![]() ![]() Waits says the car stereo is always either switched off, or so loud his kids fly around in the backseat like they have lost their minds. Waits listens to most things in his car, trusts his car, tells Dawes that the car listened to "Bone Machine", Waits' last album, and the car liked the album very much.ĭawes plays the cut and Waits turns it up to full volume. ![]() No, Waits tells Dawes, he doesn't know exactly what kind of system it is, just the kind where you drive into some place, and they install it. A bit of the master tape has been transferred to cassette, and Dawes puts it in the system in Waits' car. Tonight Waits is working, mixing his latest album, and he does not trust the low end of the Sound Factory's studio speakers. Tonight the blue moon is so bright that people are cruising headlight less. Waits - broken porkpie hat, black jeans, and T-shirt he'll wear most the next three weeks - turns the ignition. Up in the front seat, Biff Dawes (1) , first engineer of the Sunset Sound Factory (2), fiddles with the stereo system. Waits left the gas cap at a self-serve the previous night. The upholstery is sprung, the floorboards are deep with superhero appendages, words-of-wisdom books, pony blankets, food things. I am sitting in the back seat of Tom Waits' Cadillac. Mark Richard explores the methods to this virtuoso's madness in a rare glimpse into the creative process. Key words: Biff Dawes, Bone Machine, Mike Kloster, Creative process, Experimental instruments, Childhood, The Black Riderīohemian Brahmin Tom Waits has made a career of obliterating artistic boundaries. Transcription by Larry DaSilveira as sent to Raindogs Listserv Discussionlist, June 21, 1999 Go here for more details regarding the London run of Comparison Is Violence or The Ziggy Stardust Meets Tiny Tim Songbook.Source: Spin magazine (USA), by Mark Richard. However, it was the Biff Rose original that informed Bowie's version.in fact, today's lyric quotation is from Biff's version as Bowie changed that particular line to 'Gentleness is everywhere'. I'm sure you all know that Fill Your Heart from Hunky Dory was also recorded by Tiny Tim. I've Never Seen A Straight Banana (Written by Ernest Hare in 1926) (Recorded by Tiny Tim in 1976) You can read a review of the show from Joe's Pub in New York on May 21st here, but if you intend to go and see it in London, the review obviously contains spoilers.as does this set list from the same show.įive Years (Performed as Two Years) /Spaceship Song Medley ![]() The New Yorkers among you may have already caught this performance when it recently opened in The Big Apple.if that's still a term for New York? Taylor's show begins a five-night run at London's Soho Comedy & Cabaret Theatre on June 1st and Time Out New York has already described him as: 'One of the most exciting theatre artists of our time'. Here's what they say about it.Īfter years of enduring the 'Ziggy Stardust meets Tiny Tim' tag, Taylor Mac embraces it in what promises to be a typically gorgeous show: Mac tackles Bowie's full album plus some of Tim's numbers, bound together with musings on the nature of comparisons in contemporary cultural discourse. Time Out London has given Taylor Mac's latest presentation, Comparison Is Violence or The Ziggy Stardust Meets Tiny Tim Songbook, Critic's Choice in the current issue. ![]()
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