Tom Waits - Back in the good old world ( cover )

[l4rion]

That was really really good!!!

[waitswatcher]

@l4rion

cheers & thanks!

[binarydivision]

The dude on the bridge left his dog in the car to die but took his pipe. What a dick

[jupitermoon3]

This has been in my "favorites" for years, and I keep coming back to listen. AMAZING!

[jupitermoon3]

This has been in my "favorites" for years, and I keep coming back to listen. AMAZING!

[waitswatcher]

@jupitermoon3

thanks for coming back! :-)

[jupitermoon3]

@waitswatcher I came back again tonight... Any chance you have this posted somewhere that I might download it? I can't listen to it enough! :)

[waitswatcher]

@jupitermoon3

If you take a look on my channel page, there are links on the left side.

this song is included in the first set of TW covers.

All other TW covers are there as well, free download. enjoy! ww

[jupitermoon3]

@waitswatcher I came back to listen again tonight! Any chance you have the audio posted somewhere where I might be able to download it? I can't seem to listen to it enough!! :)

[kapone10zx]

this makes me dream...

[MandyLoren]

This is the very very first cover I've ever listen to on youtube...... it's brilliant *-*

[sclogse1]

Take me to the bridge, pascal...

[mulu000]

beautiful*thnx

[BonSneyder]

Even if YouTube had given us only the opportunity to hear and see this extraordinary musical and visual talent it would be one of the greatest inventions of our time.

Glad to be here at the same time as WW (and VB!)... :)

Thank you Pascal - and viel Glück und Freude für Dich!

[sejd51]

Great tune and also fantastic video! Thanks

[HattieLouise]

whoa...

this is incredible...

thank you so much for posting- it brought me a lot of joy today!

[needless to say, you are unbelievably talented.. (; ]

x Hattie

[waitswatcher]

cool - thanks for your comment! :-)

cheers, ww

[1001Olga]

powerful, wonderful, ...

[skcin7]

I made a comment on this video a year ago... still an absolutely awesome instrumental version of the song.

[waitswatcher]

thanks for coming back!

cheers, ww :-)

[LeeteaHutchin]

Very impressive musicianship mate!!

This is one hell of an arrangement! Well Done! x x

[waitswatcher]

glad you like it, thanks!

[sudiin]

Very, very impressive, one of the best instrumental covers I've ever heard, thanks for sharing!

[waitswatcher]

cheers & thanks!

ww

[Lefaikone]

I was listening to Tom Waits the other day, and for a second I thought "Hey, is this a waitswatcher-cover?! I'm sure I've heard this one by Pascal before!" Then I realized, it's propably the other way around... Heh.

[waitswatcher]

hahaha ... that's really funny ... :-)

thank you very much!

cheers!

[kabuCee]

a pleasure to listen and watch. Thanks.

[astraka]

That's poetry, men, that's poetry!

[waitswatcher]

thanks for listening, andrei!

ww

[KENOEFF]

wow, great

[WonderfullyAweful]

beautiful song, you do a great job, and the video is awesome, thanks for posting all your covers!

[chaia84]

haha, i remember seeing that clip of the bridge shaking like that in my physics class...crazy stuff!

[waitswatcher]

yep - crazy indeed... :-)

cheers, ww

[bravermanigor]

What bridge was that ?

[waitswatcher]

Tacoma bridge ...

also known as 'galloping gertie'

[bravermanigor]

Thank you. The music is amazing.

[lennybruce8]

this is a great version you did. really my hats off to you. wish i had the guitar talent for this type of stuff.

[waitswatcher]

very kind, thank you! :-)

[tangabreaker]

what a fake?? this fagot not's Tom Waits

[waitswatcher]

learn some english, helmet!

fagot, faggot or fagott?!

now go back breaking your tanga while you think about that ....

helpfully, ww

[fadedgotjaded]

yea fucker read the title (cover)

and this is a great interpretation

[TarkanRosenberg]

This is beautiful.

[PanKloszard]

Very good interpretation. I very like this song since I've listened it for the first time (1,5 year ago).

[Layarth]

you have so much talent ... I'm dazzled.

[aiwala]

danke nochmals!

[spongedyna]

very very very well done! :))

[NewCoatOfPaint]

sehr schönes lied!

ich kann mir normalerweise keine tom waits cover anhören, weil die meisten einfach schlecht sind, das hier gefällt mir aber sehr gut :)

[fumeduck]

Excellently put together. Kudos to you on an excellent version.

[bromley365]

This is a terrific interpretation, both musically and visually! I love the percussion!!

[machinist18]

Also, waitswatcher..ich bin verdammt nochmal dankbar für jedes lied von dir! Schönes Video übrigens.

[waitswatcher]

vielen dank!

...muß auch endlich mal deine videos ansehen ...

:-)

ww

[Stindels]

very nice arrangement....drumming was cool

[CrazyTrain57]

ohh yes, gotta love this music. great cover! 5***** to you!

[thequesnelkid]

That's awesome

[levike899]

thats f'uckin' good!!!!

[someonestranger]

very nice!

[MoSBb184]

schön schön schön

[heathcliffhuxtable]

Nice soundtrack for old Galloping Girdy.

[virgosun9]

oh summer is gone, and I remember it well... beautiful ; )

[odomaniac]

does anyone have guitar tabs for that one ?

[waitswatcher]

I cant speak for anyone, but I have a basic tab on my site ... you'll find a link on my yt channel.

thanks, ww

[Skawucheck]

Fantastic!

[waitswatcher]

glad you like it!

cheers!

ww

[de4kohris]

you're really good.Playing this must feel incredible.

[waitswatcher]

thank you .... I think I had a good time, haha.

:-)

ww

[majamaja3333]

One of Waits' babies I played the most, I enjoyed this cover, the sentiment is right on the spot!

[waitswatcher]

:-)

[aDoB23]

thank you for saving my day

[waitswatcher]

cheers!

[Shreeves16]

Beautiful, just beautiful.

[persefonethegreat]

this song is just perftect

[uwi2]

Nice!

I never heard this song before.

but a very good friend of mine

has send me this video...and

i love it!

[aiwala]

Yes, I love it too Uwi! ;-) We share good music all the time!

[gymnosophy]

Music- screw the words

[skcin7]

This version is absolutely awesome! Do you by any chance have a guitar tab that I could see?

[waitswatcher]

there's a basic guitar tab on my homepage... go to waits--->tabs.

thanks, ww

[LAVRION]

GREAT MY FRIEND,GREAT!

[lenny121]

weird video

[0jde]

i love the "late"" note @ 0:53... you can really play great.

beautiful stuff, thanks for posting this!

[Bjorgvin]

This is truly wonderful ! ! Thanks Waitswatcher

[Wandandan]

I'm curious what happened to the bridge. Where did you get the video from?

[waitswatcher]

well ... the bridge crashed...

I found that video on archive org.

ww

[Unplugged70]

This is wonderful - all of your Tom Waits performances are exceptional! I just posted a version of'Way Down In The Hole' that is woeful next to what you're doing here. Keep them coming!

[waitswatcher]

thanks a lot, will listen to your video soon....

:-)

[Unplugged70]

This is wonderful - all of your Tom Waits performances are exceptional! I just posted a version of'Way Down In The Hole' that is woeful next to what you're doing here. Keep them coming!

[metalabrahm]

I actually enjoy it more than the original.

[waitswatcher]

oh, thank you!

to me, it cant compare with the original... :-)

[buckybadger9876]

That's really good! Did you work the music out yourself? A+

[algernonmonkey]

you should wriggle in your own discontent. imagine the worms eating your flesh. and then ...maybe then, discuss the endevors of others who have done so

[skeymoson]

a beautiful song .. and the video hypnotic . nice job

[dg19de]

Hey waitswatcher

thx for giving me that beautiful music

your interpretations of the muisic of the genius tom waits nearly reach his skill

thx a lot

[FellmanBaines]

die internet, die youtube, die myspace, die google, die wikipedia...

long live Waits.

[tomtraubert2]

you can't hold back time or change. modern technology is only going to become more pervasive. instead of throwing yourself against the wheel and being crushed by it why not embrace it? dive in feet first take a good look around your new and insane environment and then make it your own. put your stamp on it if you don't like what you see help fill it with what you would like. we are but tool using monkeys but what tools we have to play with.

[kennoshannon]

i know where you'e coming from but i never would have found out alot of interesting things including music

[karl198]

Another point is that without the internet there would be no true free speech, i know the internet is monitored to an extent but only a fraction of the extent that the television is ruled and free speech crushed by the powers that be. If the internet was gone nowdays we'd be stuck listening to what the government want us to hear. I hope you use the internet for some important things fellman such as researching things easily instead of just posting your repetetive drivel over and over.

[incasilver]

Hey Fellmanbaines why dont you just kiss succubus's butt?

[bigswifty219]

yes, bar waits from the internets.

ron paul has no chance, either!

[incasilver]

Those of you burbling on about taking waits off the internet because he's so precious should pull your head out of your arse....

[suculentsuccubus2334]

we arent at all arguing taking Waits off the internet because he is so precious, we are trying to protect art from this ridiculous automated world, all the artists on here and anywhere else on the internet. The internet has made art disgustingly casual. though it wont happen, its nice to imagine.

[zogjones]

you've obviously got a strong radical stance about this "automated world." don't blame the internet for anything man. it's just the way things are. they didn't like it when the piano roll was invented, either, and you could listen to piano music whenever. but they dealt with it. it may be very soon that recorded music is worth nothing and musicians have to make a living touring and selling merch. i think waits will be fine! as for my music career...we'll see! :-)

[FellmanBaines]

Ms Succubus has displayed immense courage and integrity by expressing her views, which are very valid. It is fools like you, who blindly support a technology without first questioning it (as well as the many who are simply indifferent to art and how it's used) who are an enemy of art, culture, and humanity. your musical career will never take off in this current climate, it will be imbibed and execreted and flushed down the toilet. you haven't a chance.

[webstercat]

Microphones, electric guitars, amps, control boards, tape decks, organs, lights, records, tapes, cds, tv, radio, all of these are forms of technology. Which of these do you want to do away with?

[FellmanBaines]

those are effective and creative uses of technology. the web and web way of life are destructive. they threaten the very spirit of art and humanity. if you don't know what i'm talking about, YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM.

[webstercat]

Threaten the spirit of art, what a crock of sh*t. What exactly is the web way of life anyway? Oh never mind.

[zogjones]

thanks for the encouragement. i'm not trying to say who's wrong or right--i'm just stating what's so. good luck trying to get rid of the internet if that's what you're out to do. me, i'll innovate and create. in this climate, there's more opportunity than ever for musicians, just not record labels.

[FellmanBaines]

miss succubus, you are a wonderful soul. Your opinions are both valid and vital. Thank you for speaking out against this fast-food approach to music that is pervading our society and destroying genuine culture. You are great, and I support your views with ALL MY HEART AND SOUL.

[suculentsuccubus2334]

thankyou for your support.

[webstercat]

Casual art? So who died and appointed you "king of art?" Lets see the same could have been said of early recordings. Going to a record store was more convenient than going to a club. I hate to break it to you but you can't change a thing.

[Feanor612]

Why are you people talking about Waits? It's a Waits' song but there's NO Waits there - it's an instrumental cover.

On Topic: a really nice try, love the video, but I guess you know that you had no real chances to come close to the original. My favourite Waits' song ever!

[yoleandrogonzalez]

Fantástico video, excelente interpretación. Saludos desde Buenos Aires.

[suculentsuccubus2334]

I would love to say that getting this music off the internet could happen but few dreams are possible, unfortunately thats the only valuable thing I have learned from this disgusting mechanical daze we call life.

[chovasie]

:O stunning!!!! wait's is greatest man of our time!!!!!

[kathyseesyou]

Get Waits OFF the internet!

[suculentsuccubus2334]

why the hell would you get Tom Waits off the internet? you can have stupid things on here like people lipsynching to pop songs and instructional videos for useless crap but you cant have a man sing his heart out and show the world what real music can do to you? its closed minded people like you that make me ill. Its this kind of stupidity that makes me simply livid.

[bennyjail]

Waits' work is too precious to be callously displayed on such a lifeless medium such as the internet. The internet comes in the guise of progress and globalization, when in actuality it is a force that threatens to undermine the essense of art, imagination, and wonder.

[Halkannon]

The "lifeless" Internet is a medium, the people can decide how to use it. And there a many people in here. Some of them with good intent some of them with bad. But why we should damn it categoricaly. It is a medium we can use by OURSELF, we can create things with it(art, new wonders), we can share things that are importent to us. So why the hell we should "get Waits of the internet"?. You have the choice: Dont come here and dont watch youtube.

(sorry for grammer and spelling mistakes)

[zogjones]

waits' music is too precious not to be delivered to the world. i had never seen him perform EVER before youtube. now i can lose myself in his performance.

[FellmanBaines]

and in front of laptop. go into a forest, meditate, smoke weed, mainline heroin, hop a train, jump off a plain, fall asleep on a street corner. .. just don't buy into this laptop way of life...it's pathetic.

[zogjones]

...and you're replying to me with...stone and chisel? :-) you can visit my flickr account detailing the latest rock climbing adventure i had this month; or the horse back riding trip a couple weeks ago; or the shows i've recently played; or the....dude--you're totally assuming you know who i am. besides, heroine and weed are much more life-numbing than any machine in MY life. it's a privilege and enrichment to my already abundant life to see tom on youtube.

[suculentsuccubus2334]

obviously not im not saying it isnt a tool for communication im saying it is a poor way to project certain arts. im not assuming at all who you are. so calm down.

[webstercat]

Tom made his first million dollars by suing Frito Lay for infringement. If he didn't want his music on the internet then he would have it taken down. Since he doesn't care why should you? Odd how you are using the same technology you despise.

[FellmanBaines]

Oh, he does care! Waits does NOT like the way his and other great artists' music is being displayed on youtube. In fact, his work has nothing to do with an "internet." This environment is going to kill off any culture left in America, and turn it into one soulless country-club. It's already happening.

[webstercat]

Give me a date when that will happen and I'll mark it on my calendar. Great song title, the day the art died. I'm looking forward to it, right after global warming.

[beavisHchrist]

haha it's already a soulless country club; America thinks its more important than it really is; its still just a colony. What are you afraid of losing exactly? what you may lose may be replaced with something soulful all depending on what we learn from the internet while it is still here for everybody.

[mccrackhed]

i understand your hatred for the internet, but in posting on youtube you come across as a complete hypocrite, the day i see tom waits played on mtv or v i will rejoice because it means there are some good people in the world and culture will live...

[algernonmonkey]

you are a moron. plain and simple your are simple and plain. you are a simp. you post on the internet dispairing the internet.

i nor no one can speak for twaits you boob. eat your own lethargy as an aside to your hollow soul and dream of one day contributing to the beauty of the world. you boob.

[kennoshannon]

man america its pretty damn close to losing its soul, and its taking australia with it, the more you become souless the more we become america

[webstercat]

American has no soul, people have souls. I'm an American I have my soul. Countries are only groups of people.

[kennoshannon]

true :) but i was using soul as a metaphor for morals, my bad

[suculentsuccubus2334]

Kathy I understand that you are trying to get Waits off the internet because such beauty dosnt deserve to be stripped of its dignity by being played at a whim and at no cost, but I, and many others (being of a much younger audience) will never be able to see this beauty in person and are forced to rely on our automated world to deliver beauty.

[katmaidog]

"Suculensuccubus2334", you are outta your mind. Waits will tour again, so get off your tail and go see him live.

In the meantime, Tom ROOLS the internet!

[suculentsuccubus2334]

he may tour again but the question is if I will be able to go, the problem is im 16 and have incredibly oppressive parents and the fact that he would probably stay in the states.

[webstercat]

Oppressive parents? Then leave home and stop eating the food they provide and sleeping in the bed they bought.

[suculentsuccubus2334]

they did buy my bed but I have been buying my own meals and clothes scince 13 thanks.

[senderama]

Superb - love it

[waitswatcher]

nice! :-)

[borius78]

great cover great song. In one word: great!

[waitswatcher]

thanks a lot!

:-) ww

[JohnyBluegrass]

outstanding!

[zneella]

this is just feckin brilliant.thanks for posting.5*****

[vegetableplot]

That is the prettiest tune and the saddest all at the same tme. You blow me away like a leaf Tom.

[bhdrcool]

love it love it love it

great

thnx

[corridorsofpower]

thanks for the poem - I saw this

[1337jazzdrums]

i dig it

[brotherdave777]

Well Played!!! Very Sharp.

[Scinauticando]

If I would be able to rate this video with 6 stars, I did.

[waitswatcher]

wow! :-)

cheers, ww

[Occaras]

Fantasica

[Oskoreien]

All ways excellent covers from you!

[waitswatcher]

thanks a lot!

[Paaaaaaaaaaap]

Don't you all go thinking he's the cool type, people...

[waitswatcher]

hehe... ;-)

[MissesJaneDoe]

WUNDERBAR!!!!

[waitswatcher]

Dankeschön!

[TAMMRON]

Once again tom waits inspires greatness!

Peace out!

TAMMRON

[jent12]

Excellent!!

[WorldChallenge]

This is from A Night On Earth.

[AlliBee]

Brilliant.

Alli

x

[MightyTiny]

Excellent! Love your version.

[borzas]

awsome. a good Tom Waits cover, at last!!!

[waitswatcher]

thanks! :-)

[steff770]

love this vidio and the music is amazing.