Tom Waits Glitter and Doom Tour
07/01/08 • Posted in: Downtown Jacksonville, Events, Music by Adrienne Moore 7 Comments »
I’m feeling a 70’s resurgence this month. Newly back from New York and having seen the best band ever formed in life, Blondie, and now revisiting my Tom Waits collection in light of tonight’s show (which I cannot afford $85 to attend), I’m feeling pretty musically groovy this week.
Waits is performing at the Times Union Center for the Performing Arts Moran Theater (whew) at 9 p.m. tonight and if you don’t think that’s a big deal, you is cray cray.
I remember the first time I heard Waits. I would’ve bet money he was a 60 year old black man. Not so. His voice sounds cured by years of whiskey and hollerin’, but he’s a good ol’ west coast beatnik with blues so smooth it’ll make you cry.
I’m not sure if tickets for tonight’s performance are still available, but if they are and you’ve got the cash to spare, you should check it out. I found out that the tickets are paperless, you only need show your id and credit card at the theater. If anyone goes, please let us know how it rolls.
I will play tom waits after z is done with his mixtakes. And I will take requests for your favorite tom. And if you are coming from the show you will probably get there right about $1 drink time.and like the obama event, I can’t swear he’s not coming.
Show was awesome. Setlist:
Lucinda
Way Down in the Hole
Falling Down
All the World is Green
Chocolate Jesus (he stopped midway through to lecture the audience on how to clap in tempo)
Cemetery Polka
Get Behind the Mule
16 Shells from a Thirty Ought Six
Hang Down Your Head
Trampled Rose
Dirt in the Ground
Black Market Baby
Rain Dogs
On the Nickel (solo piano)
I Can’t Wait to Get Off Work (solo piano)
An Invitation to the Blues (solo piano)
Lost in the Harbor
Circus
Hoist That Rag
Lie to Me
Anywhere I Lay My Head
Singapore
Cold Cold Ground
Make it Rain
The House Where Nobody Lives (encore)
i was very bummed about the tom waits $885/ticket price. for me the digital version will have to do…
$85
Anyone know where to get video or audio of the show? It was a great show by the way.
$85? It ended up $100 by the time it hit the credit card. But I’m not complaining. I’m a long-time fan, but had never seen him live. His voice is cool on the CDs, but unbelievable in person. He had some fun with some of his songs — “Hoist that Rag” with a Latin beat, for instance. His last CD makes a lot more sense now that I know how he stomps to the music, bent at the waste with arms outstretched and scary fingers twitching like a deranged conductor.
Ha! $85 = €54.23. Here in Dublin we were charged a total (including Ticketmaster ’service charge’) of €137.60 a ticket. That’s $215.65 in your debased currency. Would you have gone, at that price?