Got Waits?

[invisibo86]

Interesting degression. Was wondering if anyone else noticed this and maybe Dave can help me out. Steve Vai seems to be a HUGE Tom Waits fan. Before the show they played a bunch of songs off of Blood Money, and like 90% of the interviews I've read with Steve mention Waits in some way or another. Is Steve that big a fan? I mean I love the guy, and in some odd way it seems to fit, but hey...what y'all think of this connection?

[Mo Fo]

Yes! That was awesome. I noticed he played Swordfish Trombone album before the Cleveland show. Also King's X Dogman album and self-titled king's x album. I was in hog-heaven. That whole show was superb, including the opening music! A nice break from Back In Black for a change.

~Rob

[Drew]

Tom Waits owns. When Steve was taking about doing an album with guest vocalists, I had my fingers crossed that Waits would be on it - that'd be an INTERESTING fusion.

[YngwieReid]

Agreed, Tom Waits is definately the man. Drew actually got me into it with his (and personally favorite ) Mule Variations album.

haha, I can only imagine Steve Vai meets Tom Waits. I'd bet Vai would be more Zappa than himself.