Tom Waits australia interview 1979 pt 2

[JackKangaroo1]

Tom Waits has got to be one of the most unusual people on the planet. When you see him like this, awkwardness personified during the interview, you wonder what he's all about. But then he sits down at that piano and something magical occurs. He starts to sing in that gravelly voiced rasp, piano keys tinkling, and you get the feeling that he is penetrating into some fundamental realities, tapping into things we know and feel but can barely touch, and pulling them out for us to see.

[stayc96]

True artist,I luv classics thanx for sharing!!

[7777indie]

this man is a true legend!!

[markmarktarmann]

does anyone else notice how rock solid and soothingly rhythmic tom's playing on the piano is, esp. given he's singing too? put another star up next to his name.

[lhavenothingtosay]

He played Melbourne on my 3rd birthday :D

[WingnutDishwasher]

Everyone in the audience was kind of laughing at him, not taking him seriously. The second he starts to play piano everyone falls in love with him, you can feel it.

[896748rhjbasgjjgankl]

@WingnutDishwasher but its like he plans it that way, as if he likes the feeling of surprise when people realises how great he is

[thecameronator]

@WingnutDishwasher Once he started playing - dead silence.

I love it.

[SirBerlioz]

what song is this?

[telecasterthommy]

@SirBerlioz On The Nickel

[december125690]

Amazing how he totally changes when he sit down at the piano and starts singing..

[tyrantenvoy]

he is my muse of a world that i did not know existed.



[holeintheheadted]

His voice evokes such emotion and imagery. Great storyteller.

[tomirock79]

Gigantesco personaje Un capo eh, un capo

[music11man11]

His whit merges into his songs creating something truly fantastic...

[youandyamum]

"Don Lane" was the most popular TV show in Australia in the late 70's & early 80's. It says a lot about Don & a lot about Tom that this happened. It says good things about the person who uploaded it.

[IronTaxi]

you know..its so nice.. its almost unbelievable how perfect the whole performance is.. I watch it like once a month at least.

[ALfaDuB101]

someone actually dislikes this, must have a heart of stone

[weeandyrobo]

@ALfaDuB101 crazy eh? i was annoyed when i first saw 1 dislike but by the end of the tune i didn't give a fuck. Absolutely beautiful.

[putdownan8dude]

really like the host, he is perfect to interview tom

[guywithbighead]

nobody sings like that anymore :(

[sglasspool]

@guywithbighead Tom does.

[1bukowski]

that was something else....

[clemsontoby]

I find it interesting that Pa Walton (Ralph Waite) and Tom Waits are friends. Not the most likely pair, but On the Nickel, puts it together.

[AurelioAngly]

He started with christmas card from a hooker in minneapolis, sang on the nickle and finnished with waltzing matilda.... I love this man.

[jamdragonhunter]

Saw this live to air in '79 and have been a huge fan ever since. Gorgeous.

[Gorblioidsgrambonius]

Tom Waits, I Love You

[DocSnout]

Love Tom Waits. I don't understand why so people hate on Don Lane though. He's not condescending, he's obviously just having fun with Tom. It would be ridiculous for a host not to acknowledge how eccentric that man is, seeing as how it's what everyone else is thinking. And the way he plays off it is really entertaining.

[JackKangaroo1]

@DocSnout Very good observation. I thought he did a great job of interacting with a person that few people would comprehend at all. He obviously admires Tom Waits a lot and I think Waits actually enjoyed the interaction between them on the show.

[jimmymcclukcluk]

the sound he makes 6:24 makes me giddy.

[TheOneThatFlewOver]

Remember this man and all he said with music.

[Rikke0Richard]

@raygun92 And everything about him is just a BIG great plus!

[Rikke0Richard]

@raygun92 i cant agree more! i'm 16 and im kinda in love with him, i just feel he is the type im looking for!

[Misishaxi]

6:25

Never thought I'd ever find Tom adoreable.

[Misishaxi]

The mood shift from the first part to the second is incredible. To start with, you hear the laughing and joking, and the humoring... then as soon as he gets behind the piano, you just know that the audience is a little bit awed.

[yagmurcakir]

i just want to get drunk...and i do not even like to drink...

[prinspaol]

amazing !!!

[mambo4dude]

he makes smoking cool

[marioelopezs]

Tom Waits. Sin palabras es poco. Te deja sin respiración tanto sentimiento

[91Ducky]

I wish i was alive to have gone to these gigs...

[penderluis]

@91Ducky Yet somehow  you're alive to watch it on youtube...

[Rikke0Richard]

@91Ducky Me too! it is one of my biggest wishes to see him live, before he leaves..

[dudesons441]

@Rikke0Richard Quit that crazy talk! He'll never leave!

[Rikke0Richard]

@dudesons441 No of course not, that was stupid said, i take that part back!

[KonstantinII]

Probably one of the best interviews ever seen on TV.

The host, light, the crew, Tom...

And "Waltzing Matilda" in the end...

Pure poetry...

[monster4josh]

Tom is genius...

[benjamminmt]

there are some ppl you wish could be around forever...

[sclogse1]

comin' back Chubby Checker...at the end of this...too much.

[musicforchewfaygs]

god this host is jewy.

not a bad thing, just...damn he's jewy.

[DimebagsLeftToe]

@musicforchewfaygs the fuck does that mean?

[musicforchewfaygs]

@DimebagsLeftToe he has many stereotypical qualities of a jewish person?

[sclogse1]

He's got big city in him. If you think that's jewy...

He's got family heritage in him....if you think that's jewy...

He's smart as a whip, and funny....if you think that's jewy...

He's got more class than somebody I'm thinking about right now.

[musicforchewfaygs]

@sclogse1 i'm not talking about tom, i'm talking about the host of the show.

and it's not an insult, it's an observation.

[cutloose]

@sclogse1 he's not that good a host geeeez

[naylord1]

Tom,....how 'bout these lyrics: Isn't it easy to justify my world But it's all just in reality a poem to be told I'm sick of the politians, and decisions that they make They all just destroy our world.... In the mean time they perceive themselves To improve a better life,...on account of votes they receive. But what difference does it really make when it takes a life! Life's all about money, or so it seems. Give me a smile rather than a 25 basis point cut today....

[naylord1]

when you are burn't out and sick of achievement, Tom puts the meaning of life into perspective....My oldery brother got an lp years ago and I couldn't or didn't get it,...maybe my brother had it worked out better than me,...Tom is No. 1

[theute01]

@naylord1

I am with you cobber.

Tom sees life as it is. The curious thing is, he can capture it in his music.

God bless the bugger.

Cheers...

[LordofDoom202]

I love the sound he makes at 6:23.

[imamacyoureapc]

His voice and phrasings make complete sense when in front of a piano.

[Bleepbloopd]

This interview actually went extremely well, ahah

[Tasrog]

well his voice is out of this world

[f3st0rdank0]

OMG your right, hes an alien!!

[MusicandITutorials]

There should be more aliens then... the world might be a bit better.

[beelzabubba]

Note the length of Tom's fingers as they wrap around that screwdriver... I've been reading some biographies of Tom lately and the they mention how long his fingers are... I never noticed before that but they are quite extreme.... good for piano playin'

[oARISTIDISo]

RIP Don, thanks for the good memories.....

[AlexTheRockingRabbi]

The film he mentions, the Ralp Waite one was released in 1980, but this interview is dated 1979, can anyone help me out,,,, These early videos of Tom are priceless :) he's so cool and has and amazing presence

[beelzabubba]

You don't need any help... you understand Uncle Tom just fine.

[GeorgeBerger6969]

Paradise alley is the film

[williehackitt]

so much soul thank you tom always makes me cry

[therealmarshallb]

So Beautiful.

Gotta love Tom Waits

[Feuerkindjana]

"Don't blush now on me - my God!" - a truly humble man (at least at that time)...I love him...

[blingbiscuits]

Australian TV..

[beelzabubba]

Watching the first part of this and seeing how interviewers treated Tom back in the day, and made sport of him, makes this performance all the better... on the nickel

[leskay1]

Screw you, Jack.

He took the piss, sure... but he was also very polite. I rate it 50:50 - patronising in parts.

Don Lane got charged for importing drugs into Australia back in the 1960s. He knows what's up. He ain't no shiny-bum TV host.

[beelzabubba]

Wasn't callin' im a shiny-bum (I like that term) but I was just saying that Waits played a certain role at that time (a drunk) an interviewers were able to play off of that for an even better interview... if that makes any sense.

[leskay1]

cheers!

I think I was drunk when I wrote that last comment. How rude of me.

[pedroeuproprio]

Aos 45 segundos, quando o apresentador olha a câmara, percebe-se que ele tem a noção de estar perante um talento excepcional.

É impressionante como, no final, Tom Waits parece querer fechar-se sobre si próprio; como se não existisse para além da sua música.

Around 0:45, when he looks to the camera, you can notice that the host knows he´s in front of a truly talented man.

[lordkorner]

Man o man o man...gets better every time.

[Wanderlustus]

Great Tom stuff. First time I've seen this, in fact.

What I don't get is the US guy doing the interview? Yeah, I've never heard of the show, but why in god's name is there a US'r as a talk-show host in Oz.

Someone, please fill me in.

[hiddeninromance]

The same way you may have English people presenting your shows - people travel

[pklepack]

same reason a scott has a show in the u.s. . . . someone thought itd make money

[HarpDogAustralia]

Don Lane was very successful in Australia and naturally gravitated towards television. His show ran for many years.

[leon999]

His humour is also very Australian, dont let the accent fool you :)

[TheGreatAbstracto]

Don Lane is the guys name - the why of it had most Australians stumped at the time

[23flowergirl]

aw, and he ended it with Waltzing Matilda. Great man, Waits. The sort of guy I'd love to spend an afternoon with drinking coffee and going through half a pack of cigarettes.

[VufQukk]

@23flowergirl

half ? he looks like he'd go through 3 in half an hour!

[jadexmikaila]

@23flowergirl a whole pack is more like it.

[ariexmae]

@23flowergirl Too bad he quit smoking in 1980

[lawfriendly]

@23flowergirl Five packs

[lawfriendly]

@23flowergirl 

[lawfriendly]

@23flowergirl 5 packs

[wesleyharney]

@23flowergirl

half? you mean all.

[relapserecords26]

@23flowergirl more like 10 packs

[JHandcock1111]

@23flowergirl Half a Pack?!?!?!  In a afternoon no doubt you and Tom would make your way through a carton! ;p

[MrPoliticalScientist]

@23flowergirl- I couldn't agree more, except I would dead the whole pack lol ;D

[JoelD311]

I love Tom Waits

[dirtyrosh]

beautiful man, beautiful voice.

[Ponyboy1]

Ow ow ow ow ow owie ow ow ow ow ow. *sigh*

[SH1TLIPS]

I don't believe it, but watching this performance actually made me cry.

thank you tom for doing what you do

[mattvansickle]

This makes me cry too because it is fucking beautiful. Unfortunately people like this are rare. This fella may as well tear out his heart and place it on a silver platter for us all to see.

[mattvansickle]

Waits in a strange way gives me a little bit of hope.

[mrtonya69]

"i know a place where a royal flush can never beat a pair".

[andrewptob]

Tom Waits is an inspriational human being. Love him. Oh, and he had cool-ass hair, too.

[dnworks]

I agree with bustamove444 100% !

Waits is an american Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht rolled into one. I find nothing but the deepest, most moving love for humanity in his work. It's just that he has his own style and it takes a different kind of listening to take it all in ... just like in the case of Philip Glass ... you need to shift gears when you listen to a genius from out of the mainstream.

[bustamove444]

Toms like Marmite, people love Him or they hate Him, Me? I love Him and to me those who dont must be devoid of feeling somewhere.

This guy more than any other writer hits me somewhere inside that always gets me weeping, happy weeping.

[WenMil]

Some people just have the gift of finding beauty in the smallest and most tragic of things.

[ispinimor]

What a lovely comment. Cheers.

[poohole44]

I love the fact that if you watch the first part you can tell the audience aren't sure if he's serious or not, especially when they show the short video footage him performing and you can hear the audience chuckling... And then he comes out and blows them away with a performance like this, he's nothing short of brilliant!

[beanmartian]

Its cool hey as soon as he plays those chords everyone shuts up. Then chucks in a bit of Waltzing Matilda for the Aussies,nice.

[garfis435]

"I kinda sleep with one eye open".

[sclogse1]

came back...had to see it again.

[sclogse1]

Just sitting here with tears in my eyes. Never knew I could love a guy as much as I do Tom. I'd take a bullet for the man.

[goouttothemeadow]

So beautiful it hurts.

[Focoist911]

brilliant how he ended it with a tribute to a similar story, Waltzing Matilda.

[unclevernon]

you gotta love him!

[unclevernon]

you gotta love him!

[trunkeight]

omg... thanks for posting this!

I felt that!

How much pathos can one man fit into a song?!

How could you possibly not connect with this??

I believe it, every word rings true..

[wallek]

no words... this make me cry! thx tom

[JensdePens]

Host = Don Lane

[stijnkraft]

Drunk as he may be, this guy is a piece of art. Glad he got over all of his drug-absuses pretty quick and is still amongst us. Beautiful!

[sclogse1]

HE doesn't appear to be drunk.

[ThunderwingLP]

Wino's Lullaby

[opalzone]

That was awesome. Great song, really beautiful. Who was the host?

[Twoey2E]

Awkward/Awesome interview, heart-wrenching performance. Aww, that laugh at 6:26.