Tom Waits - Walking Spanish Down The Hall

[cleish85]

If anyone says they enjoyed this you are a lying fucker!

[TheMadCaptainMusic]

I love this tune, my band Soapy Jefferson have a cover on this on youtube if anyone gives a monkey.

[ZachsGayCat]

That was awesome.

[LeeVaiM]

Handles hecklers like a champ

[rickyota]

I cant believe there was such a huge audience for that. Seems unreal.

[razorlikeblue]

Walking spanish: Ambulatory locomotion of the recipient of the bum's rush, involuntarily emulating a Flamenco dancer by dint of being simultaneously propelled forward and elevated at the seat of one's pants with one hand, and the scruff of one's neck with another.

[backpocketfoundation]

@erizooi i'm not sure what you mean, but allow me to cite the irrefutable truth on the matter as put forth by Urban Dictionary: walking spanish- taking the last march to the death penalty, ie. Hanging, Electric chair.

[Scinauticando]

@backpocketfoundation I've always cherished this performance, but knowing this makes it amazing!!

[backpocketfoundation]

just a quick fact: walking Spanish is the walk to the electric chair. this video is fucking awesome.

[callidore]

not a single thing random, each phrase is a metaphorical reference. look each one up, translate it, assemble the story. 

[Valholm]

You got to be shitting me

[nevillejking]

Tom is truly a Brazen Head - sheer genius in a very vaudeville way...

Thanks for being so special Tom!

[ventricleTiger]

its a song for us all

[fabrizioromano1988]

This performance is in Sanremo but is not the "Sanremo Festival". This is another festival called "Premio Tenco" in memory of Luigi Tenco, great italian songwriter.

[TerryCraig23]

It's great, kinda the opposite of an instrumental track. Or kinda like a poem, creatively accompanied by an occasional beat.

[piepiepie900]

Best instrument ever.

[marioelopezs]

Mas que raro. Poesia

[DoctaDualist]

YOU never holler when you get hoodwinked

HE tried it all but

THEY never would

Tom writes a new poem every time he screws up.

LOVE THIS

[jandzban]

mistrz kurwa świata

[LandoftheShanks]

LMFAO@the man who yells "I LOVE YOU!" and he salutes LOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!

[webstercat]

no one else in the world could pull that off. voice accompaniment by hammer and brick...

[dimemasporfa]

Art

[guardcorp]

Tom waits is brilliant... just his songs have their own ego! Il be damned if this man doesn't have the right to make you listen to him playing a triangle.

[Magemastrtom]

@intracoast

You can't just swallow Waits man! He swallows you!:D

[erule92]

he should have played doc holiday in tombstone...

then again... val kilmmer did brilliant

[ak47doubletap]

True, Still Tom would have been a Fantastic Doc in Tombstone.

[animal90sFreak5]

great

[SH1TLIPS]

i Love his reaction to when someone yells "I love you"

[Klitkomandr]

hardcore !! .. awesome

[shadowlance194]

2:20

Just putting a link to when it starts, though everyone should watch it all the way through once haha

[shanethepoet]

for some reason it posted my commented before i could finish but i wanted to say it has a lot more blues.

[crisbonnell]

can anyone recommend a good tom waits album to buy have beautiful maladies but its a very experimental album want something in the blues genre

[SH1TLIPS]

rain dogs.

heartattack and vine is good.

orphans has such a variety of his stuff so I'd recommend that but, around here at least, it sure costs a pretty penny.

[pekernek]

Small Change and Blue Valentines Are pretty strong!

[shanethepoet]

what you have is his greatest hits....you proabley should check out Get Behind the Mule. That has a lot more

[jettbugg]

Nighthawks @ the Diner

[Taughtology]

Wow. With all the emphasis on the lyrics, the meaning of the song changes. Drastically.

[Borbatr]

Now that's something that a guy oughta have balls to do.

[Romulan07]

+1 to Badass.

[poisontumac]

wow. this is so weird!

[dogofman]

Fuck it. I'd want this little tune presented as music resembling the original on the vinyl album and not as a talk show. And ther seems no where to be found. On the entire U-tube..

[holysnaakes]

I'd love to see this live.

[bungiex]

yeah its just walking spanish off of rain dogs...i love how tom waits changes his songs live kinda like bob dylan. it makes it must more interesting.

[Grymsqueaker]

Is this just called "Walking Spanish"?

[HumGuitar]

Is this the spoken word with a hammer tour?

[gerryiam]

possibly the most random tom waits preformance i've seen, but anyway :P it's a great song