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WTOP
"tom waits" Discussed on WTOP
"Reporter Tom Waits takes a look at how shift compares to other candidates that are considering the run. Also in the race for Senate Orange County congresswoman Katie Porter and congresswoman Barbara Lee for the Bay Area, senator Feinstein is 89 and the oldest member of Congress, she told reporters earlier this week that she's going to make her decision on whether or not to seek another term in the next couple of months, Professor of politics, Jack pitney says the race may be getting crowded and shift could be the early leader. Early on, representative Schiff is a favorite. He has a national profile stemming from his role in the impeachment proceedings. He'll have no trouble raising a great deal of money. Repeatedly declined to announce her plans, but Democrats expect the 89 year old Senate veteran to actually step down. Democratic California congresswoman Katie Porter already has entered the race. Democratic California congresswoman Barbara Lee, a longtime liberal leader, allegedly told her colleagues she intends to run, but has not officially announced yet. Stay tuned. Here at home, the former loudoun county superintendent was in court on Thursday asking for a judge to dismiss criminal charges against him related to two sexual assaults by a student, one student at two different schools, but the judge in the case has denied his request. His own Mikhail and Ellie reports from the courthouse. The argument from Scott ziegler's attorneys was essentially that Virginia's attorney general had overstepped his authority in convening the special grand jury that leveled the charges against ziegler that argument didn't work with the judge, he called it a narrow reading of statutory language. Ziegler is facing three misdemeanors in connection with how the louden county school system handled two sexual assaults by one student in 2021
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Respect for Marriage Act Will Impact Your Priest, Preachers & You
"Lot going on up on Capitol Hill. That's going to impact your preacher. Now, I suspect a good many of you actually are regular church attenders you go to mass, maybe you go to synagogue, you go to church, whenever the doors are open, if you're a baptist, well you got Sunday morning, then you got Sunday school, and then you got Sunday discipleship training and then Sunday Night services, and then you've got Wednesday, prayer meeting service. Baptist go to church a lot. What can I tell you? But the reality is you folks who go to church, what's happening up on Capitol Hill today is going to impact you and you need to be very, very, very, very concerned. About what the Republicans are going to be up to. And you say, well, Tom, wait a second. I thought the Democrats were in charge of the. So yes, they are in charge. But 12 Republican senators, including Willard Mitt Romney and Lisa Murkowski, have sided with the Democrats to advance the respect for marriage act. Now, here's what we're looking for and we're waiting for. We are waiting for the vote, but we're also waiting for an amendment a vote on an amendment senator Mike Lee and Marco Rubio among others have urged their colleagues to insert language that would protect your preachers because as it now stands. If this law goes into effect, if this law happens, if Joe Biden signs his John Hancock on the piece of paper, then your pastor and your church would be subjected to lawsuit, so if let's just say a gay activist comes and they say, hey, we want to be married in your church and you say, well, we can't do that because you know we're Presbyterian or whatever. And they could, at that point, under this law, sue you.
WNYC 93.9 FM
"tom waits" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"We can call this a match two for one period right now or we can call it simply a stretching your dollar period as well because you can give a $100 now and join the producers circle a $100 a month but that $100 judgment sit there as a $100 It multiplies It becomes $300 because of this two for one matching period Matt just a few seconds left Please give us more details about that Yeah Any man you give will be tripled as long as you call right now 888-376-9692 or go online to WNYC dot org as Michael said a $100 becomes $300 $5 a month becomes $15 Please support us now We so appreciate whatever whatever you're able to give at this moment Thank you very much for supporting WNYC WNYC supporters include MGM's licorice pizza written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson starring Alana haim Cooper Hoffman Sean Penn Tom Waits Bradley Cooper and Benny safdie now playing everywhere UJA federation of New York working around the clock to provide food medicine and humanitarian aid for Ukraine and its Jewish community More information at uj dot NYC Live from NPR news and Washington I'm Dave Mattingly Officials in Ukraine say three people including a child were killed in yesterday's air strike on a maternity hospital in the southern port city of Mario pole at least 17 others were wounded in a televised address today Ukraine's president denied a claim by Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov who says the building had no patience and was being occupied by Ukrainian forces Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as she agrees with the assessment of the Biden administration and the British government that establishing a no fly zone in Ukraine could lead to broader war in Europe Well no fly zones are very very serious undertaking And it's easy to throw it around It sounds defensive But you would probably have to suppress Russian air defenses You would have to be prepared to shoot Russian aircraft out of the sky if in fact that they were attacking And so I do think it risks wider war Rice was speaking to NPR's morning edition Ukraine's president volodymyr zelensky has repeatedly asked the west to set up a no fly zone amid the ongoing Russian attacks The house has approved more than 13 and a half $1 billion in emergency aid to Ukraine It's part of a broader one and a half $1 trillion spending plan that funds federal agencies through the end of the fiscal year This is NPR news from Washington This is WNYC in New York at 7 32 good morning I'm David first Lanes have reopened on the southbound New Jersey turnpike outer roadway by exit 13 That's following an earlier collision Police have arrested a person who they say attacked a man with a hammer in a subway station in Chelsea earlier this week The NYPD says the 48 year old is charged with assault aggravated harassment and menacing as a hate crime Authorities say the suspect instruct the victim in the head after bumping into him at the number one two and three train station at 14th street on Tuesday night The victim was brought to Bellevue hospital in stable condition last month a city worker was attacked with a hammer while walking down the steps of a queen's subway station New Jersey's prison population dropped by a third between 2019 and 2021 according to a report by the Vera institute Jacob Kang Brown authored the study for the criminal justice reform group He says efforts to decrease prison numbers should continue even as the pandemic eases Many people that are incarcerated there's no real reason for them to be there anymore other than the extremely long sentencing practices that we have in this country The remains and argument for reducing the prison populations in the United States further reducing the New Jersey While New Jersey had the second highest prison reduction rate in the country some states actually increase their prison population last year Kang Brown says states should emulate New Jersey's early release law it allowed more than 5500 prisoners to accrue earned time off during the pandemic so they could be released.
Rock N Roll Archaeology
"tom waits" Discussed on Rock N Roll Archaeology
"He's the opening act. He was the opening at yeah. Okay why i'm sorry. You're saying he was still do that. I don't know i think it's. Byu was he in. The group was in the muppet show. Who's brian rod. Fruit human show. What's happening i guess pranks up. The people going to see frank zappa's the mothers of invention guessing on fruit and like their own general there. They they seem like wild people anyway. It did not go well in fairness drink without a crater tomatoes and in fairness he was taking over for the previous opening at who had a very similar experience. Nobody who was coming to see frank. Zappa wanted to see anybody. But frank zappa. They didn't care who it was so after getting pelted with fruit. He went back and he released his next album. The heart of saturday unit mover. That's right the heart of saturday night which was Just one of his most famous albums and much more widely reviewed and well received it was a concept album about nightlife around the us and after recording it. He toured again with frank. Zappa again and it also did not go. Well i mean at this point. I want to say foamy once. Shame on me. Let me try. Jenga pulled again. Yeah that's that's that's that's on him if he tried to get you know. Yeah it's up is is a lot is a lot. And then channing. We wind diesel. What's his name. We saw this daughter moon unit. Mundi muneer we want threes threes. And then he held with fruits and then every year after that he toured with frank zappa just because he started really enjoying never. Why would i so. I'm adding fruit salad for dinner every night. It's great a save a lot of money on the road so this album that he did the concept album about us nightlife. Are there a couple of tracks where it's like. I think i'll just stay in tonight. There's ones band it's on tv. Yeah yeah there's one called no thanks. I'll stay in you guys know rate. I got an early morning yet. A great track gonna turn in early was really a heating up the charts staring at the telephone. Waiting for it to ring was a real big radio. That's right that's right. No but heart of saturday night. Great album so In seventeen like i said in seventy four he toward the east coast where he met. Admit bette midler. Which i love. I had no idea that they were a A an item of on again off again item..
Rock N Roll Archaeology
"tom waits" Discussed on Rock N Roll Archaeology
"Bunny it's just. It's him in piano right. It's not It's not like the level of production of love. But i won't do that. There's no yeah. I like meatloaf is a singer. His version of this song genuinely angered me. And i don't know why like literally. I listened to it for the first time and i was like. I don't know why this is happening. It's been swoon them. The to as far as i can tell the bette midler version was only done on an episode of saturday. Night live and in it she flips the genders which doesn't work quite as well but it's a really cool version and i'm pretty sure she did it with his blessing because they were very close at that time and they were actually in the item tomorrow to Saw a rainy. The song came back in twenty fifteen the adele song. Hello if you listen to that song it Sounds like a real familiar story. So in two thousand fifteen when that song came out. Tom waits fan. Sort of caused a stir because they accused adele of ripping off the song. Martha has a similar synopsis. Similar feel similar sentence structure. And no one. In adele's camp said anything specifically about ripping it off but her co writer and producer. Kirsten said this entertainment weekly. He said she didn't want to just go through. And write a pop song with any particular formula. We talked about tom. Waits and different storytellers like that. I think that was the idea that we wanted to do something. That was very honest about where she was at right where she was at right now and she wanted to do something. That was really unbelievable. So you know look. Tom waits face. I'm sorry but this is how it works right. You're inspired by a certain kind of song. Every song you can trace back to another song and we already talked about out similar. This is the operator slowly figure much influenced by well. That's that's a good example of like straight stealing. It'd be inspired by listen. There's you know there's many ways it could go but it is very similar but there's a lot of songs like this. It's a song about out to an old love like seen some italian restaurant operator or like a million other signs and you know look cars has the same plot is doc hollywood. What can i tell you these things happen. I mean i wouldn't have. I wouldn't have thought of it but yeah like it could clearly be inspired by it. But it's not the same song right. Yeah the adult song starts. Hello it's me. Tom waits at years. It's different it's different saw. Hello martha it's tom. That's pretty spot on so slowly. Difference right dun dun dun dun dun. It's diff- operator adults on exactly cellphones. Regardless martha you up. Yeah so i do want to imagine. Operators like in a satellite being like adele calling her old lover. Let me just this out that in pull my gum around. Got it any instruments again..
Rock N Roll Archaeology
"tom waits" Discussed on Rock N Roll Archaeology
"Because i could make a way sadder for you. Okay so this is happening in a not for dan shop. It's not sad to dan. It's like the tin man. They didn't give him a heart. Don't leave me on the rain. Belonging to say oil can say. I say i do thanks. One oil. two-time frustrated moved on old old. Has you kids. You know gotten married found fees. Oh as soon now so either in a coffee shop or he him pouring his heart out in in a dirty funding he says. I feel so much older now. Yeah you're forty years older. So i would imagine you feel a tiny bit. I feel so much older now. You're much older too. Okay okay. that's one line. Quick tip for mr tom frost still we all know. Obviously forty years has gone by. She's vampire so she is forty years but you don't have to bring it up just like let it could talk about old. You are if she wants to mention rate but hopefully like i'm all your clearly super like why both age maybe action i see smoking. I can't imagine why these two broke up with the social graces. Show in here. I mean we also don't hear what's going on on the other side of the phone like maybe he's like he says that he got older and and she's like oh did you and he's like well. You got older too. That's sort of his rebuttal else. So quickly talked. She's though actually know in. Forty-seven under transylvania became a bride of dracula. So i'm actually not aged since that since dan. How's your husband and how's your kids. You know that. I got married to so he says..
Rock N Roll Archaeology
"tom waits" Discussed on Rock N Roll Archaeology
"I am not going to jump forward. And how crushingly heartbreaking. It makes the ending of this song to me now. Because dan is a monster but to me it when he says forty years or more i can't i can't get enough. Well it'll be honest now. I don't know what how. Martha feels about This and i don't know how passionate their relationship was but a forty year gap. I'm gonna say there's not an out side chance that when he says it's forty years aboard martha please recall. She's going to say. I'm sorry who i don't. It has been four decades. Do you understand that a world war happened in between the last time you and i spoke. No i'm sorry thom. If that's your name i don't remember you okay. Let's go there. I know we had there. I don't haven't talked since one thousand nine thirty three. But i really just wanted to see what you thought. What do you think of television. That's gonna last the moon landing. That was remember that was beatles. Well that's the think if we're going to talk about it all like what are they gonna talk about like yes. I'm without the war happened. He walked on the moon cow. What else happened. Mad are wear jeans all the time anyways but grade. Seeing tom this is this is not a non-sequitur. But this is sort of tangential to this. I just realized there's a show called nathan for you. It's a very funny show. The last episode they do as a movie..
The Story Song Podcast
"tom waits" Discussed on The Story Song Podcast
"Yeah and finally for this round about tom waits if you want a real treat watch his performances and his interviews on david letterman. The man is a delight. he is He's like a poet a storyteller. He's you don't know what's true. And what's not true. He's been doing he was he had done interviews with david letterman. Since like eighty-three it's always fascinating. His performances are always incredible completely different. He's a lot like bob dylan and his performances. Where it's it seems like. The song is never played the same twice Dylan does that a lot. Where like you just listen to song. You're like i. I know this song but it sounds completely different. He's just he's a he's a fascinating individual. Who has been around for forever and always been super cool and he's still married to kathleen brennan and You know so also a long marriage. And that's that's mr. Tom waits gaining any long distance. Calls from midler. Actually just keep singing to each other. It's been forty years. It's true it's true. Yeah just suggestion thought epa. Yeah i mean. He's great walking seven. One of those things where you say. He's yeah he's great. He's great if you want if you want to Have a nice little. Like go down. A nice little youtube whole watch interviews of him on david letterman and then watch interviews of him like i said in the early in the late seventies when he was like twenty nine because he also still seems like an old soul. He's like but it is. He's constantly entertaining and fascinating all right awesome. Okay well thank you for that. Let's take a quick break and we come back. We'll talk about the lesson we.
The Story Song Podcast
"tom waits" Discussed on The Story Song Podcast
"Many way. It's a persona that he played. Yup i'm gonna start ignoring you to always a good idea thing. So he obviously he continued to evolve. Not only in hit in the genre bending and his experimentation with music but also with his voice which turned more and more gravelly He in total. He has released seventeen albums including nineteen. Eighty-three swordfish trombones. Which was his first self produced album and marked his sort of it marked departure from asylum records and the start if his reinvention as more experimental artist he started experimenting more with different types of instruments. it's also around this time That e Is a little earlier. That he married his wife cathleen brennan who became his Collaborator and she was sort of one of the people who Sort of pushed him to To reinvent himself and produce his own his own album He has some interesting like he has some interesting quotes about the instruments. He uses like sort of his different instruments. He's a big fan of the bullhorn which is amazing and He he says one quote. That i just love very short. He says nothing beats the drama of bullhorn. Mike you know what. I'm going to get to of that because he's right right. I guess you can't argue with that. That's right so in addition to swordfish. Trombones one of his other big albums is one thousand. Nine hundred three's bone machine which won him his first grammy for best alternative album and nine hundred ninety nine mule variations which was his which was his first album on anti which is an offshoot of the record label epitaph records which. I feel like we've spoken about before. It's a mostly punk label founded by bad religion's girl wits and it's also his highest charting album hitting number thirty on the billboard. Two hundreds at one him grammy for best contemporary folk album and ranks four sixteen on rolling stones list of the five hundred greatest albums of all time. It is a great album but most of his albums are pretty terrific and each one of them has something to say Some of his notable songs are sandiego. Serenade if you haven't heard it. It's incredible i listen. I listen to it three times today alone. Probably his most famous song. Is tom nakas right. Tom tro bears. Blue's four sheets to the wind and copenhagen which is his. take on the song waltzing. Matilda you you've probably heard of before you've probably heard before i also i remember a lot of walton mathilde fans really were up in arms about how he say at all that. That's right. yeah it was. It was rough for them. They're one of his other. Notable songs is way down in the hole which you might recognize as a theme song for the wire. I did not realize that this theme song terrific and just to let everybody know if you don't know the way they did it on. The wire is every season. A different singer or band sang the theme song but it was always way down in the whole great great song. christmas card from a hooker in minneapolis. Also brain Hold on come on up to the house phillips on Yep he's he wrote that many people don't know someday somebody's gonna turn around and say jersey girl which was covered by bruce springsteen end downtown train which is most famously covered by mr rod stewart. I had no idea wrote that. I know it's great now. Did he write it. Did you said it was covered. So he didn't write it for rod stewart. He wrote it for himself. And then rod stewart right right. Russell samachar covered a couple of his songs because he also covered his Four sheets to the winning copenhagen Also just on a side note one of my favorite songs I think it's i want to say it's a mule. Variations is a song called chocolate. Jesus which he uses bullhorn throughout It's it's terrific anyway. Just that's my favorite song his anyway. That's that's what i'm saying In addition to his music. Tom we has also performed in a number of movies. Five specifically five with longtime friend. Jim jarmusch cannabis as name said he says name. Jim jarmusch. i'm just gonna say right. Jim jim thank you. I i wanna say like a four. When i say is every time i say his name. I mean who wouldn't kill to be a fly on the wall. When jim jarmusch tom ways embed midler chilling right right just like hanging out beers talking right. Imagine mike gosh. What could they talk. So he was in a his His movies down by law in eighty six which i think was his first movie Mystery train in eighty nine which He played. I think the same played the same character in that movie but it was only his voice coffee and cigarettes in two thousand and four which is also very famous film and the dead. Don't die which came out in two thousand nineteen. He also composed a soundtrack for his nineteen ninety-one movie night on earth. In addition to this he's composed other soundtracks e- composed the soundtrack for eighty threes. One from the heart which he made with crystal gayle and for which he received an academy award nomination so they have a whole crystal gayle. Tom waits album. Which is very interesting. so In addition to his movie- worked with jarmusch He was also in transport. Coppola movie rumble fish. Who's in bram stoker's dracula. He was in mystery men He was imaginarium of doctor. Parnassus and seven psychopaths among many other credits. Both credited and on credit on credited In addition to that he also wrote a musical based on a song from his album. Swordfish trombone old. Franks wild years which played at the steppenwolf theatre company. He then took the music from that musical and turned it into an album called. Franks wild years The the the show was written by himself and kathleen brennan and it was directed by gary sinise after he had a falling out with the first director and included. Gary sinise and laurie metcalf in a couple of other people. Although steppenwolf people.
The Story Song Podcast
"tom waits" Discussed on The Story Song Podcast
"But the fact that like a guy who sounds like he's gargling gravel singing about a guy in his sixties. Looking back back with regret the fact that i did like burn up the charts is not exactly the most surprising thing in my opinion but i see the funny thing is his his voice back then mean he. I think he was putting it on a little bit in martha but the other songs on that album. It's not really that gravelly. I mean it's a different voice but it's not like his later songs like you know Oh absolutely yeah like all like what is it called swordfish trombone and stuff like his more experimental stuff. It's not like that at all. I'm saying i mean maybe he was expecting more but this doesn't this doesn't sound like a radio. Friendly unit mover. If i use an industry you know what i mean. Sure i have no idea what any of that means. So sounds good well. It's it's a song that's radio friendly and it sells albums. It's a radio friendly. unit mover. Second album was actually called radio friendly unit mover He was trying to get into it so like i said the only single off of that album was all fifty five and it was made more famous by the eagles though. He called their version into septic so boom blue Something interesting was after the album. Release a instead of working on his next album. He was kind of. Talked into touring with frank zappa. The mothers of invention and it went poorly. He was basically jeered off stage pelted with fruit terrible terrible and the opening act. He's the opening act. He was the opening at yeah. Okay why you're saying he was still do that. You got was he was he in the muppet show. Who's brian rod fruit show. What's out i guess brings up. The people going to see frank zappa. The mothers of invention guessing their own fruit and like their general. These seem like wild people. Anyway it did not go well in fairness for example show with tomatoes and in fairness he was taking over for the previous opening act who had a very similar experience. Nobody who was coming to see. Frank zappa wanted to see anybody but frank zappa. They didn't care who it was so after getting pelted with fruit he went back and he and he released his next album. The heart of saturday unit mover. That's right the heart of saturday night which was Which is one of his most famous albums and much more widely reviewed and well received it was a concept album about nightlife around the us and after recording it. He toured again with frank. Zappa again and it also did not go well at this point. I want to say when we once chased me. Let me try jenga geoghegan again. Yeah that's that's that's that's on him if he tried it again you know. Yeah it's you know is is a lot is a lot. And then just channing. We want what's his name son. Result moon unit luna threes threes. And then he tells him with fruits and then every year after that he toward with frank zappa just because he started really enjoying fruit. Now that's not true. Why would you so expensive ways like. I'm having fruits out for dinner every night. It's great save a lot of money on the road so this album that he did the concept album about us nightlife. Are there a couple of tracks where it's like. I think i'll just stay in tonight. There's bandits on tv. Yeah yeah there's one called no thanks. I'll stay in you. Guys munn rate. I got an early morning. A great track gonna turn in early was really a man. Heating up the charts staring at the telephone. Waiting for it to ring was a real big radio. That's right that's right now but heart of sorry night a great album so like i said in seventy four. He toured the east coast where he met. Admit bette midler. Which i love. I had no idea that they were a An item of an on again off item. It makes complete sense If you ever have ever seen any bette midler in the seventies you're like oh yes she is the type of person in the seventies that would be hanging out with. Tom waits in like she is when she's super cool now but she was not about miller but she was she was like she was like pumped back then like she was so counterculture in a way back. Then you know what i mean. She played bath thousands. For god's sake so it rigid you don't have to at least make then. You said tom waits in bed. Miller dated i was like yeah of course makes it literally the most i've ever heard. So yeah i love that. And i love her song sharing me timbers and i love his songs shiver members is it is funny though why yes bette. Midler was counterculture at the time. And i mean but was also counterculture in the seventies singing boogie. Woogie bugle boy singing her take on it from the thirties and forties. Yeah but she put her own take on it. Anyway we'll save that for a bette midler. Some possibly shivering but agree like she's but she's one of those people who so counterculture that she doesn't. She's not she's like beyond that she's she's doing her own sake. Just like tom waits. Tom waits and like everyone's singing like psychedelic songs about like white rabbits or whatever. He's just like i'm sixty five years old all my phone like you know whatever. He's not chasing a trend is what right. He's just being himself. He's being all tom frost out here. Right right sorry just writing songs by about how much long distance paul's causes. Good lord give me strength so he is. Tom frost his. Chris gaines stomach.
The Story Song Podcast
"tom waits" Discussed on The Story Song Podcast
"A voice. As far as i can tell the bette midler version was only done on an episode of saturday night live and in it. She flips the genders which doesn't work quite as well but it's a really cool version and i'm pretty sure she did it with his blessing because they were very close at that time and they were actually an item was no tomorrow to saw for. The song came back and in twenty fifteen. You know the adele song. Hello if you listen to that song. It sounds like a real familiar story. So in twenty fifteen when that song came out. Tom waits fan sort of caused a stir because they accused adele of ripping off the song. Martha has a similar synopsis. Similar feel similar sort of sentence structure and no one in adults camp said anything specifically about ripping it off but her co writer and producer greg. Kirsten said this entertainment weekly. He said she didn't want to just go through. And write a pop song with any particular formula. We talked about tom. Waits and different storytellers like that. I think that was the idea that we wanted to do something. That was very honest about where she was at right where she was at right now and she wanted to do something. That was real and believable. So you know. Look tom waits. I'm sorry but this is how it works right. You're inspired by a certain kind of song. Every song you can trace back to another song and we already talked about out similar. This is the operator like good. Slow is very much influenced by well. That's a good example of like straight stealing being inspired and sure. I mean listen. There's you know there's many ways it could go but you know i mean it is very similar but there's a lot of songs like this. It's a song about to an old love. Like italian restaurant operator like a million other signs and you know look cars has the same plot is doc hollywood. What can i tell these things happen. I mean i wouldn't have. I wouldn't have thought of it but it could clearly be inspired by it but it's not the same song right. Yeah the adult song starts hello. It's me tom waits. It's different to present is different on. Hello martha it's tom. That's pretty spot. Always say allow so slowly difference right dun dun dun dun dun. It's different no operator. Dull song exactly to cell phones regardless martha you up so i do want to imagine. Operators like in a satellite being like adults calling her old lover. Let me just pull my gum around. Got it any instruments again. We're crashing dammit. So in regards to the song itself that's really all that's out there about it there. There's there's not much don't say much better. I mean it wasn't a single so it's not. There's not much to say Not so only gonna do I'm going to focus a little bit. Obviously i'm gonna talk a little bit about tom. Waits but much like a lot of the more prolific people that we speak about. This is gonna be a real quick overview of tom waits also. He does a lot of story songs. So this is not gonna be the last one. We do have him So thomas alan weights was born december. Seventh nineteen forty nine in pomona california and an interesting thing about the day that he was born is that it was one day after the legendary blues guitarist and singer lead belly died so belly soul went directly. You're tuned did. Tom waits really did. Isn't that incredible again. That's literally canon the canon and obviously. He's he's known for his You know his gravelly raspy voice and he said oh does he have a raspy bit and he said he later recalled. It was an uncle's raspy gravelly voice that inspired the manner in which he later saying he definitely you know curated and sort of an leaned into that. I mean i think he Had that voice to begin with and he just sure leaned into it for artistic purposes so obviously in the beginning he was very influenced by the generation And bob dylan was a huge inspiration to him and started seeing on the sandiego folk scene when he was just a teenager. He quickly started building a name for himself. And and kind of outgrew san diego which es than one of his One of his best songs san diego serenade saying And he but he started to travel to los angeles to play at places like where do you think he probably played a lot in. La dodger stadium dodger stadium. I them so many times played dodger. Stadium you have to. You have to wear donald duck cost him. That's right yeah. I mean think about it termidor. That's the troubadour. Of course he made at the troubadour makes us. Yes he seems like he fits in with that. Yeah early seventies troubadour seen sure sure. So we played at the troubadour in the like late sixties early seventies in an in seventy one he finally got signed to his first publishing and recording contract by her cohen. However his recordings with cone we're not published at the time. They were only later released in the nineties on the albums the early years volume one and the early years volume two. Okay then maybe explain a little bit. Were why i have the time line is all screwing. Yeah because those. I probably thought those were new right time not fully understanding what was going on in fairness they were no but i didn't realize they had been recorded twenty years earlier so i mean by the ninety s. He was completely. I mean he was a completely different creature. You know what i mean. He he will me. We'll get into it whatever What so. After the her cohen years he was signed to asylum records by david geffen. And it's here where he released closing time in seventy three. Like i said it didn't do much never charted but it was received positively by critics and You know like. I said it kind of i feel like it kind of got lost in the singer. Songwriter movement when he wanted to be to be more of a jazz piano album So i mean what does that mean jazz piano. I think he wanted probably to have you know could have had more horns a little even back at that point i think he maybe wanted a little more experimental stuff and they wanted more to straightforward singer-songwriter. Piano singer-songwriter yeah. I mean i don't wanna i don't wanna like You know i think. Tom waits obviously is incredibly talented and.
The Story Song Podcast
"tom waits" Discussed on The Story Song Podcast
"Check out the songs of the story song. Podcast find the story song. Podcast the official playlist and the story song. Podcast the official classic playlist on spotify to stream all the great songs we review on the show. All right welcome back. It's time for story behind the story. How did this story come to be rachel. yes mr. tom waits shore. What's up. what's the deal. What's up leave me. Don't leave me wait thing. Pleased never again. Never thing never again. My problem was i was. I was gonna say waiting but i was wasting so then i was like should i say wait choice said well. These are the things is the host. I really have to struggle with you. Know another option. Another option would events not new at all. no. I don't think so now no action. Don't see it anyway. Hit us was the story. How did the story going to be. I will try my best. Here's here's the thing I'll just start with the basics. So martha was written and recorded by tom waits. He's a one man band so to speak it was it was released in march. Nineteen seventy three on the album closing time which was his debut album. It was never released as a single. So it's only on. It's only on the album. The album closing time only had one single old fifty five which you may know because the eagles covered it and it became. It became a hit for the eagles. He doesn't do a lot of singles. It's tough to find a lot about the meaning of the song was written How it was written or anything like that. Tom waits is kind of notorious for not looking back on his work and especially in his earlier days which were much less experimental than his than his later works. They're they're much more straightforward. It's it's Much more singer song. Songwriting thing The The song itself didn't do too didn't do too much a and i for me. I think it's maybe kind of got lost in the Singer songwriter feel of it. He he expected to be much more jazzy. But when it was written They sort of they pulled it back and made it more folk and And singer songwriter. So it was a little different. Wasn't exactly what he wanted And so i think that's part of me thinks that's kind of where where it got sort of lost in the mix at that time in the in the early i mean. Is he a little out of step with the times. Because it's funny as i come to know. Tom waits like in the nineties. And i'm i'm actually even now a bit surprised to discover how far he goes back. Of course we've talked about. He is timeless shock because he's always old so it's hard to know like you listen to one song and the you listen to like assigned came out twenty years later and he sounds the same. So it's hard to put it into context but when you say nineteen seventy-three i'm thinking you know james taylor jesse brown. The eagles like i wonder if maybe they're just not a place for him at this time. Well he i think it a little bit. I think he was ahead of his time as an experimental artist. And i also think like. I said in in these beginning especially the debut album. The debut album is very straightforward. I mean the song is just a just basically sort of bar piano. And and him. And i don't think that it doesn't seem like that was the direction he wanted to take it. But the production The you know the way it was produced. Was i think to try and capitalize on the sort of singer-songwriter thing that was happening at the time which may be. This is just me like mega assumptions. Maybe it felt like he was trying to pigeonholed or trying to be forced You know square peg into a round hole type thing Which is amazing because the the work on closing time is terrific. It's a it's wonderful album. It did nothing. I mean it did not do really anything on the charts. But it's but even now in his day in his debut album his voice as we spoke about he was twenty four his voice and the maturity of his writing is way beyond his years at that point way beyond the fact that he can write a song. Like this about this. This long long lost love at the age of twenty. Four is is incredible. And i've seen a lot of a lot of interviews with him not at this time maybe a little bit older. Like maybe twenty twenty eight twenty nine and he still is like you listen to him. And you're you're you're like you're fifty you're like fifty five right. But he's twenty eight. He just always had that sort of old soul combined with like puckish juvenile ity. He's an interesting person anyway. Anyway all that to say there's not much to be said about this song specifically because he doesn't really talk much about it. He does not look back a lot on his on his work Hey can i ask you sure what. What was the name of that debut album again closing time. Oh you want to turn all the lights on all over every boy and every girl. I almost didn't want to tell you what it was for. Fear of that happening. Her closing time was like a son of a. I'm sorry actually are them. How our komo. He's not he's not so sort of like weird monster but yeah probably confidence it takes to have a debut album called closing time exactly. Well i mean true. Well listen. here's the thing i mean. You know his his albums especially earlier on all had this feel of it being late night in a bar with a bunch of people sort of down on their luck. The people you saw at closing time you know what i mean it. You know. there's a you know. There's the song searching for the heart of saturday night those those type songs. It's it's it's it's very much that feel. He even had a couple of like concert specials. A couple years down the line where it looked like he was just you know there were parts where he was like in a diner and or like leaning against a lamppost. It's that that sort of feel sort of you know. He's a real andy capp. Yeah i've i've closed down a few bars. In every time i do originally did i always had the same thought which was a. I have got to get my life together. This is never place you want to be. So which he did meet so makes sense. It makes sense well. I'm saying that's the vibe. He was giving. I'm sure he was doing great. I mean he's singular talent warn of one but yeah i mean he definitely has some dark times and stuff You know he had his own sure. But yeah i mean there was a time. He wouldn't let those billy goat cross that bridge. And i thought the worst valley called krav air through my questions three i..
The Story Song Podcast
"tom waits" Discussed on The Story Song Podcast
"At all scored nine hundred fifty whatever but let's go on said screw you know not a not a What's what's the word a march december romance. Well did they back then. Did they live in shanty town because they didn't have maybe they were like patches neighbor And shantytown they had a little like one room flat in shantytown. Yes die liked a lot. Did they live in chicago. The night chicago died in the late. The late twenties early thirties shore shore. And if they lived in shantytown by the call yards. I mean if all that really mattered was that he was a man maybe. He had one fist of iron and coal mines. Maybe working to call nine. So yeah i'm not saying that that she is sylvia but like what if they didn't get together because of his sylvia's mother situation where she was like you never called and he's like i called. Oh man i love or maybe it was like. I didn't cranked a little thing. Sadly enough i never i never knew how many times to crank And i did find the song that i was thinking about or before. So what if this doesn't take place in a coffee shop or a cafe or something. What if it takes place in a car and he says got married to and it turns out. She married her an architect bouquet. Who kept her warm and safe and dry. That is definitely in the other one. The other old lovers talking she she would have liked to say she loved the man but she didn't like to lie. That's right. it's raining. Snow turns into rains. very sad. christmas eve. It's perfect I think when he leaves the coffee shop He doesn't know what to do and now he has nobody so he just goes next door to a bar where a little lady is playing processing. Yeah this oh it totally works. I mean he's lost. Little is really pearls their whole life. he's been lost because he doesn't have her and now he's lonely yup imperils like i'm single single and he's like. I'm good young not that lost not that lonely dope. He's tell you tells historian she's like i got me iceman. That's all the press against. Don't have any songs for you. I think for the loss of the lonely. But you know this is a new level ch forty years. Forty years hit has called for forty years all pearl alone. I hear you using on these things. I can't help you now with ad. Voice you certainly couldn't be a professional musician. You won't have a long career exactly influence or and countless number of other artists to ten years frozen like watching hoping like. I really don't know much about the music. Never cut out for this i. I'm wrong every tied all right. Let's say a quick break and when we come back and talk about the.
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"tom waits" Discussed on The Story Song Podcast
"Talk about the long history of tortured phone operator. How many times the leila's this happened. How many sob stories do these operators have to sit through. They have a job to do. Okay job fists. No that's what i'm saying. They are not trained provisional. No in this they just lost you counselors. They're not not your mother. They're not a shoulder to cry on. They stick plugs together to communicate with other people. Look maybe that's why they take the job. But i don't want to help michael. I don't think they do. I think what they want to do. Is they want to pull one plug out of the wall into another area in the wall. And then with their finger take the gum out of their mouth and spinning around on their finger and then pull it out and then talk gladys next gossip. That's waiting for the next call. Toco tomlin right say every operator the only dream every operator ever had was just to be played by lily. Tomlin et cetera. And that they don't wanna be your counselor. They wanna be a shoulder to cry on. I mean come on. What are you wanna do. You grow up. I really have a passion for taking one plug out of the wall and putting it into right slugs but it happens every time operator number please. It's been so many years as the operator. Here's my response. I don't care many years this morning. Well who do you want to call. I don't need to know the back story of why this phone call is happening. You want to call somebody on the operator. I'll plug this one and i'll you could talk to her. I don't care can't not alone. Stivers jim croce what why can't remember. The name of the band was the band for sylvia's about telling his mother whether names doctor. You dr jim crunchy. I don't care all right. Usually fair claudia's mother. The operator was more rushing him off the phone course sick god man set these up in order of how annoyed won't and it just ends with sylvia's mother those songs who just this operators a really bad day. Oh my god what is all the same night. Wave night jumping jumping segments. We're all i know. I know we're already off the rails. We loved the road miles back. What song we doing okay. So it's been so many years. Will she remember my old voice. When i find the tears side note very good choice of words from mr wait when he says my old voice because he's got an old voice eight spoiler alert. If you're if you're for the back story if you presumably just heard the lyrics one. I ended up and here are just heard him singing. He's twenty four. Yes when he is singing this yes. Y'all what i'm saying. okay. I'm just saying he sounds like he's eighty and he died when he was seventy. That's all i'm saying. Okay has crawled out of a grave to sing this on for this is early. This is and this is early on his career and so his voice develops even more after this so he starts an elderly voice and more elderly. Which ps that is not. I am not that is a complaint from me. I actually love waits and his voice but it is true. He does not have the voice of a twenty four year old. If you had a voice him at twenty four you'd be like you should probably go to at least an emt like some bring like. Yeah you should yeah exact or you should write songs from the perspective of a much older character and he went. That route became very successful popular mainstay in an popular culture. Whatever so that's why he's that's why he's music's wilford grimly because he he's playing characters thirty years and senior usc right now at a young. That's what i'm saying. Well for bramley. Flake forty eight in cocoon. But he was gone in cocoon. No i think he was. Literally i think wilford bramley was like no joke like fifty years old in cocoon and then like everyone else in cocoon was like seventy five years right and he just war he just came out of the womb. That you're saying so anyway point is. That's what i'm saying. So tom waits and wolfer. Bramley a robust benjamin buttons and anyway. He's on the call right torturing this operator well she remember mild voice and to your point. This is a great line outside of the side of the way. He's singing it. Mild voice is a voice from the past and right she hasn't heard his voice so voices older than it was when they last spoke. yes absolutely. yes we're gonna find out it's been quite some time. Yes since since since. They've talked also he does like puppet voices so this is one that he hasn't tried out in years. That's right so the other thing is that i mean this is seventy three again. I mean spoiler. We're gonna find out in a moment. It's been forty years killing me. Go ahead or no. I'm i'm saying in the song says this years. That means the last time they talked was nineteen thirty-three jerem like an age when newsreel narrators follow people around to say things ike chicago like. That's you know that's going on. So i mean they may have never even talked on the phone. Right right yeah. I've only talked by telegram. So after everything. He says he should stop exactly. Yeah yeah so one time. He made her a phonograph record that she smashed against the phonograph. In sure satis. Yeah yeah well you had to. Was he remember my voice while fight the tears. Hello hello there. Is this martha it's old. Tom frost. Jack's brother was going to say as like a mythical is a nymph jumping from leaf to leaf. It's old tom. Frost and i'm calling long distance..
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"tom waits" Discussed on The Story Song Podcast
"Is about an older man calling up and trying to reconnect with an old girlfriend quite possibly his first girlfriend asking to get together to talk about their past and then at the end spoiler alert. He confesses that he still loves her. And then i. And then i weep openly as every time i've listened to it that's how it ends. If you're looking for the saddest song ever written. This might be hit. Stay said we're talking. So because dan is a monster in a robot. I like no emotions. I wanna be clear. This song very much but i feel like i have a different reaction to it which we'll talk about. We got there. I don't want to give it away. Okay but i let's just say i'm wondering what's going on on the other end of this phone right. I'll you know what i'm saying enough fair enough i will. We will get into that but that is enough. The only maybe the maybe around. But i'm imagining a lot of holding the hand over the receiver and given a lot of this. I just got. I know this guy make make an god yum. Sorry does every year i got.
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"tom waits" Discussed on Podcast RadioViajera
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"tom waits" Discussed on Podcast RadioViajera
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Senators Schumer and Gillibrand call on New York Gov. Cuomo to resign
"And lawmakers across the country calling on New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to step down. CBS is Tom Wait, has the latest in battle New York Governor Andrew Cuomo defiant on a conference call Friday, even after New York's to Democratic U. S Senators. Majority leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand released a joint statement calling on him to step down. Cuomo still trying to hold on, I won't speculate about people's possible motives. But I can tell you as a former attorney general. Who's gone through this situation many times. There are often many motivations for making an allegation.
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"tom waits" Discussed on NewsRadio KFBK
"Bad, you know? E mean, I think black programs like Tom Waits. I like Tom, but it's an acquired taste, You know, don't amount Allowed. Breathe. Yeah, In a way off this island, enough against kind of see that combo, you know, before it was 74. I mean, you know That was early. Bruce Springsteen. You know, the year the following that he has now, so that could be could be an interesting combo. Tracy's joining us tonight. Hello, Tracy. All right. Thanks for taking my call. Oh, yeah. You bet. You, um I just Just take getting back. You've mentioned those rock and roll Hall of fame? Yeah, I don't know. I think most of that is just political. I'm a big DT open. Bachman Turner overdrive and they never get mentioning. No, you were, uh, especially Randy Bachman or even the guest, too. You know, I just they just like with anything else, like NFL and Baseball Hall of Fame stuff. I think it's just who you know, and the right people in all of that. I just don't think there's any I just don't think it's fair, to be quite honest. Yeah, I don't either. Bachman Turner. Randy Bachman is not in the in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And here he is, with the guests who and with Bachman Turner Overdrive who? Both bands out of a huge string hits, right, Let's be honest, and he was Ah, very unique guitar player. Yeah, he's actually lint rhythm guitar player and one of the best producers I think after, and I think one of the best songwriters ever. I mean that that make them kind of arrogant. But if you lose to compare his stuff a lot of people back in the day there even now. I mean, it was great. Well, I'm a huge fan of Randy Bachman. I'm a huge fan of the guests soon, particularly bto. I mean, they had just a huge string of hits and that is a bad snub. For the rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Tracy and I absolutely agree with you. And you're not gonna believe Tracy Some of the other ones who have not been.
ESPN Daily
Tom vs. Team: Why Brady is Moving On
"Well amidst everything happening in the world. Right now Tom Brady singlehandedly. Wrestle control of the new cycle and in the process basically gave us in sports media a miniature stimulus package by announcing that. He's leaving the New England patriots. Seth you have covered Brady forever. You've been to his house. You've covered this team for a while. What was your initial reaction to today's news? I think it's been in the works for a long time. I think it's been in the works since training camp and I think that people just didn't want to believe it New England fans didn't want to believe it some media members didn't believe it. Even people close to Tom. Brady didn't want to believe it. Even the people who did believe it in some ways didn't WanNa believe it and yet here we are I should note here that all season long says McCain has been texting me. I think this happened. I think this is going to happen. And I've written back really come on really stuff so you were right and here. We are and as you mentioned not. Everything's been roses in New England for quite a while now and we'll get to that but until I think this season. It didn't seem realistic to a lot of people that he would actually leave. So let's go back to the beginning of the year. When did that start change? Well I think that he almost left training camp because he was so frustrated about the contract negotiations that were going on with the Patriots for years. Now he is wanted a commitment and he has said with every ounce of sincerity that he wants to play until he's forty five years old and I think there's a part of him that felt like he had earned that commitment from the New England patriots but in lieu of that. He just wanted clarity. If you don't want me here fine I'll move on but you have to let me know and in the fall of eighteen. He signed what was termed at the time. As a two year extension was not an extension it was essentially five million dollars in bonuses that he never hit and then this year he entered the year as fifteen million dollar quarterback on the books which is astounding in August. He and his camp were in negotiations with the Patriots again. They were not interested in committing beyond a year to him and again reportedly he almost left training camp because he was so frustrated about it but when he finally did commit to playing and sign the deal he said all along that he was just an employee there. I show up and do my job. I'm an employee like everyone else. I'M GONNA show this week to do the best. I can do a quarterback when he said I'm just an employee here that was a little bit different and everybody always knew that even though Tom Brady could say he was a player just a player. Everyone knew that he was Tom Brady. Everyone knew that he could talk to. Robert Kraft whenever he wanted to. Everybody knew he go to Robert. Kraft's house whenever he wanted to so. It was always a little ridiculous that he would say that. I find your point about him saying. I'm just an employ really interesting because everybody knows that bill belichick is fairly ruthless. Really when it comes to you know how he manages personnel in his job is GM. He will move on from a star a legend right away but it was always the assumption. Tom Brady was above that he was not just an employee. He wasn't just any player to ballot. Check do you think that changed at some point recently or do you think that's always been the case? I think it's always been the case but I think what changed was Tom's perspective. I think the assumption was that it was Bella. Check who would be willing to move on from Brady and cut or trade him. Even though we all knew that Robert Kraft was never gonNa let him cut or trade. Tom Brady unless things got so bad that he had no choice to do it. I think there was always the presumption that Tom Brady wanted to retire a Patriot and again the past couple of years. There's been a lot of turmoil in the building. Twenty years is a long time to spend working so closely with a ruthlessly driven coach like bill. Belichick there's one assistant who told me working one year with bill. We'll take a year off your life and Tom's been in that system for a long time and he's tired he wants to do something new. I think that's were Brady. Decided to take control of his story and changed things Brady starts talking about himself as an employee and I think this sense of unease sets in did that persist throughout the twenty nine thousand nine season. He's a professional bill. Belichick said professional once. They're they're they're going to do everything they can to win every week but the season for the Patriots was weird season. It was a weird season because their offense didn't pull its weight for the entire year and that's very rare especially the last half of Brady's career with the patriots as they become they become so much of a pass. Heavy offense dominated team you know. Obviously they had Antonio Brown pretty was very excited to play with him. They light up the dolphins with Brown in the lineup. Antonio Brown had been accused of sexual assault then. A sports illustrated article comes out detailing. All kinds of new allegations and Robert Kraft who says he doesn't involve himself in personnel and football decisions makes a decision organizationally that they're gonNA move on from him. Brady was very upset about that and I think bill belichick was upset about it too. They wanted to see what the offense could do with Brown and so I think that's one of those sort of hidden moments from the season that I think ends up becoming a bigger deal than it was because after that the New England Patriots is here without Rob Gronkowski. Just couldn't get a receiver as open as they were accustomed to in the past. And so the offense just didn't play very well into remember at one point in the season. It looks like the Patriots were. They were talking about going undefeated again and then they lose to Miami in the last game of the season at home and then they come out against the titans in the in the wildcard round of the playoffs. The Patriots were beaten up for most of the game and yet late in the game. The Patriots got the ball back and it just looked like they were going to recapture the magic. The magic that were so accustomed to seeing from Tom Brady. He hit a pass for about twenty yards. Got a little bit of breathing room and then the drive just stalled and on second down Brady threw outside of Julian Edelman white behind Brady Bunch. Before it was an out route join Dorset Britain dropped back. It was a route two oldest football. It's a route that these guys have run so many times over the years short set walks in on the side at the forty five yard line turning to run an element dropped the ball and even though that's not when the game ended it felt like the game ended right there. You could feel the air. Go Out of the stadium. You could feel the wind. Go out the New England patriots sideline it just felt that after twenty years after all those super bowls after winning and losing some of the greatest games in NFL history. This run was over. That's the way it felt to me. Tennessee titans have come into foxborough and defeated. Tom Brady and the pats twenty to thirteen in his wildcard. Rob You were there. What was brady like in the aftermath? I've seen Tom Brady. After a lot of losses I've seen him after a lot of season ending losses. He looks physically ill. After losing a game that ends their season but against the titans after losing game ended their season this year. He seemed different. Usually Tom waits a long time. The game to come to the podium and granted the game ended late but he came out of the locker room like a hurricane and he got to the podium and was in no rush to leave. He sat he chatted. There's nobody who had a better career I would say to me. I just being with them so I'm very blessed and I don't know what the future looks like so I'm not going to predict it so I wish you'd want tonight and We should done a lot of things better over the course season but we just tend to get the job done. It was just a different vibe that he put out there that I've ever seen before and when he left and he walked out. He just had a vibe that he was over it he was done.
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‘The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs’ Trailer: James Franco Hangs Out In Coen Bros’ Netflix Western Anthology
"New trailer on YouTube came out for a net flicks and follow g. movie written and directed by the Coen brothers. And it has a fucking great name. The ballot of BUSTER Scruggs just Elliott. I mean for pod that loves the name Busta for BUSTER. Scruggs is pretty close. That's great. What do you think about this when it's a six part in film. Tim, Blake, Nelson, Liam, and James. Franco's Zoe Kazan there. Tom waits in it. A lot of random people in it again and follow film. There's six different chapters are saying, now this is a Netflix movie. I'm excited for it premiered in Venice to Venice film festival, actually don't know how it did. I gotta pull it up, but what did you think about the trailer? Yeah. Anything the Cohen, brothers do. I'm immediately excited for. I don't even have to watch the trailer, although I don't think my film criticism is to the point where I can properly judge the Coen brothers in the same way. A lot of people do with a lot of nuance and and good take on it. I will say BUSTER Scruggs is the perfect Cohen, brothers name for that. You know, evoke ation of Americana net that Cohen, brothers type role. So yeah, anthologies, they're big right now. Aren't they like rhyme Irvy's been doing a lot of anthologies. On the on the FX channel. What would some of his projects? And they're having a moment. Maybe the Coen brothers will take it into high gear.