Tom Waits: ??/??/73, KPFK Folk Scene, LA.
Source: FM Soundboard
Length: 60 min (1x90min)
Sound Quality: A
Setlist: Virginia Avenue / San Diego Serenade / Ol' 55 / Semi Suite / Fumblin' With The Blues / Rosie / Depot, Depot / I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You / Heart Of Saturday Night / Ice Cream Man / Big Joe & Phantom 309
Comments: A very early radio interview with songs played live in the studio. An interesting look at Tom at the earliest stages of his career.
Tom Waits: Downtown Blues, Ebbets Field 1974, Denver 1975
Source: Soundboard
Length: 75 min (1x90min)
Sound Quality: Varies A to B+
Setlist: A: Ebbets Field: I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You / San Diego Serenade / Good Night Loving Trail / Diamonds On My Windshield / Ice Cream Man / Please Call Me Baby / Better Off Without A Wife / The Ghost Of Saturday Night / Big Joe & Phantom 309 / Truck Driving Man / Ol' 55 / On A Foggy Night / Denver: Martha / Eggs & Sausage
B: New Coat Of Paint / Nighthawk Postcards / Looking For The Heart Of Saturday Night / Ice Cream Man / San Diego Serenade / Ol' 55
Comments: Essential if you're into Tom's early stuff. Probably the best collection of live material from Closing Time available, and in great sound quality.
Tom Waits: 11/10/74, Cambridge, Mass.
Source: Soundboard
Length: 45 min (0.5x90min)
Sound Quality: A-
Setlist: On A Foggy Night / The Heart Of Saturday Night / Ol'55 / Diamonds On My Windshield / Nighthawk Postcards From Easy Street / Better Off Without A Wife / Big Joe & Phantom 309 / Ice Cream Man / Fernwood Tonight: The Piano Has Been Drinking
Comments: Another great early show. The sound is a bit wobbly for the first minute or so, but then settles down nicely.
Tom Waits: ??/??/76, Dallas, TX
Source: Soundboard
Length: 45 min (0.5x90min)
Sound Quality: B
Setlist: Pasties & A G-String / Semi-Suite / Putnam County / Big Joe & Phantom 309 / Better Off Without A Wife / The One That got Away / The Piano Has Been Drinking / Fever
Comments:
Tom Waits: 05/26/76, Amsterdam, Holland
Source: Soundboard
Length: 45 min (0.5x90min)
Sound Quality: Varies, B+ to A-
Setlist: Fumblin' With The Blues / Drunk On The Moon / Virginia Avenue / Heart Of Saturday Night / Spare Parts / San Diego Serenade / Better Off Without A Wife / Eggs & Sausage (cuts)
Comments: The only live onstage version of Virginia Avenue that I know of.
Tom Waits: 12/30/90, San Jose, CA
Source: Audience
Length: 135 min (1.5x90min)
Sound Quality: A
Setlist: A: Temptation / 16 Shells From A 30.06 / Falling Down / Clap Hands / The Black Rider / More Than Rain / Ruby's Arms / Underground / Hang On St. Christopher / Telephone Call From Istanbul / I Can't Wait To Get Off Work
B: Tango Till They're Sore / Muriel / Johnsburg, Illinois / Lucky Day / Way Down In The Hole / Jockey Full Of Bourbon / Black Wings / Strange Weather / Down Down Down / 9th & Hennepin / Rain Dogs
C: Big Black Mariah / Cemetery Polka / Anywhere I Lay My Head / Share Leave / Heigh Ho / Tom Traubert's Blues
Comments: A great show. A couple of songs end somewhat abruptly, but appraently that's the case with all circulating copies of this show.
Tom Waits: ??/??/92, Interview on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic
Source: FM
Length: 55 min
Sound Quality: Interview B+, songs B
Setlist: Interview + album tracks: (Shore Leave / Frank's Wild Years / Goin' Out West / The Ocean Doesn't Want Me / Jesus Gonna Be Here / Who Are You / That Feel / Black Wings)
Comments: An interesting interview. He talks about his kids, the making of Bone Machine, and other neat stuff. I haven't removed the songs, though they're album tracks, because the talking sometimes overlaps them. This is from the 01/02/98 rebroadcast. I can cut out some of the songs to fit it onto one side of a 90 min tape.
Tom Waits: 02/04/96, Paramount Theatre, Oakland, California
Source: Soundboard (a couple of things hint at it being an audience recording, but it's SB quality. DAT perhaps?)
Length: 155 min (2x90min)
Sound Quality: A
Setlist: A: I Don't Wanna Grow Up / Black Wings / Goin' Out West / 16 Shells From A 30.06 / Such A Scream / Jesus Gonna Be Here / Earth Died Screaming / Tango Till They're Sore / A Little Rain / Broken Bicycles
B: Back In The Good Old World / Invitation To The Blues / Johnsburg, Illinois / On The Nickel / Xmas Card From A Hooker / All Stripped Down / The Ocean Doesn't Want Me / In The Colisseum / Innocent When You Dream / Cemetary Polka / Falling Down
C: That Feel / Cemetary Polka / Heart Attack & Vine / Filipino Box Spring Hog / Big Joe & Phantom 309 / Gun Street Girl / Time / Lucky Day
D: Walk Away / The Fall Of Troy / Tom Traubert's Blues // Filler: Hang On St. Christopher (remix) / Kansas City, 1981: Whistlin Past The Graveyard / Whose Sportcoat Is That / Ain't I Good To You / Other: Downtown Train (NME remix) / Brother Can You Spare A Dime.
Comments: An absolutely excellent show with great sound quality.
Tom Waits: Storming Heaven, 08/11/96, Raven Theatre, Heraldsburg, CA
Source: Audience
Length: 85 min (1x90min)
Sound Quality: Varies B- to B+
Setlist: Jitterbug Boy / I Wish I Was In New Orleans / Burma Shave / Ol' 55 / Invitation To The Blues / Tango Till They're Sore / Good Old World / 9th & Hennepin / Black Wings / The Fall Of Troy / Down There By The Train
B: Goin' Out West / Jesus Gonna Be Here / Filipino Box Spring Hog / Fever / A Little Rain / Goodnight Irene // Filler: Sea Of Love / Date To Church (with The Replacements) / Little Man
Comments: One of Tom's highly infrequent live dates. The sound quality isn't great, but it's a fun show. He talks to the audience a lot, tells stories, and everyone generally has a lot of fun. Filipino Box Spring Hog is great.
Tom Waits: 03/29/98 "Dead Man Walking Benefit", Shrine Auditorium, LA.
Source: Audience (2nd Gen from DAT)
Length: 45 min (0.5x90min)
Sound Quality: Varies A to A-
Setlist: Walk Away / Gun Street Girl / The Fall Of Troy / A Little Rain / Goin' Out West / Big Black Mariah / Jesus Gonna Be Here / Yesterday Is Here / Innocent When You Dream
Comments: The show really revolved around Tom. He played for twice as long as most of the other artists. He hasn't played Big Black Mariah or Yesterday Is Here in awhile. I also have the Pearl Jam and Ani Difranco sets from this show.
Tom Waits: 03/31/98, KCRW Interview, Morning Becomes Eclectic
Source: FM
Length: 55 min (1x90min)
Sound Quality:
Setlist: Interview plus a couple of songs live in the studio
Comments: An interview a couple of days after the Dead Man Walking benefit. Also, I believe, the last interview with Chris Douridas as host of the show.
Tom Waits: Black Rider Outtakes
Source: Studio
Length: 45 min (0.5x90min)
Sound Quality: A
Setlist: The Black Rider / November / The Right Bullets / The Briar & The Rose / George Schmid / Chase The Clouds Away / Flash Pan Hunter / Instrumental / 'Taint No Sin / In The Morning / Gospel Train / I'll Shoot The Moon / Instrumental / The Last Rose Of Summer
Comments: Outtakes from the Black Rider album. Lots of interesting stuff, including songs that didn't appear on the album. A treat.
Tom Waits: Drunk On The Moon
Source: Studio
Length: 78 min (1x90min)
Sound Quality: haven't listened to it yet
Setlist: Just Another Dime Store Novel / Scarecrow / A Nickel's Worth Of Dreams / Tie Undone / Playin' Hooky / Saving All My Love For You / Eggs And Sausage / Semi-Suite / Diamonds On My Windshield / Drunk On The Moon
B: Better Off Without A Wife / Nighthawk Postcards / The Heart Of Saturday Night / San Diego Serenade / Straydog / What Else Is New? / With A Suitcase / Paradise Alley / Annie's Back In Town / Bad Liver And A Broken Heart
Comments: Outtakes. Sources are: 1-6=Foreign Affairs Sessions, July & August ,1977, 7-14=Soundstage Sessions, Chicago, 1975, 15+16=Small Change Sessions, July 15, 1976, 17-20=Paradise Alley Sessions, September 7, 1978
Tom Waits: Tales From The Underground 1
Source: Studio and Soundboard
Length: 75 min (1x90min)
Sound Quality: Varies B to A+
Setlist: A: Blue Skies / Jersey Girl (alternative) / Whistlin' Past The Graveyard (alternative) / Mr Hereny / Downtown Train / I'm Not Your Fool Anymore / Adios Lounge / Sea Of Love / Silent Night / Little Man / What Keeps Man Alive
B:The Dwarf's Marching Song / The Piano Has Been Drinking (live in Dublin) / It's Alright With Me / Tommy The Cat / Filipino Box Spring Hog / 16 Shells From A 30.06 / Rain Dogs / Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet (cut?)
Comments: Assorted rarities and stuff, plus some songs from a concert in Paris 11/16/85 (16 Shells and Rain Dogs). Soundtrack tracks, benefit album tracks, B-sides, Tom singing Disney... All sorts of goodies. The Piano Has Been Drinking is very different from the album version. Yes, that is Silent Night as in the Christmas carol. A very neat compilation.
Tom Waits: Tales From The Underground 2
Source: Studio and soundboard
Length: 75 min (1x90min)
Sound Quality: B+ to A+
Setlist: A: Waitin' For Waits / I'll Never Let Go Of Your Hand / Walk Away / Sleep Tonight / I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby / Pontiac / Take Care Of All My Children / Serrano / The Fall Of Troy / Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet / Martin Goes And Does Where It's At / Eggs And Sausage / Date To Church / Metrotown
B: Thousand Big Bangs / Down There By The Train / Sweet And Shiny Eyes / Fumblin' With The Blues / Drunk On The Moon / Virginia Avenue / Tango Till They're Sore // Hang On St. Christopher / Hang On St. Christopher / Hang On St. Christopher
Comments: More assorted rarities, 3 songs from a show in Amsterdam, and another song from the above-mentioned 11/16/85 Paris concert. Serrano seems to be an early version of the Russian Dance from Black Rider, played on accordion, organ, and trumpet.The three Hang On St. Christophers are outtakes from Frank's Wild Years, but not actually part of this compilation.
Tom Waits: TV Dinner
Source: Radio and TV Soundboard
Length: 45 min (0.5x90min)
Sound Quality: Varies, B+ to A
Setlist: Strange Weather / Tango Till They're Sore / I Wish I Was In New Orleans / Poor Little Lamb / Frank's Wild Year / On The Nickel / Eggs & Sausage / Tango Till They're Sore / Time (cuts) / More Than Rain / Straight To The Top / Heartattack & Vine / Jersey Girl / Goin' Out West
Comments: A collection of Television appearances, with a couple of radio songs. Sources: 1-4=KCRW, 5+6=Letterman, 7=Saturday Night Live, 8-11=Letterman, 12+13=Second City, 14=Arsenio Hall. Time cuts because Tom was too ambitious and only got part way through before they had to go to commercial.
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