If you want to hear what all the Tom Waits fuss is about...

[viktor_haag]

Hie thee off to NPR's website and snag the podcast of Tom Waits just recently live in Atlanta, Ga. And a fair number of other cool concert 'casts. Waits' concert is (wait for it) over two hours long (with encore). The man works for his livin'. I'd pay cold hard money to see Tom in concert after listening to this, but sadly, his tour doesn't include any stops near my house, and, well, his tour wraps up tomorrow in Dublin. (So, myles_corcoran, if you don't have tickets, then what are you waiting for, man!)

Comments

[mylescorcoran]

Oddly I actually was in Dublin for once at the right time, more or less, but had a friend's 40th birthday party to go to. Also I heard on the radio the rather silly extremes of non-transferable tickets and presenting ID at the door that Waits was requiring as an anti-tout measure and didn't much like the sound of it.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

Yeah; I've encountered similar craziness locally, with silly "security measures" at the door. I wonder if this should get hanged this on Waits, on his agent, or on the local promoter?

[mylescorcoran]

I don't know who's actually to blame, though one radio report about the Dublin gig did quote Waits as saying he'd rather see empty seats than the touts profiting from the ticket sales. Given the quality of that particular radio station I wouldn't put much stock in it either way.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

GIven Waits' relatively public feelings about the recording industry, I'm not entirely surprised that he'd take this attitude. It's possible that he objects to the profiteering nature of touting. On the other hand, if I were to purchase tickets and suddenly become ill, and want to pass them on to a friend to use...