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PostPosted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 12:22 pm 
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Pulled from another site that I frequent. Holy shit. Holy shit. HOLY SHIT!

I saw him in '99 on that Mule Variations tour and have vowed to never miss another Waits show.

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The One and Only Tom Waits to Hit the Road

LOS ANGELES, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 07/05/06 -- Iconoclast and reclusive touring artist TOM WAITS is making an unprecedented move by taking his always unpredictably stunning live show on the road, mostly in cities (Atlanta, Memphis, Louisville, Nashville) where he hasn’t been seen on stage since the mid-to-late ’70s.

As for Asheville, NC, Tom has never played a gig; he hasn’t performed in Akron, OH or Detroit since the ’80s. The most recentstop on this extraordinary tour is Chicago, where Waits played the Chicago Theater for three sold out nights on his “Mule Variations” tour in ’99.

“We need to go to Tennessee to pick up some fireworks, and someone owes me money in Kentucky,” says Waits about why he’s chosen this particular time and route to tour.

When this two-time Grammy-winner last performed live in 2004, tickets sold out in hours, if not minutes. His most recent live date in London sold out in 30 minutes, with over 150,000 ticket requests received within the first hour. Waits’ three previous North American concerts (two in Vancouver, Canada and one in Seattle) were also snapped up in record time.

“His concert was a nostalgic trip through freak shows, murder ballads, and ruminations on lost love,” wrote Charles R. Cross in Rolling Stone after 2004 performance at Seattle’s Paramount Theater. “He didn’t so much sing these songs as he wheezed, whistled, and shouted them, shaking his fist like a craps player on a roll. Mining his recent ’Real Gone’ ... Waits created a world of haunting characters adrift in a bygone age.”

In other news, Paste magazine has just issued its collector’s edition citing the “100 Best Living Songwriters,” with Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan (longtime co-writer, co-producer and wife) clocking in at #4. According to Paste, “In literature, only a handful of writers have pulled off the near impossible. In music, it happens on every Tom Waits recording.”

Look for local ads in the regional papers for on sale dates. The first showin Atlanta goes on sale July 8.

Tour dates are as follows: DATE CITY/STATE VENUE
Tues, Aug 1 Atlanta, GA Tabernacle
Wed, Aug 2 Asheville, NC Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
Fri, Aug 4 Memphis, TN Orpheum Theatre
Sat, Aug 5 Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium
Mon, Aug 7 Louisville, KY Palace Theatre
Wed, Aug 9 Chicago, IL Auditorium Theatre
Fri, Aug 11 Detroit, MI Opera House
Sun, Aug 13 Akron, OH Akron Civic

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 12:23 pm 
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Pulled from another site that I frequent. Holy shit. Holy shit. HOLY SHIT!

I saw him in '99 on that Mule Variations tour and have vowed to never miss another Waits show.

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The One and Only Tom Waits to Hit the Road

LOS ANGELES, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 07/05/06 -- Iconoclast and reclusive touring artist TOM WAITS is making an unprecedented move by taking his always unpredictably stunning live show on the road, mostly in cities (Atlanta, Memphis, Louisville, Nashville) where he hasn’t been seen on stage since the mid-to-late ’70s.

As for Asheville, NC, Tom has never played a gig; he hasn’t performed in Akron, OH or Detroit since the ’80s. The most recentstop on this extraordinary tour is Chicago, where Waits played the Chicago Theater for three sold out nights on his “Mule Variations” tour in ’99.

“We need to go to Tennessee to pick up some fireworks, and someone owes me money in Kentucky,” says Waits about why he’s chosen this particular time and route to tour.

When this two-time Grammy-winner last performed live in 2004, tickets sold out in hours, if not minutes. His most recent live date in London sold out in 30 minutes, with over 150,000 ticket requests received within the first hour. Waits’ three previous North American concerts (two in Vancouver, Canada and one in Seattle) were also snapped up in record time.

“His concert was a nostalgic trip through freak shows, murder ballads, and ruminations on lost love,” wrote Charles R. Cross in Rolling Stone after 2004 performance at Seattle’s Paramount Theater. “He didn’t so much sing these songs as he wheezed, whistled, and shouted them, shaking his fist like a craps player on a roll. Mining his recent ’Real Gone’ ... Waits created a world of haunting characters adrift in a bygone age.”

In other news, Paste magazine has just issued its collector’s edition citing the “100 Best Living Songwriters,” with Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan (longtime co-writer, co-producer and wife) clocking in at #4. According to Paste, “In literature, only a handful of writers have pulled off the near impossible. In music, it happens on every Tom Waits recording.”

Look for local ads in the regional papers for on sale dates. The first showin Atlanta goes on sale July 8.

Tour dates are as follows: DATE CITY/STATE VENUE
Tues, Aug 1 Atlanta, GA Tabernacle
Wed, Aug 2 Asheville, NC Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
Fri, Aug 4 Memphis, TN Orpheum Theatre
Sat, Aug 5 Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium
Mon, Aug 7 Louisville, KY Palace Theatre
Wed, Aug 9 Chicago, IL Auditorium Theatre
Fri, Aug 11 Detroit, MI Opera House
Sun, Aug 13 Akron, OH Akron Civic



!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wait, WHERE THE FUCK IS NYC?!?!?

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 12:24 pm 
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The first showin Atlanta goes on sale July 8.


Awesome. This will probably be my first time ever trying to buy tickets the minute they go on sale.


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GODDAMNIT!!!
I am going to be out-of-town!
It just fucking figures.
He is easily top-5 on my need-to-see list.

damndamndamndamndamndamndamndamndamndamndamndamndamndamndamndamn

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Capital AWESOME.

I now have reason to visit beautiful Detroit in summer.


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PostPosted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 12:29 pm 
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I saw him in '99 on that Mule Variations tour and have vowed to never miss another Waits show.

Yup. $75 and worth every penny.


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PostPosted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 12:33 pm 
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That's got to be a skeletal itinerary. I bet there will be more dates added.


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Whoa. Wicked. Thanks for the 411.


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That's got to be a skeletal itinerary. I bet there will be more dates added.

Hope you're right, but he played only 9 US and 1 CA show on the Mule tour.


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PostPosted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 12:50 pm 
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someone tell me why this is a must-see and everyone's losing their shit over him touring.


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Uh, hello in there? Where the FUCK are the Portland dates?


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1. He never tours. 1999 was the last time.

2. He's Tom Waits. I don't think you like him (or at least you haven't heard a lot from him), but his songwriting is incredible. It's like the old man down at the corner bar telling you how the world really is. He's funny, too.

3. His show is like visiting a carnival. He had a stompbox, a crazy hat covered in mirrors, and the whole thing was surreal. Not in a cheesy way, either.

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4. Stage presence out the wazoo.


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GODDAMNIT!!!
I am going to be out-of-town!
It just fucking figures.
He is easily top-5 on my need-to-see list.

damndamndamndamndamndamndamndamndamndamndamndamndamndamndamndamn


Cancel the trip.


LooGAR - here's your Nashville trip.


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PopTodd Wrote:
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Wed, Aug 9 Chicago, IL Auditorium Theatre


GODDAMNIT!!!
I am going to be out-of-town!
It just fucking figures.
He is easily top-5 on my need-to-see list.

damndamndamndamndamndamndamndamndamndamndamndamndamndamndamndamn


Cancel the trip.


Make sure you get tickets, THEN cancel the trip.


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discostu Wrote:
PopTodd Wrote:
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Wed, Aug 9 Chicago, IL Auditorium Theatre


GODDAMNIT!!!
I am going to be out-of-town!
It just fucking figures.
He is easily top-5 on my need-to-see list.

damndamndamndamndamndamndamndamndamndamndamndamndamndamndamndamn


Cancel the trip.


Make sure you get tickets, THEN cancel the trip.


If it wasn't a family trip, I would.
But it is.

The rules change when you get married and have kids.
Ask frostingspoon, FT, ayah, or any of the other Obner parents.

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I'll still be in Seattle when he plays Chicagey.

That's pronounced like "coggy" not like "cagey" by the way.

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I'll have moved to A-TX by then.

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fuck yeah!

the tabernacle will be a great place to see him too...

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Anybody with ticket sale dates, please speak up!


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I just checked ticketmaster and they don't have anything yet. The Auditorium theater website doesn't have him listed yet either.


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OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!

i just cried.
im not even kidding


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I wondered how long it would take before you got here.


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i was working. i just ran through my house yelling about this and nobody gave a shit.

i HAVE to go to one of these shows. I will kill myself if i don't.


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Sat, Aug 5 Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium


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