That song is so enormous that I get shivers. I'm not sure if he's on something or just on the song if I could say so. It gets ME somewhere for sure... then maybe he feels it many times more when performing it.
Thanks for uploading this impressive video. I love Tom Waits. The thing is my english is not perfect. Would someone be so friendly and write everything down what he sais from part 1 and 2 ? That would be amazing. I hope there is someone out there who would do it. My email is : s-t-e-a-m @ web . de
and it must be hellacious performing the same numbers over and over again in other states, but he makes it look like CAKE. He even changes it up a bit from place to place. <3
I have this on dvd from his concert in Austin! I would like to know how to rip from dvds. What software would I use?! Thanks in advance if you have any information on this. Also, I've watched this performance 4 times in a row now. I just kinda' walk around and let it play and do my housework. Lovely ambience. Sometimes I stop to dance, sometimes to just watch.
There have been several versions of this performance here, from different stops on the same tour I would guess. (They differ slightly in the story told and how it is told.) The one I liked the most was from Paris. It was breathtaking, but has since disappeared from YT. This is the one most similar to that one, and I'm very happy to have found it, but I would still pay good money to own the one from Paris.
Yeah, I agree. It's probably my favorite song of Waits. Although it's not the same recording, this song is on a bootleg called "Fast Women and Slow Horses (Live in Australia 1979)." It's actually a more magical version of this song, in my opinion.
absolutely - i was looking for chocolate jesus on letterman video all over the net until i finally discovered youtube about 2 years ago and found the video, have been surfing youtube ever since. great comment on your behalf.
This is from Austin City Limits. Does anyone happen to see any other of the clips from this particular show, or know of a place to obtain it? This was the peak of his career in a lot of ways for me.
self righteous hypocrites like you are funny. YOU ARE ON THE INTERNET! YOU ARE LOOKING UP TOM WAITS!
And yet you complain when you find what you look for. I would gladly purchase a DVD of all this if it was available, just so I didn't have to read your ignorance.
yes... god forbid tom waits get any exposure... i mean, how dare he get any new fans?!?!?
in all seriousness... I (and many others, I assume) would LOVE to see tom waits in concert... I would gladly pay too, except for the fact that he... doesn't tour very much at all anymore... so this is about the closest that many people such as myself will get to seeing him in concert... so let us enjoy ourselves and fucking get over yourself already. thanks.
Waits is in no danger of becoming a household name. The day every radio is playing Old 55 and I can't go out without hearing someone singing "Better off without a wife"... no, wait. THAT WOULD BE AWESOME! Would you rather have hoi polli thinking that Soulja Boy is the greatest?
Online, criticizing people who's only crime is LIKING THE SAME MUSIC YOU DO. If I lived where people didn't think Waits was weird, or even knew who Burroughs was, I would be grateful.
Oh, just don't scroll down and it'll be fine. There already is a DVD of Burma Shave, at least, which you can find on Amazon, but I don't think it has much else.
it's pathetic, this youtube myspace culture..it's more than that it's sad. Read Chick Corea's comments on the dire state of art today...they're illuminating. And i know everything i know about waits' work through books, anecdotes, records, interviews, and life experience. i didn't "look him up" on youtube, i was very familiar and attached to his work for years before the dig. rev. i come on this site, to destroy it.
That is fantastic for you, but not everyone is in a cultured area where they can find these things, or other fans of good music for that matter.
As for me being no Burroughs, I have bean reading beat literature (Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Vonnegut, etc) for the past 10 years. I have traveled this country east to west with nothing but the shirt on my back (til I got an indecent exposure charge in Kansas and was issued pants) I think I know a little about LIVING and not just the internet.
if you like this, try getting a hold of the cold beer on a hot night bootleg where he does it live in sydney 1979. it beats this version by a hair, but there weren't any video recordings of it.
it is not a place per se, it is an advert that TW remembered seeing when he was a child, travelling with his dad when they were on the road. burma shave is a destination when the starting point is a town that you come from that you hate.
burma shave is a shaving cream from the 40s and 50s. they would have gimmicky billboards all across the US. tom is playing on that: it doesn't really exist.
This is actually "Burma Shave" with a Summertime intro, and bits of Summertime mixed in. He used to incorporate other songs into his songs in live performances now and then. This is one of the best Waits performances ever, methinks - Summertime fits in great with Burma Shave.
When part 1 and part 2 of this are clipped together, then my life will be complete.
lasneh 2 months ago 2
Musical Genius!
ehukai26 3 months ago in playlist ehukai26's favorites
That song is so enormous that I get shivers. I'm not sure if he's on something or just on the song if I could say so. It gets ME somewhere for sure... then maybe he feels it many times more when performing it.
opredelenooo 4 months ago
@opredelenooo He's on the power of the song and a little touch of alcohol and cigarettes.
ehukai26 3 months ago in playlist ehukai26's favorites
they put the burma shave signs back up
callitacomeb10106 5 months ago in playlist Tom Waits
The trumpeter seems to be Miles Davis, isn't he?
Skepseironeia 6 months ago
Fucking Brilliant !!!!!!
Does anyone know the name of the trumpeter?
JamesBrownEst 6 months ago
Argh so sexy
shelnora 8 months ago 2
waits is drunk as fuck.... brilliant
brahmthexton 9 months ago
@brahmthexton He's definately on something, but he knows his performance so he can get a way with it.
fridun007 4 months ago
When a nickel's worth of dreams have been swindled from you, I guess you can say, I'm on my way to Burma Shave.
fridun007 11 months ago
fuck that saxophone intro rips me apart everytime i hear it.
earshattering+beautiful= tom waits.
theartofnotbeingseen 1 year ago
@theartofnotbeingseen um......its a trumpet. Not a saxophone
nebulae87 9 months ago
@nebulae87 um... i made a mistake. get over it.
theartofnotbeingseen 9 months ago
some nights my heart pounds like thunder...dont know why it dont explode
jivetalkin03 1 year ago 4
My hate
Tom Wait
Be Bop
Hate won't stop
Till Burma Shave
lumpagogo 1 year ago
Thanks for uploading this impressive video. I love Tom Waits. The thing is my english is not perfect. Would someone be so friendly and write everything down what he sais from part 1 and 2 ? That would be amazing. I hope there is someone out there who would do it. My email is : s-t-e-a-m @ web . de
Greetings :)
Od1n90 1 year ago
and it must be hellacious performing the same numbers over and over again in other states, but he makes it look like CAKE. He even changes it up a bit from place to place. <3
LandoftheShanks 1 year ago
I have this on dvd from his concert in Austin! I would like to know how to rip from dvds. What software would I use?! Thanks in advance if you have any information on this. Also, I've watched this performance 4 times in a row now. I just kinda' walk around and let it play and do my housework. Lovely ambience. Sometimes I stop to dance, sometimes to just watch.
Tom Waits is magical.
LandoftheShanks 1 year ago
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sounds like a wounded cat !!!
darkness19040 2 years ago
@darkness19040 haha his nickname actually happens to be, tommy the cat lol. Not sure as to why though
nebulae87 9 months ago
amazing tune - well known off course - but the performance here is outstanding - thanx buddy!
danskTRIGGER 2 years ago
There have been several versions of this performance here, from different stops on the same tour I would guess. (They differ slightly in the story told and how it is told.) The one I liked the most was from Paris. It was breathtaking, but has since disappeared from YT. This is the one most similar to that one, and I'm very happy to have found it, but I would still pay good money to own the one from Paris.
HenningStrandin 2 years ago
pure genious, man's a natural storyteller
IndigolabVideo 2 years ago 4
I saw Tom Waits in Houston last year, touring with his son Casey...It was absolutely amazing, Tom waits is a WONDERFUL entertainer.
SaveYoshi 2 years ago
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ketahoer23 2 years ago
fucking genius. simply pure fucking genius.
madpop17 2 years ago 2
nice comment minus all of the fucking parts! :)
divamonkeybutt 2 years ago
nice comment minus all the parts where you didn't say fucking.
madpop17 2 years ago 5
WHERE can i find this video, i MUST have this
strongf 2 years ago
burma shave ?
bambamerik 2 years ago
a cd of this show was released this year. it is fantastic. Was Tom known to be drunk during performances?
themitchies 2 years ago
uh. yep.
styxe01 2 years ago
theres a great bootleg dvd of this whole concert floating around. i got one on amazon
armills20 3 years ago
please send some more info about that dvd!
doretgar 3 years ago
come on you guys.. if anyone knows anything about this concert, where can you get it or any kind of other information..please, contact me..
this song is driving me crazy..
doretgar 3 years ago
i found it on amazon, but ti isn't there anymore. probably just a random bootleg. don't know where else you'd get it
armills20 3 years ago
There is a dvd called Burma Shave, you can buy that one.
Lysle123 3 years ago
Yeah, I agree. It's probably my favorite song of Waits. Although it's not the same recording, this song is on a bootleg called "Fast Women and Slow Horses (Live in Australia 1979)." It's actually a more magical version of this song, in my opinion.
colossalberger 3 years ago
This is orinially from a US program called "Austin City Limits" normally found on PBS. I have this on concert on video.
fridun007 3 years ago 2
Blimey - this is fantastic! Only just come across Burma Shave ...
Lovage33 3 years ago 2
I love you Tom Waits!
pauletaloca 3 years ago
tom waits is so good.........from hannes holland
nagelschip 3 years ago
dont you just got to fucking love youtube. isnt it one of the best things that ever happened? im just like, puff wow! THANK YOU for posting this
strongf 3 years ago 5
absolutely - i was looking for chocolate jesus on letterman video all over the net until i finally discovered youtube about 2 years ago and found the video, have been surfing youtube ever since. great comment on your behalf.
Juan6804 3 years ago 3
StrongF is a Arash/Feras....
martinpmd 3 years ago
OldeBullLee, only those with nothing intelligent left to say use "etc."
jlm448 3 years ago
So hottttt...
nameofthepen 3 years ago 3
hell yeah.
pengwenwork 3 years ago
godamn this big ole world
yourdentisthatesyou 3 years ago
Pity that the video is in two separate parts.
Paunchline 4 years ago 3
This is from Austin City Limits. Does anyone happen to see any other of the clips from this particular show, or know of a place to obtain it? This was the peak of his career in a lot of ways for me.
SoylentGreenYo 4 years ago
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GET WAITS OFF THE INTERNET!!!!!
die youtube, die google, die wikipedia, die myspace, die internet.
long live waits.
FellmanBaines 4 years ago
dude, stop posting shit and die, mofo pr0n addict fatty...
fdp1do1you1tube1 4 years ago
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fuck you.
FellmanBaines 4 years ago
Oh, not you again.
manwithoutabody 4 years ago 2
:wave:
fdp1do1you1tube1 4 years ago
self righteous hypocrites like you are funny. YOU ARE ON THE INTERNET! YOU ARE LOOKING UP TOM WAITS!
And yet you complain when you find what you look for. I would gladly purchase a DVD of all this if it was available, just so I didn't have to read your ignorance.
OldeBullLee 4 years ago 4
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tom waits and DVD don't belong in the same sentence...neither do tom waits and internet.
and you are no burroughs.
FellmanBaines 4 years ago
yes... god forbid tom waits get any exposure... i mean, how dare he get any new fans?!?!?
in all seriousness... I (and many others, I assume) would LOVE to see tom waits in concert... I would gladly pay too, except for the fact that he... doesn't tour very much at all anymore... so this is about the closest that many people such as myself will get to seeing him in concert... so let us enjoy ourselves and fucking get over yourself already. thanks.
cloudysky10 4 years ago 3
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you're an idiot, man... it's not simply about exposure... and there is such a thing as OVER-EXPOSURE...
try thinkin' a little harder, fuckbrain.
FellmanBaines 4 years ago
Waits is in no danger of becoming a household name. The day every radio is playing Old 55 and I can't go out without hearing someone singing "Better off without a wife"... no, wait. THAT WOULD BE AWESOME! Would you rather have hoi polli thinking that Soulja Boy is the greatest?
Online, criticizing people who's only crime is LIKING THE SAME MUSIC YOU DO. If I lived where people didn't think Waits was weird, or even knew who Burroughs was, I would be grateful.
OldeBullLee 4 years ago 14
tom waits and dvd
owned xD
karl198 4 years ago
Oh, just don't scroll down and it'll be fine. There already is a DVD of Burma Shave, at least, which you can find on Amazon, but I don't think it has much else.
manwithoutabody 4 years ago
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it's pathetic, this youtube myspace culture..it's more than that it's sad. Read Chick Corea's comments on the dire state of art today...they're illuminating. And i know everything i know about waits' work through books, anecdotes, records, interviews, and life experience. i didn't "look him up" on youtube, i was very familiar and attached to his work for years before the dig. rev. i come on this site, to destroy it.
FellmanBaines 4 years ago
That is fantastic for you, but not everyone is in a cultured area where they can find these things, or other fans of good music for that matter.
As for me being no Burroughs, I have bean reading beat literature (Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Vonnegut, etc) for the past 10 years. I have traveled this country east to west with nothing but the shirt on my back (til I got an indecent exposure charge in Kansas and was issued pants) I think I know a little about LIVING and not just the internet.
OldeBullLee 4 years ago 12
you are an idiot.
zzzzaszzzz 3 years ago
stop trying to force your beliefs onto other people!
stephielyn89 3 years ago 2
if you like this, try getting a hold of the cold beer on a hot night bootleg where he does it live in sydney 1979. it beats this version by a hair, but there weren't any video recordings of it.
carthag 4 years ago
what´s burma shave?
fpachecoventura 4 years ago
it is not a place per se, it is an advert that TW remembered seeing when he was a child, travelling with his dad when they were on the road. burma shave is a destination when the starting point is a town that you come from that you hate.
RaymondMcCarron1 4 years ago 4
Nice =)
Thanks!
fpachecoventura 4 years ago
And BurmaShave signs were ubiquitous in the Midwest in the US, too. They had rhyming phrases on them that ended with that punchline.
kc7fys 4 years ago
burma shave is a shaving cream from the 40s and 50s. they would have gimmicky billboards all across the US. tom is playing on that: it doesn't really exist.
styxe01 2 years ago 4
No jazz
No pizzaz
'Straight' approach
Ditch the roach
No booze, no jive
So Burma Shave can stay alive
lumpagogo 2 years ago 2
one of the best Waits performances
the best version of " Burma Shave " ever ..
great .. just great one
bhdrcool 4 years ago 3
Yes.
Jaffe33 4 years ago
I really love this version of Burma Shave. Especially the beginnong is great...
jackrocksack 4 years ago 2
This is the best rendition of Burma Shave that I've heard anywhere. Thanks for posting...do you have the whole show?
monster4josh 4 years ago
This is actually "Burma Shave" with a Summertime intro, and bits of Summertime mixed in. He used to incorporate other songs into his songs in live performances now and then. This is one of the best Waits performances ever, methinks - Summertime fits in great with Burma Shave.
MightyTiny 5 years ago 2