Tom Waits
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Tom Waits Biography
Described as one of the last beatniks of the contemporary music, Tom Waits - in fact - had two separate careers. From 1973 (LP "Closing Time") to 1983 ("One From The Heart" soundtrack), he recorded nine LPs for Asylum Records, writing songs mainly in the manner of Tin Pan Alley, mixing them with jazz and blues. Extraordinarily, he never produced a hit, but he earned a cult following all over the world. In 1983 he signed with Island Records, and released a series of albums that stunned the music world. Beginning with "Swordfishtrombones", he introduced a whole new orchestration, which included some of the instruments invented by Harry Partch. He found a new ground for his innovations, searching in sound fields that never before were searched. This second part of his career coincided with his marriage to Kathleen Brennan, a former writer for Francis Ford Coppola (Zoetrope (1999)). His LPs "Rain Dogs" (1985), "Big Time" (soundtrack) and "The Black Rider" are today what Kurt Weill`s music was once. "The Black Rider" brings music written for the show directed by Bob Wilson and staged in Germany.

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  • Don`t you know there ain`t no devil, it`s just god when he`s drunk.
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  • Their memory`s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can`t remember Tell the things you can`t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
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  • I`m so horny the crack of dawn better watch out.
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  • George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him.
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  • It`s hard to win when you always lose.
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  • I`m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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  • The piano has been drinking, not me.
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  • The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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  • I`d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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  • Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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  • All hardware items must be admired for their sonic properties: pitchforks, egg beaters, crowbars, fireplace grates, shovels, anvils, rebars [the structural reinforcement rods used in poured concrete], trash cans - the list goes on and on and they`re all waiting to be played.
  • If Michael Jackson wants to work for Pepsi, why doesn`t he just get himself a suit and an office in their headquarters and be done with it?
  • I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
  • I like to walk out of a restaurant with enough gas to open a Mobil station.
  • I`d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
  • No, I don`t have a drinking problem except when I can`t get a drink.
  • Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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  • Lives in Sonoma County, California.
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  • His role in Domino (2006) is immediately preceded by his own song "Jesus Gonna Be Here," from his 1992 album "Bone Machine".
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  • All of his recent original songs are credited as being written by both Waits and his wife Kathleen Brennan, although some of them are written solely by Waits.
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  • His album "Rain Dogs" is mentioned in the script for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004).
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  • Originally slated to play Lefty, one of the singing cowboys in A Prairie Home Companion (2006).
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  • Being a family friend of the Coppolas, he performed at the wedding of Sofia Coppola and Spike Jonze.
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  • Bears such a striking resemblance to actor Ron Perlman that he was once credited under the name "Ron Perlman" on a movie poster.
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  • A big Baz Luhrmann fan.
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  • Is a good friend of Keith Richards who makes frequent appearances as a guitarist on his records.
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  • He has said that Bob Dylan is his favorite songwriter and his main influence for initially getting into music. He contributes his shift to more experimental, eccentric music starting with the album "Swordfishtrombones" to the influence of Don Van Vliet. Ironically, Dylan`s more recent work has been said to be comparable to Waits` music.
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  • Is Scottish and Irish from his father`s side of the family and Norwegian from his mother`s side.
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  • His grandmother, Olga Johnsen, was from Oslo, Norway.
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  • The photo on the cover of his album "Rain Dogs" includes a man who many believe to be him. It was one of a series of photos taken at the Cafe Lehmitz in Hamburg by the Swedish photographer Anders Petersen. Waits reportedly saw the photo at an exhibition, was taken by the similarity of him and the man in the photo, and asked permission from the photographer to use it as an album cover.
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  • He converted a 4 cubic yard metal box (intended as a debris dumpster) into a musical instrument called a "Strata Dumpster" (aka "Dumpstalele"). He cut a 2 foot hole into one side, and streched seven piano strings across it, fastening them with two welded bridges. The strings can be plucked, strummed or bowed. He describes the sound as "trainlike and huge, like trash day with a purpose."
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  • Owns obscure and custom made instruments such as a Chamberlin Music Master 600 (an analog synthesizer manufactured in the 1960s) and a photon clarinet ("[It] sounds like a keyboard lobster dying on a campfire.").
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  • Shops at hardware stores for items to be used as percussion instruments.
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  • Uses a large collection of electric megaphones to create unusual tonal effects on his recordings. One of his favorites is a 1944 vintage issued by the US Navy Bureau of Ships, manufactured by Guided Radio Corp. of New York.
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  • Children: Kellesimone (b. 1983), Casey Xavier (b. 1985), Sullivan (b. 1993).
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  • Frito-Lay used an unauthorized sample of his song "Step Right Up" in one of their commercials. He successfully sued for an undisclosed amount of money. Frito-Lay unsuccessfully counter-sued.
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  • Close friends with the Coppola family including Nicolas Cage; often cast in Francis Ford Coppola movies.
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  • Close friend of Chuck E. Weiss, a fellow L.A. scenester and co-founder of The Viper Room with Johnny Depp, and frequently mentions him in lyrics and liner notes on his records.
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  • Born in Pomona, California, USA
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  • Spouse, Kathleen Brennan (10 August 1980 - present) 3 children
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