Tom Waits

RobTheDrummer · Post by **RobTheDrummer** » Wednesday Jul 18, 2007

link

Genius, groove, soul.

(holy hell, longest youtube link I have ever seen!)

Fat Vin turned me on to this stuff.

DirtySanchez · Post by **DirtySanchez** » Wednesday Jul 18, 2007

Get the album "Rain Dogs"

His newest one "Orphans, Bawlers,Brawlers, and Bastards" is pretty good too. Pretty much all of his stuff rules.

The man who coined the phrase, "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy."

PanzerFaust · Post by **PanzerFaust** » Wednesday Jul 18, 2007

DirtySanchez wrote:The man who coined the phrase, "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy."

This is actually called a "Spoonerism" and this one has been commonly attributed to W.C. Fields....

Maybe Capt. Grammar can back me up on this?

On a side note.. Great video!! (didn't want it to be a total thread hijack) hehe....

faeriewench · Post by **faeriewench** » Wednesday Jul 18, 2007

PanzerFaust wrote:
DirtySanchez wrote:The man who coined the phrase, "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy."
This is actually called a "Spoonerism" and this one has been commonly attributed to W.C. Fields....

Maybe Capt. Grammar can back me up on this?

This particular Spoonerism has been attributed to Tom Waits, Dorothy Parker, and W.C.Fields. I guess we'll never know who really said it.

(Personally, one of my favorite Spoonerisms is Flutterby since it keeps its meaning. (: )

PanzerFaust · Post by **PanzerFaust** » Wednesday Jul 18, 2007

faeriewench wrote: This particular Spoonerism has been attributed to Tom Waits, Dorothy Parker, and W.C.Fields. I guess we'll never know who really said it.

Cutting and pasting from Wikipedia is not doing internet research FW !! haha... (Just teasing)

Since Dorothy and W.C. were both dead for about 30 years when Tom said this in 1977 I'd have to guess he was not first... haha...
And although it sounds to me like something a drunk like W.C. would say it seems most legit web sites do agree on Dorothy Parker (although Fred Allen and Groucho Marx have been mentioned as well)

Banned · Post by **Banned** » Wednesday Jul 18, 2007

Love Tom Waits!

Plus he's got the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion guys backing him in that clip. Any JSBX fans here? Cool band. They were garage before garage was the big thing.

I'd love to put together a crazy feral blues band. Anymore, a lot of blues sounds like it's played by yuppies for yuppies. It's missing that raw, desperate, ragged power that a guy like Tom Waits has.

bassist_25 · Post by **bassist_25** » Wednesday Jul 18, 2007

I remember that video that The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion made with the little flying saucer in it. That was some crazy stuff.

HurricaneBob · Post by **HurricaneBob** » Wednesday Jul 18, 2007

Waits is cool, He and Cocker share the same prescriptions.

Banned · Post by **Banned** » Wednesday Jul 18, 2007

bassist_25 wrote:I remember that video that The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion made with the little flying saucer in it. That was some crazy stuff.

Their videos are amazing in a tabloid freakshow kind of way. Here's a good one. It's a little known fact that werewolves inspire nuns to get naked:

Jon Spencer - She Said

Hurricane wrote:Waits is cool, He and Cocker share the same prescriptions.

Kind of reminds me of Mr. Bob Backlund, too. (Damn, I can't stop making wrestling references.

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