Tom Waits - Jockey Full of Bourbon

Mt. View '99

[@davidthomas6094]

Thanks for this version. I love how Waits does things differently every time. That's my kind of artist. Like Amy Winehouse did. Always in the moment.

[@lullsbaby9321]

I been in love with Tom Waits for 9 years. And the fact that he made this out of a children's lullaby still fucks with me. Is there anything he can't do?

[@isetta4083]

Think you're on about Clap Hands, same album

[@lullsbaby9321]

@@isetta4083 That one too, but this one specifically uses the children's rhyme "Ladybug, Ladybug" (according to Genius)

[@JHandcock1111]

He sounds like the Cookie Monster in this one.

[@velvetbruise]

Laughing!

[@soggywallet]

What I love about Mr. Waits is that he doesn't play for other people he plays for himself. To all the greatest artists their art form is a hobby, with which they made money, got famous and had brilliant lives. Hopefully we all get that satisfaction.

[@TheBham54]

He's just so effing cool...does what he pleases..never boring....damn

[@xAnesthesiAx]

i dont care for him live, but hes one of my favorite musicians and one of the most creative of all time. theres such emotion in his voice, even here

[@0Imtheslime0]

Tom Waits Live is all you should care about.

[@lenny121]

i love how he always creats a certain atmosphere when he plays

[@Ashraffay]

one of his best performances ever !!

[@petergmarbles5496]

☔... hadn't listened to this sonG in oolonG time.... bacK in my bourbon and other ingredients daze.... thanKs from an old guy.....💜🎶

[@mylulac]

A true genius, one of a kind!! I've loved him since the early 70s!!

[@Fonastenia]

I've never heard music from Tom Waits before but GOD DAMN IT WAS AWESOME!!! xD

[@DrSamba1]

I first heard Tom Waits in the mid 1970s when "The Piano Has Been Drinking" came out. It got a lot of airplay on WNEW-FM back then. I've been hooked ever since. He's awesome!

[@oggendoggen2]

When I first heard this song, I could only describe it as 'evil shopping music.' Its clearly so much more.

[@jeepgirltj98]

...i f'ing love Tom Waits and was overjoyed when i heard Joe's cover... it's a great blues interpretation of an already awesome song...

[@jwsjazz]

TW deserves immortality. But then would he be the same? And a killer band. Thank you for posting.

[@noebret3969]

je suis inconditionnel vis a vis de tom waits

[@Jonathangates69]

No matter what hands down best song writer ever

[@harmyder5296]

Tom forever ! Drink , drink :-)

[@sabinedaems6870]

Dirty Harry told me thumbs up to keep the blues alive :D

[@NeoViny]

I wish I had the chance to see him live ..... feels like my life is missing something of being complete

[@jeremystone2658]

Me too. He's getting up there. Let's hope we still get a chance

[@buggadugg]

somebody didn't pre-engineer sound very well. I love this guy.

[@Stinkballs69]

Fantastically.

[@arkudos]

this is an awesome song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i also heard joe bonamassa's cover a few days ago and i think he really covered it!!! he made a blues version of the song and didn't t try to be heard like Tom ( thank god,Tom is only one)

[@renduke]

@kafkawilm he opened for frank zappa at least 5 or 6 times...frank really liked him as an artist...and he sure is an orginal

[@greendog105]

Its like if the monster that was under my bed when I was chlid, grown and started to sing in bars then I found him, and I liked it the most amazing voice for a monster!! =D

[@strummeresque]

Eye scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream

[@pinballwizzard3981]

Down by law!

[@troelsl]

he has had that voice for many years..

[@ehsanbasir8555]

I love it

[@Pinarsevsevil]

God bless

[@habib7x]

he's so great does he give some live-performances sometimes??

[@SocietyPages]

Gold

[@thecrikster]

This inspired the theme tune to Black Books I like to believe....

[@barney23]

great performance

[@stevietheflea]

Nicely said...

[@ВячеславМихеев-р2ы]

genius

[@frankiesdemise]

@ jesse4630 This song is from the "Rain Dogs" album and it's "Frank's Wild Years" not "Jack's" not trying to sound rude...just a correction

[@wolfnroses91]

@cacoddwarf I wouldn't recommend trying to sing like him though, it really makes your throat sore.

[@pretorious700]

I can't imagine anyone else "singing" this song. It just wouldn't work.

[@n1c98]

LOL!!! hell yea! this song is fucking awesome!

[@greendog105]

awesome

[@marcianpetrescu]

This is the version from Mountain View concert ?

[@theguylikesmovies]

What’s the performance here called? Date place?

[@Kfarineau]

@WiiGamerof1995 if you think he looks wierd singing you sould look up joe cocker

[@Dillbob1]

@needusername12 if you want to know, this is technically vaudeville music

[@marklines2599]

Dear Thomas, do take care of those vocal chords. Bro..love from Aotearoa, (New Zealand)....

[@miguelantoniosoto5166]

Excelent voiCE ....

[@eerbrev]

anyone heard Moxy fruvous' version of this? they do it justice save the "10,000 pack a day" voice.

[@TonyCook2012]

Bone machine dancin his ass off amen i hope he stays around for a long long long long tim.......e

[@Jteppic]

I have a drug dealer who sells me a specific kind of weed. Its called waits...Its hard to get used to at first. Once you've tried it though...there isnt anything like it.

[@liamsomething135]

Someone should remaster this video

[@Ashraffay]

How does he perform like this ?

[@theBigNoseAttack]

i want the kick drum of his drummer so bad!

[@sebastienmonteil7859]

Maybe ped xing is Prince's fan ^^

[@Dillbob1]

am i right in guessing you are a primus fan

[@theguylikesmovies]

Who’s the guitarist in this performance?

[@december125690]

@strummeresque Haha there's no ,,eye" but ,,I.": I scream, you scream, we all scream..;)

[@lofod]

@needusername12 That "music" is better than 98% of "rock and roll, wich btw, rock nowadays is pop in his pure conception.

[@samsvujtata]

this is not justin bieber?! damn:D

[@MarkTarmannPianoCheck_it_out]

@markmarktarmanni " brawlers, babes bastards." painful to listen to . his voice is so rough, somehow much harsher sounding than before., w/o the same control (how it got any rougher without self destructing is another mystery). i am serious. he could lose it entirely if he's not careful. progression from "ol 55" thru the end of the 70's those tours and that louis armstrong thing expanded his sound, but imagine the nodes on his vocal chords.i think he should protect what he's got left.

[@jordanlannert1]

@SgtBastard101 Yes we most certainly bourbon people...its like TOOL has their followers who might worship them...but tom made me start drinking bourbon..

[@agulecyuz]

Bizim Kubi ;)

[@ch-dh2kq]

Scary.....

[@Elnonopololo]

@markmarktarmann Yeah, maybe he has lost a bit of control, sp on some of the slower ballads... But on the other hand, his growl isn't as strained or artificial-sounding as it was on the 70's IMHO... And he seems to be on better voice on the Bad As Me album. Besides, some people can sustain an insane amount of vocal punishment. I mean look at Brian Johnson, for God's sake!

[@lzangaro]

@SgtBastard101 we're full of bourbon anyway .....

[@BrisbaneBruce]

: P

[@worldsworstoptimist]

Please try then, and make sure to post a video about it so I can piss myself laughing

[@thekidwiththefa]

Who's the guitarist here?

[@awkwardpizza]

@jordanlannert1 he's one of the reasons i pick up smoking as well.

[@standarduck5860]

How do you mean? :)

[@Martzoerst]

9 people can stand up...

[@sonbarbatos9955]

Where tf did you get this lol

[@bluevalentine9]

@Tedminat0r Geez, sorry if I hurt your feelings, Tedminat0r. Must've been full of bourbon when I wrote that comment.

[@MegaSammich]

@cacoddwarf probably?

[@mr.montesmusicclass641]

Terrifying

[@royh3116]

Gooooooooooooood Shit

[@JKruse101]

yo probably only listen to one style of music.... it's cool though.

[@privatepart5]

the guitarist is ma-ta

[@hendrix2918]

I can't think of any other way of saying it

[@Rahavin1]

probably has been at some time. But coleridge was a doper to ya know! artists just the same.

[@watkinscopicat]

sounds like the orange juice lady from league of gentlemen

[@micahnye125]

haha hes great tho

[@philredbud3589]

Ha! FYI she's doing Shakespeare now, you can't stop the cream rising to the top

[@mulder19x95]

7 people drank to much bourbon and fell off a cliff

[@LadyeXo]

@needusername12 You must like pop. How 'bout you shove it?

[@ks4467]

..on the lawn with someone else's wife... lmao!!

[@troelsl]

you don't think i've heard the original?. the voice in this one, is something he chooses to do.. the original voice is the best on the record, but at a live performance, it's obvious he does this, or else it would sound boring.. yes, his voice has of course evolved to be more trashy. but listen to big black mariah.. it's not exactly the same, but close. and it's from the same album.

[@Bushflare]

It's not to my taste as I prefer the rock version. To me this sounds just a tad too much like a jazz band and a heavy metal singer xD

[@Valseuses]

What the fuck is with the right wing ad before the video???

[@wyattcain3114]

Im sorry he sounds like shit when he sings like this but i do like some of his songs just not this.....

[@geheimpje]

this isnt singing, i could do it better. I love bonamass's version!

[@Qert1109]

An amazing singer however looks like he's got somekinda palsey goin on there

[@BrisbaneBruce]

needs a little auto-tuning : P

[@brucelee6628]

horrible

[@worsethanyou93]

Bruce Lee you're in every tom waits video!! why do you keep listening to him?? haha