Tom Waits talks about Kerouac +plays 'Bad liver', 'Pasties' & 'Tom Traubert's Blues' 1977 Belgian TV

Tom Waits at the piano, talking about Jack Kerouac and playing
(parts of)
"Bad Liver And A Broken Heart (In Lowell)"
"Pasties And A G-String (At The Two O'Clock Club)"
"Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets To The Wind In Copenhagen)"

Near the end there's some footage of kids and dancers.

Aired 28/09/1977 as a part of the Flemish television show Tienerklanken ('Teenage sounds') at the Belgian public channel BRT (now called VRT).

I hadn't seen this video until I found it tucked away at www.cobra.be, and thought it deserved a bigger audience.

© VRT

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• Tom Waits
• Jack Kerouac
• beats
• on the road
• beat
• generation
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• bad liver
• broken heart
• pasties
• g-string
• tom traubert's blues
• tienerklanken
• vrt
• brt
• belgium
• piano
• tv

[DaveMcG]

I love this, talking about Jack Kerouac and casually appegiating piano in the background... Smoking, ashtray resting on the keys. So gritty. Vintage Tom Waits :)

[AlfSpungie]

Thank you for the lovely upload, you lovely person.

[ApocalypticWarhammer]

Good stuff. Obviously before he gave up drinking.

[sclogse1]

.....transacted the tumors that I've mirrored. Goodnight to the straitjackets, and the beekeepers zoo...

and goodnight, Godzilla, too.

[LOSTOLDSOUL]

Fantastic!

[ToliveAnimations]

Fantastic

[savedfaves]

He's like a blind bad-bctor with lung cancer doing a Randy Newman impression.

[MicrocebusRufus1]

I love the stories Tom tells whit his piano accompaniment.

[proiyt]

Great way to see his piano technique. He can reach more than an octave without problems. Strange hands. Thanks for uploading

[alhododo]

Thank you so much my brother, for uploading this jewel.