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TOM WAITS
Amsterdam 2004 [no label, 2CD]
Live at the Kninklijk Theater Carre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; November 21, 2004. Excellent FM stereo.
Karla Healion, hotpress.com, 2004:
Someone once said that listening to a Tom Waits CD is more like watching a play than hearing an album. So seeing a Tom Waits show is perhaps akin to some abstruse sensory overload that, no matter how high the expectation, will bite you like a shark…
Sometimes the set is challenging; he’s taken to beat-boxing percussive hits vocally when playing live, but, much like life, these moments bring you to a new realm of appreciation and leave you wishing they’d never end. Other songs, like ‘I’m Still Here’, ‘Alice’ or ‘November’ are pensive ballads of the type only Waits can perform; gentle, softly replete with meaning and substance.
He didn’t talk very much, which would have been a shame if the tunes themselves didn’t speak more eloquently than any stage banter. His band was tight and lent him the perfect platform, in abstract sporadic percussion and great guitar solos, to keep his unique bark and whiskey-drenched drawl going for two hours and three encores. Stunning.
Thanks to vortex242 who shared this at Dime in 2005; and to procella for keeping the show alive.
Lineage:
Radio 1 FM Broadcast (9.8.2005)
MaCD (Tascam CD-RW 700) > EAC > CDwave > FLAC
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Disc 1
Track 101. Hoist That Rag 5:25 (9.1MB)
Track 102. Make It Rain 5:07 (8.6MB)
Track 103. Jockey Full Of Bourbon 3:37 (6.1MB)
Track 104. Don’t Go Into That Barn 7:34 (12.7MB)
Track 105. Sins Of The Father 12:28 (20.9MB)
Track 106. ping pong ball story 1:45 (2.9MB)
Track 107. Straight To The Top 5:15 (8.8MB)
Track 108. God’s Away On Business 4:06 (6.9MB)
Track 109. Misery’s The River Of The World 3:54 (6.6MB)
Track 110. Alice 5:32 (9.3MB)
Track 111. November 3:12 (5.4MB)
58 mins
Disc 2
Track 201. Eyeball Kid 7:39 (12.9MB)
Track 202. Walk Away 3:59 (6.7MB)
Track 203. Metropolitain Glide 5:54 (9.9MB)
Track 204. What’s He Building (In There) 4:56 (8.3MB)
Track 205. Shake It 7:27 (12.5MB)
Track 206. audience 0:21 (577k)
Track 207. 16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought Six 6:13 (10.4MB)
Track 208. Trampled Rose 4:37 (7.8MB)
Track 209. House Where Nobody Lives 4:33 (7.7MB)
Track 210. dead ringer story 2:45 (4.6MB)
Track 211. Lucky Day 3:50 (6.4MB)
53 mins
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