Typed Slowly » glitter and doom http://typedslowly.com Treatment for Southern Culture Myopia. Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:25:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Missing Tom Waits Live http://typedslowly.com/2009/10/13/missing-tom-waits-live/ http://typedslowly.com/2009/10/13/missing-tom-waits-live/#comments Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:19:44 +0000 Ed http://typedslowly.com/?p=49 A little over a year ago, in July ’08, Tom Waits played in Birmingham, AL as part of his “Glitter and Doom” tour. I remember finding out about the tour a few months earlier and telling my then-finacee that we would have to go no matter what because I wanted to see a Tom Waits show more than any other show I could think of, and I told her what date he’d be in Birmingham. She had bad news for me and had to spoil a fairly big and cool surprise.

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We were getting married at the end of that May, and she had already put together her wedding present to me. She had planned a trip to Chicago for a few days and got tickets to see a Tom Petty show as well. So we’d be in Chicago on the day of the Tom Waits show. I felt like a sizable ass for messing up the surprise and making a big deal out of the whole thing. Tom Petty and Chicago were both a really good time, and I’m pretty sure I didn’t even think about the other show I was missing.

So yesterday I learned that Tom Waits is putting out a double live record from the same tour. And you can download the first 8 songs for free from his website. Awesome. And the second record of the set is one long track of stage banter called “Tom Tales.” Kick-ass. And it’ll be released on vinyl in addition to CD. Choices. And it’s pretty exciting all-around.

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