Tom Waits - Rockpalast 1977 01 Step Right Up

This is so damn good...Any with such a stiff of an audience, and Tom's up there doing it like they're yelling and screaming...digging way inside the groove, pulling everything out. As Mickey Rourke would say, he's "bringing it". One of the best things on youtube. Well, Jonathan Winters telling his christmas story on Carson is a close second.....

I don't think it's available online. I remember that performance from TV. I think Dinah was really bewildered; but she was a good sport. I imagine Tom can be pretty bizarre face to face.

He did this song on the Dinah Shore show around 1976. It sounded great then, and it sounds great today. He is so creative.

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Amazing.

Waits is brilliant. One of the best productions ever was Frank's Wild Years.

This is MUCH better than the slap chop guy !

This is incredible, since hearing step right up i wondered how it would be done well live, but this is better than the studio version, hands down.

we love u tom!