Drummer reacts to "16 Shells from a 30.6" & "Cemetery Polka" (Live) by Tom Waits

[@marcribe6483]

The original studio version of these songs are the gems you'd want to hear. Live is always an experience and the younger he looks the more mischievous his stage presence becomes. I love everything Tom Waits released in the seventies and a good fat half of the eighties. At some point after his theatrical deep dive, I topped out and left. But mad respects for this unique artist.

[@shirleybhs9zd6li5i]

Agree...interesting.

[@shirleybhs9zd6li5i]

Agree

[@Guttural]

Or some of the live "Big Time" versions are killer too

[@Piwork69]

Tom Waits went from a songwriting troubadour to a jazz poet to an avant-garde eccentric. All while still being able writing a sincere tearjerker on piano.

[@annebokma4637]

One of the first things I heard Tom waits do. Right after it came out

[@mannycalavera6011]

Two of the songs that made me fall in love with Tom Waits. From two of the greatest albuns ever, Rain Dogs and Swordfishtrombones.

[@darwinsaye]

Guitar player is Marc Ribot; came out off the NY no-wave movement in the 80s. He’s playing very conservatively here for him. He is one of the most adventurous avant- guitarists out there. He’s done albums ranging from free-jazz to punk rock to Cuban to full bore experimental noise.

[@SnoopySnoops1]

Tom is one creative artist! That was really interesting! Thanks Patrick!

[@chicagojon1972]

Tom is legendary! So glad you appreciate his unique genius. This was from peak Waits when his voice was in "top" form :)

[@kenlawless7247]

30.6 one of my TW favs. Never saw it live though. Curious if the catch the heavy, odd percussion from the recorded version.

[@corawheeler9355]

Never heard this before ... love it!

[@lemming9984]

Buy Rain Dogs and Swordfishtrombones immediately - you'll love them!

[@patrickscutella836]

I have seen him 5xs in concert. 1st time 1976.

[@L33Reacts]

@@patrickscutella836 dude I bet it was crazy to see his evolution

[@Diecastclassicist]

What a band!

[@DrStrangelove3891]

Rain Dogs is my favorite Tom Waits album. If you want sea shanties for drunken sailors, that's your album to go to. But if you want a very serious Tom Waits, check out The Road to Peace.

[@ColeenU]

What very unique voice. I wonder how he sounds live.

[@jamessomers8808]

Yesss!! this is the first song that I ever heard from Tom Waits and it’s still my favorite. It reminds me of a pirate sea shanty.😁❤ Yarr.

[@muddymo7641]

If i could be like any musician. It would be Tom Waits 100%

[@Rich_N_1]

Some of his songs have been covered by other artists, some highly unlikely you have to say, Crystal Gayle anyone? Just two I'll mention, Rod Stewart "Tom Traubert's Blues", (still my favourite Waits song of all time), and Bruce Springsteen "Jersey Girl". Give them a listen, (the Waits versions obviously), you won't be disappointed.

[@gernblanston5697]

Sixteen shells from a .30-06, I'm gonna whittle you into kindling . . . One of the greatest lines ever.

[@L33Reacts]

@@gernblanston5697 that is a dope ass line I can’t lie haha

[@Piwork69]

Bring a Tom Waits fan, a good way understand him is listening to "Closing Time," his first album. Then subsequent albums. You see the song craft evolution. The lyrical brilliance

[@jimlemyre1448]

Exactly how I got hooked. Although I heard Nighthawks first, then went back.

[@davidfisher8821]

Frank’s Wild Years is a masterpiece, every song is worthy of a reaction, especially Hang On St. Christopher, it’ll get you moving!

[@DylanWhite-k5j]

The percussionist in the suit was Michael Blair.

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

Loved it do more.

[@thruppence-ys9zp]

There is someone on YT who goes by the name cookiewaits who takes Tom Waits songs and orchestrates them with Cookie Monster clips. There's only one voice like Tom Waits, and it's Cookie Monster!

[@Piwork69]

Swordfish Trombone album (1983) was a transitional album where he invented a genre of mad scientist pipe clanging music. He pivoted from jazz crooning beatnik singing about 1970's LA noir night life.

[@lemming9984]

Waits has made many great albums, Swordfishtrombones and Rain Dogs are his best IMHO.

[@L33Reacts]

I’m gonna get into some more for sure. I love how strange he gets lol this was my first live experience and it was just as I imagined lol great stuff

[@Jonni1027]

I still hope one day I can see Tom Waits perform live. He however did sit right behind me when I saw Elvis Costello in Berkeley once❤

[@bonya4585]

Downtown Train, Dancing Mathilda both by Tom Waits are so good.

[@richardbeaton7324]

Tom does early morning whiskey drinking music really well 😆

[@poodle939]

So well put! A Tom Waits fan !

[@poodle939]

...and it's not so much the early morning whiskey drinking as the idea of it as an option...

[@jollybobo6379]

The musicians were dancing while playing, and so was I

[@ceeceerider]

He’s so different, I put him in an artsy fartsy category with a few others, but it’s always an experience. Of these two, I prefer the first song …. And I’d be dancing too 😂

[@evelyneverettgreen]

nice join you on your journey thru music Lee. These arrangements are superb aren't they?

[@sharondavid-melly1498]

Tom doing his stuff,👍

[@T23000PLUS]

the original album was "Rain Dogs" but the live is from the film "Big Time". Feature length, must see. I would love to hear your reaction to the movie. It is really something

[@lewismaddox4132]

Love that lampshade! "Ethel Merman and Louis Armstrong had a baby in hell." I think that was his own description of his voice.

[@Upe-f9c]

Like a Zappa light version, pretty cool.

[@kenlawless7247]

That was just fucking fantastic. Certainly caught the funk and odd rhythm of the song. A little light in the drum section but still fantastic. I think this song inspired the whole Bone Machine album. Thank you Patrick.

[@wqnamisanthrope]

The guitarist is Marc Ribot - an on-the-money session master, working with everybody from, well - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Ribot. His current band, "Ceramic Dog", are somethin' else, too.

[@shneizah]

Absolute legend. You should see him do Heartattack & Vine live. (there's a black & white live vid floating around out there, it's iconic)

[@Coquinagirl]

❗️artistic expression

[@ripvanwinkle2002]

so just a tiny point of order its 16 shells from a .30-06 not 30.6 its a caliber of bullet .30 caliber... adopted in 1906 it was the standard caliber bullet for all the rifles and machine guns the US used in WW1 and WW2 and Korea and is still a popular hunting cartridge.. thanks for coming to my TEDtalk

[@L33Reacts]

I know. I can’t put that in the title tho sadly.

[@ripvanwinkle2002]

@@L33Reacts censorship is ridiculous Elon needs to buy KZbin next on a secondary note. it educates the music fans who you have that dont know farq all about guns Cheers L33! so pissed my life keeps calling me away when i want to sit down and jam with you guys!

[@L33Reacts]

@@ripvanwinkle2002 it sucks sometimes. Accept an apology on my behalf for the silliness of certain things…

[@L33Reacts]

@@ripvanwinkle2002 come by whenever you can bro. Miss having you in the chat!

[@ripvanwinkle2002]

@@L33Reacts one day ill get brave enough to shut my phone off so i cant get called in.

[@SPGhettus]

His voice is always rough, but this sounds like it's the end of the show, too. You can understand what he's saying a lot better on the studio version.

[@lyletuck]

Somewhere along the way, the title got written down incorrectly at Amazon and (almost certainly) at Spotify. It's not "30.6" at all - it's "thirty-ought-six" ("ought" is an old-timey word for zero) and if it were written numerically, it would be ".30-06" which is referencing the .30-06 Springfield cartridge.

[@noahrobin1941]

Just found your channel; if you’re interested (and don’t already know), a guitarist named John Hammond released an album of Tom Waits covers some years ago. The name of the album is Wicked Grin and it’s on KZbin. Offered as an FYI if a different take on some of the tracks you’ve already heard is something which appeals. FWIW I’m not generally one who enjoys covers, but I dug his versions. Cheers.

[@ednicholson7839]

Swordfishtrombones is one of the greatest albums of the 80s -- really one of the greatest ever. He was unique as the one artist from the 70s who got better in the 80s with a wacked out hobo cabaret style. "Shore Leave" is a masterpiece but really the whole album is. Closer to Christmas time react to his live version of "Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis".

[@Piwork69]

May suggest a funny interview Tom did with Flo and Eddie in 1978? It was done at the Tropicana Motel in Hollywood, where he lived. He gives a performance on piano in his small room that will give you goose bumps. I sent a link but it got removed by YT. The vid is 15 minutes long (not the shortened 7 min version also on YT). So who knows if it will work?

[@aspenward390]

Finally, someone has the balls to react to TW

[@Diecastclassicist]

❤

[@T23000PLUS]

"Tore out the buckets from a red Corvette...

[@richardbeaton7324]

If you want more of him man check out these. Goin out west Heartattack and vine Gun street girl circus Dead and lovely Mr Seigal The piano has been drinking He's fuckkin funny in his interviews too

[@T23000PLUS]

"Meet me by knuckles of the Skinny Bone tree...

[@T23000PLUS]

the lyrics are kind of hard to hear, but the lyrics are very good and are essential

[@JohnFranzy]

Love Tom Waits...but what about Phish?

[@Wiencourager]

John Hammond did an even better version of this. He did an entire album of Tom waits songs, produced by Tom waits, it’s Incredible check it out.

[@margiewilson4324]

This music is the son of Kurt Weill and Bertold Brecht. Look it up sometime. You would like it.

[@VereinPlatzhirschamHirschenpla]

Such musicians don‘t become famous anymore.

[@tedsmith7814]

Studio version of 30-6 is much more interesting, imo.

[@jackdearman5880]

If you like it dark and weird, late-period Waits is where it's at. Anything after marrying and writing with Kathleen Brennan, really.

[@shezarae8827]

Tom Waits does allot of experimenting with sound.

[@Moz1011]

This is weird lol.

[@lemming9984]

weird....and wonderful!

[@L33Reacts]

That’s why I love it haha

[@WilliamWiest1959]

In March of 1974 I saw Tom Waits opening for Frank Zappa in Portland Oregon at the Paramount Theater. Unfortunately for Tom the crowd wasn't in the mood and kept chanting for Frank. He finally left the stage to very loud booing. On that tour, it was just Tom and his acoustic guitar. I kinda felt bad for him at the time.