Test 9 -

1) From which song is this line: "And it's more than a bad dream, now that I'm sober..."?

a) Innocent When You Dream
b) Drunk On The Moon
c) More Than Rain
d) Please Wake Me Up

2) Who was "Artie" as mentioned in the sub-title for Jitterbug Boy?

a) The doorman at the San Diego Heritage
b) The lighting man at the L.A. Troubadour
c) Waits' art teacher at high school
d) Waits' neighbor at the L.A. Tropicana

3) Which song mentions one Yodeling Elaine?

a) Circus
b) Filipino Box Spring Hog
c) Lucky Day Overture
d) Thousand Bing Bangs

4) When was the biography "Wild Years: The Music And Myth Of Tom Waits" released?

a) 2002
b) 1999
c) 2001
d) 2000

5) What year was the album Bone Machine released?

a) 1991
b) 1995
c) 1992
d) 1993

6) Where was Waits presented "a key of the city", when touring for Glitter and Doom (2008)?

a) Tulsa
b) Phoenix
c) El Paso
d) Washington

7) Which song quotes from a New York Times article?

a) Don't Go Into That Barn
b) Eyeball Kid
c) Small Change
d) Tabletop Joe

8) From which album is the song Jersey Girl?

a) Rain Dogs
b) Bone Machine
c) Blue Valentines
d) Heartattack And Vine

9) Why did Waits fly over to Buenos Aires/ Argentina in April 2007?

a) He wanted to see a soccer game
b) He was honoured with an award
c) For the filming of The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus
d) For recording his next album

10) What car is shown on the Blue Valentine back cover?

a) A Ford Thunderbird
b) A Buick Century
c) A Ford Mercury
d) A Buick Roadmaster

11) According to Chip White, what movie script did Waits know by heart in the late 1970's?

a) Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity
b) Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather
c) John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy
d) Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange

12) About how many live shows did Waits do during his Asylum years (1972-1982) ?

a) 1200
b) 300
b) 300
d) 800

13) Who is the author of the 2009 biography "Lowside Of The Road: A Life Of Tom Waits"?

a) Barney Hoskyns
b) David Smay
c) Patrick Humphries
d) Jay S. Jacobs

14) What are the origins of the song What Keeps Mankind Alive?

a) Georg Büchner's Woyzeck
b) Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz
c) Berthold Brecht's Threepenny Opera
d) Robert Wilson's Einstein On The Beach

15) In which movie did Waits play a limo driver?

a) Rumble Fish
b) Short Cuts
c) Paradise Alley
d) The Cotton Club

16) Who played: saxes, clarinets, horns on the Big Time album and movie?

a) Michael Blair
b) Francis Thumm
c) Ralph Carney
d) Herbert Hardesty

17) Who did Waits describe as: "a mensch, a liar, a monkey, and a pathological Vaudevillian..."?

a) Chuck E. Weiss
b) Herb Cohen
c) Jim Jarmusch
d) Harry Partch

18) Who was the bass player on the Glitter and Doom tour of 2008?

a) Larry Taylor
b) Seth Ford-Young
c) Greg Cohen
d) Omar Torrez

19) For which charity did Waits have his "oil spot photos" auctioned in 2007-2009?

a) Farm To Feast
b) Bridge School
c) Feeding America
d) War Child

20) Where was the Orphans cover artwork shot?

a) Red's Recovery Room, Cotati
b) Washoe House, San Francisco
c) China Light diner, Santa Rosa
d) Little Amsterdam restaurant, Petaluma

21) What kind of percussion instrument was used for God's Away On Business?

a) Brake drum
b) Bass marimba
c) African talking drum
d) Log drum

22) According to her 2006 bio, what relation did singer Jesca Hoop have with Waits?

a) She had sung with Waits in the 1980's
b) She had been nanny to Waits' kids
c) She and Waits went to the same high school
d) She had been personal assistent to Waits in the 1990's

23) Which song has not yet been released on record by Waits?

a) Little Trip to Heaven
b) It's Just The Way We Are Boys
c) Fish In The Jailhouse
d) Never Let Go

24) According to Waits in 2004, who affected him the most as an artist?

a) Jim Jarmusch
b) Bob Dylan
c) Robert Wilson
d) Roberto Benigni

25) Who directed the movie The Fisher King (1991)?

a) Robert Dornhelm
b) Francis Ford Coppola
c) Terry Gilliam
d) Sylvester Stallone

Tom Waits Library: Test 9