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Anders Petersen, 1960s, Rose and Lily at Café Lehmitz, Hamburg, Germany

Tom Waits - Rain Dogs (1985) / Front Cover

Tom Waits - Rain Dogs (1985) / Back Cover

Robert Frank photographing Tom Waits, photograph by: Ted Barron, Tompkins Square Park, NYC, 1985

Tom Waits by Robert Frank, Tompkins Square Park, NYC, 1985

Tom Waits by Robert Frank, Tompkins Square Park, NYC, 1985

Robert Frank photographing Tom Waits, photograph by: Ted Barron, Tompkins Square Park, NYC, 1985

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TOM WAITS - “RAIN DOGS”

DIGITAL TO ANALOG

Today I bought this wonderful LP at a second hand record store (together with Neil Young’s “Harvest” and Stanley Turrentine’s “West Side Highway”).

After losing 90% of my digital music collection (because of some over-multitasking computer updating & formatting action) and some moments of grief, I decided to take a step “back” into the analog world, where things like that could only be caused by a fire.

I already moved turntables & vinyl to the living room some months ago (after I neglected them in the study for too long). And since my shitty digital USB car radio is slowly dying I dug out my old tape car radio, bought the last tapes I could get in town and dusted off the double tapedeck. Hello, good old times of actually listening and not switching through an album, vinyl crackle, tape saturation and beautiful cover artwork!

BACK COVER

I put “Rain Dogs” on and took a look at the back cover, when I read “Photograph by Robert Frank 1985.” I love that: great music combined with great photography (just like the old Blue Note records)!

The back cover photograph was taken by Robert Frank in Tompkins Square Park, NYC, in 1985. Ted Barron, who studied at the School of Visual Arts at that time, “was out walking in the neighborhood. I was just cutting through Tompkins Square Park and walked up to this scene, and I immediately recognized Robert Frank, because at that point I was probably looking at his photographs every day. I realized who he was photographing, and I made a few photographs while I was watching. I didn’t want to be in the way, and I didn’t want to become part of what was going on.” (Ted Barron)

I found a few other great shots of that day and interviews with Tom Waits and Robert Frank talking about the shooting:

“I was trying to imagine myself as a real New Yorker, and I was having a hard time. My wife was pregnant with our second child; we were living down on 14th Street over a Cuban-Chinese restaurant. But at that moment, I was busting at the seams that Robert Frank was photographing me. I just thought, Shoot me now.
The record was called ‘Rain Dogs,’ so we were expecting to find a rainy day, which we did not find. But we found the one rain puddle in the whole park, and I’m kind of down there like a dog. Maybe that was the idea: I’m gonna get down on the dog’s level, and then Robert would get there at a dog’s level with me.
Anyway, I don’t know why people in music seem to want to squat down. Maybe we just want to feel close to the earth. I’m still down there, actually. I’m squatting right now.”
(Tom Waits)

“I think he saw that puddle, and it was his idea to sit there. Tom’s comfortable that way, and it’s a good angle. I think he’s very aware when he’s being photographed — the stance he takes, the way he moves and the way the picture is going to be. That’s one of his favorite positions anyhow. When he comes in the room, he sits like that.”
(Robert Frank)

FRONT COVER

The front cover photograph of Tom Waits’ 1985 album “Rain Dogs” is one of a series taken by the Swedish photographer Anders Petersen at Café Lehmitz (a café near the Hamburg red-light boulevard Reeperbahn) in the late 1960s. The man and woman depicted on the cover are called Rose and Lily.

Read more about Petersen’s photobook “Café Lehmitz” in one of my next posts.

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DOWN BY LAW

Here’s one of my favourite songs of the record, used for the soundtrack of Jim Jarmusch’ fantastic movie “Down by Law” (with Tom Waits, Roberto Benigni & John Lurie):

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Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:56:24 -0600

burnedshoes:

TOM WAITS - “RAIN DOGS”

DIGITAL TO ANALOG

Today I bought this wonderful LP at a second hand record store (together with Neil Young’s “Harvest” and Stanley Turrentine’s “West Side Highway”).

After losing 90% of my digital music collection (because of some over-multitasking computer updating & formatting action) and some moments of grief, I decided to take a step “back” into the analog world, where things like that could only be caused by a fire.

I already moved turntables & vinyl to the living room some months ago (after I neglected them in the study for too long). And since my shitty digital USB car radio is slowly dying I dug out my old tape car radio, bought the last tapes I could get in town and dusted off the double tapedeck. Hello, good old times of actually listening and not switching through an album, vinyl crackle, tape saturation and beautiful cover artwork!

BACK COVER

I put “Rain Dogs” on and took a look at the back cover, when I read “Photograph by Robert Frank 1985.” I love that: great music combined with great photography (just like the old Blue Note records)!

The back cover photograph was taken by Robert Frank in Tompkins Square Park, NYC, in 1985. Ted Barron, who studied at the School of Visual Arts at that time, “was out walking in the neighborhood. I was just cutting through Tompkins Square Park and walked up to this scene, and I immediately recognized Robert Frank, because at that point I was probably looking at his photographs every day. I realized who he was photographing, and I made a few photographs while I was watching. I didn’t want to be in the way, and I didn’t want to become part of what was going on.” (Ted Barron)

I found a few other great shots of that day and interviews with Tom Waits and Robert Frank talking about the shooting:

“I was trying to imagine myself as a real New Yorker, and I was having a hard time. My wife was pregnant with our second child; we were living down on 14th Street over a Cuban-Chinese restaurant. But at that moment, I was busting at the seams that Robert Frank was photographing me. I just thought, Shoot me now.
The record was called ‘Rain Dogs,’ so we were expecting to find a rainy day, which we did not find. But we found the one rain puddle in the whole park, and I’m kind of down there like a dog. Maybe that was the idea: I’m gonna get down on the dog’s level, and then Robert would get there at a dog’s level with me.
Anyway, I don’t know why people in music seem to want to squat down. Maybe we just want to feel close to the earth. I’m still down there, actually. I’m squatting right now.”
(Tom Waits)

“I think he saw that puddle, and it was his idea to sit there. Tom’s comfortable that way, and it’s a good angle. I think he’s very aware when he’s being photographed — the stance he takes, the way he moves and the way the picture is going to be. That’s one of his favorite positions anyhow. When he comes in the room, he sits like that.”
(Robert Frank)

FRONT COVER

The front cover photograph of Tom Waits’ 1985 album “Rain Dogs” is one of a series taken by the Swedish photographer Anders Petersen at Café Lehmitz (a café near the Hamburg red-light boulevard Reeperbahn) in the late 1960s. The man and woman depicted on the cover are called Rose and Lily.

Read more about Petersen’s photobook “Café Lehmitz” in one of my next posts.

[ IMAGE SOURCES: +, +, +, +, +, + ]

DOWN BY LAW

Here’s one of my favourite songs of the record, used for the soundtrack of Jim Jarmusch’ fantastic movie “Down by Law” (with Tom Waits, Roberto Benigni & John Lurie):

» more photos of famous people « | » more flea market discoveries «

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Mon, 01 Apr 2013 08:43:35 -0600

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Those who wish to sing will always find a song.~Celtic Proverb

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Those who wish to sing will always find a song.~Celtic Proverb

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Fri, 22 Mar 2013 01:52:44 -0600

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Don’t Kick the Pickle…

If it takes a man and a half a day and a half to dig a hole and a half, how many days does it take a monkey with a wooden leg to kick the seeds out of a dill pickle?

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I LOVE this photo!!!

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 09:29:32 -0600

I LOVE this photo!!!

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Fri, 15 Mar 2013 08:42:19 -0600

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Happy Birthday Townes!!!! Townes van zandt live at the whole coffeehouse, 11.73 - Cirkus Berserkus

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 07:07:11 -0700

Happy Birthday Townes!!!! Townes van zandt live at the whole coffeehouse, 11.73 - Cirkus Berserkus:

What we have here, is an incredible townes van zandt performing at the whole coffeehouse on the campus of minnesota university in minneapolis. i could only imagine the number of people that got to witness this.
There a several older posts I put together on Townes….here is the link to the search results for those older posts…Have a look see. The Heartworn Highway link may be dead…I will try to find another source. :)

http://cirkusberserkus.ning.com/main/search/search?q=Townes+Van+Zan…

Townes Van Zandt Fest - Cirkus Berserkus

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 06:54:49 -0700

Townes Van Zandt Fest - Cirkus Berserkus:

Happy Birthday Townes Van Zandt! Here is a repost from the Cirkus including the full documentary ” Be Here To Love Me”.
http://cirkusberserkus.ning.com/profiles/blogs/townes-van-zandt-fest

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Wed, 06 Mar 2013 08:19:44 -0700

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Those who wish to sing will always find a song.~Celtic Proverb

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I LOVE this photo!!!

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Happy Birthday Townes!!!! Townes van zandt live at the whole coffeehouse, 11.73 - Cirkus Berserkus

Townes Van Zandt Fest - Cirkus Berserkus

Happy Birthday Townes Van Zandt! Here is a repost from the Cirkus including the full documentary ” Be Here To Love Me”. http://cirkusberserkus.ning.com/profiles/blogs/townes-van-zandt-fest

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Happy Birthday Townes Van Zandt! Here is a repost from the Cirkus including the full documentary ” Be Here To Love Me”.
http://cirkusberserkus.ning.com/profiles/blogs/townes-van-zandt-fest