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Nice one Gunnar. I been listening a lot to TW lately. Does he ever tour the UK?

He's played UK once in the last 19 years and that was in November 2004. He doesnt tour much since he hates the travelling bit I've heard.

Waits is a favorite of mine.

The point of the review seems to be either that (1) the show was good or that (2) the show wasn't good - I couldn't really tell because whoever wrote the thing was primarily concerned with showing off how smart he thinks he is. The point of the article could also be that Bob Dylan is good, because he writes about Bob Dylan almost as much as he writes about the Waits show he should be reviewing.

"Tom Waits offers a conformist version of what it meant to sound like Tom Waits"

huh?

"Bob Dylan is normative"

say what?


"Psoriatic dog"

Let me grab a dictionary.

The phrase that should have been included: pretentious @#$%& - I know that one.

The reviewer is an idiot, you can imagine how commercial it was, Tom barking Hoist that rag and Clap Hands, where do they find these guys........