Tom Waits Concerts 1990s

1990

Dec. 30, '90 Center For The Performing Arts, San Jose/ USA. Tom Waits: vocals, piano, guitar, bullhorn. Jay Raoul Rowdy(?): accordion, keyboards. Greg Cohen: upright bass.Matt Brubeck: cello.Ralph Carney: various horns.Prairie Prince: percussion.

Dec. 31, '90 New Year's Eve concert at the Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco/ USA. (Voice problems on New Year's Eve). Tom Waits: vocals, piano, guitar, bullhorn.Ralph Carney: alto horns.Jay Raoul Rowdy(?): keyboards, accordion.Matt Brubeck: cello.Greg Cohen: upright bass.Prairie Prince: percussion, drums.

1991

Mar. 15/16, '91 Sunset Sound studios. Hollywood/ USA. Studio recordings with Teddy Edwards for Mississippi Lad (Little Man, I'm Not Your Fool Anymore)

1992

May 30, '92 Concert appearance for the LA Riot Benefit at the Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles/ USA. Tom Waits: vocals, piano, guitar, bullhorn. Larry Taylor: upright bass. Mitchell Froom: keyboards. Stephen Hodges: drums, percussion. Joe Gore: guitar. Band introduced before 'Red Shoes'. Chuck E. Weiss and the Goddamn Liars, Fishbone, and Los Lobos on 'Temptation'

Tom Waits (1993): "We played on a bill with Fishbone in L.A., and I was worried, that oh god, I'm gonna have to play for their audience and they're gonna have to play for mine, and I think they're two totally different audiences, because they have a mosh pit and the whole thing, they're hanging off the rafters. I was afraid to play on the bill with them, and I got there I met 'em and they were great. The show they did just changed me, it really changed me. It was so loud, it was so electric, it was just loaded. Really, it combed my hair and gave me a sunburn. They fly, yeah. That's when you realize that music, it does something physically to you. It can actually lift you and throw you around."

Sep. ??, '92 TV live performance and interview for the "Arsenio Hall show" (USA). Performs "Goin' Out West"

Nov. 03, '92 TV appearance for "Ronny Williams TV Show/ Germany Not verified

1993

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1995

1996

Feb. 04, '96 Concert appearance for the first Don Hyde Benefit at the Paramount Theatre. Oakland/ USA. Hyde, a personal friend, and owner of the Raven Theatre in Healdsburg was accused of trading LSD. The benefit was to help Don Hyde pay for his legal defense. Tom Waits: vocals, piano, bullhorn.Joe Gore: guitar, banjo and 'everything with strings'. Greg Cohen: upright bass, electric bass. Ralph Carney: horns.Kenny Wollesen: percussion.

Feb. 16, '96 Concert appearance (short acoustic set) for: "John Huston Award For Artists' Rights Foundation" honoring Martin Scorcese at the Century Plaza Hotel. Los Angeles/ USA

Mar. 12, '96 Luther Burbank Center. Santa Rosa/ USA. John Prine concert. Bonnie Raitt and Tom Waits joined for the encores.

Aug. 11, '96 Concert appearance for the second Don Hyde Benefit at the Raven Theatre. Healdsburg/ USA. (Storming Heaven). At this time accusations against Hyde were already dropped, but there were still more bills to pay. Tom Waits: vocals, piano, bullhorn.Ralph Carney: saxophone, horns (introduced before 'Tango Till They're Sore').Charlie Sexton (guitar) and Charlie Musselwhite (harp, harmonica)

1997

Jun. 21, '97 Concert appearance for the "Allen Ginsberg Tribute" at UCLA's Wadsworth Theatre. Los Angeles/ USA. Tom Waits solo: vocals, piano. Performing the Jack Kerouac song: "On The Road/ Home I'll Never Be"

1998

Mar. 29, '98 Concert appearance for the benefit: "Not In Our Name: Dead Man Walking, The Concert" at the Shrine Auditorium. Los Angeles/ USA. The event was sponsored by: "The Hope House" and "Murder Victim's Families For Reconciliation". Supported by: Helen Prejean. Tom Waits: vocals, piano, bullhorn.Stephen Hodges: drums.Smokey Hormel: guitar, banjo.Larry Taylor: bass.Ralph Carney: saxes.

Mar. 31, '98 Radio appearance for the final show for Chris Douridas' hosting of "Morning Becomes Eclectic". KCRW-FM,. Los Angeles/ USA. This show was heard over the internet at the KCRW web site Performs: Filipino Box Spring Hog, Fall Of Troy, I Can't Wait To Get Off Work.

1999

Mar. 20, '99 South by Southwest music conference (SXSW '99) "A late Evening With Tom Waits" at the Paramount Theatre. Austin/ USA. Tom Waits: vocals, piano, bullhorn.Smokey Hormel: guitar, banjo.Larry Taylor: bass.Stephen Hodges: drums.

Jay S. Jacobs (2000): "Waits's show was the event of the conference. It was one of the view live performances he'd given in over a decade and the first time he'd played Austin in over fifteen years. Tickets for it were like gold. Local fans, record execs, and journalists fought one another for them. Several people were caught trying to sneak in. Everyone knew it was going to be an amazing show. Taking the stage, Waits won over the crowd immediately, happily preaching to the converted. He played a strong and varied set, previewing the new album [Mule Variations] with "House Where Nobody Lives" and "Filipino Box Spring Hog," He threw in several tunes from his Island years and, to the delight of those assembled, dusted off the classic Elektra cuts "Tom Traubert's Blues" and "(Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night." The band was smoking, and Waits was visibly enjoying his rapport with the crowd. It's sad that such an event had to end on a sour note. Waits was obviously shaken when a woman started heckling him from the crowd, calling him a sellout for allowing so many music-biz types to snatch up tickets, effectively shutting out his "real, " nonprofessional fans. While it's highly unlikely that Waits had decreed how the tickets would be divided up, the woman's words seemed to sting him nonetheless. It might have been because the heckler wasn't completely off base. The days of intimate gigs played in smoky little bars to audiences of twenty or so were long over for Waits. He could no longer lead the life of the troubadour who passes through town and has a drink with the patrons after the show. It was the classic irony of the entertainment business reasserting itself. the more successful you are at connecting with your audience, the more that audience swells, the more isolated you become from it."

"The magic is so quickly followed by mayhem. The night after Tom Waits plays the Paramount Theatre, one of the all-time highlights of SXSW, his friend and sometime-promoter Don Hyde is savagely beaten by bouncers at La Zona Rosa. The bouncers were trying to clear out the crowd after Alejandro Escovedo's set, but when Hyde wants to go backstage to get his bag, there is some jostling, and push soon turns to punch, then to kicks in the side. Hyde suffers five broken ribs, a broken collarbone and a separated shoulder. Waits vows to never play Texas again and has stayed true to his word."

Apr. 01, '99 VH-1 recordings for the Storytellers' special. Burbank Airport. Los Angeles/ USA. With: Larry Taylor (upright bass), Smokey Hormel (guitar, banjo and percussion). The show aired May 23, 1999

Start tour promoting Mule Variations

June 1999 - May 2000

(album released: April, 1999)

Tom Waits: vocals, piano, guitar, bullhorn.Larry Taylor: upright bass, guitar.Smokey Hormel: guitar, banjo, mandolin.Danny McGough: keyboards.Andrew Borger: drums, marimba, percussion

Jun. 09, '99 Paramount Theatre. Oakland/ USA. Premiere for the Mule Variations tour (w. Taylor, Borger, Hormel, McGough).

Jun. 10, '99 Paramount Theatre. Oakland/ USA.

Jun. 12, '99	Wiltern Theatre. Los Angeles/ USA.

Jun. 13, '99	Wiltern Theatre. Los Angeles/ USA.

Jun. 14, '99	Wiltern Theatre. Los Angeles/ USA.

Jul. 13, '99	Cirkus. Stockholm/ Sweden. European premiere of the Mule Variations tour.

Jul. 14, '99	Cirkus. Stockholm/ Sweden.

Jul. 16, '99	Metropol Theatre. Berlin/ Germany.

Jul. 17, '99	Metropol Theatre. Berlin/ Germany.

Jul. 18, '99	Metropol Theatre. Berlin/ Germany.

Jul. 20, '99	Congres Centrum. The Hague/ The Netherlands.

Jul. 21, '99	Congres Centrum. The Hague/ The Netherlands. (Casey Waits guest appearance on drums for 'Big In Japan').

Jul. 23, '99	Teatro Comunale. Florence (Firenze)/ Italy.

Jul. 24, '99	Teatro Comunale., Florence (Firenze)/ Italy.

Jul. 25, '99	Teatro Comunale. Florence (Firenze)/ Italy

Aug. 23, '99	Hummingbird Centre. Toronto/ Canada.

Aug. 24, '99	Hummingbird Centre. Toronto/ Canada.

Aug. 26, '99	Chicago Theatre. Chicago/ USA.

Aug. 27, '99	Chicago Theatre. Chicago/ USA.

Aug. 29, '99	State Theatre. Minneapolis/ USA.

Aug. 30, '99	State Theatre. Minneapolis/ USA.

Sep. 19 - 21, '99	Orpheum Theatre. Boston/ USA.

Sep. 23 - 25, '99	Beacon Theatre. New York City/ USA.

Sep. 27, '99	Beacon Theatre. New York City/ USA.

Sep. 27, '99	While in New York for the Beacon concerts, Waits appears on the "CBS Late Show with David Letterman". New York/ USA. Performs: Chocolate Jesus

Oct. 12, '99	Paramount Theatre. Denver/ USA.

Oct. 13, '99	Paramount Theatre. Denver/ USA.

Oct. 13, '99	Radio appearance (interview) for "KBCO radio/ Studio-C with Bret Saunders". Boulder/ USA. Performs: Picture In A Frame, Fall Of Troy, Can't Wait To Get Off Work, Jesus Blood Never Failed Me.

Oct. 15, '99	Hult Center. Eugene/ USA

Oct. 17, '99	Orpheum Theatre. Vancouver/ Canada

Oct. 18, '99	5th Avenue Theatre. Seattle/ USA. Band introduced during 'I'll Shoot The Moon'	Ticket as shown below.

Oct. 19, '99	Interview for KMTT radio "The Mountain Music Lounge" Seattle/ USA. Performs: Hold On, Picture In A Frame

Oct. 19, '99	5th Avenue Theatre. Seattle/ USA.

Oct. 30, '99	Annual Bridge School benefit (Neil Young's Charity) at the Shoreline Amphitheatre. Mountain View/ USA