Posted on 12/15/2010 10:14:36 AM PST by JoeProBono
Wrong, wrong, wrong. That’s just wrong.
I love Spirit - I found an old, old video of “I’ve Got a Line On You” (one of my favorites) on YouTube. A forklift was prominently featured as a set piece.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHDJh2HHssU
One commented observed correctly that Ed Cassidy looked like a present-day guy who was dropped into the 70s, with his black shades and turtleneck.
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The ABBA portrait. The clothes. So wrong! :)
I am with you there LS. Live albums for me have some the best extended jams that really rock the songs to new height of listening pleasure. A few examples would be Blue Oyster Cult, Foghat, Traffic, Led Zeppelin, Black Crowes, Johnhy Winter, and Deep Purple. What they did live gave new life to the songs they had recorded on vinyl. I love how they could just riff into a rocking jam and then bring it back and bridge it making it an extended part of the original. Like you that type musicianship is what I came to the concert to hear.
Joe, you’re brilliant, coming up with a microwave safety poster on such short notice!
http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/tom_waits/small_change_got_rained_on_with_his_own_38.html
Lyrics and a video of a live performance with only a sax. Typical Tom waits...it’s great!
Thanks.
I helped set up the stage for him once.
Lamp post, piano, caddilac...
TOM WAITS
“Small Change (Got Rained On With His Own .38)”
Small Change got rained on with his own thirty-eight,
And nobody flinched down by the arcade
And the marquees weren’t weeping, they went stark-raving mad,
And the cabbies were the only ones that really had it made
And his cold trousers were twisted, and the sirens high and shrill,
And crumpled in his fist was a five-dollar bill
And the naked mannequins with their Cheshire grins,
And the raconteurs and roustabouts said “Buddy, come on in, ‘cause
‘Cause the dreams ain’t broken down here now, they’re walking with a limp
Now that Small Change got rained on with his own thirty-eight”
And nobody flinched down by the arcade
And the burglar alarm’s been disconnected,
And the newsmen start to rattle
And the cops are telling jokes about some whorehouse in Seattle
And the fire hydrants plead the Fifth Amendment
And the furniture is bargains galore
But the blood is by the jukebox on an old linoleum floor
And what a hot rain on Forty-Second Street,
And now the umbrellas ain’t got a chance
And the newsboy’s a lunatic with stains on his pants, ‘cause
‘Cause Small Change got rained on with his own thirty-eight
And no one’s gone over to close his eyes
And there’s a racing form in his pocket,
Circled “Blue Boots” in the third
And the cashier at the clothing store didn’t say a word
As the siren tears the night in half, and someone lost his wallet
Well, a surveillance of assailance, it that’s what you want to call it
And the whores hike up their skirts and fish for drug-store prophylactics
With their mouths cut just like razor blades and their eyes are like stilettos
And her radiator’s steaming and her teeth are in a wreck, and nah,
She won’t let you kiss her, but what the hell do you expect?
And the Gypsies are tragic and if you want to buy perfume,
Well, they’ll bark you down like carneys, sell you Christmas cards in June, but
But Small Change got rained on with his own thirty-eight
And his headstone’s a gumball machine,
No more chewing gum or baseball cards or overcoats or dreams
Someone’s hosing down the sidewalk, and he’s only in his teens, ‘cause
‘Cause Small Change got rained on with his own thirty-eight
And a fistful of dollars can’t change that,
And someone copped his watch fob, and someone got his ring
And the newsboy got his porkpie Stetson hat
And the tuberculosis old men at the Nelson wheeze and cough
And someone will head south until this whole thing cools off, ‘cause
‘Cause Small Change got rained on with his own thirty-eight, yeah,
Small Change got rained on with his own thirty-eight
That would have been so cool to work on his stage set and hear him live. Waits would have been amazing to see back in the 70’s - my favorite period. After he left Asylum records and his producer whose name escapes me, he went into the experiemental stage and lost much of his musicality.
But the 70’s was his masterpiece - from “Small Change” to “Blue Valentines” (w/Ricki lee Jones on the cover) to “Foreign Affairs” to “Nighthawks” - some amazing music in a short period of time.
It was in the 70’s at the now defunct Youngstown Agora
Wow. that starts after the heyday of the place.
Hey, I returned to Dayton from LA in early seventies - I could have seen him and you at the show!
I only did the one show.
We just happened to be hanging out back of the place and got hired.
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