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| - Tom Waits provided the role for Captain Hook in Shrek 2.
- ... Waits, Tom
- Founded: b. 1949 Headquarters: Los AngelesEl, CA
- Tom Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, with this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and has acted in supporting roles in films including Bram Stoker's Dracula and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
- Tom Waits (ang. Tom czeka) – amerykański wokalista rockowy z nurtu dada. W swojej twórczości łączy elementy bluesa, jazzu, rocka, papieru ściernego oraz mikrofonu. Goszcząc w Polsce w roku 2000 zwrócił uwagę na Pałac Kultury, mówiąc, że w Bombaju, Dhakkce oraz Mogadiszu widział dokładnie te same budynki, wskutek czego jego skala głosu na warszawskim koncercie przesuwała się nie tylko o kilka oktaw, ale także stref czasowych.
- Tom Waits (born December 7,1949) provided the role for Captain Hook in Shrek 2. However, Ian Mcshane took over the role for Shrek the Third.
- Tom Waits is a American singer/songwriter, actor and movie composer. He gave his voice for the apocolypse prepper Lloyd in the episode Homer Goes to Prep School. [1]
- The music of Tom Waits was played at The Butcher's Hook in 2015.
- Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and has acted in supporting roles in films, including Paradise Alley and Bram Stoker's Dracula; he also starred in the 1986 film Down by Law. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his soundtrack work on
- Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."[1] With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music,[2] Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and has acted in supporting roles in films, including Paradise Alley and Bram Stoker's Dracula; he also starred in Jim Jarmusch's 1986 film Down by Law. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his so
- Now... Who is this Tom Waits cat anyhow? Well, you know what they say about piano players. I'd repeat it now but, you know, there are ladies present. Also I forgot exactly how it went. But come in out the cold and I'll tell you all about him, God knows it's colder than a prostitute's knees in the rain out there.
- As far as John Peel was concerned, however, Waits was more celebrated by not being played on his programmes, forming part of a triumvirate of artists (including Patti Smith and Bruce Springsteen) for whom John reserved especial venom, calling him "awful" and "artfully down-and-out" This may have had something to do with Waits' inspirations: he said, "I wasn't thrilled by Blue Cheer" (San Francisco psychedelic blues band much respected by JP) "so I found an alternative, even if it was Bing Crosby." [1] Consequently, Waits recorded many songs in a kind of inebriated semi-cabaret style (e.g. The Heart Of Saturday Night).
- Describe Tom Waits here. Okay... but how? Well, everyone seems to use the cliched phrases like "whiskey soaked," "gravelly-voiced," "barfly," "hobo," "raconteur troubadour." With that out of the way, Tom Waits is an innovative musician, generally classified as Alternative, but borrowing heavily from European and American folk music, gospel, lounge music, pop, the blues, cabaret, and occasionally country and even rap (he beatboxes on the 2004 album Real Gone, and he appears on N.A.S.A's "Spacious Thoughts"). References to Waits were a Running Gag on Mystery Science Theater 3000.
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| - Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and has acted in supporting roles in films, including Paradise Alley and Bram Stoker's Dracula; he also starred in the 1986 film Down by Law. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his soundtrack work on One from the Heart. Waits' lyrics frequently present atmospheric portraits of grotesque, often seedy characters and places—although he has also shown a penchant for more conventional ballads. He has a cult following and has influenced subsequent songwriters despite having little radio or music video support. His songs are best-known through cover versions by more commercial artists: "Jersey Girl", performed by Bruce Springsteen, "Ol' '55", performed by the Eagles, and "Downtown Train", performed by Rod Stewart. Although Waits' albums have met with mixed commercial success in his native United States, they have occasionally achieved gold album sales status in other countries. He has been nominated for a number of major music awards and has wonGrammy Awards for two albums, Bone Machine and Mule Variations. In 2011, Waits was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Waits lives in Sonoma County, California with his wife, Kathleen Brennan, and three children.
- Tom Waits provided the role for Captain Hook in Shrek 2.
- ... Waits, Tom
- As far as John Peel was concerned, however, Waits was more celebrated by not being played on his programmes, forming part of a triumvirate of artists (including Patti Smith and Bruce Springsteen) for whom John reserved especial venom, calling him "awful" and "artfully down-and-out" This may have had something to do with Waits' inspirations: he said, "I wasn't thrilled by Blue Cheer" (San Francisco psychedelic blues band much respected by JP) "so I found an alternative, even if it was Bing Crosby." [1] Consequently, Waits recorded many songs in a kind of inebriated semi-cabaret style (e.g. The Heart Of Saturday Night). There is no record of Peel ever having played his material: in fact, when the opportunity arose to do so, Peel played all the tracks from an NME free EP save Waits' tune, commenting, "I think he's a terrible old bore myself", and stating that Half Man Half Biscuit were "worth a truckload of Tom Waits and Bruce Springsteens." In 2001 Peel was much taken with Nora O'Connor's cover of 'Looks Like I'm Up Shit Creek Again'. Discovering it was written by Waits, he quipped "I didn't know he had it in him, to be honest" [2]. Nevertheless, they at least shared an admiration for Captain Beefheart: Waits was introduced to his music by his wife Kathleen Brennan, and subsequently changed his musical style to feature more avant-garde leanings, from Swordfishtrombones onwards.
- Founded: b. 1949 Headquarters: Los AngelesEl, CA
- Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."[1] With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music,[2] Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and has acted in supporting roles in films, including Paradise Alley and Bram Stoker's Dracula; he also starred in Jim Jarmusch's 1986 film Down by Law. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his soundtrack work on One from the Heart. Waits' lyrics frequently present atmospheric portraits of grotesque, often seedy characters and places—although he has also shown a penchant for more conventional ballads. He has a cult following and has influenced subsequent songwriters despite having little radio or music video support. His songs are best-known through cover versions by more commercial artists: "Jersey Girl", performed byBruce Springsteen, "Ol' '55", by the Eagles, and "Downtown Train", by Rod Stewart. Although Waits' albums have met with mixed commercial success in his native United States, they have occasionally achieved gold album sales status in other countries. He has been nominated for a number of major music awards and has won Grammy Awards for two albums, Bone Machine and Mule Variations. In 2011, Waits was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.[3][4] Waits lives in Sonoma County, California, with his wife and musical collaborator Kathleen Brennan, and three children.
- Now... Who is this Tom Waits cat anyhow? Well, you know what they say about piano players. I'd repeat it now but, you know, there are ladies present. Also I forgot exactly how it went. But come in out the cold and I'll tell you all about him, God knows it's colder than a prostitute's knees in the rain out there. Tom was, and I guess, still is, a singer. But the thing about him was his distinctive voice. Some say it sounded like it was soaked in a vat of Bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car. Others say he sounded like Satan with laryngitis, singing on a broken karaoke machine in a pirate bar. Me? I always thought he sounded like that which he was; an old drunk who couldn't hold a note. That don't sound as fancy as the other comparisons, but maybe that's why I ain't a music critic.
- Tom Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, with this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and has acted in supporting roles in films including Bram Stoker's Dracula and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
- Tom Waits (ang. Tom czeka) – amerykański wokalista rockowy z nurtu dada. W swojej twórczości łączy elementy bluesa, jazzu, rocka, papieru ściernego oraz mikrofonu. Goszcząc w Polsce w roku 2000 zwrócił uwagę na Pałac Kultury, mówiąc, że w Bombaju, Dhakkce oraz Mogadiszu widział dokładnie te same budynki, wskutek czego jego skala głosu na warszawskim koncercie przesuwała się nie tylko o kilka oktaw, ale także stref czasowych.
- Tom Waits (born December 7,1949) provided the role for Captain Hook in Shrek 2. However, Ian Mcshane took over the role for Shrek the Third.
- Tom Waits is a American singer/songwriter, actor and movie composer. He gave his voice for the apocolypse prepper Lloyd in the episode Homer Goes to Prep School. [1]
- The music of Tom Waits was played at The Butcher's Hook in 2015.
- Describe Tom Waits here. Okay... but how? Well, everyone seems to use the cliched phrases like "whiskey soaked," "gravelly-voiced," "barfly," "hobo," "raconteur troubadour." With that out of the way, Tom Waits is an innovative musician, generally classified as Alternative, but borrowing heavily from European and American folk music, gospel, lounge music, pop, the blues, cabaret, and occasionally country and even rap (he beatboxes on the 2004 album Real Gone, and he appears on N.A.S.A's "Spacious Thoughts"). His work can be divided into two periods, his jazzy, lounge singer period, lasting from the '70s to the late '80s, and the reinvented, experimental sound of his "Swordfishtrombones" album on, and his shift to a mysterious, Carnival-and-Sinister-Junkman persona. This shift was caused by his abandonment by Asylum Records and his marriage to his co-songwriter and muse Kathleen Brennan. Brennan introduced him to the music of Captain Beefheart, whose influence can be seen in "Swordfishtrombones" and later albums. He is known for his theatricality, dark and dense lyrical style, and a charming sense of humor - he's one of the few musicians that tend to get long interview sessions on late night talk shows, occasionally getting more laughs than the host. He wrote the scores of four musicals: "Franks Wild Years" [sic], written with Kathleen, and his collaborations with Robert Wilson, "The Black Rider", "Alice," "Woyzeck" (the last being released as Blood Money). He has also acted in several films, notably Coffee and Cigarettes as himself, Mystery Men as a Mad Scientist, Bram Stokers Dracula as Renfield, and Wristcutters: A Love Story as Kneller, whose dog is missing. He plays Mr. Nick (the Devil) in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which also happens to be Heath Ledger's last film. His latest role is a bird named Virgil in Rosto A.D.'s Monster Of Nix. In 2011, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, making him either the second (after REM) or third (depending on if you count The Velvet Underground or Talking Heads) Alternative Rock artist to be inducted. References to Waits were a Running Gag on Mystery Science Theater 3000. Also, for some reason, he's the curator of The Museum of Everything.
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