Tom Waits - Rockpalast 1977 11 New Coat Of Paint

[damienmetalwind]

To all you whiners out there: yes this is different from the album version. If you like the album version better, listen to it instead. To me, the reason why Tom is great is because of his ability to breathe new life into songs you've heard a million times. This version is a perfect example.

Why would anyone complain about that?

[daindo91]

This is brilliant...

But, perhaps, not to the kiddies who need to grow up...

Maybe they will appreciate in 30 years...

When they can appreciate that Bob Hughart on bass played with Miles Davis in the 50s?

Perhaps not!!

[AudieGrider]

@daindo91 damn well said Doctor ! cheers!

[toasty59]

Get a grip, kids, this was 1977 and the equivalent of a 1959 video of Brubeck or the quintessential tube of Sonny Rollin's St Thomas. I'm a few years younger than Mr. Waits and I've been playing music since I was a wee lad. Tom knows how to swing it , and that's a dying art. Listen carefully to this and the to the original and you'll begin to understand evolution, emotion, life, and soul. Cheers, brothers and sisters.

[dogmrdn]

hm... very sachmoesque...XP

[FragileLittleAngel]

our love needs a transfusion, let's shot it full of wine :-)

[nathanaway]

I fucking love this version!!!!!

[onewayout73]

Excelente!!!

[Kramer390]

Am I the only one who thinks he sounds like Satchmo here?

[antonioforbidden]

Yeah!! Now that you say it, really sounds very similar. They both are wonderful!!!

[bobshark123]

fuckin terrible, give me the album version

[InBy9OutBy5]

To bodyheat74 regarding the sax players. Waits' sax man is Frank Vicari (introduced in #14 of this series by the way, it's a great video entitled "Small Change"). Mangione's sax man is Chris Vadala. Both are great players. Though they differ in age by quite a bit. I'm glad you reminded me of Mangione. I'm going to satisfy some nostalgic cravings and listen to him more. His tunes are very good.

[underwwraps2]

Excellent TW song.

Thanks so much!

 UW2

[30millioncrabs]

BITE ME Warner Music Group, WMG. Bunch of Jewish Nazis.

[bodyheat74]

Maybe the sax player is the one who play with Chuck Mangione.Watch the video of Chuck Mangione's "Give it all you got" on youtube.

[SH1TLIPS]

im really diggin this version

[anticred]

I sorta liked the album version, but this is really embarassing. What is he on?

[p00nlog]

probably just a little (or a lot) sauced up... he used to hit the booze pretty hard

[HabanaBoyJDog]

how is this embaressing? if you were a singer would you like to play the song the same way over and over again? his style is a rambling style he could be drunk or he could be on nothing at all

[ldnearthesea]

Check out the recent Southside Johnny CD "Grapefruit Moon." This tune is covered along with other Waits tunes past and present. Waits does a duet with Southside Johnny on 'Walk Away.' The La Bamba Big Band backs up Southside Johnny, so it really swings, and some of Tom Waits tunes that aren't jazzy on his albums come out sounding jazzy on this collection.

[oggendoggen2]

Where did these Rockplast 77 shows come fro? DVD, possibly?

[dlp2006]

prefer the EB Blues version but both r great

[echofilms]

Check out Gypsy Dave smith's version of Tom's great song...almost as good!!!!

[jeweetweel123]

Awesome, really.

There's another live version of this song on youtube (1976 in Danmark), but this one is way better! It floooows.

Thanx!

[mixitup1time]

If your talking about the "Elaphant Beer Blues" version of this then I feel Just the opposit I like the crispness and the subtleness in that version. This one is still awesome just not as good as the Elaphant Beer Blues version

[Scinauticando]

THX for this dude, great song