Tom Waits
5/2/79
State Theatre
Sidney, AU
"Cold Beer On A Hot Night"
Liberated bootleg, a Kiss The Stone release (catalog number KTS170,
released 1993).
Source: soundboard recording (for radio broadcast).
Lineage: SDB > ??? > silverpressed bootleg CD > WAV[*] > SHN.
[*] Exact bit-for-bit digital extraction from CD to WAV files done
with ``cdparanoia''.
The bootleg suspiciously fits the concert on a single disc, which
indicates it is not the complete concert, as Waits usually played much
longer sets.
This recording is mislabeled with the date "March 1979" on the Kiss
The Stone silverpressed bootleg CD. The correct date was traced down
by members of the "raindogs" mailinglist (a Tom Waits fan community).
There is now little doubt that 1979-05-02 is the correct date, but any
additional proof for (or against) this date would still be
appreciated.
It is said to be a JJ recording (Double Jay radiostation with
Australian DJ Richard Kingsmill), so if anyone wants to try to track
down the master tape you know where to start. Double J is no more, but
resurfaced later as "Triple J"[*], which is still broadcasting. They
probably still have the master tape for this show in their vaults.
[*] http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/
Also, anyone who knows anybody affiliated with the Kiss The Stone
bootleg company, which I believe is now defunct, please go ahead and
try to dig up their masters for the bootleg.
Third, please join in and suggest for Waits's current recording label
Epitaph[*] that they could release this show as an official bootleg, �
la what is being done with the famous "The Bootleg Series" for Bob
Dylan. This show seem to be generally regarded as one of the finest
Waits live recordings available. An amazing performance, with
brilliant sound quality. It has been bootlegged and re-bootlegged
numerous times, and it would have been appreciated by the fans if
Epitaph could get hold of and release the complete concert.
[*] http://www.epitaph.com/
This has been released under many different bootleg titles: in
addition to "Cold Beer On A Hot Night" from Kiss The Stone it has also
been released by various bootleg companies as "Romeo Is Bleeding"
(Venus Music, catalog number VM013, released 1994), "On Broadway"
(Lunatic, catalog number LU 2008, erroneously marked as "live USA
'84"), "Waltzing Mathilda", "Live In Hollywood", "Tom Waits Blue"
(these last four have the tracks out of order) and probably others. It
seems likely that Kiss The Stone was first, though.
Here is the setlist. Note that the strange tracking matches the KTS
bootleg CD, and that some of the indicated songs are just "teasers",
intros or outros:
01 [06:38] Romeo Is Bleeding
02 [03:02] Annie's Back In Town
03 [07:00] Jitterbug Boy > Better Off Without A Wife
04 [05:42] I Wish I Was In New Orleans > When The Saints Go Marching In[0]
05 [02:33] Since I Fell For You[1]
06 [04:21] Red Shoes By The Drugstore
07 [06:12] Silent Night[0] > Xmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis
08 [05:23] Do The Hokey Cokey[2] > Pasties & A G-String
09 [12:33] Summertime[3] > Burma Shave
10 [03:57] (band intro with Romeo Is Bleeding instrumental)
11 [07:35] Tom Traubert's Blues
12 [10:08] Small Change > Big Spender[4]
Length: 75:13
All songs by Tom Waits, except where noted:
[0] Traditional.
[1] By Lenny Welch.
[2] By Roland Lawrence "Larry" LaPrise.
[3] By George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward.
[4] By Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields.
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Liberated by <mortene@sim.no>. Get in touch if you have any
additional information about the recording.
This text file last updated 2004-02-24.