Pogues had 'Rain Dogs' playing on repeat when they were on tour in the USA.
I can't get enough of this performance! The musical diversity, the imagery in the video, and the pictures Waits creates in your mind with his lyrics and sounds. The music is both easily accessible and enigmatically complex. The restless, driven theatricality of the performance. I love this man!
When people ask...what are mushrooms like, I show them this concert. At then end you say....see how it all felt impossible and real at the same time....and its really chaotic but somehow you still understand what's going on...and then at the end you really don't understand what just happened, but somehow you are better because of it.
Funny and true. I don't need shrooms, I just get an umbrella, hold it over my head, and light it on fire.... Kidding aside, there are so many amazing aspects not only to the performance, but the interstitial scenes of him "in character" hanging out around the theater. Nothing beats shuffling around the lobby in a kimono, holding a droplight, with a bunch of watches on his arm. "Hey - you almost missed this show. YOU need a watch!"
I was all of 20 I met my boyfriends’ friends He’d known them for 20 years We had dinner out Drinks at bars on the way home We smoked pot at their apartment They put on the DVD of Big Time I’d never seen anything like it Lest heard anything like it When this came on I swooned In drunken stoned slumber What a number! 20 years later and I’m a devoted Tom fan. The man’s a fucking genius and one of fiercest, original and genuine groundbreaking talents alive today.
Seen tom in the late 80s in the Olympia theater here in Dublin ,Ireland and it was the best gig I have ever seen to date , opened up with big American fridge in the middle of stage everything else all in darkness , a hand appears in the darkness and opens the fridge and pulls out one of those old Elvis microphones and Tom says hello , and then proceeds to ask us if we we had ever been to the used Porn shop. The audience was thoroughly devoured with laughter , and the whole night he was so funny and the music was just amazing , he is one of the best entertainers on the planet .
Late 70s, post-midnight, baked, toasted, and roasted TW on the juke... Finger snapping/popping, head nodding, smiling, laughing, sometimes tear dropping, TW did/does it all. No one compares. Still hooked.
I was all night long On the broken glass Living in a medicine chest Mediteromanian hotel back Sprawled across A roll top desk My pet old monkey rode the blade On an overhead fan They paint the donkey blue if you pay I got a telephone call from Istanbul My baby's coming home today Will you sell me one of those If I shave my head Get me out of town Is what Fireball said Never trust a man in a blue trench coat Never drive a car when you're dead Saturday's a festival Oh now Saturday's a gem Follow me to Beulah's on Dry Creek Road I got to wear the hat That my baby done sewed Will you sell me one of those If I shave my head Get me out of town Is what Fireball said Never trust a man in a blue trench coat Never drive a car when you're dead Saturday's a festival Friday's a gem Dye your hair yellow baby And follow me to Beulah's I just got to wear the hat that my baby done pop Will you sell me one of those If I shave my head Get me out of town Is what Fireball said Never trust a man in a blue trench coat Never drive a car when you're dead Saturday's a festival Friday's a gem Dye your hair yellow baby Follow me to Beulah's I just got to wear the hat that my baby done Will you sell me one of those If I shave my head Get me out of town Is what Fireball said Never trust a man in a blue trench coat Never drive a car when you're dead Saturday's a festival Now Friday's just a gem sweetheart Follow me to Beulah's on Dry Creek Road I got to wear the hat that my baby done
«Он словно вымочен в бочке с бурбоном, его будто оставили в коптильне на несколько месяцев, а затем, когда достали, проехались по нему». Дэниэл Дачхолз о Томе Уэйтсе
Tom Waits is among the Goats of singer songwriter and also performing on stage and storytellers. His presence is unmatched and the atmosphere that he is able to create with all the tools he git in his repertoire is outstanding. And then came this concert movie and it blew everything away. Even after all these years this is a pure gem
I used to drive while dead quite often when I was young. Little did I know it was a bad habit. I will be forever grateful to Tom Waits for pointing me towards a healthier, more dignified travel style.
I’m 41. When I was in high school I used to rent this vhs tape from a place called I Love Video. I’d watch it over and over all weekend. They only had 3 copies and eventually the guy at the counter just told me to keep it. Still have it all these years later. Hope he tours again. Got to see him at Jones Hall in Houston,Tx. I think it was 2009. Incredible 3 hr show!
When I was a kid I saw Talking Heads, Bowie, Johnny Winter, early R.E.M. , all the cool stuff. What I didn't realize is that what I wanted to see was Tom Waits. I would pay a lot of money to go back in time and see a Big Time live performance.
For me, and maybe just me, this is the best performance representing the human condition inall of recorded history. It captures joy. It captures sorrow. It is perfect.
Tom is the rarest of birds. You cannot put his music in any one box. It's what puts him in the rarest of air. All I want to know is "What's he building in there??? We have the right to know..." Thanks Tom!
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 all I see our friends pulling strings in every aspect. How else can I please you when the celebration is inside myself and I’m holding the scissors in both hands
I wish I`d appreciated him earlier. It was clear to many that he was a genius but I never saw it til recently, myself. He was obviously a really beautiful performance artist.
@@pacofernandez4591 Also Ralph Carney - Saxes and clarinets (Started out in the excellent if obscure Ohio band Tin Huey, then kicked around for some years playing rock and jazz.) Greg Cohen - Bass (NYC jazzer of some renown. He's played with John Zorn, among many others.) Michael L. Blair on Drums, and Willie Schwarz on Keyboards aren't as well-known, but have similarly eclectic resumes.
@@37Dionysos Yeah this song is pretty standard blues and a "throwback style" for the time. It's not anything groundbreaking. Tom Waits is an actor playing a musician with a huge fake White Guy doing Howling Wolf. Never bought into this guy.
@@myradioon I'm not that hostile and dig both his sounds and lyrics. Just didn't think this song was "genius." Listen to "On The Nickel"---you can't always find a star who remembers what it is to live on the street in a country of no hope.
Every aspect of this is impeccably executed! Bravo Tom and all involved. Magnificent! Thanks so much for sharing! 🙌 My new favourite Tom Wait’s musical performance! ✨💫🌖
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Words to live by: Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you're dead. Saved my old ass a thousand times.
Tom’s Mom probably: “Thomas Alan Waits! What did I tell you about eating barbed wire!!!”
"If they didn't want it eaten, they wouldn't make it taste so good"
Tom (in his raspy voice): Mom, I wish you had eaten some barbed wire too. At least you would not be yelling at me. You see, I am incapable of yelling back just coz of this damn barbed wire.
I heard an interview where Tom claimed he copied his voice from his uncle (can't remember the name, maybe Ron?). He told him mum who replied,"Tom, uncle Ron has throat cancer"
@@crwhittle this is both amazing and hilarious.
You can hate his voice or not care for the style of music, but only a philistine can't see the sheer genius of a Tom Waits song, performance...everything.
i would see him more of a thrash metal kind of performer.
If you hate his voice, you are the problem. His early clear vocals just sound weird.
tom doesn't need lyrics to any song, he can just keep growling around, suits me...
His voice and style are the genius. Come on man.
I love when he beats the hell of a chest of drawers,this man can make anything sound beautiful.
Never drive a car when you're dead.
Sound advice.😊
What if I’m dead inside?
@@BearFattfilm Then your outside can drive the car. I think that's how it works.
Sorry. What is done is done. Promise I won't do it again. Please.
I have a blue trenchcoat, dont ever trust me boys
In my seventy years, I count half a dozen musical geniuses. Tom Waits is on the short list.
Well, yeah. But it's one thing to be a genius, and another thing to be a genius who makes some of the most satisfying, interesting, creative, moving, wonderful music on the planet. Or off it, probably. I admire the genius, but I l-o-v-e the music.
I'd love to know who the other five would be
@@caiolafetasame lol let us know
I'm gonna be that ass and COMPLETELY disagree with you. Call him an artistic genius or a song writing genius and I may come along for the ride. Often his music is simple. He writes awesome songs with great narrative and his band are great players. I would say guys like Frank Zappa and Tigran Hamasyan are musical geniuses
fair point, although simplicity in music is a quality of music itself. @@JS-tm1gq
The legs and feet...this dude was into it. Not too many like this guy.
You can be the coolest dude on earth and you'll still never be near as cool a cat as Tom Waits 💡
correction: you can be the coolest dude on earth, but then you'd be Tom Waits.
He is big in Japan, after all
it's a toss up between Tom and ole Lightning Hopkins
Never seen a basement light been played better
I've seen many really good concerts, some great ones, but Tom's show in DC on this tour back in '88 stands alone for its sheer genius and theatre art. Waits is simply a totally unique experience. Once you enter his world, you're hooked.
"Once you enter his world, you're hooked." A very good way to put it!
saw him toronto then as well; late 80s monster.
That's awesome man. Your so lucky. I missed him on that 88 tour cause I just joined the Navy. My buddy got us tickets for The beacon theater show in NYC but I got called up to go to bootcamp earlier than I expected.
unexpectedly got sucked into the sublime Waits musical vacuum in 1981 after ‘borrowing’ a copy of SFTrombones from my high school library. Damn, I’ve been a disciple ever since. Sadly, I went to the Beacon box office when tix went on sale but passed on tix😡as they were too expensive for me & I have never gotten another opportunity to see him again😢. I did however get to meet him & shake his hand at a Springsteen concert in NJ(1985?). Great memory but I would trade that moment for a chance to see him perform which I fear I will never get😌
Я люблю Тома Уэйтса !
Hearing his album Franks Wild Years on a cassette tape when I worked as a dishwasher in a small art deco diner as a teen in the late 90s made me appreciate music that had a different sound than everything that sounded the same that was on the radio at the time and helped give me the strange taste in music that I have now.
Nice story!
Felt
💪🙏🌶️
Siento algo parecido. Lo conocí de muy pequeña y ahora es la banda sonora de mi vida. Imposible clasificar y olvidar. Tom deja huella.
This is the antithesis of commercial music, and the essence of art. He was always going to be a cult artist, because he didn't compromise. Who the hell writes lyrics like 'Never drive a car when you're dead'? And comes back with more like them. No wonder the Pogues had 'Rain Dogs' playing on repeat when they were on tour in the USA.
I was a teenager hitchhiking in Riverside California. I got picked up by Tom waits and Ricky Lee Jones... they were in a red Cadillac convertible.
And how ass t ride?:( what did u talk about with them?
Nor Fear Nor Loathing
Legendary hoofer
No way
I can't get enough of this performance! The musical diversity, the imagery in the video, and the pictures Waits creates in your mind with his lyrics and sounds. The music is both easily accessible and enigmatically complex. The restless, driven theatricality of the performance. I love this man!
When people ask...what are mushrooms like, I show them this concert. At then end you say....see how it all felt impossible and real at the same time....and its really chaotic but somehow you still understand what's going on...and then at the end you really don't understand what just happened, but somehow you are better because of it.
i will steal this
Funny and true. I don't need shrooms, I just get an umbrella, hold it over my head, and light it on fire....
Kidding aside, there are so many amazing aspects not only to the performance, but the interstitial scenes of him "in character" hanging out around the theater. Nothing beats shuffling around the lobby in a kimono, holding a droplight, with a bunch of watches on his arm. "Hey - you almost missed this show. YOU need a watch!"
PS great screen name!
😂😂😂
What about my scootmibile? 😅
Number One on my bucket list to see this man live.
You better hurry
@dierotezarah8475
He's old now.
Yes, many years ago I saw him two times live in the Netherlands. It really was an incredible experience...
Too late
Msdouchesiuese
Nice:)
The day when cabaret theatrical performance, delta blues and black metal vocals met.
Well put! 🙌
I'd say Tom's singing here is probably too bouncy and expressive to be exactly like black metal vocals. To be clear, I mean that as a compliment.
Three words: screamin jay Hawkins
@@Smudge4199 I was lucky enough to see Screaming Jay Hawkins @ MSG when he was an opening act for the Stones(1982?)
@@a.t.3192I woulda just gone with "death metal vocals". Theres more variance there
A random YT feed. Fourth year university...brought me to tears.
I used to warm up for going to a party with this version. Pure energy.
I was all of 20
I met my boyfriends’ friends
He’d known them for 20 years
We had dinner out
Drinks at bars on the way home
We smoked pot at their apartment
They put on the DVD of Big Time
I’d never seen anything like it
Lest heard anything like it
When this came on I swooned
In drunken stoned slumber
What a number!
20 years later and I’m a devoted Tom fan.
The man’s a fucking genius and one of fiercest, original and genuine groundbreaking talents alive today.
My best friend brought Small Change to my apartment one afternoon. Early 1970s. Put it on turntable, changed my life. No exaggeration.
Fun bit of poetry!
Thank you for this unexpected bit of Waitsesnes :-)
It presents as a disjointed cacophony when you break it down in to pieces, but when you put it together it works brilliantly. THAT is genius!
Impeccably Insane performance by everybody on stage. THATS ENTERTAINMENT!!!!!
Tom is such a brilliant performer. Completely one of a kind.
Saw him 4 times in Paris ^^
Big Time is one of the best live albums ever released...
Seen tom in the late 80s in the Olympia theater here in Dublin ,Ireland and it was the best gig I have ever seen to date , opened up with big American fridge in the middle of stage everything else all in darkness , a hand appears in the darkness and opens the fridge and pulls out one of those old Elvis microphones and Tom says hello , and then proceeds to ask us if we we had ever been to the used Porn shop. The audience was thoroughly devoured with laughter , and the whole night he was so funny and the music was just amazing , he is one of the best entertainers on the planet .
my all time favorite. Greetings from Istanbul
I haven't smoked a cigarette in seven years... and now I really want one!
LOL thats Tom Waits- the human cigarette
..i remember a line from "Fear and Loathing"...... "now he owns the circus" .
i'm 2045 years old and i love this music. Greetings from Alpha Centauri
One of my fave guitar solos of all time.
The great Marc Ribot!
HAPPY FREAKIN' BIRTHDAY TOM WAITS !
AS GOOD AS IT GETS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Late 70s, post-midnight, baked, toasted, and roasted TW on the juke... Finger snapping/popping, head nodding, smiling, laughing, sometimes tear dropping, TW did/does it all. No one compares. Still hooked.
Love the light that Tom sings and dances with. Hanging work light leads the group, Waites is genius!
Advert for Rhino bulb?
I was all night long
On the broken glass
Living in a medicine chest
Mediteromanian hotel back
Sprawled across
A roll top desk
My pet old monkey rode the blade
On an overhead fan
They paint the donkey blue if you pay
I got a telephone call from Istanbul
My baby's coming home today
Will you sell me one of those
If I shave my head
Get me out of town
Is what Fireball said
Never trust a man in a blue trench coat
Never drive a car when you're dead
Saturday's a festival
Oh now Saturday's a gem
Follow me to Beulah's on Dry Creek Road
I got to wear the hat
That my baby done sewed
Will you sell me one of those
If I shave my head
Get me out of town
Is what Fireball said
Never trust a man in a blue trench coat
Never drive a car when you're dead
Saturday's a festival Friday's a gem
Dye your hair yellow baby
And follow me to Beulah's
I just got to wear the hat that my baby done pop
Will you sell me one of those
If I shave my head
Get me out of town
Is what Fireball said
Never trust a man in a blue trench coat
Never drive a car when you're dead
Saturday's a festival Friday's a gem
Dye your hair yellow baby
Follow me to Beulah's
I just got to wear the hat that my baby done
Will you sell me one of those
If I shave my head
Get me out of town
Is what Fireball said
Never trust a man in a blue trench coat
Never drive a car when you're dead
Saturday's a festival
Now Friday's just a gem sweetheart
Follow me to Beulah's on Dry Creek Road
I got to wear the hat that my baby done
«Он словно вымочен в бочке с бурбоном, его будто оставили в коптильне на несколько месяцев, а затем, когда достали, проехались по нему».
Дэниэл Дачхолз о Томе Уэйтсе
Big Time. One of the best albums/videos ever made.
'Frank's wild Years' ist ein Jahrhundertalbum! Von vorne bis hinten gespickt mit großartigsten Songs.
One of the hardest songs ever written
A complete and total live jive experience ! Even the guy up in the rafters with the spotlight is a part of the performance, Classic Tom Waits
Tom Waits is among the Goats of singer songwriter and also performing on stage and storytellers. His presence is unmatched and the atmosphere that he is able to create with all the tools he git in his repertoire is outstanding. And then came this concert movie and it blew everything away. Even after all these years this is a pure gem
I used to drive while dead quite often when I was young. Little did I know it was a bad habit. I will be forever grateful to Tom Waits for pointing me towards a healthier, more dignified travel style.
When you put a lounge guy in a theater. He's tearing it up here. Love Tom so much.
Saw him twice live. Both times, unbelievable.
I only recently stumbled onto this brilliant version of the song. Have been spinning it over and over, it’s so damn good.
Das ist einfach nur geil! Punkt
I’m 41. When I was in high school I used to rent this vhs tape from a place called I Love Video. I’d watch it over and over all weekend. They only had 3 copies and eventually the guy at the counter just told me to keep it. Still have it all these years later. Hope he tours again. Got to see him at Jones Hall in Houston,Tx. I think it was 2009. Incredible 3 hr show!
Great story thanks for sharing! Funnily enough, jones Hall 2008 is the next show I'm gonna release on this channel!
@@OdditiesandRaritieswe were way up high. Tix for the entire tour sold out in about 5 minutes so we were lucky to be there.
When I was a kid I saw Talking Heads, Bowie, Johnny Winter, early R.E.M. , all the cool stuff. What I didn't realize is that what I wanted to see was Tom Waits. I would pay a lot of money to go back in time and see a Big Time live performance.
Tom waits is not for everyone but he is one of the few white musicians who have soul. His music is powerful and full of heart. Undeniable. ☮️
So lucky to have seen this live. Brilliance.
if u chose to dislike this... you simply have Zero taste is the miracle that is performin before you...
I will never get to see this master live 😢
For me, and maybe just me, this is the best performance representing the human condition inall of recorded history.
It captures joy. It captures sorrow.
It is perfect.
agreed 👍
what a performer! what a poet!
Shore leave on this one is amazing , had this on vhs and played it so much the tape wore and snapped .
Been stuck in my head for a week, just great!
a series of images and sound that can only be defined by the phrase: "Oh, baby!"
INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tom is the rarest of birds. You cannot put his music in any one box. It's what puts him in the rarest of air. All I want to know is "What's he building in there??? We have the right to know..." Thanks Tom!
I first heard this song on *A.P. Bio* (Netflix), and I’ve been loving it ever since. Thanks -it’s such a great find! ❤🎶 ❤🎶🥰
What episode?
What an artist this man is, Everything about him, His look, his voice and every performance video is just a work of art
the honesty of those drums was astounding
An outstanding performance
this is creativity when it happens in the time without the internet.
Love it.
Remember first time i watched Big Time on VHS...
I was doing Big Thangs...
Big Thangs...😐
😆
Still doing Big Thangs...
Big Thangs.😐
😆
oh my stars 😳 😆
Saw tom at the exit in Nashville best live show ever
This is the best video ever.
Freaking obsessed with the live version of this jam.
this version is soooooooooo good
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 all I see our friends pulling strings in every aspect. How else can I please you when the celebration is inside myself and I’m holding the scissors in both hands
Aside from the general insanity. His dancing at 2:00 might still be the craziest part
Siempre quise ver a Tom Waits en vivo impresionante un Maestro de toda la vida.
Wonderful,,, just, just wonderful...
A The Mars Volta' s cover of this song brought me here. Thank you TMV and Can
This is the album I discovered in college in '88 that changed so much for me. I love this album and everything Waits I have listened to since.
Just great.
This is the perfect BGM to any bar.
Now that was a great lineup........one of my fav concerts
Mr Waits is one of a kind
This is one of my favorite performances of all time. Best song on Big Time.
Mr Waits is simply greater than great.
Thanks for sharing .
Pure genius....... I just Love that sax!
What do you call Tom Waits light bulb?
“Tom Watts.” 😂
😆
Lol😂
This Was An Amazing Tour/Period. Great Show! Tom Waits So Talented. 🎶💙🌍
I wish I`d appreciated him earlier. It was clear to many that he was a genius but I never saw it til recently, myself. He was obviously a really beautiful performance artist.
Tom at the peak of his powers and weirdness lol
Superb got it right😮
My favorite song from the album, this version is insane
Superb!
This arrangement tho! 🤌🏻
How awesome!!👍🇨🇦😎
Be still my heart...
Hubba, hubba
Ding, ding
Where did he find those musicians? How do you compose something like this? It's pure genius.
The great Marc Ribot on guitar!
@@pacofernandez4591 Also
Ralph Carney - Saxes and clarinets (Started out in the excellent if obscure Ohio band Tin Huey, then kicked around for some years playing rock and jazz.)
Greg Cohen - Bass (NYC jazzer of some renown. He's played with John Zorn, among many others.)
Michael L. Blair on Drums, and Willie Schwarz on Keyboards aren't as well-known, but have similarly eclectic resumes.
Not exactly, it's 90% standard blues laid wide open in Waits' typical style.
@@37Dionysos Yeah this song is pretty standard blues and a "throwback style" for the time. It's not anything groundbreaking. Tom Waits is an actor playing a musician with a huge fake White Guy doing Howling Wolf. Never bought into this guy.
@@myradioon I'm not that hostile and dig both his sounds and lyrics. Just didn't think this song was "genius." Listen to "On The Nickel"---you can't always find a star who remembers what it is to live on the street in a country of no hope.
That is fabulous!
Every aspect of this is impeccably executed! Bravo Tom and all involved. Magnificent! Thanks so much for sharing! 🙌
My new favourite Tom Wait’s musical performance! ✨💫🌖
.... Absolutely IMPECCABLE 😂
I love you Tom Waits❤
Sensational. Love it.
Great performance. Way cool song. His throat must kill him after these performances.
What throat?
Pretty sure I’ve done permanent damage to my vocal cords trying to imitate this voice in my car
One of a kind,period!
A piece of JOY, wonderful
Thats just what the doctor ordered.
Merry Christmas y'all 💝
A voice in a splendid cosmos