Bunch of folks in the donewaiting.com message board were at the Tom Waits shows in Cleveland and Akron the other day. Some funny stuff found in the thread including:
With all the yelling, the desperate “notice me” cries directed toward the stage, the singing along with key lines as if to say “TOM, I GET IT!” (why else applaud a lyric reference to Little Anthony & The Imperials in a song?), I can only say that die-hard Tom Waits fans are as annoying as any. Apparently, the need to “WHHHHOOOO-HOOOOOO!!!!” transcends all.
Read more (and add your own input) over here.
Wasn’t at Akron/Cleveland, but I did catch him in Louisville:
http://thejtrain.typepad.com/the_j_train/2006/08/review_tom_wait.html
Cleveland was legendary. I am still reeling from it.
b.s.