Uploaded by ekey64 on Jan 20, 2008
My friend Chris and I wrote and directed this video back in 1989 -- just for the hell of it. In 1998 I acquired Tom Waits' home address and mailed him a copy of it along with a short letter on the stationary of the company I worked for. Well a few months later Tom called me at work! It took five minutes for him to convince me it was him - he read my letter back to me - and proceeded to tell me how much he like the video, my directing style and how he had forgotten what a great song that was! Years later, after telling this story to so many people and feeling that no one really believed me, I wrote Tom again and this time sent a poster of him that I bought off ebay. I reminded him of the video and asked if he would autograph the poster and mention the video - He replied with, "Dear Eric, thanks for the video. Tom Waits." Then he drew a small picture of the road disappearing into the sunset. That poster proudly hangs in my recording studio. What a great man to go to all that trouble. . On another note, how pretentious is it to spell your name Aeyrk in the credits.? Jeeze!
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The video is perfect...this song rips at my heart
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i sung this at my school remembrance day ceremony and most of the teachers were crying.
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when i listen to this song i get goosebumps, i remember my times in the army with brothers
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This is too effective.
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Huge Waits fan, and this is one of my favorites. Awesome video for a song that always needed one~!
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good stuff, my man- tom waits for no man...
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Im so old i have allready had my Tom waits period, this is some old memories, like childthings man, i have allready dissected those musical numbers of his, held them to the sun, and dumped the remnents in the sand.. One of the most wicked songs from this king-album is the instrumental "butcher-tune", sounds just like a witchdance man!
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That's an awesome story in the info box. Tom Waits seems like such an great man. I hope i get to meet him one day.
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Mate, very good music video! You managed to capture the visual symbols very well think. Even though ithe video's very simple, the way it's captured just works. Great work! I enjoyed this
roaldski 4 months ago 5
Good song!
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