TOM WAITS - NIGHTHAWKS AT THE DINER - DOUBLE LP - GATEFOLD - RED VINYL NEW
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Description
This is an unopened, brand new RTI pressing of Tom Waits' album Nighthawks at the Diner on colored vinyl. This is a double LP and is beautifully packaged in a gatefold jacket printed with all the lyrics. This album is from Tom Waits' golden years! The album pictured is my personal copy, opened so you can see the color and gatefold, but the one you will receive is SEALED, never before opened.
From Wikipedia -
Bones Howe, the album's producer, on the recording of the album:
We did it as a live recording, which was unusual for an artist so new [...] Herb Cohen and I both had a sense that we needed to bring out the jazz in Waits more clearly. Tom was a great performer on stage [...] So we started talking about where we could do an album that would have a live feel to it. We thought about clubs, but the well-known ones like The Troubadour were toilets in those days. Then I remembered that Barbra Streisand had made a record at the old Record Plant Studios, when they were on 3rd Street near Cahuenga Boulevard [...] There was a room there that she got an entire orchestra into. Back in those days they would just roll the consoles around to where they needed them. So Herb and I said let's see if we can put tables and chairs in there and get an audience in and record a show.[1]
Howe was mostly responsible for organising the band for the "live show", and creating the right atmosphere for the record.
I got Michael Melvoin on piano, and he was one of the greatest jazz arrangers ever; I had Jim Hughart on [upright] bass,Bill Goodwin on drums and Pete Christlieb on sax. It was a totally jazz rhythm section. Herb gave out tickets to all his friends, we set up a bar, put potato chips on the tables and we had a sell-out, two nights, two shows a night, July 30 and 31, 1975. I remember that the opening act was a stripper. Her name was Dewana and her husband was a taxi driver. So for her the band played bump-and-grind music - and there's no jazz player who has never played a strip joint, so they knew exactly what to do. But it put the room in exactly the right mood. Then Waits came out and sang 'Emotional Weather Report'. Then he turned around to face the band and read the classified section of the paper while they played. It was like Allen Ginsberg with a really, really good band.[1]
Tracklisting:
Side One
No. Title Length 1. "(Opening Intro)" 2:58 2. "Emotional Weather Report" 3:47 3. ""(Intro)" to "On a Foggy Night"" 2:16 4. "On a Foggy Night" 3:48 5. ""(Intro)" to "Eggs and Sausage"" 1:53 6. "Eggs and Sausage (In a Cadillac with Susan Michelson)" 4:19Side Two
No. Title Length 1. ""(Intro)" to "Better Off Without a Wife"" 3:02 2. "Better Off Without a Wife" 3:59 3. "Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)" 11:30Side Three
No. Title Writer(s) Length 1. ""(Intro)" to "Warm Beer and Cold Women"" 0:55 2. "Warm Beer and Cold Women" 5:21 3. ""(Intro)" to "Putnam County"" 0:47 4. "Putnam County" 7:35 5. "Spare Parts I (A Nocturnal Emission)" Waits, Chuck E. Weiss 6:25Side Four
No. Title Writer(s) Length 1. "Nobody" 2:51 2. ""(Intro)" to "Big Joe and Phantom 309"" 0:40 3. "Big Joe and Phantom 309" Tommy Faile 6:29 4. "Spare Parts II and Closing" Waits, Weiss 5:13price rating
