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I recently re-discovered Tom. I forgot how haunting and memorable the melodies and lyrics are. I am a guitar player and I must say Tom is a great finger-style guitarist as well as a piano man. My kids favorite song is "Murder in the Red Barn" on Bone Machine. Yep, I have all the cd's I can find. I am very surprised that stores like Circuit City and Best Buy carry quite a few of Tom's CD's. The BIG question would be...where's he at, and what's he doing? I heard a rumour that he was doing the soundtrack for an upcoming Broadway Production of Alice in Wonderland...funny some of his sounds seem to fit this type of thing. Tom must be raking in the royalyies...Johnny Cash has recorded a Tom song on the "American Recordings" album. How would I get a copy of the album with Chrystal Gale...can I order it somewhere?
Tom where are you? Your fans are serious music listeners and we chose you and your style. We don't care about what the masses like. We like your music. I especially like the songwriting genius you display........I wonder if Tom is online.
I am not anyone's groupie, but don't just dissapear. Write some shit, put it on the four track and take it to the studio. That's enough.
jimbob....webmaster@webweld.com
I first learned of Tom when I saw him on the DinahShore show in the mid seventies. I've been hooked eversince. I really couldn't pick just one favorite albumso I listed "Blue Valentine" because it happens to bethe one that I'm listening to right now. He's #1 to see on my wish list if he ever tours again. Great Site!....DoubleTrouble@pdqnet.net
Tom is! david.foley@lexicon.co.uk
I suppose I chose The Heart Of Saturday Night because of the songs "Please Call Me, Baby" and "Fumblin' With The Blues," but my complete favorite album list would include all of his others as well.\ I don't know how he does it, but his music seems to reach all the way down to the center of my black little heart.....mmatlock@erols.com
I'm older than Tom, but I'd never heard anything
about him or by him till last year when a friend from
the Internet sent me some of his songs on a tape. I've
not stopped listening yet the songs just don't get
old or boring. I've never heard music like his
anywhere before--so real and sad and perpetually
surprising. He's a poet and musician of amazing reach
and I just hope he'll make that new album soon!....(no email address)
amazing site...i love the photoshop work..as a photographer i really used to hate it when computer people messed with perfectly good photos...but what you have done is the exception...no film made by Kodak, Fugi, Ilford or whatever could capture the crazy things that were meant to surround the life of Tom Waits...only the surreal carnival bizarre that the computer sometimes contains can come close....CLAMS00@aol.com
he is the best....vilahs99@aol.com
i love him. i just gotta new album, so of course, it's my favorite one!! i love his raspy voice. much better than the mainstream shit. all i have to say for now. claire the great....tex@thepentagon.com
Tom waits is a lyrical genious. His style and the way he uses his language is very unique. I wish that he wasn't so secluded and toured or wrote books or something because this is definately somme one I would love to share a cup of Java and a cigarette with.........Jeremy Krieger....speed@aye.net
Fuck Elvis
Waits is the KING....sigteige@online.no
i am 21 and a female. no one from my generation can understand how i can admire such a peculiar man so completely i would take his music over any of the shit they try to feed us today...TOM brings out all my emotions and leaps out of his own music to become that shadow in the corner of the room dancing with me as i sing "when you walk through the garden, you better watch your back...." it was the first song i ever fell in love with. i am a devoted slave...he put all those "frank" references in his music for me....clams 00@aol.com
Heartattack and Vine....videozone@kent.net
I am a big time Tom Waits fan, have been for about 15 years. I have all of his official releases and I am looking to find some boots....drwho@voicenet.com
I really dig the Tom Waits art......I was wondering, do you have any Frank Zappa art?....drwho@voicenet.com
Great stuff. Gets me through the day (or any other time). Wish he would make more though and come around here....kkerns@concentric.net
Words will spoil it. Just listen.....hana@vilfima.lt
He guides me through my life. His lyrics makes me float. He is stunning. I don't have more words......ecanovas@legendnet.net
I like Tom Waits and his music.....dip@lab321.ru
No matter what mood I'm in or what kind of music I feel like listening I never have to look further than Tom Waits .I first heard of Tom Waits when I was 16 through the unlikley source of Sade who said in an interview that her favourite lyric was 'I'm a sucker for a fella in a Cowboy hat' from Burma Shave.I went out & searched the record shops and finally found Foreign Affairs.I never looked back.I admire the man for bucking commercialism when he easily could have become a better Bruce Springsteen he stuck to making the music he believes in whether it sells 10000 or 10million.We need innovative artists lest we end up with all music sounding like Elton John(God Forbid)
I chose Blue Valentine for 3 reasons,Christmas Card Kentucky Avenue and Big Time wasn't on your list. I think it should be included as I for one get a shiver up my spine every time I hear the intro to Train Song.....AlanClarke@aol.com
The man is a fucking god, king of cool....djkill@hotmail.com
He's my musical obsession. I don't get it. I'm a 40-year-old operatic soprano, kinda reserved... but Waits is the only man who can get my guy jealous. Joe has a R&B band, and when they play "New Coat of Paint" (my suggestion, natch) something ... happens to me. I start screaming and dancing with whatever's nearby. All I have to do is plug "Invitation to the Blues" into my car's tape deck and it's no longer a blue Tercel, it's some huge black car from the 50's and I'm a leggy blonde sporting shades and a tight dress, looking for trouble....lgarner@whsun1.wh.whoi.edu
Tom Waits is amazing!! When asked "What kind of music do you listen to?" I answer, "I like Tom Waits." And then I am asked, "Tom Waits, Who is that?" And I answer, "It's like poetry to music, but not really what you would think." Tom Waits is amazing!!......no email address
Hope this finds you, wherever you are. Wanted to say thank you for the web site dedicated to the indomitable Tom Waits. I've been a fan for over 20 years. I lived in Cleveland during the 70's and got to see Tom perform several times, mostly at small clubs. One performance particularly stands out in my shaky memory. The curtain on the stage was open and the stage was dark as people filed into the auditorium and took their seats. After sitting in my seat a few minutes, I noticed someone on stage light a cigarette in the darkness. It was Tom, sitting up there in the dark, chain smoking and watching people arrive. When he was satisfied everyone was there, the concert began.
I have a collection of his recordings on album that I can't use anymore. I've gone CD and got rid of my old Girard Zero-100 turntable. Know anyone that might want the albums?
Don't get pissed, but I noticed a few, minor errors in some of the lyrics on your site. I'd be willing to proofread for you, free of course. Let me know, and thanks again....Edward@dave2000.com
Greatest!!....slavko.baric@guest.arnes.si
tom waits is the kookiest craziest cat ever!!....conzoquinzo@juno.com
With out sounding like an internet fan-type...his music changed the way i think about music and lyrics. I never tire of the stuff. I just wish I could get the chance to see him live (been a fan since '88, but here in Calgary Canada...not much of a chance).....jkawchuk@spots.ab.ca
He's a lyrical wizard who paints a portrait of sorrow
or joy with a simple twist of a poetic phrase.One feels
a kinship with him. Tom Waits is God!!
enough said....sfriend@generation.net
So it's 10.12pm on 18/7/97 and I've had a crap day playing with
reluctant PC's in Wapping..London ..England..
So I dial up the newly-acquired net and see what the Big Wide World
knows about Tom..saw him in concert a few years ago with his
Lamp-a-Swingin'..
The World led me to your site and I dug out my CD of "The Heart Of
Saturday Night"..and fond memories of "Shiver My Timbers" & "San Diego
Serenade" drifted through the speakers..
So just thought I'd say a little "Thank You" for your efforts..remember
that somewhere on this Globe some "Nobody"'s Friday Evening was enriched
by your Time & Patience...
Take It Easy..
I love his style of signing!! I just wish he had an e-mail address, and a chat line of his own. we could all kick back with a smoke, coffee, and Tom!!
Toms friend,
The Slasher.....slashman@usa.net
he is by far the very very best thing that has ever happened to me musically. a genius. an original. an artist. immaculate. sexy. after turning a friend on to him also, we sit and wonder
"what did we do before tom waits?"
i think that sums it up.....tulip92153@aol.com
Tom Waits is my favorite musical artist. Love the music. Have all his albums and am desperately WAITing for more. Favorite song - A Little Trip to Heaven (my weeding song), Favorite album tough one but likely Rain Dogs or Foreign Affairs.....(no email address)
What can you say about Tom? He's it man, he's all you need......kocan@wvusa.u92.wvu.edu
I've seen Tom about a dozen times, mostly in the Phila. area. Does he still play?.....Franko66@aol.com
I first heard Tom Waits in the '70's when he was on
Saturday Night Live I think. I was totally impressed!
He had such a different sound! I have been told by some that his is an acquired taste. I acquired the taste for his sound immediately! I love the gravelly sound of his voice and the subject matter of his songs. I have never heared anyone else like him! I would love to see him in person, but without tours I don't suppose that is going to happen. Anyway---I love your Pages on Tom. He is an original, not afraid to be himself---Tom is GREAT!!!! I get in the car, pop in a C.D. and crank him up!! Nothing sounds better!! I am saying that Heartattack and Vine is my favorite album, but I can't say that is definately true! I like nearly all of them, thougfh Black Rider is one I need to listen to some more to truely appreciate! All of his albums have great songs!! Thanks for the great pages on a great entertainer!.....stam@alpha.wcoil.com
always an inspiration to me as an artist, the clarity of his vision and the constant drive towards something new (which is why i don't have a problem with no new album, it's just a matter of waiting til it hits you. High point in my life getting his autograph after the Healdsburg show cause I wasn't a fan til post touring period. I owned everything on tape, and am now slowly migrating it to cd which provides me the chance to get the actual lyrics of the songs as opposed to what I was singing, it's been a revelation and a true pleasure. Let's see, what else.. I'm an actor and just performed in a piece called Tom Waits for No Man here in NY (I don't know where you are) at the SOHO REP theatre. The title is a little obvious but the play was qite good. I played a guy who wished he was Tom Waits. Not a stretch. I was wondering actually if your album cover photoshop makeovers might be available for postermaking (Mr. Waits you know doesn't have a big commercial market, so you've kind of got to make your own memorabilia type of things)because I know a couple places in ny that I could get a full quality sized poster for 80 bucks or so. At first I thought it was a bit much then I realised if I was walking down the street and there in a shop window was a Tom Waits poster for 80 bucks I'd buy it without thinking, so I ought to go about making my own reality. Just wondering......trevor@walrus.com
First heard Tom watching the movie "One from the Heart". He did the soundtrack with Crystal Gayle. I bought the soundtrack and all recordings before and aft. Seen him a couple times. Wished I'd a seen him in a small club. Like the Coachouse in San Juan Capistrano. He stopped by there once and asked if they needed a singer. Not knowing who he was they told him no.
yeah.........JJJK@aol.com
Tom Waits' music is a reason to stay alive......mbrumitt@mcp.com
HE IS MIGHTY AND GORDIOUS SINGER, WHO'S VOICE POSIBILITIS ARE VERY INTERESTING, AND ANUUSUAL, BUT JEBI GA!!! .....marselus@sezampro.yu
a blow to the head, a kick in the balls, a comforting hand on my shoulder, a cry of despair, a word of understanding, a burst of laughter and a hope in hell. I owe the man all. beautiful artwork, thank you.
Tomas, Umea, Sweden.....tosjar96@student.umu.se
I can't really remember the first time I heard Tom. I think it was sometime in '91, during one of those late night "alternative" shows... I can't remember the song, just the shock of hearing his voice and the feeling of finding something special. Later on, I ended up with a compliation featuring Goin' Out West. That was all it took. I've been a Tom Waits fan ever since, and since I haven't been able to snap up all of his recordings, I cherish those I do have all the more.
I think my favorite album has to be Nighthawks, simply because it has been the soundtrack to many hours of writing and thinking. Makes me feel like I'm in that smoky bar drinking with my devils instead of sitting in front of my computer. A good feeling to have, don't you think?
----Suwanna.....Skirgswan@aol.com
Mr. Waits is one of the most prolific artists that is still with us.
my favorites are caught in a three way tie.
1) the wolfs balls
2)the raw horse mane
3)the drunken scorpion platter
simvic@juno.com
The first time I heard the voice was when someone dropped Bone Machine into the cassette deck. Maybe I haven't been listening as long as some of you, but I was twelve in '92, so I'd say I'm off to a pretty good start. That same someone spilled beer on the liner notes and threw them out. I stole the tape. I play it when I go to other peoples' houses and am asked (sometimes politely, more often not) to leave, usually before "Earth Died Screaming" is over......reghan_s@hotmail.com
Mr. Young Tom Waits is an artist who stands alone among a sea of talent. Just try and find a musician that can do he does. Take "Closing Time" for instance and listen to the expression of pain and longing. Not to mention trying to figure out what fret he sticks that damn capo on. I think Tom Should make an album and call it "The Freak Out Years" It should include 1 song (I know this is tough) from each of his solo albums and make a compilation disk.
For anyone who cannot appreciate Tom, you are most likely a musical illiterate.......sabre120@aol.com
On a hazy summer day a while back I was shuffling down the ol' Rt. 10 near my house. Turned onto East kept goin til I stopped at a friend's hello. I went up the stairs after him with some backnoise comin down as I went up. Beat beckoned, I followed. So I asked about it and was greeted with a smile and "I've never heard a song by this guy I didn't love!", "Who?", "Tom Waits". The Bone Machine had found yet another operator for its rusty oiled smooth mesmer gears. Speed up to now with Virginia Avenue through the headset flash 2:09 AM. Let me tell you that I'm dreamin... -Christopher ......ybc@worldnet.att.net
My flocks feed not,
My ewes breed not,
My rams speed not,
All is amiss:
Love is dying,
Faith's defying,
Heart's denying,
Causer of this.
All my merry jigs are quite forgot,
All my lady's love is lost, God wot:
Where her faith was firmly fixed in love, There a nay is placed without remove.
One silly cross
Wrought all my loss
O frowning Fortune, cursed, fickle dame! For now I see,
Inconstancy
More in women then in men remain.
In black mourn I,
All fears scorn I,
Love hath forlorn me,
Living in thrall:
Heart is bleeding,
All help needing,
(O cruel speeding!)
Fraughted with gall.
My shepherd's pipe can sound no deal,
My wether's bell rings doleful knell
My curtail dog, that wont to have played, Plays not at all, but seems afraid
With sighs so deep,
Procures to weep,
In howling-wise, to see my doleful plight. How sighs resound
Through heartless ground,
Like a thousand vanquished men in bloody fight!
Clear wells spring not,
Sweet birds sing not,
Green plants bring not
Forth they die:
Herds stand weeping,
Flocks all sleeping,
Nymphs back peeping
Fearfully.
All our pleasure known to us poor swains, All our merry meetings on the plains,
All our evening sport from us is fled,
All our love is lost, for Love is dead.
Farewell, sweet las,
Thy like never was
For a sweet content, the cause of all my moan: Poor Coridon
Must live alone,
Other help for him I see that there is none.
......edward@dave2000.com
The music touches that late night need for the surreal in all of us.......wrightj@stentor.ca
Totally unpigeonholeable, while head and shoulders above the entire pigeonholeable rest.
There are only a few artists in the world, in any medium, that take people to dangerous places places most people would never find alone. Words, rhythms, moods and views from different angles take the rider to high points. Tom Waits has decided to follow his mind to the true place. The place we all desire. The place where we are total with our thoughts and our actions. For the rider, the driver is important. For the driver, its the gas. Burn clean fuel of truth and you will find the place. True artists burn clean. No waste. I hope Mr. Waits is fueled up and heading out. I may be a rider, but I love the road........jvleclair@worldnet.att.net
I just wanted to say that I love your art work. Those
pictures of Tom are awesome!!! I love Toms' music and
his films as well. His voice and lyrics are the best
in the business. I also wanted to let you know that I
have my own home page. Not anywhere as great as yours
thought. Mine is my homage to Tom and his movies. I'm
just getting it started thought. I have included your
page on my site as a link to great Tom Waits sites. I
hope that you are not offended by this if you go and
see my site. Thanks for the great Tom Waits stuff.
Keep the pictures coming.........renfieldtw@hotmail.com
I first got into Tom Waits about ten years ago when I
listened to the "Nighthawks" album that my brother-in-law had.
I was living in East Texas and it was tough to find
any of his records out there. But each one I got
lead me to search out more until there was nothing left but
the bootlegs. If anyone knows where I can get these,
please let me know. I have Bounced Checks, Mainstreet,
Downtown Blues and Hot Beer On A Cold Night..........s.glandon@mailcity.com
So, nobody knows where HE is now, ah?..........sesm_ton@prairie.lakes.com
I belive is is near the top of a very small list of all-time great songwriters.
I first heard him on Blue valentine, Romeo is Bleeding became my alltime favorite
until I got swordfishtrombones, raindogs, foreign affairs, and heartattack and vine
and I developed a taste for his guttural rumblings...........skipline@msn.com
First heard of Tom when he appeared on a TV interview to plug (I think) RainDogs. I was impressed with his attitude to the self important presenter. When he was asked to play somewthing he said no. The presenter asked why...Tom said "It's my album and I'll prmote it any damn way I please..."
>From then on I thought this guy is something else...bought RainDogs then three or four others...........martynbell@lineone.net
I first heard Tom Waits on an album I borrowed from my sister. The album was NightHawks at the Diner and from that moment I was hooked. That was around 1981. At the time I didn't know he had put out Closing Time and Heart of Saturday Night. My next purchase was Closing Time,favorite song on it was Grapefruit Moon. The others fell in place. I just recently bought cds 12,13, and 14 by Tom Waits. They were Blue Valentine, Big Time and Swordfishtrombones. My favorite 5 Tom Waits songs are On the Nickel, Innocent When You Dream (Barroom),Invitation To The Blues, Anywhere I Lay My Head, Whistle Down The Wind, and $29.00, I guess that was six. I have a P.O. Box address for Tom and I plan on sending him a five dollar check since I named my fantasy baseball team Waits' Derelicts and they've been in first place 17 straight weeks and are a cinch to win the championship. I love Tom Waits' music. It has That Feel. The man is a genuine down to earth hero of mine and he doesn't even know it. I hear he resides in Valley Ford about 3 and a half hours from me. I plan to look his ass up one of these days and share six or several of my stouts with him. I have never seen him live as I live in a remote area. But I used to listen almost always to Bob Dylan. Lately its been all Waits with an occassional Phil Ochs. What else can I say, I love Tom Waits. By the way why don't you list Early Yr. Vol. 1 or 2 on the survey below, they are great CDs..........jabb@lightspeed.net
What a great web site! I love Tom Waits I have 14 of his CD's. My
favorite is Heartattack and Vine then Early Years Vol 2. But they're
all great. My favorite one song is GrapeFruit Moon with Whistle Down
The Wind a close second. Do you have ICQ if not check it out at
www.mirabilis.com If you download it give me your UIN #. If you have it
already give me your # Thank, JIM BESHWATE owner of Wait's
Derelicts Fantasy Baseball Team. We're kicking ass and running away with
first place with two weeks left. I'm gonna send Tom a check for $5 for
him unknowingly sponsoring his name. 1B Rafael Palmeiro 2B Jon Valentin
3B Matt Williams SS Wil Cordero LF Bernie Williams CF Ray Lankford RF
Larry Walker C Mike Stanley P's Denny Neagle, Shawn Estes, Wilson
Alvarez, Hideo Nomo Andy Benes Congratulations To Waits' Derelicts.
Thanks for the great webpage......(no return email address left)
how can a person come into a website in 1997 and provide their comments about Tom Waits and his music.
beautiful. God, so much to say.
I've been a published poet for three years, and no one hit me harder than Waits. I was introduced to him earlier this year, and he has influenced me to no end, not only lyrically, but musically as well. He's an artist, plain and simple. He's the kind of figure that tells the rest of us artists to get up and do something.
Since I've been listening, I've been sculpting, painting, writing music again... He looks limitation in the eye and tells it "Get out of my way, can't you see I'm trying to drink."
.........SUP1.pkingsto@techteam.com
I believe he is the greatest musician of this century (also with Igor Stravinsky). I also compare his imagination and creativity with Jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker. And I associate his style with a Pepsi can (I don't know why, i just haven't figured out why). He really is the greates personality in music of this century (and of the previous too)...........L.Boulton@rocketmail.com
I am 17 years old, and I first heard about Tom Waits three years ago. I first heard the song "the black rider". I recognized that I was hipnotized by the song. So I took the booklet and read about the Black rider. I was more impresed, and I decided to satrt buying Tom record. Unfurtunetly, I live in the third-world: Venezuela and you cannot find Tom records in this shit. But it was nothing to me, so I went to Ireland on holidays and bought: "Frank's wild years", "Heartattack and vine", "the Black rider", and "bone machine", now I'm waiting for another journey, to buy the whole collection. Non of my friends don't understand this music. I compare it with Charlie Parker, and even Igor Stravinsky and I'm still short. So, thnaks to the internet, I can get HOT info of Tom... Hasta Luego, mis panas!!!...........J0008342-1@cantv.net
Tom Waits is Almighty God. I love his lyrics the most. I also like that no two albums are alike...........oliverja@pilot.msu.edu
Any Tom Waits disk (but particularly raindogs, heart attack... or swordfishtrombones) is what I reach for when I'm pissed, fed up, had too much liquor, or just plain bored. He's the cure for the dolldrums. If I had to pick one artist to keep and give the rest up, I'd keep Tom, for I am a raindog too...........MatthewPro@aol.com
I don't know, what can I say. It's fantastical music and he's fantastical actor. Have you seen his roles in Jarmusch's and Coppola's films. Have you listend his music on his "Romeo is bleeding" albom and sing on "Jesus blood never faeld me yet". He is my favorit. After his music I could listen "Can", "Foetus", "Van der graff generator"," Gong" and "The Residents" Very thank him for this. p.s. I don't know, what is my favorite albom...........nicolino@dol.ru
It is more than just music..........nicolino@dol.ru
Frank's Wild Years..........groucho@phaedrus.punk.net
tom waits is so good that everytime i listen to his music, i pee my pants!.........lila_jain@excitmail.com
Unbelieveble ! Deeply, deeply impressed !....(no email address)
I "discovered" Tom Waits in high school, about the time that Bone Machine came out. It appealed to me because it was so different from the standard high-school fare of the early 90's. And since then I've enjoyed digging back into Waits' discography--it gets better and better!...(no email address)
Tom Waits, in my opinion, is the greatest creator alive tody. I say creator because I don't like to keyhole him by calling him merely a musician, not saying a musician is a bad thing, but the man creates magic and that takes him to a whole different plane. I won't go on and on waxing philisophically, I just love the man and his music...........lowrance@mole.com
first discovered tom only a few short years ago--buddies of mine use to rave about this crazed genius, so i figured i'd give it a try. picked up 'bone machine' at a used CD shop--put the album on and i've been hooked ever since. i've added maybe 9 more albums since b/c tom's work has seeped into my soul, like a bad case of the flu. i'm convinced that the man is deranged! . . . aren't all artistic geniuses?!
i'll always remember drunken nights with my college buddies listening to tom: putting 'on russian dance' and stompin' in our seats, laughing our asses off to the intro to "Better off without a Wife" most importatly have been the times when i sit alone in my room and try and make some sense of what's going on in his world.
his evolution as a musician has been extraordinary--hes the court jester, the town drunk, and the obese, obnoxious king, releasing an array of expressions and emotions out in the open--making us laugh hysterically and reminding us not to be ahsamed of all our contradictions as disgusting human beings.
.........jeffreyj@ucla.edu
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