Tom Waits Interview on CBC: "Burma Shave"

Tom Waits singing "Burma Shave" on Canadian TV.

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Music

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• Tom
• Waits
• Burma
• Shave
• CBC
• Flo
• Eddie

[frenchy5150]

great stuff...i guess he was doing a lot of blow and so many cigarettes and a six pack once in a while...

[debibulated]

He wasn't into drugs. Booze, yes.

[MrGreenGenes]

WTF..Flo and Eddie on CBC??

Did they air the FLo and eddie show or did they host something else!?!

[debibulated]

I have no idea what the connection was with the CBC. I imagine it is the same Flo & Eddie show you know. I hadn't heard of their show before until I caught this on a retrospective of CBC shows for some anniversary. I guess it was a big hit in their line-up back in the 70's. I'm glad they chose this episode to re-air.

[MrGreenGenes]

There was some stuff on youtube form the show..Interviewing David Bowie...and someone else.

Did they re-air this recently?

[debibulated]

About three/four years ago. I have the David Bowie talk too, and Flo & Eddie singing with David Cassidy (Partridge Family dude).

[tone2thebone]

for me this is musical perfection, must have watched it over 100 times by now....

[rockrocket]

we all know that we can't compare tom waits with anybody. sorry ben harper's fan.

[minimonkey252]

@debibulated

>wasn't into drugs

>booze

oh you

[falitosis]

If only she'd have been a bit more patient

[whateveritsnoyes]

Thanks for uploading this, debibulated. The only video footage of Tom in his Tropicana Motel apartment (as far as I know).

Also, I like the way he sings, "He didn't seem to be like any guy she'd ever known.." on here, as opposed to on the record. It sounds sweeter, somehow.

[latthewmarkin]

@debibulated alcohol is a drug.

[ubreakinmepatlisa]

Tom Waits is an autistic savant, thank God.

[chukcanuk]

@debibulateFlo and Eddie were on the Peter Gzowski show regularly. I had the pleasure of interviewing them in Mtl once.

[ButzisAroma]

@benway15

Low Side of the Road: The Lives of Tom Waits. He was a dabbler with some drugs in some social situations, but preferred the hooch. This colorful tale from the book could very well be a fabrication, or at the very least an exaggeration. You never know with Tom I suppose - he says his entire persona is a 'ventriloquist act". Great fucking book of the man's life up the present though.

[benway15]

@ButzisAroma Where did this information come from? I've got a couple of books on him but I haven't read them yet. I'm a big fan but haven't ever heard him speak of cocaine. I know he lies a lot though, but this would be a pretty heavy lie...his lies are normally light hearted.

[ButzisAroma]

@debibulated

He did actually use some cocaine during this period, but infrequently. A chapter of Low Side of the Road, A Life of Tom Waits, he tells a story about going to a dealer's apartment to score and finding the guy had been shot by the time he arrived. His chest was all bandaged up, and he was bleeding on the coffee table as they counted the money. He gave up the booze (He's a 12-stepper) and the cigarettes too.

Tom and Bette dated on and off for several years.