Since, I’ve no longer got a seperate Tom Waits blog, I guess I can post stuff here. NPR’s All Songs Considered has published a recording of the Atlanta show available for a free download. You can grab the whole thing here (130MB, MP3).
It's No Fun Being Tom Waits
He’s pulling our legs again . . . Tom Waits hasn’t had fun in years:
Moody TOM WAITS admits the last time he had “fun” was 40 years ago - at a JAMES BROWN concert.
The gravel-voiced American singer prefers to occupy his life with educational activities rather than indulging in childish behaviour - but he did allow his standards to slip on one occasion.
Waits says, “I don’t have fun. Actually, I had fun once. In 1962. I drank a whole bottle of Robitussin cough medicine and went in the back of a 1961 powder-blue Lincoln Continental to a James Brown concert with some Mexican friends of mine. I haven’t had fun since. It’s not a word I like.
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