Listing
of TOM WAITS'(smokey piano lounge musician from San Diego area)
tours
from 1970 to 1983, as researched by a terrific Tom Waits fan in
Denver. What is that guy's name again? Sorry, I forget, but he came to my
house
and we looked for my 8 track copy of a great Tom Waits show from FM
1978 in
San Diego. Only found the
cassette. Still, great stuff.
Early
Performing
Tom had
a band called “The Systems,” but no performance dates are known.
“The
Heritage”: 3842 Mission Blvd., Mission Beach, California
1970 to
1972
Tom was
the doorman & “bouncer” at this folk club near the beach. He also
played
on stage from time to time. The club
closed sometime in 1972. Tom:
“The
first weekend I had at the Heritage it was Bob Labeau and Tom Waits and
we
split the bill a couple of times after that.
It was Bob Webb, at first,
who
gave me a weekend there. I’d been
hootin’ (note: a “hoot” is an open
stage
where various performers play impromptu sets) for quite a while and I
had a
girlfriend who got a job waiting tables too.
So she was kind of
putting
a good word in for me with Bob and finally he came around and said
‘we’ll
risk it.’ And I was the doorman and
that was one of the important
steps
for me because I got to listen every weekend.”
(from an interview
from
1/13/74)
“The
Troubador”: 9081 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, California
June-July
1971
Tom:
“I’d been living here in San Diego and taking the bus up to the hoots
at the
Troubadour, sitting out in front and waiting, going up and doing four
songs
on Monday night as often as I could.
They allow you to do one night a
month.
At first nobody really knew my face or my name so I could do it twice
sometimes. The Troubadour is kind of like a market place,
like a slave
auction. Everybody’s trying to sell what they
do.” (from an interview from
1/13/74)
CLOSING
TIME Touring
"The
Boarding House": 960 Bush St. San Francisco, California
May
29-June 3, 1973
Opening
for John Hammond two/three shows a night.
Admission
$2.00 weeknights, $2.50 weekends. Tom
had this to say about the
first
tour: “First one, I went out with a
(four piece) group. We rehearsed
a week
and split to the East coast. I’d played
in various groups but it was
the
first time I was really faced with having a back-up band, and that was
real
exciting for me. We did mainly small
clubs. We’d gotten the
opportunity
to open for a number of people I’d admired for a number of
years. Opened for John Hammond in San Francisco, at
the Boarding House.
That
was a great week. We opened for Charlie
Rich in New York City, and he
at the
time was on a comeback road, before his hits now… Opened for Tom Rush
in
Georgetown, D.C., Danny O’ Keefe in Boston, and Tim Weisberg in Denver.
(from
an interview from 1/13/74)
Other
possible cities: Detroit, Atlanta, Philadelphia, New York, Nashville.
KPFK
Radio, Los Angeles, California (“Folk Scene”)
August
12, 1973
Los
Angeles, California
October
11, 1973
KPFK
Radio, Los Angeles, California (“Snap Sessions”, San Diego?)
November
10, 1973
“Folk
Arts”: 3743 Fifth Avenue, San Diego, California
November
16 & 17, 1973
With
Bob Webb.
“University
Of Waterloo”: Waterloo, Canada
November
18, 1973
It does
not appear that Tom played this date.
Read on: “That was the most
recent
(tour), it lasted about three weeks.
That was me and Bob Webb. We
were
opening the show for Frank (Zappa) doing about thirty minutes in mostly
college
concerts, a few civic theatres. I was
just really impressed. And
oddly
enough he was really satisfied with what I was doing too… I
rendezvoused
with Frank in Toronto and we finished up the last leg of the
tour.” (Considering this interview is from 1/13/74,
it is fair to suppose
the information
is accurate.)
Zappa
Tour Dates with Waits/Webb as opener:
11/23/73
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Massey Hall 2
shows: DATE CONFIRMED
11/24/73 Toronto or London, Ontario, Canada
11/25/73 London, Ontario, Canada
11/26/73 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
11/27/73 Akron, Ohio
11/28/73 Ashland, Ohio: Ashland University (between Akron & Columbus)
11/30/73 Lowell, Massachusetts
12/1/73 Stony Brook, New York SUNY 2 shows
12/2/73 North Dartmouth, Massachusetts: Southeastern Massachusetts
University
12/?/73 Fresno, California
12/?/73 Oakland, California DATE QUESTIONABLE -
not listed in Berkeley
Barb.
12/?/73 Seattle, Washington
12/9/73 Los Angeles CA Roxy Theatre, 9009 Sunset Boulevard
12/10/73 Los Angeles CA Roxy Theatre, 9009 Sunset Boulevard
12/11/73 Los Angeles CA Roxy Theatre, 9009 Sunset Boulevard
12/12/73 Los Angeles CA Roxy Theatre, 9009 Sunset Boulevard
“Folk
Arts”: 3743 Fifth Avenue, San Diego, California
January
11, 1974
With
Bob Webb & Jack Tempchin.
Begin
of THE HEART OF SATURDAY NIGHT Touring Period
Zappa
show warm-ups February & March 1974????
“Blue
Ridge Music”: 568 First Street, Encinitas, California
March
22, 1974 (2 shows, 8 & 10)
The
Pendleton Pickers were also on the bill.
“8th
San Diego State Folk Festival”: Aztec Center, San Diego State
University,
California
April
19, 1974
The
correct dates for the festival are April 25 - 28, 1974
“Blue
Ridge Music”: 568 First Street, Encinitas, California
June 5,
1974
Bob Simpson
was also on the bill.
If Tom
was on the entire Zappa tour, he would have played these dates at
least:
6-28-74 Quebec City, QUEBEC Canada Centre Municipal
des Congres de Quebec,
Hilton
Hotel 2 shows
6-29-74 Montreal, QUEBEC Canada Place des Nations,
Expo
7-01-74 Ottawa, ONTARIO Canada Civic Arena
7-02-74 Detroit, MI Cobo Hall (Zappa site
says Peter Frampton opened)
7-03-74 Bloomington, IL Illinois State University
7-05-74 St. Louis, MO Ambassador Theater 2
shows
7-06-74 Little Rock, AR Robinson Memorial Auditorium
7-07-74 Tampa, FL
Curtis Hixon Hall
7-08-74 Memphis, TN Ellis Auditorium
7-10-74 Mobile, AL
Municipal Auditorium
7-12-74 Miami, FL
Jai Alai Fronton
7-13-74 St. Petersburg, FL Bayfront Center
7-14-74 Tuscaloosa, AL University Of Alabama, Morgan Auditorium
7-15-74 New Orleans, LA St. Bernard Civic Auditorium
7-17-74 Phoenix, AZ Celebrity Theater
7-19-74 San Carlos, CA Circle Star Theater
7-20-74 San Carlos, CA Circle Star Theater
7-21-74 San Carlos, CA Circle Star Theater
7-23-74 KPFK-FM, Los Angeles, CA “Folk Scene” (non
Zappa, Waits only-
sometimes
listed 6/10/74)
8-08-74 Los Angeles, CA Shrine Auditorium or Roxy Theatre
8-11-74 San Diego, CA Golden Hall
In the
January 9 to 15 1975 San Diego Reader, several contributors gave
their
worst and best of 1974. Ted Burke
picked “Tom Waits at the Frank
Zappa/Mothers
Concert, Golden Hall” as his 2nd Worst concert of 1974. Steve
Esmedina
found Zappa’s performance at the same show to be his #1 Worst
concert
of 1974.
8-17-74 Santa Monica, CA Civic Auditorium
8-18-74 Los Angeles, CA
"Circle
Star Theater": San Carlos, California
July
19, 20, and 21, 1974
Opened
for Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention.
At the
end of his set he invited anyone who cared to, to buy him a drink in
the
lounge.
"Venice
Fox Theatre" - Lincoln Blvd (no longer open): Venice, California
1974 or
1975
Performed
mostly Nighthawk songs. Opened for Bonnie Raitt.
“Le
Barrel Nightclub”: Santa Barbara, CA
1974 or
1975
Opened
for Bonnie Raitt
"Castle
Creek": Austin, Texas
1974?
“Folk
Arts”: 3743 Fifth Avenue, San Diego, California
August
23 & 24, 1974
John
Bosley was also on the bill.
Speakeasy
radio show
September
7, 1974
“Ebbett's
Field”, Denver, Colorado
October
8, 9, 10, 11, 12 &13, 1974
This
may be the first of several multiple night stands that Waits performed
at this
club. It was located at 1020 15th
Street in downtown Denver. This
run is
verified by a small blurb in the now defunct “Straight Creek Journal”
(October
8-14, 1974 edition), a music paper published in Denver in the
mid-1970s. Tom sat down at the piano with a rumpled
piece of paper of a
song
that he obviously had just written which turned out to be an early
version
of Nighthawk Postcards which was filled with local references. The
interview
from 1/12/75 verifies that this incident occurred at these shows!
WMMR
Radio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
October
27, 1974
The
following are tour dates for Zappa in the Fall of 1974 (some dates
unconfirmed). Waits opened for some and possibly all of
these:
10-31 New York, NY Felt Forum 2 shows
11-01 Largo, MD
Capitol Center
11-02 Richmond, VA University Of Richmond
11-05 Allentown, PA Agricultural Hall
11-06 Pittsburgh, PA Syria Mosque... or
Chatham Center
11-07 Harrisburg, PA State Farm Show Building
11-08 Passaic, NJ
Capitol Theater 2 shows
11-09 Boston, MA
Orpheum Theater 2 shows
Waits
is verified on the Boston 11/9/74 Zappa date because of a tape of the
late
show where he appears with the Mothers on stage. It appears that this
was
Tom’s last date on the Zappa tour, since Passim’s conflicts with the
next
Zappa date, and the newly discovered Bottom Line & Folk Arts dates
conflict
with several Zappa dates. In his radio
interview from 1/12/75 he
describes
three months of touring (all club shows except for one concert in
Philadelphia)
starting in Denver (at Ebbett’s Field).
It will take some
research
to fill in those dates.
"Passim's":
Cambridge, Massachusetts
November
10, 1974
“The
Bottom Line”: New York City, N.Y.
November
19, 20 & 21, 1974
Orleans
was also on the bill.
“Folk
Arts”: 3743 Fifth Avenue, San Diego, California
November
22 & 23, 1974 (2 Shows each night)
Bill
Steele was also on the bill.
“Stables
Club”: East Lansing, Michigan
November
or December 1974 (ref. 1/12/75 interview)
Warming
up for Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
November
or December 1974
Troubador,
Los Angeles
December
1974
(warming
up for Little Feat-3 nights, Tom’s 1st formal concerts there- per
1/12/75)
Minneapolis,
Minnesota
December
1974 (between LA & Pitts)
Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
December
1974 (just before Christmas, tour ended here)
The
following are the dates for the remainder of the Zappa tour, but it is
unlikely
that Tom played any of these dates:
11-10 Port Chester, NY Capitol Theater 2
shows (conflicts with
Passim’s)
11-11 Syracuse, NY Onondaga County War Memorial Auditorium
11-12 Erie, PA
Gannon Auditorium
11-14 Rochester, NY War Memorial Auditorium or Dome Arena in Henrietta, NY
(south
of Rochester)
11-15 Buffalo, NY
Memorial Auditorium
11-16 Ithaca, NY
Ithaca College
11-17 Philadelphia, PA Spectrum
11-19 Columbus, OH Veterans Memorial Auditorium
11-20 Dayton, OH
Hara Sports Arena
11-21 Louisville, KY Freedom Hall (Date ?)
11-22 Fort Wayne, IN Coliseum
11-23 East Lansing, MI Michigan State University
11-24 Madison, WI
Dane County Arena
11-26 Lincoln, NE
Pershing Auditorium
11-27 St. Paul, MN St. Paul Auditorium
11-28 Chicago, IL
Hat Trick Arena
11-29 Naperville, IL North Central College
11-30 Naperville, IL North Central College
12-01 Cleveland, OH Richfield Coliseum or Public Auditorium?
Cleveland,
Ohio: Radio Appearance
January
1, 1975
KPFK
Radio, Los Angeles, California (“Folk Scene Flashback”)
January
12, 1975
This
show sometimes listed as 2/13/75, and features some good tour clues.
“McCabe’s
Guitar Shop”: Santa Monica, California
January
31, 1975
“Jupiter”:
Lousiana
Minneapolis,
Minnesota
Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
Opening
for Little Feat
January
or February, 1975
“Music
Hall”: Cleveland, Ohio
February
13, 1975
"Ebbett's
Field" Denver, Colorado
February
19, 1975
"Ebbett's
Field": 1020 15th Street, Denver, Colorado
1975?
Dingy
little coffeehouse with Tom and a Piano. Tom kept dedicating songs to
a guy
in the front row who was passed out leaning against the person next to
him. (This could be another concert or same as
above)...
Opened
for Roger (Jim) McGuinn. He was Solo playing either guitar or piano.
He did
almost a monologue between songs which were laced with references to
Denver's
skid row which was only a few blocks away.
WAMU,
American University, Washington, D.C.
April
18, 1975
“The
Cellar Door”: Washington, D.C.
April
18, 19 & 20, 1975
WMMR,
Philadelphia, PA.
April
21, 1975
“The
Bottom Line”: New York City, N.Y.
April
22 & 23, 1975
Phil
Proctor & Peter Bergman of Firesign
Theatre headlined.
"Craig
Hospital": Denver, Colorado
1975
fall - free concert for 2 1/2 hours
Contact
with the hospital in September of 2001 indicates no such concert
took
place, but stay tuned!
“Red
Rocks Ampitheatre”: Morrison, Colorado
August
14, 1975
Tom
opened the show for The Eagles. The
bill may have also included Dan
Fogelberg. Unfortunately Tom was booed off the stage
before he could do a
whole
set, presumably because the Eagles fans were more accustomed to sweet
than
dour. The headliners were not pleased,
and made a big point of
emphasizing
the identity of the composer of ‘Ol 55 when the time came.
“The
Troubador”: 9081 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, California
August
19 through 24, 1975
The
Amazing Rhythm Aces were also on the bill as warm-up.
"The
Main Point": Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
September
25, 1975
Beginning
of NIGHTHAWKS AT THE DINER Touring Period
“Santa
Monica Civic Auditorium”: Santa Monica, California
October
17, 1975
Bonnie
Raitt was also on the bill as headliner.
“Crawford
Hall”: University Of California at Irvine, California
October
18, 1975
Bonnie
Raitt was also on the bill as headliner.
“The
Back Door”: Aztec Center, San Diego State University, California
October
19, 1975 (2 shows: 7:30 & 10, no other act listed)
“Texas
Hall”: Arlington, Texas
October
25, 1975
“Opryland”:
Nashville, Tennessee
October
1975
This is
strictly a guess based on another date list, suggesting Tom played
at this
venue with Bonnie.
“Earth
News Radio”: Interview only
November
1 & 2, 1975
“Massey
Hall”: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
November
2, 1975
“Convocation
Hall”: University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
November
1975
Opening
act for Maria Muldaur of “Midnight At
The Oasis” fame. Tom was
booed
and heckled but did a great job of silencing his hecklers very
quickly.
Reno
Sweeney, Manhatten, New York
November
?? 1975
“The
Exit Inn”: Nashville, Tennessee
Fall
1975?
KPFK
Radio, Los Angeles, California
November
13, 1975
"Capitol
Theatre": Passaic, New Jersey
November
14, 1975
Opened
for Poco
“Ebbett's
Field”, Denver, Colorado
December
3, 4, 5, 6 & 7, 1975
Another
of several multiple-night stands that Waits performed at this club.
It was
located at 1020 15th Street in downtown Denver. This run is verified
by a
small blurb in the now defunct “Straight Creek Journal” (December 2-7,
1975
edition), a music paper published in Denver in the mid-1970s. There
exists
a radio broadcast, probably from the first night, which reveals that
Maxine
Sellers warmed up each show, and also that at least the first night
had
early and late shows.
KQRS,
ASI Studios, Minneapolis, Minnesota
December
16, 1975
“Quiet
Knight”: Chicago, Illinois
December
19, 20 & 21, 1975
"Pipe
Room": Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California
1976
He was
playing in the basement of one of the dorm buildings there, a venue
that
held about 200 people. Tickets were $1 apiece. The place was packed,
smoky,
and dimly lit. The stage was dark then all of a sudden, we heard the
strike
of a match followed by the mournful sax lead-in of "Small Change."
And
there was Waits, in his usual bedgraggled dress, and puffing on a
cigarette
(an Old Gold or Chesterfield, probably). It was absolutely
perfect.
"Palladium":
Dallas, Texas
1976
with Martin Mull
"Soundstage":
Chicago, Illinois
January
9, 1976
“Dinah
Shore Show”: CBS Studios, Hollywood, California
February
3, 1976 (Broadcast date. Probably recorded in January 1976)
“Boston
Music Hall”, Boston, Massachusetts
March
21, 1976
“The
Main Point”: Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
March/April
1976
I am
guessing he played this club in the Spring, since he plays the larger
Tower
Theatre in the Fall
“Eisen
and Lubin Theatre”: New York University, New York
April
7, 1976
“McCarter
Theatre”: Princeton University, N.J.
April
16, 1976
“Ballinjax
Club”: New Orleans, Louisiana
May 1st
or 5th, 1976 - Night before Bob Dylan and the Rolling Thunder Review
played
(they played concerts at The Warehouse on both May 2nd and 6th, 1976)
Members from the Rolling Thunder Review
played between sets - Joan Baez,
Roger
McGuin, Kinky Friedman. Dylan was there but left when the others began
playing.
“Hotel
L'American”: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
May 26,
1976
"Ronnie
Scott's Club" (co-owner is Pete King): Soho - British debut
The two
week engagement was as warm-up for Monty Alexander. Tom got in a
fight
with management on the first night of the gig, but completed the run.
In a
CBC interview he suggests that part of the Small Change LP was written
during
this gig (possibly Jitterbug Boy).
May 31
- June 12, 1976
Other
European Locations?: Copenhagen, Brussels, Germany
“Crawdaddy
Radio”, New York City
June
1976
Beginning
of SMALL CHANGE Touring Period
WMMS
Radio, Cleveland, Ohio
September
13, 1976
“2nd
Annual West Chester Jazz Festival”, West Chester University,
Pennsylvania
October
2, 1976
“WMMR”,
Philadelphia radio interview
October
7, 1976
Armadillo
World Headquarters, Austin, Texas
October
23, 1976
"Faces
Club": Dallas, Texas
October
24 & 25, 1976
He was
driving to the shows in an old Cadillac.
Apparently at each date
he'd
hire a local stripper to perform while he played "Pasties & A
G-String."
This didn’t start until 12/7/76 according to Wild Years.
“Shaboo
Inn”, Willamantic, Connecticut
November
9, 1976
FM
broadcast on WHCN, Hartford, CT
Performance
date verified in “The Hartford Advocate” newspaprer!
“Tower
Theatre”, Philadelphia, PA
November
11, 1976
"Erikson
Kiva" (campus of Michigan State): East Lansing, Michigan
November
13, 1976
"Royal
Oak Theater": Detroit, Michigan
November
14, 1976
“Mike
Douglas Show” Live TV appearance,
Philadelphia, PA
November
17, 1976 (often listed as 19th)
The
book “Wild Years” describes this as a live TV broadcast from
Philadelphia,
making it unlikely that he appeared in Phili and Chicago the
same
day.
“Ivanhoe
Theatre”: Chicago, Illinois
November
19, 20 & 21, 1976
Verified
in “The Chicago Reader” newspaper.
“Royce
Hall”: UCLA, Los Angeles, California
December
3, 1976 (Verified by newspaper ad)
“The
Golden Bear”: 306 Coast Highway, Huntington Beach, California
December
4 & 5, 1976
"Agora
Ballroom": Cleveland, Ohio
December
7, 1976 (verified in Wild Years)
From
Wild Years: “On Tom’s twenty-seventh
birthday, he and the Nocturnal
Emissions
played the Agora Ballroom in Cleveland.
While Tom was doing
“Pasties
And A G-String” a woman slipped onstage, walked up behind him,
caught
his eye, and started to dance.” (Please
see the book for more!)
Madison,
Wisconsin
December,
1976
(Hottest
stripper on the tour)
WNEW -
New York City, New York
("Nighthawks in the Studio")
December
14, 1976
Trenton
State College, New Jersey
December
15, 1976
"Bottom
Line": New York City, New York
December
18, 1976
Begin
of FOREIGN AFFAIRS Touring Period
“Sinjyuku
Dug”: Tokyo, Japan
January
7, 1977
“Kubo
Koudou”: Tokyo, Japan
January
8 & 9, 1977
“Dousin
Hall”: Sapporo, Japan
January
11, 1977
“Yamaha
Kadan Hall”: Sendai, Japan
January
12, 1977
“Unryu
Hall”: Nagoya, Japan
January
14, 1977
“Kousei-Nenkin
Hall”, Osaka, Japan
January
15, 1977
“Seibu
Koudou”: Kyoto, Japan
January
16, 1977
“Meijiseimei
Hall”: Fukuoka, Japan
January
17, 1977
“Okayama
Shiminn Hall”: Okayama, Japan
January
18, 1977
“Yamaha
Kanazawa Hall”: Kanazawa, Japan
January
20, 1977
“Kanagawa
Kennminn Hall”: Yokohama, Japan
January
21, 1977
“Seibu
Theater”: Tokyo, Japan
January
22, 1977
“Saturday
Night Live”, New York City, NY
April
9, 1977
Hamburg,
Germany
1977
“Faukats”:
Koln, Germany
April
14, 1977
WDR
Studio L, Koln, Germany (“Rockpalast”)
April
18, 1977
“Tavastia
klubi (Tavastia club)”: Helsinki, Finland
April
20, 1977
Norway?
Copenhagen?
“Elkerleykzaal”:
Antwerpen, Belgium
April
24, 1977
Amsterdam,
Holland
April
25, 1977
"Post
Aula": Bremen, Germany
April
26, 1977
“Rai
Congrescentrum”: Amsterdam, the Netherlands
April
29, 1977
“Sound
Circus”: London, England
????
“Old
Grey Whistle Test”: BBC TV, England
????
"Paramount
Theatre": Seattle, Washington
May 14,
1977
Theme
for the show: A concert for Small Change (the ticket price was only
$2.98).
KPFK
Studios: Los Angeles, California
June
1977
“Fernwood
Tonight”: TV Show
August
1, 1977
“Agora
Ballroom”: Cleveland, Ohio
August
25, 1977
“Great
American Music Hall”: San Francisco, California
October
1977
Tom was
working with a light post and a three piece band.
Seattle,
Washington
October
1, 1977
“Lisner
Auditorium”: Washington, D.C.
October
2, 1977
"Paradise
Theatre": Boston, Massachusetts
October
5, 1977
“My
Fathers Place": Roslyn Long Island, NY
October
10, 1977
“New
Yorker Theatre”: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1977
The
highlight was his handling of hecklers. It was a small, old grubby
theatre
that the concert was held in, but it was sold out!!
“Michigan
Theatre”, Ann Arbor, Michigan
October
21, 1977
"Bogart's":
Cincinnati, Ohio
October
22, 1977
Back
when Bogart's was a lovely hole in the wall. Waits was swiggin' from a
whiskey
bottle handed to him by someone from the audience.
“Agora
Ballroom”: Cleveland, Ohio
October
25, 1977
“Mill
Run Theatre”: Chicago, Illinois
October
26, 1977
“Royal
Oaks”: Detroit, Michigan
October
27, 1977
“Grand
Ballroom, Park Motor Inn”: Madison, Wisconsin
October
31, 1977
“Ritz
Theatre”: Memphis, Tennessee
November
2, 1977
“Pantages
Theatre”: 6233 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, California
November
19, 1977
“The
Golden Bear”: 306 Coast Highway, Huntington Beach, California
December
2, 3 & 4, 1977 (Verified by newspaper)
“Paramount”:
Austin, Texas
December
?, 1977
Begin
of BLUE VALENTINE Touring Period
(With
gas pumps) 50 City North American Tour
Australian
Tour
May
1978
A
poster advertises at least 6 dates between May 1 & May 11, 1978, but the
dates
coincide too closely to the 1979 tour dates, so I am guessing he did
not
tour Australia in 1978.
Toronto,
Canada
1978
Tom
instantly composed a song (and sang it of course) out of the Toronto
Star
(one of the newspapers).
Montreal,
Canada
1978
Grand
Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan
10 or
11/78
Ann
Arbor, Michigan
1978 -
Leon Redbone opened
Valparaiso,
Indiana
10/78 ?
Someone
jumped onstage and grabbed Tom’s leather jacket, which contained his
wallet
with drivers license et al.
"Shaboo":
Storrs, Connecticut - near Hartford
1978
May
Louisville,
Kentucky
1978
Richmond
(near Lexington), Kentucky
10 or
11/78
Leon
Redbone opened
Knoxville,
Tennessee
10 or
11/78
"Paramount
Theatre": Seattle, Washington
October
7, 1978
Leon
Redbone was the other act at this show. I seem to remember hearing that
Waits
and Redbone alternated opening and closing the show. This night, Waits
opened.
"Park
West Theatre": Chicago, Illinois
October
20, 1978 - Leon Redbone opened
(a
2-drink minimum nightclub-type of place)
"Harvard
Square Theatre": Cambridge, Massachusetts
1978 or
1979
Mink
deVille opened for him and was booed off stage, Tom Waits came out and
expressed
his displeasure and said he wasn't coming out any earlier, folks
could
just sit and wait. The stage did have a
lamppost setup as a prop.
“Orpheum
Theatre”: Memphis, Tennessee
November
3, 1978
“Civic
Center”, Raleigh, North Carolina
November
5, 1978
“New
Agora”: Atlanta, Georgia
November
6 & 7, 1978
Miami,
Florida
November
10, 1978
Sarasota,
Florida
November
11, 1978
Pawtuckett,
Rhode Island
November
16, 1978
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
November
20, 1978
“Warner
Theatre”, Washington, D.C.
November
21, 1978
“Morris
Stage”: Morristown, Pennsylvania
November
22, 1978
“Beacon
Theatre”: New York City, N.Y.
November
24 & 25, 1978
Poughkeepsie,
New York
November
28, 1978
Cleveland,
Ohio
November
29, 1978
Dallas,
Texas
December
2, 1978
Leon
Redbone opened the show
KLRU-TV
Studio, 6th Floor of UT Communications Building B, University Of
Texas,
Austin, Texas
"Austin
City Limits" (60 minutes of the concert broadcast on PBS TV 4/26/79)
December
5, 1978
Tom
Waits opened with "Summertime/Burma Shave" and did this great bit
onstage
with a lone spotlight illuminating some gas pumps and Tom smoking
and
sitting on an old tire.
Houston,
Texas
December
6, 1978
Austin,
Texas (?)
December
7, 1978
Listed
in Circus Magazine, was this different than Austin City Limits?
Dallas,
Texas
December
8, 1978
Albuquerque,
New Mexico
December
??, 1978
Leon
Redbone opened and there was an amazing version of Burma Shave. Circus
Magazine
lists this as 12/10, but the Roxy show is verified by a newspaper
ad, so
this date is up for grabs.
“Roxy
Theatre”: 4642 Cass Street, Pacific Beach (San Diego), California
December
10, 1978 (2 shows, date verified by newspaper)
Leon
Redbone was on the bill as warm-up.
Phoenix,
Arizona
December
11, 1978
Tucson,
Arizona
December
12, 1978
“California
Theatre”: San Diego, California
December
13, 1978
(Could
not verify this date in a San Diego newspaper.
Was the only SD show
12/10???)
“The
Golden Bear”: Huntington Beach, CA
Sometime
1978 - could it be one of the following dates?
Could not
verify.
Los
Angeles, California
December
14, 15 & 16, 1978
Could
not verify.
"Tulagi's
on the Hill": Boulder, Colorado
1978/1979
February (around Valentine's)
Tickets
were playing cards that had Tom as the King of Hearts.
“Macky
Auditorium”, Boulder, Colorado
Spring
1979
"Eisenhower
Auditorium": Penn State University, State College, Pennsylvania
February
1979
Performed
a very jazzy version of "Pasties and a G-String" among others.
Tom
came onto the stage the first time wearing a bathrobe. He sat down in an
easy
chair and started to watch a television that was on the stage.
Obviously,
there was no picture on the TV. The stage was dimly lit. It was
hilarious
and the show just got better!
“Palladium”:
London, England
April
1979
“Old
Grey Whistle Test”: BBC TV, England
April
1979
“Tonight
In Person”: BBC TV, England
April
1979 record date?
Other
locations: Dublin, Vienna
“Monmartre”:
Copenhagen, Denmark
April
18?, 1979
"This
time the one of a kind big city crooner Tom Waits had brought with him
nothing
less than an original American gas station pump, as we know it from
old
movies from the 30's plus a lamppost...Both items were of course to be
used in
the show and underline the part of the "desperado of the streets
which
is Wait's trademark. They both took up quite a lot of space: Exit one
guitar
amp and two drums. It took a long time to get them up on stage:
Delayed
sound testing. And then they were only for one act...But of course
it was
a fabulous concert."
“Eksit”:
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
April
19, 1979
VPRO
Radio, Amsterdam, Holland
April
20, 1979
“Palace
Theatre”: Paris, France
April
27, 1979
“The
Don Lane Show”, TV Broadcast, Australia
April
1979
(Don
interviews Tom and lists all of the following Australian dates)
“Palais
Theatre”, Melbourne, Australia
May 1,
1979
“Sydney
State Theatre”, Sydney, Australia
May 2,
1979
“Canberra
Theatre”, Canberra, Australia
May 4,
1979
“Brisbane
Mayne Hall”, Brisbane, Australia
May 5,
1979
“Palais
Theatre”, Melbourne, Australia
May 7, 1979
“Adelaide
Festival Theatre”, Adelaide, Australia
May 8,
1979
“Concert
Hall”, Perth, Australia
May 11,
1979
“Sydney
State Theatre”, Sydney, Australia (as announced by Don Lane)
May 14,
1979
BBC
Studios, London, England (“Tonight In Person”)
July
26, 1979
Backstage
w/Rickie Lee Jones, Theatre Carre, Amsterdam
September
3, 1979
"Tomorrow
Club": Youngstown, Ohio
197?
late 70s
Kent
State University, Ohio
197?
late 70s
Squaw
Valley Ski Resort, ?????
197?
late 70s
mostly
songs from Small Change --lamp post on stage--great sax drummer and
bass
player.
“Uptown
Theatre”, Kansas City, Missouri
October
8, 1979
Sang
quite a few from Foreign Affair (including I Never Talk to Strangers),
some
from Heart of Saturday Night, and Small Change, and at least one from
Closing
Time.
Carbondale,
IL
October
1979
“Park
West Theatre”: Chicago, Illinois
October
12, 1979
“The
Paramount”: Bay Shore, Long Island, New York
October
17, 1979
Previously
listed as simply Long Island, this is the likely venue unless he
played
two dates on Long Island
“Music
Hall Theatre”: Toronto Canada
October
19, 1979 (2 shows)
“Warner
Theatre”: Washington, D.C.
October
27, 1979
"Theatre
Saint-Denis": Montreal, Canada
October
31, 1979
With a
band and props
WNEW,
New York City, N.Y.
November
2, 1979
“Beacon
Theatre”, New York City
November
5 or 15, 1979
“Armadillo
World Headquarters”: Austin, Texas
November
17, 1979
Boston,
MA (Harvard Square Theatre?)
December
1979 (just before Christmas) Mink DeVille warmup
Canton,
Michigan
1979
"Orpheum
Theater": Boston, Massachusetts
1979/1980
Tom
performed the concert with a stand-up bass player only. The set was a
baby
grand, the stand up bass, a big beat to shit armchair and an old black
and
white Motorola TV set. At one point in the concert he excused himself to
the
audience, kicked back in his arm chair and attempted to tune in
something
on the TV. He had a full length black rain coat, scully cap, sun
glasses
and a beat up umbrella. During the tune "The One That Got Away", he
kept
strutting and slinking about the stage poking at the air with the
umbrella.
He also played a couple of guitar tunes including Phantom 309.
Begin
of HEARTATTACK AND VINE Touring Period
(The
stage was set with a street lamp which he leaned against during the
first
numbers)
"Beacon
Theater": New York City, New York
198?
October? 15?
Wellington,
New Zealand
198?
Waterloo,
Ontario, Canada
1980
Cleveland,
Ohio
1980
Smothers
Brothers TV Special, NBC Studios, (L.A.?)
October
11, 1980 (broadcast 10/28/80)
"Capitol
Theatre": Passaic, New Jersey
November
8, 1980
“Warner
Theatre”: Washington, D.C.
November
9,1979
“Park
West Theatre”: Chicago, Illinois
November
11, 1980
“Orpheum
Theatre”: Boston, Massachusetts
November
16 1980
"Palladium":
New York City, New York
November
18, 1980
John
Hall opened for the show
“Convocation
Hall”: University of Toronto, Ontario,
Canada
November
19, 1980 - Two Shows
A
review of his performance appears in the Toronto “Globe And Mail”
newspaper
on 11/20/80 (page 21). The Roches
warmed up, and the reviewer
preferred
them to Tom, referring to Tom as “increasingly a self-parody.”
"Auditorium
Du Plateau": Montreal, Canada
November
21, 1980
This
was just Tom and another player on acoustic bass. Waits alternated
between
acoustic guitar and piano.
Dublin,
Ireland
1981
March
"New
Victoria Theatre": London, England
March
21, 1981
"Apollo
Theater": London, England
March
23, 1981
Manchester,
UK
March
?? 1981
Copenhagen
April?
1981
“Muziekcentrum
Vreedenburg”: Utrecht, The Netherlands
April
?? 1981
“Hilton”:
Amsterdam, Holland
April
1981
Montreal
Jazz Festival, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
July 3,
1981
(Videotaped
for the Canadian TV show “En Scene”)
"LA
Sports Arena": Los Angeles, California
August
24, 1981
Played
"Jersey Girl" with Bruce Springsteen & The E. Street Band
“The
Don Lane Show”, TV Broadcast, Australia
September
1981
“Town
Hall”: Aukland, New Zealand
September
26, 1981
(Performance
in an “unsatisfactory sports facility”)
“State
Hall”: Christchurch, New Zealand
September
27, 1981
“Town
Hall”: Wellington, New Zealand
September
28, 1981
“School
Of Music”: Canberra, Australia
October
2, 1981
“Capitol
Theatre”: Sydney, Australia
October
3 & 4, 1981
“Festival
Hall”: Brisbane, Australia
October
7, 1981
“Festival
Theatre” Adelaide, Australia
October
11, 1981
“Dallas
Brooks Hall”: Melbourne, Australia
October
13 & 14, 1981
“Concert
Hall”: Perth, Australia
October
19, 1981
“Dallas
Brooks Hall”: Melbourne, Australia
October
20, 1981
“Palais
Theatre”: Melbourne, Australia
October
21, 1981
Ontario,
Canada
1982
“New
Yorker Theatre”: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1982
“Royal
Oak Theatre”: Detroit, Michigan
May 5,
1982
“Park
West Theatre”: Chicago, Illinois
May 6,
1982
"Tyrone
Guthrie Theatre": Minneapolis, Minnesota
May 9,
1982 (early & late)
Mothers
Day. He performed several songs that
later appeared on the "One
from
the Heart" soundtrack. It was Waits on vocals, Teddy Edwards on sax,
standup
bassist Greg Cohen and someone? at the drums.
“Boulder
Theatre”, Boulder, Colorado
May 18,
1982
Los
Angeles, California
May 22,
1982
“Loose
Talk”, BBC TV, London
October
18, 1983
“Saturday
Live”, BBC Radio
October
22, 1983