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2400wattman
Senior Member
Username: 2400wattman

Post Number: 714
Registered: 11-2005
Posted on Tuesday, May 19, 2009 - 11:37 pm:   Edit Post

I've been listening to good ol' Tom while cruisin' the net and his tunes just make everything fit. If you don't think so ..well don't bother posting your opinion ,please. This was a post meant for some positve feelings. Get down everybody!!

P.S. "nobodys' up except the moon and me"
If you can name that tune you will get a free set of strings from moi! One more time!! HAH!! get down ya'll!!!
Oh it's not a James Brown song BTW.
lbpesq
Senior Member
Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 3827
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 - 12:15 am:   Edit Post

"Well I'm sitting on a windowsill, blowing my horn"

Ahh ... Tom Waits. One of my favorites. Closing Time was one great song after another. I saw him open for Martin Mull and his Fabulous Furniture at the Troubadour in L.A. in '74 or '75. Halfway through the set Waits, sitting at the piano, reaches into the inside pocket of his sports coat and pulls out an open, half-filled bottle of beer, takes a slug, turns to the audience and says: "came with the coat".

Rosie

Bill, tgo
gregduboc
Intermediate Member
Username: gregduboc

Post Number: 152
Registered: 11-2008
Posted on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 - 5:33 am:   Edit Post

Good old Tom Waits...
I still can remember the first time I heard him... Back in high school, my English teacher and I were to do a jam session, and we broke off with Ice Cream Man. I had never heard him before... It only took me a couple of days do buy his CDs. I still hear them, when the mood calls for some drunk-at-the-piano sort of tune! :-)

"I got a cherry popsicle right on time
A big stick, mamma, that'll blow your mind"
Naughty

Greg
hydrargyrum
Senior Member
Username: hydrargyrum

Post Number: 564
Registered: 3-2004
Posted on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 - 5:40 am:   Edit Post

Tom Waits may be the coolest person to have ever lived. I got to see him in St. Louis at the Fox Theatre on the Glitter and Doom tour. I didn't think I would ever get a chance, and it was like living a dream for me.

/but you're innocent when you dream
olieoliver
Senior Member
Username: olieoliver

Post Number: 2394
Registered: 2-2006
Posted on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 - 6:14 am:   Edit Post

You beat me to it Bill. (By about 8 hours) :-)

OO
2400wattman
Senior Member
Username: 2400wattman

Post Number: 715
Registered: 11-2005
Posted on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 - 7:29 am:   Edit Post

Bill, do you think a .45-1.05 set of strings will work on Woody? ;)

(Message edited by 2400wattman on May 20, 2009)
lbpesq
Senior Member
Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 3830
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 - 9:04 am:   Edit Post

I don't know, but there's 16 feet of snow in the east, and it's colder than a well-digger's ass ... it's colder than a well-digger's ass.

Bill, "Ol' 55" (next year) tgo

P.S. Woody likes GHS Boomers, .10 on top. Big Irv likes the extra lights.
hydrargyrum
Senior Member
Username: hydrargyrum

Post Number: 565
Registered: 3-2004
Posted on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 - 12:38 pm:   Edit Post

For I, am a Raindog too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVaEPx_VyXs

If you've never had the pleasure of seeing the Big Time video, I strongly recommend it.
darkstar01
Intermediate Member
Username: darkstar01

Post Number: 162
Registered: 6-2005
Posted on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 - 4:37 pm:   Edit Post

i saw tom at the fox in atlanta last summer. definitely the best show i've ever seen. two and a half hours, non stop. one of my all time favorite musicians, period. if not my favorite.

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