Vocal Coach reacts to Tom Waits - Chicago (Live) 

He's a talented man!

Good actor as well !

Great comment, and agreed. Step Right Up comes to mind, such a clever and unique song.

I adore Tom.

@@BethRoars but how does he get that voice? 40-odd years of whiskey and cigarettes?

from Letterman, 1986. I remember it well. He also likened New York City to a big ship... and the water's on fire, and claimed his son was older than he was. Love it..

@mickor this made me laugh so hard

“I was born in the back seat of a Yellow Cab in a hospital loading zone and with the meter still running. I emerged needing a shave and shouted ‘Time Square, and step on it!’”

True! Glad you enjoyed 😊

Glad you like it 😁

It’s making me crazy that there are none of these for any of the tracks from Heart Attack and Vine.

So true!

Beth Roars have you ever listened to Clap Hands? Holy crap what a song

I was so unbelievably happy to see you analyze Tom, he is so unique and my favorite musician ever.

Tom Waits and Robin Willians in The Fisher King

"So, ah, I don't see any of your songs on the jukebox." LOL

@@michaelthibault6106 He's not on here either..,

I'm personal to "I scream, you scream, we all scream, for ice cream!" from Down By Law.

Favorite segment for sure!

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flavoredwallpaper thats awesome! I’m surprised Tom has never been on Sesame Street. He & cookie can do a bit together PBS needs to get on that. I saw one of Prince on Sesame Street and it is fantastic

Thats great 😂

It's about the same thing, just the former works more slowly

@@PortCharmers haha

I would like this comment, but as it currently sits at 69 likes I will just say, nice.

Superb line

I saw him on that tour, too, in Akron. It was one of the best nights of my life.

Saw him on the real gone tour in london, was an amazing night

Wow I bet it was a great experience to see him live!

@@BethRoars it was for me...it was his first appearance in Britain for 17yrs exactly (minus 1 day) and was in same place, Hammersmith Apollo...an experience I'll never forget. Different eras offer a different Tom and that's one of his great qualities...just shy of 50 yrs. The man is a legend

I saw him on his Glitter and Doom tour in Atlanta.... hands down my favorite concert experience. Such an amazing moment when the crowd did a sing along for Innocent When You Dream....

Glad you enjoyed 😁

I've heard his music makes you nostalgic for a memory you never had, and I don't think you're wrong, but I don't think they were wrong either

Ha!

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the true power of Tom Waits: insight.

Haha I wasn't expecting that ending! Although, knowing humans I shouldn't have been that surprised lol hope thinks are better for you now! 🙂

Gabriel Harvey-Savard Oh, believe it.😁

I'm still married. Want to run off together.

He's a very talented guy!

That rings a bell. I either heard him say that or read it in an interview.

His interviews are notoriously unreliable, but he says he used to spend about as much time with his friends' dads as his actual friends when he was little. He also walked with a cane for a while as a kid, purely as an affectation. He's wanted to be old since he was a child.

It's not a competition - I've only got 28

Jesus Gonna Be Here, Shore Leave - especially the ending...

Well said! 😊

Hungry Hungary Hungarian I was thinking of Jesus Gonna Be Here as a counterpoint to the video.

I've always admired him as a singer in the way I admire film's greatest character-actors. Inhabiting the soul of uniquely separate individuals & giving Academy Award-level performances every single time. His lyrics are as well written as any songwriter who ever lived, but more than that his genius is how well he sells the emotional feelings the 'character' in the song is about. He's before admitted a certain cinematic sensibility with his music so I've always figured that's how he approaches it from a creative, internal standpoint. Which is why he goes with such uniquely different singing styles for so many songs. In a song like Going Out West he's 100% giving a fully committed dramatically acted performance just as much as he's simply singing. I think to an alternative extent Bob Dylan is doing something kind of similar. It's more about the sincerity of the emotion than it is generic "proper" singing. There are millions of "technically" adept singers who put out nothing but one dimensional, 'harmonically pleasing' forgettable garbage all the time. I'd much rather hear Joe Strummer, Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, Son House, Karen Dalton, Joanna Newsom, Bob Dylan or Tom Waits belting out a tune instead.

True!

Guess what? Tom "actually sings" on all of his albums. Just because he sings *differently* now doesn't mean it doesn't take a lot of talent and practice to do it.

“ Martha” makes me weep like a newborn.

Had a girl fall for me with that song, particularly the solo guitar version.

That entire album is magic.

I honestly feel like that acoustic guitar version is the single greatest bar song ever written while simultaneously being the single greatest love song ever written.

Perversely, that was 'our' song in one 'us' of which i was part for several years. :)

And they ruined it in the remaster!

Agreed, the original is by far the superior version.

Good choice!

Same here!

Thank you for watching :)

Basically, yeah. He was always into weird stuff, as evidenced by the fact that he hung around with Captain Beefheart and opened for Zappa back in the 70s. Kathleen convinced him to go all in on the weirdness, leading to 'Swordfishtrombones'.

lol that's hilarious...but lets not ironically adopt their myopic perspective, don't know if you did or not, perhaps not. its just that it runs a great risk of fostering bigoted opinions as well when this attitude is applied to rap music in particular in my experience.

@@tonymuhamad I don't like rap . music myself , but I've come to believe to a large extent we like what our personality type dictates.

So true!

You should try some Captain Beefheart

Im glad you enjoyed!

"He could make a thousand songs with a seashell and a coconut." Haha, I love this.

I started to try to put down my favorites but just can't choose. There's so much to love.

So good!

Yeah much more a conscious stylistic choice than lifestyle - sometimes in movie roles you'll hear him sing in this quite sweet voice, and of course his earlier stuff is far from 'pure' but wayyyyy smoother than his barks ha ha

Bravo for him, I wasn't aware of that, sober since 83 here!

Well I think it’s more like 92ish. He claimed 14 years in a 06 interview. This date makes more sense as “That Feel” with Kieth Richards is at the very least a great impression of drunken bellowing. Great song. It would also make him about 43? That seems about right.

He is indeed! 😊

Thanks for listening

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you! Im glad you enjoyed the reaction! 😊

My favorite album next to Alice.

He is one of the very few people who got rougher and rougher over the years.

He was more of a lounge-singer in his early years. Heart of Saturday night and Ol' 55 are perfect examples of that

Harry Mudd To very good album’s.

you finally got my sub, which i will admit i should have done even before this video, But doing tom when your a vocal reaction says a lot about you. :)

Thank you for subscription! Im glad you're enjoying my videos!

@@BethRoars the reason i personally even watch you, is not so much you or the bands themselves. It's all about that look on your face when your blown away and you can see it in your eyes. I can plainly see your love for music and sound, and that is what makes me smile.

Also right at the time he release Frank's Wild Years, which is his homage of sorts to Sinatra.

Glad you liked it!