Tom Waits - Gun Street Girl

[1953SM]

Lololol! 5340889 liters of whiskey! ^^^^^ I'm shooting shots listening to this and all his songs all night long and it's 5:30 am now and didn't even notice the passage of time. I was caught in the mystical spell that is Tom Waits!

[Givila14]

That is not gun street girl...

[squimync]

@Givila14

Yes, it is?

[CollinSmithable]

This is brilliant..

[tomaglurjidze]

Tom waits for his parents.

[TheFPSsoviet]

Johnny cash and him should have toured.

[Tedminat0r]

Now thats waaits! :D

[ElzaCollins]

AWESOME PERFORMANCE!!

[MarkArandjus]

1. Song is actually 'Ain't Goin' Down to the Well' not 'Gun Street Girl'

2. Even as a death metal fan this vocal performance blows me away D:

[repenter]

@MarkArandjus actually it's a hybrid. starts as 'well', then goes to 'gun street' and back again. he does this often to fuck with his fans and keep the performances fresh. similar to what he did with 'lucinda' and 'ain't goin down to the well' on his recent tour

[keg64]

brillant great stuff

[muzicsalesman]

In a age of musical peasants, this man is a Legend .

[kolbiter]

Good God...if "performance art" wasn't such a schmaltzy term, I'd say that this wasn't just music, this is performance art...but I don't know what it is...(two dollar)...that demonmeister (three dollar)...that prince devil...just see if you can come up with a figure that matches your faith!

[rocko471]

this isn't gun street girl

[MarkArandjus]

This is a song that both blues/folk fans and death metal fans can enjoy :D

[taraj123]

4 people are going down to the well

[RafaelDivoz]

this is the correct name of this track:

Ain't Goin' Down To The Well

[hypriest81]

@RafaelDivoz Upon closer examination of the lyrics, it looks like he actually took the two songs and mashed them together with (in my opinion) pretty awesome results.

[RafaelDivoz]

@hypriest81 Yes, thats right ,but you may put both names :D

[TheWoodencrow]

Sounds like a cross between a bulldog, a freight train, and a chain gang. Good old fashioned prison house blues.

[horvathazagergo]

kurva jó :D

[sdmusiclvr]

@shploomp I said he copied the style not the sound. Maybe I should clear it up. The influence of CB's music on Waits vocal phrasing is very obvious. If you read any bio about Waits, when he got married in 1980 his wife introduced him to CB's music and most of Wait's records (the best ones) have many examples of CB's vocal style. Waits first album was in 76 so he must have smoked 20 lifetimes worth or cigarettes and drank the same in whiskey to change his voice that much in 4 years (not likely).

[samphibian]

f***ing majestic songwriting though.

[samphibian]

sorry, but the brother sings like he's puking. i know i'm supposed to like this cuz it's cool but i don't.

[sewallm60]

@samphibian so don't watch it idiot

[samphibian]

@sewallm60 so don't read my comment, fuckwit

[sewallm60]

@samphibian you're still a fucking idiot

[samphibian]

@sewallm60 thanks. isn't that a song by paul simon -- still a fucking idiot after all these years?

[muzicsalesman]

@samphibian zing' niceeeee

[RafaelDivoz]

the best ! ! god, the devil... everybody, he is us.. but we never can be him

[skindelicous]

Fabulous.!!!!!

[MarkArandjus]

I'm actually experimenting with music styles and trying to implement guttural vox into normal music. People tell me it would never works, but this gives me hope, when you think about it these are some pretty brutal vocals!

[sdmusiclvr]

@KillerColours I love Tom Waits and his music, but I was a Captain Beefheart fan first so telling @fdemontille that other people remind him of Tom Waits doesn't fly with me because Tom Waits basically copied the Captain's vocal style. I don't like Tom Waits or his music any less, just pointing out that fact.

[shploomp]

@sdmusiclvr he doesn't copy beefheart's vocal style, if you listen to his albums in order he started off as a smooth voiced Jazz/lounge singer/pianist then over time, due to smoking and whiskey, his voice gradually grew rougher and rougher, untill he left his Jazzy background behind alltogether, embraced his rough, rather brutal vocal style, and started making more eccentric, expirimental music, whic draws influence from things like circus music

[hoofbite135]

As wrong as it would be for tom waits to do it, he would probably be one of the greatest metal singers of all time haha

[ddgroehoff]

HESE 2 SONGS WERE NOT MY FAVORITES. WATCHING HIM PERFORM THESE HAS COMPLETELY CHANGED MY MINE!

[udzierbeka]

what is this??? i dont know but its incredible!

[stjulienlepauvre]

@udzierbeka it's art

[fdemontille]

He reminds me of Louis Armstrong.

[KillerColours]

@fdemontille Tom Waits doesn't remind you of other people. Other people remind you of Tom Waits.

[jadvinia]

genialne

[mzukamuta]

GENIUS!

[kronan0498]

cool 

[helios417]

This is pure genius. Timeless.

[mentar02]

Excelente o som!

[35k0]

wow!

[touchandgod]

The breath control here is brilliant. And the song, in its multitudinous variations, is one of my favorites.

[frodo0319]

This version of the two songs may be the best music recorded ever i would give my next three pay checks to see just this performance live

[Denncity]

Fantasy dinner party...

Tom Waits, Bill Hicks, Lemmy, Billy Connelly, Helen Mirren, KRS-One. Oh, and Paris Hilton - but only so we could all tell her to fuck off. Maybe I'd ask Lemmy to punch her in the face.

[robson1144]

And shane macGowan

[sharqi666]

i would also include george carlin, hunter s thompson and janis joplin just so she can throw the first punch

[touchandgod]

Bronwyn Exter, Michael Gira, William Burroughs, and Nick Cave would have to be there.

[carbonlaminate]

@touchandgod I loved him in "Superbad"

[rhombusskullvsteal]

terrence mckenna

[earlymurder]

...Que tom waits sea vocal de un grupo de death metal, yeahhhh.

[Warwick1016]

You should put "Ain't Goin' Down to the Well No More/Gun Street Girl", cause Tom is covering Leadbelly's song throughout- it's a mix of the two, and a profound one at that.

[animal90sFreak5]

how isn't that a nice thing mr. waits did for those people!

[TrygviMurt]

that's the result of 5340889 liters of whiskey ... fanfuckingtastic

[RyanReeferBass]

dont forget the cigs

[19gatesave]

@TrygviMurt He's been sober for over 25 years.

[bostonironworker1]

@TrygviMurt THIS NIGGA AINT HAD A DRINK IN LIKE 20 YEARS

[RevDrDark]

Posers.

[mediumsteve]

*Poseurs.

[RevDrDark]

If you prefer the French, so be it.

[mediumsteve]

no i prefer the only way that word is spelled

[pretorious700]

Tom's more like a shaman than a musician. Of course, he's a hell of one of those too.

[jazzygem786]

hitsalllevels

[GRAILKNIGHTPARZIFAL]

Pure unsulled  T-A-L-E-N-T

[jesjes21]

i agree with you homeboy, listening to tom leaves me with the idea that everyone has an unlimited talent in some form or another, and tom is just digging deeper into that talent we all have. when i listen to, say, alan holdsworth play guitar, there is an equal amount of talent (translated into guitar playing as opposed to tom's expression and songwriting) but he kinda sounds like an android and makes genius seem impossible. tom's brand of genius makes me endlessly inspired to do my own thing.

[jesjes21]

WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT NEIL YOUNG?!?!?!

this video is too awesome

[moonlitesymphony]

Apparently Mr. Young is the one organizing all the bridge school benefits

[jesjes21]

that makes sense

isn't neil's son zeke handicapped in some fashion?

[antwilliams86]

Wow he's doing it alot differently than the album version.

[AintNoDevil]

That must be the biggest Xelaphone I've ever seen

[noelm91]

I think that's cause its a marimba

[antwilliams86]

Ah yes the marimba. Cannot be fully appreciated until you load it into a truck. Hahaha.

[eridgley]

I am happy to say that I was there for this one.

[shutupfor2seconds]

Amazing.

Gave me chills.

[thriceforlife]

should put ain't goin down to the well/gun street girl. badass mix, that's for tru

[mossimo654]

man his voice went from, "soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months and then taken outside and run over with a car" to straight from the depths of hell. Worked damn well for blood money

[Jcolinsol]

Like gargling chunks of hot asphalt.

[harrycarayhere]

no two performances are the same

[lunarpark35]

The man is a powerhouse!

[cjdavis18]

I LOVE IT

[mar1tn]

absolutly brilliant, the man is a genius...