Burma Shave - Tom Waits Cover Instrumental

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  • Опубліковано 10 лют 2007
  • "Burma Shave is an American shaving-cream company, like Colgate. They advertise on the side of the road and they have these limericks which are broken up into different signs like pieces of a fortune cookie. You drive for miles before you get the full message. "PLEASE DON'T"... five miles... "STICK YOUR ARM OUT SO FAR"... another five miles... "IT MIGHT GO HOME"... five more miles... "IN ANOTHER MAN'S CAR - BURMA SHAVE." They reel you in. So when I was a kid I'd see these signs on the side of the road - BURMA SHAVE, BURMA SHAVE - and I'm young and I think it's the name of a town and I ask my dad, "When we getting to Burma Shave?" So in the song I used Burma Shave as a dream, a mythical community, a place two people are trying to get to. They don't make it."
    (Tom Waits in Time Out magazine,interview by Richard Rayner. Date: New York, October 1985)

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  • @pparsow
    @pparsow 14 років тому

    oh man i have been a tom waits fan for years and that captured the beauty of his music ....great thanks so much!!!!!

  • @EpifanesEuergetes
    @EpifanesEuergetes 15 років тому +1

    Thanks for the info on the song. It is my favorite Tom Waits song from the albums that predate Swordfishtrombone.
    And your rendition is as infinitely sad as the original. Great job, Sir.

  • @tjburroughs
    @tjburroughs 12 років тому

    Wow, this was absolutely stunning. it was just so beautiful and haunting; not the 1st think that comes to mind when you hear ukulele. I just think this is amazing, I'm truly blown away.

  • @MrMadMurphy
    @MrMadMurphy 9 років тому

    Einfach toll, nichts kann mich mehr entspannen, mir helfen runter zu kommen und alles einfach mal zu vergessen als deine Instrumentalcover vom guten Tom.
    Einfach vielen Dank

    • @waitswatcher
      @waitswatcher  9 років тому

      Hey, freut mich, vielen Dank! Grüße von Pascal

  • @lunakarkadam
    @lunakarkadam 15 років тому

    Thank you for the story behind the song. It makes it even more powerful and strong.
    You play with your gut, it feels that way when I listen.
    ¡BRAVO!

  • @roaldski
    @roaldski 12 років тому

    Wow, the classical guitar gives it a spanish style and atmosphere, giving a whole new dimension to the melancoly in the already gloomy song :) I love it!

  • @gtchickadee1
    @gtchickadee1 16 років тому

    Just amazing! I can listen to your playing with hours...you take your audience to a diferent world!
    5 stars from me...

  • @BradCampbell63
    @BradCampbell63 17 років тому

    some nice groove happening...can just see him strutting and prancing...very nice...:)

  • @AllisonBurke
    @AllisonBurke 17 років тому

    *sigh* - absolutely lovely.

  • @KrisShred
    @KrisShred 17 років тому

    Wow, that was a beautiful one! Excellent as ever WW!
    .sirK

  • @notabando
    @notabando 16 років тому

    dude. beyond awesome.

  • @lenny121
    @lenny121 15 років тому

    awesome .. and thx for the interview bit under more info

  • @alauclair
    @alauclair 16 років тому

    your nothing short of fantastic

  • @booradleysstuntman
    @booradleysstuntman 17 років тому

    so nice, ww. i'm still randomly surfing through your backpages, trying to keep catch up with what i've missed on your channel. so don't mind me if i happen to comment on something from way back.
    this song was one of the high points on Foreign Affairs imho. you more than breathed new life into it.

  • @kd5txo
    @kd5txo 16 років тому

    Lovely arrangement. Aloha!

  • @afroula3
    @afroula3 12 років тому

    that was soooo good!!!!!!!

  • @indiafmlmay
    @indiafmlmay 11 років тому +2

    Beautiful, wow! Tutorial maybe?

  • @borzas
    @borzas 17 років тому

    GOOOOOD.

  • @lahaza6515
    @lahaza6515 Рік тому +1

    YOU just made my day & blew my mind.

  • @gtchickadee1
    @gtchickadee1 16 років тому

    You are very welcome :-)
    xxx

  • @kvetch23
    @kvetch23 16 років тому

    damn, your stuff is amazing.. so musicaly tight.. a lot of your videos are my favorite tom waits songs, which seem harder to find.. vocals?

  • @ELGROOVER
    @ELGROOVER 16 років тому

    Five minutes of gentle conptempl@ion...it's looking grim over there....wh@ are we to do? : |

  • @tjburroughs
    @tjburroughs 12 років тому

    Sorry, couple technical errors in that post. 1st think should be thing and it should be capitalized. You tube is one of the last big sites that doesn't automatically insert punctuation marks like apostraphes or capitalize the 1st letter of a new sentence.

  • @andrewguk5277
    @andrewguk5277 4 роки тому

    tabs please)))