RETRO: Tom Waits on Fernwood Tonight

Posted August 21st, 2007 by eric

Tom Waits’ van broke down on tour in 1977, so he dropped by Fernwood Tonight to sing “The Piano Has Been Drinking.” An deliberately awkward interview by Martin Mull and Fred Willard follows, and Waits is full of gold as usual: “I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”

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