Mentions Tom saying 'I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal
lobotomy.'
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Photo May '94? p67 (French) (Not American Photo)
He's getting a hair cut and almost looks like Elvis. On the page opposite is
a small column of text that is in French and I believe is on him. It is right next
to a topless photo of a woman.
The Black Rider
Rolling Stone Mar '94 p64(1)
The Black Rider
Stereo Review Mar '94 p98(1)
Waits: Black Rider
Opera News Feb 19 '94 p36(1)
The Black Rider
The New Yorker Jan 10 '94 p76(5)
Bryars: Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Stereo Review Jan '94 p133(1)
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Slitz ??? ?? '93? (Swedish magazine)
The reporter asked Waits if he had enjoyed acting against Jack Nicholson
in Ironweed." Well," he answered, "acting is pretty much like trying
to catch a bullet with yor teeth". The reporter tried a couple of
questions about music, but Waits was more interested in the
architecture of L.A... In the end it became more of a monologue than an
interview.
The Black Rider
The New Republic Dec 27 '93 p28(1)
The Black Rider
New York Dec 6 '93 p128(1)
The Black Rider
Time Dec 6 '93 p93(1)
The Black Rider rides again; a bizarre trio of talents - Tom Waits, William
S. Burroughs and Robert Wilson - brings its act to Brooklyn
Opera News Nov '93 p28(2)
Take a Ride with Robert Wilson's The Black Rider
Interview Nov '93 p72(1)
Tom Waits Interviews Robert Benigni
Interview Jan '93 p23(3)
by Michael Roberts
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Pulse! Magazine Sep '92
It seems Tom was visiting Graceland with his son who was nine or ten at the time,
maybe younger. After they had gone on the tour and were in the gift shop, Tom's
son suggested that they all go out into the back yard, dig Elvis up, and make a
necklace out of his teeth. Everyone in the shop was horrified, but the way Tom
told it, he seemed pretty proud of his son. Chip off the old block. Tom also
mentioned that bringing up kids was, "...like living with a bunch of drunks, you
always have to run around and catch a plate that's falling off the top shelf..."
or something to that effect. (I'm paraphrasing.) I'm pretty sure Waits also said
that he tried writing songs on his kids' toy piano but his kids kept stealing it back.
(Tom and Elvis Costello interview each other)
Option '90/'91
Follow That Dream
Follow That Dream Dec '90
Only talks about CD with Tom singing "Jersey Girl" with the BOSS.
Graffitti Magazine Mar/Apr '88 (Vol. 4, No. 12)
By Tim Powis
20 Questions
Playboy Mar '88
PLAYBOY: While you may strive for musical crudity, lyrically you're quite
sophisticated-interior rhymes, classical allusions and your hallmark, a great
ear for the vernacular. In a sense, you're the William Safire of street
patois, rescuing such phrases as walking Spanish-inebriated saunter and even
coining some pretty good lingo of your own, such as rain dogs: stray people
who, like animals after a shower, can't find their markings and wander
aimlessly. What are some of your other favorite bits of slang, phrases you'd
like to see get more everyday use?
WAITS: For starters, I'd like to see the term wooden kimono return to the
lexicon. Means coffin. Think it originated in New Orleans, but I'm not
certain. Another one I like is wolf tickets, which means bad news, as in
someone who is bad news or generally insubordinate. In a sentence, you'd
say, "Don't fuck with me, I'm passing out wolf tickets." Think it's either
Baltimore Negro or turn-of-the-century railroadese. There's one more. Don't
know where it came from, but I like it: Saturday night it is. Now, it's what
happens to your arm when you hang it around a chair all night at the movies
or in some bar, trying to make points with a pretty girl. When your arm goes
dead from that sort of action, you've got Saturday night it is.
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Musician Oct '87
(cover story)
Music and Sound Output Oct '87
(cover story)
Bay Area Monthly Oct 31, '86
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New Musical Express Oct 19, '85
When asked by the interviewer how he would like to be remembered,
Waits replied:
"Achievement is for senators and scholars. At one time I had ambitions but I
had them removed by a doctor in Buffalo. It started as cyst, it grew under
my arm and I had to have new shirts made, it was awful. But I have then in a
jar at home now."
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People (something about Swordfish Trombones)
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Keyboard Magazine '76
Tom was living in the back room(s) of a Hollywood motel at the time,
he describes sawing off a chunk of kitchen counter to squeeze his piano
into the place. Organist Brian Auger is on the cover.
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Rolling Stone '76?
He said something like his goal was to go get a pizza
and get out of the Seventies.
Tom Waits For No Man
Crawdaddy '76? p.82
Review of Small Change by Jon Pareles
Bitin' The Green Shiboda with Tom Waits
Down Beat Jun 17 '76? pp.14-16,44
Interview by Marv Hohman
Interviews: Stray Cats, Clapton, Tom Waits, Manset
Rock & Folk ?? ???. '??
French magazine cover used as example in French Language Book - "Vous Y Etes".
The cover also has `VOTEZ SPRINGSTEEN' as a feature story,
with a picture of "The Boss" and the Stray Cats.