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yay or nay?
Whatever your response the guy is a total badass... I picked up the latest issue of PLANET magazine
some excerpts from his interview...with himself:
"My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My reality needs imagination like a blind man needs a cane."
"What's the most curious record in your collection?
In the seventies a record company in LA issued a record called 'The Best of Marcel Marceau' it was forty minutes of silence followed by applause and it sold really well. I like to put it on for company. It really bothers me, though, when people talk through it."
"What's wrong with the world?
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. Leona Helmsley's dog made 12 million last year...and Dean Mclaine, a farmer in Ohio made $30,000. It's just a gigantic version of the madness that grows in every one of our brains. We are monkeys with money and guns."
"Can you tell me an odd thing that heppened in an odd place?
A Japanese freighter had been torpedoed during WWII and it's at the bottom of the Tokyo Harbor with a large hole in her hull. A team of engineers was called together to solve the problem of raising the wounded vessel too the surface. One of the engineers tackling the puzzle said he remembered seeing a Donald Duck cartoon when he was a boy where there was a boat at the bottom of the ocean with a hole in its hull, and they injected it with ping-pong balls and it floated up. The skeptical group laughed but on of the experts was willing to give it a try....The balls were injected into the hull and it floated to the surface. The engineer was altered. Moral: solutions to problems are always found at an entirely different level; also, believe in yourself in the face of impossible odds."
"Do you have words to live by?
Jim Jarmusch once told me 'Fast, Cheap and Good...pick two. If it's fast and cheap it wont be good. If it's cheap and good it won't be fast. If it's fast and good it won't be cheap.' Fast , cheap, and good...pick two words to live by"
"What is a gentleman?
A man who can play the accordion, but doesn't"
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Recommend a jumping off point into his music? :o

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Frito YAY!
my favorite album is Nighthawks at the Diner. its classic Waits.
second place is probably a tie between Mule Variations and Swordfishtrombones

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I love everything from Foreign Affairs (77) up to his most recent.
I would suggest you start with Rain Dogs (85).

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Rain Dogs, Nighthawks at the Diner, The Heart of Saturday Night, Small Change. Hell, they're all good. Except The Black Rider of course.

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I'm currently learning this:-

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my favorite album of his is Small Change. i've really been digging the Orphans 3 disc set lately though.

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I really love his first three albums (Closing Time, Heart of the Saturday Night and Nighthawks at the Diner) as well as Small Change and Foreign Affairs.

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Incredible and versatile songwriter and musician. He's penned a hit for the Eagles in the early 70's AND contributed vocals to a Primus album. What more can be said? A true musician who recorded almost a dozen albums of the most unique music I've ever heard. I love him.
By the way, Small Change is my favorite album of his, and possibly my favorite of all time.

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I think my thoughts on this subject are pretty well know. :o

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Phantom 409!

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I know I'm in the minority on this one, but I checked out some of his stuff and I can't stand his voice. It's unlistenable to me, which is a shame because the guy has skills that I could only dream of having, except for the actual singing part. :blah:

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I know I'm in the minority on this one, but I checked out some of his stuff and I can't stand his voice. It's unlistenable to me, which is a shame because the guy has skills that I could only dream of having, except for the actual singing part. :blah: GTFO

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I know I'm in the minority on this one, but I checked out some of his stuff and I can't stand his voice. It's unlistenable to me, which is a shame because the guy has skills that I could only dream of having, except for the actual singing part. :blah: I listen to Tom Waits. I love Tom Waits. I totally understand your point.
I could rattle off a whole bunch of artists who have obvious talent but who have one nagging aspect that I just can't overcome. Most of the time, repeated attempts to enjoy backfire as I focus more and more on that element. It's like somebody saying
"Dude, try some of this carrot cake."
"But I hate carrots. I despise them with every bone in my body."
"You just haven't tried THIS carrot cake. Just try some."
"Oh! Dear lord. That tastes like perdition."
"You just haven't eaten enough."
cf. The Grateful Dead.

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I'm going to see him in Ohio in a couple weeks.
Fock yeah!

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I know I'm in the minority on this one, but I checked out some of his stuff and I can't stand his voice. It's unlistenable to me, which is a shame because the guy has skills that I could only dream of having, except for the actual singing part. :blah: Take a listen to any of his first four albums (Closing Time, The Heart of Saturday Night, Nighthawks at the Diner, and Small Change). His voice isn't anything like his later stuff...I can't really listen to anything after that (not even Rain Dogs), even though those albums ARE pure genius (just can't stomach the voice).

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I'm going to see him in Ohio in a couple weeks.
Fock yeah! I was supposed to go, but I'm leaving for Italy the next day.

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I was supposed to go, but I'm leaving for Italy the next day. OMG, do you have tickets?!?!?! Please tell me you either do, or can actually get them! :eek:
I'm going to see him in Ohio in a couple weeks.
Fock yeah! I would like to stab you in the trachea, bitch. :mad:

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Take a listen to any of his first four albums (Closing Time, The Heart of Saturday Night, Nighthawks at the Diner, and Small Change). His voice isn't anything like his later stuff...I can't really listen to anything after that (not even Rain Dogs), even though those albums ARE pure genius (just can't stomach the voice). I'll do that. Thanks!

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I'll do that. Thanks! No worries. If you want one track to start off on (one of my favourites) check out "Fumblin' with the Blues" off of "The Heart of Saturday Night"

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Nobody's yet mentioned it, but the one I seem to listen to the most the past few years is Bone Machine.
Should there be a reading test required in order to allow voting?
Can you identify this guitar?
Finished building my strat - almost?
Please stop with the Eddie Van Halen Photoshop pics Please, I need to sleep?
Yo, West Virginians,?
cae od-100se+ clips, come on in.?
And you all complain about Boutique amps?
NGDs are dangerous.?