Tom Waits
September 27, 1999
The Beacon Theatre
NYC

The most difficult pul of all is a Tom Waits show, and one in NYC at that. This is a great tape which came to me from James in Seattle back in 2000. He got it on cassettes and made the CDR conversion, so there is probably a better lineage than this out there. I boosted the levels by almost 150% and did a little retracking. waitswatcher lists 2 tapes of this show but he doesn't trade any more, so who knows if this is one of them?

Unfortunately every request I have ever filed for any of these NYC 99 tapes has resulted in nothing. I've emailed collectors and posted here on dime and all I've gotten is ignored. Clearly, trading is dead in favor of leeching, so leech it up baby!

:-|

stanclark put up a beautiful 9/23 a few years back, and it was snatched by every waits fan out there, so that one can be put up by someone else. I've never had a decent 9/24 and BOTH my sources for the 9/25 tape will not rip, so this is all I can provide from my favorite run of 99 shows.

To this day, this is still probably the best set of shows I've ever seen by any artist ever.

enjoy!

setlist and details:

black rider intro
jockey full of bourbon
jesus gonna be here
in the colosseum
jersey girl
get behind the mule (with john hammond)
chocolate jesus
down, down, down
hold on
eyeball kid
band intro jam
tango till they're sore
picture in a frame
cemetery polka
that feel
invitation to the blues
innocent when you dream
16 shells from a 30-ought 6
gun street girl (tape flip just after)
who are you
straight to the top
i'll shoot the moon
filipino box spring hog (cuts off applause after)

encore 1:
strange weather (with marc ribot and greg cohen)
heartattack and vine (with hammond, ribot & cohen)
fish in the jailhouse (cuts off applause after)

encore 2:
pony (cuts off applause after)

encore 3:
house where nobody lives (with marc ribot and greg cohen) (first few seconds cut)
take it with me

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total time 156:00

01 black rider intro 02:17
02 jockey full of bourbon 03:03
03 jesus gonna be here 04:17
04 in the colosseum 05:31
05 jersey girl 05:13
06 get behind the mule 07:46
07 chocolate jesus 05:17
08 down, down, down 05:46
09 hold on 06:55
10 eyeball kid 04:04
11 band intro jam 08:05
12 tango till they're sore 03:12
13 picture in a frame 05:38
14 cemetery polka 03:26
15 that feel 05:15
16 invitation to the blues 03:55
17 innocent when you dream 05:49
18 16 shells from a 30-ought 6 06:46
19 gun street girl 06:46
20 who are you 05:27
21 straight to the top 05:28
22 i'll shoot the moon 03:45
23 filipino box spring hog 10:43
24 strange weather 05:43
25 heartattack and vine 06:04
26 fish in the jailhouse 05:14
27 pony 05:16
28 house where nobody lives 04:55
29 take it with me 04:11

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note: since i don't really burn discs anymore, i haven't tracked this for discs. it runs through without breaks except for the places where the taper or trader cut applause (presumably to FIT on discs). if you want to, you can overburn by 9 seconds and start disc 2 with invitation to the blues. if you don't like that transition, because the intro would end up at the end of disc one, then i suggest adding fades to the end of invitation to the blues and the beginning of innocent when you dream and there you have it.

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