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I just heard that he'll be giving away tickets on 102.1 The Edge. I've only just tuned in, so I didn't catch all the details.

Sorry if this has been posted already - I'm losing track of all these radio give aways etc! :oops:

Hey gang. I found this over at the Pearl Jam forum. It's taken from Tom's page on the ANTI Records site. Enjoy!

"When I was small I always thought that songwriters sat alone at upright pianos in cramped smoky little rooms with a bottle and an ashtray and everything came in the window blew through them and came out of the piano as a song…and in a weird way that is exactly what happens.

What’s Orphans? I don’t know. Orphans is a dead end kid driving a coffin with big tires across the Ohio River wearing welding goggles and a wife beater with a lit firecracker in his ear.

At the center of this record is my voice. I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice, I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer…I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument.

Kathleen and I wanted the record to be like emptying our pockets on the table after an evening of gambling, burglary, and cow tipping. We enjoy strange couplings, that’s how we got together. We wanted Orphans to be like a shortwave radio show where the past is sequenced with the future, consisting of things you find on the ground, in this world and no world, or maybe the next world. Whatever you imagine that to be.

If a record really works at all, it should be made like a homemade doll with tinsel for hair and seashells for ears stuffed with candy and money. Or like a good woman’s purse with a Swiss army knife and a snake bite kit.

Orphans contains songs for all occasions. Some of the songs were written in turmoil and recorded at night in a moving car, others were written in hotel rooms and recorded in Hollywood during big conflamas. That’s when conflict weds drama. At any rate these are the ones that survived the flood and were rescued from the branches of trees after the water’s retreat.

Gathering all this material together was like rounding up chickens at the beach. It’s not like you go into vault and check out what you need. Most of it was lost or buried under the house. Some of the tapes I had to pay ransom for to a plumber in Russia. You fall into the vat. We started to write just to climb out of the vat. Then you start listening and sorting and start writing in response to what you hear. And more recording. And then you get bit by a spider, go down the gopher hole, and make a whole different record. That was the process pretty much the last three years.

Then we met Karl Derfler, a wizard engineer who works at Bay Side Studios in Richmond, CA, in the science fiction part of town. A battlefield medic, he did a Lazarus on a number of the songs and recorded all the new material.

On Orphans there is a mambo about a convict who breaks out of jail with a fishbone, a gospel train song about Charlie Whitman and John Wilkes Boothe, a delta blues about a disturbing neighbor, a spoken word piece about a woman who was struck by lightening, an 18th century Scottish madrigal about murderous sibling rivalry, an American backwoods a cappella about a hanging. Even a song by Jack Kerouac and a spiritual with my own personal petition to the Lord with prayer…There’s even a show tune about an old altar boy and a rockabilly song about a young man who’s begging to be lied to.

I think you will find more singing and dancing here than usual. But I hope fans of more growling, more warbling, more barking, more screeching won’t be disappointed either."

Tom Waits
August 2006

jerry lee lewis with neil young TONIGHT

When will it happen? Will most people here download it or what? I don't know if I could resist a few songs...

Don't think anyone's mentioned this yet:

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Be honest, I don't mind!

Hey guys,
I'm testing something out, so if you have winamp, try and download/play this:
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I know this has been done before, but whatever!

How many best of CDs can one band release? U2 must be catching up with Bryan Adams by now
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So I'm off to Vegas at the end of Nov. for a 4 day AutoCAD conference and I'm pretty stoked about it. About 2 months ago I saw this conference online and casually mentioned it to my boss. She said what's in it for them (my employer), so I did some homework and put together a presentation. They were impressed so it went to the next level which was a directors meeting. The directors all unanimously agreed to it, so the last hurdle was getting the executive director to sign off on it. I found out about a week ago that he approved myself and my co-worker to both go. It's at the Venetian hotel which I have discovered is one of, if not the best hotel in Vegas. I've never been there as an adult, so this should be a pretty good time/shit-show.

I'm not wanting to gloat here, just share my excitement. A few years ago I had some friends who went to Vegas with their company as a team building experience and since then I have been wishing I could work somewhere that would send me to something like that.

A second Montreal show has been added at the Metropolis on Friday, November 10 -- tickets go on sale at Noon ET today.

Good luck to all who try for tickets.