Tom Waits and The Kronos Quartet - Full Concert (High Quality Audio) With Fan Footage

Full Concert of Tom Waits and the Kronos Quartet combining all the released high quality audio and footage to create a complete concert. The audio and footage is a combination of his performances with the Kronos Quartet at the Bridge School Benefit Concerts in 2007 and audio from the Healing the Divide album from 2003. The Bridge School Benefit Concerts were all professionally filmed and will be released some day in the next few years from the Neil Young Archives. “Mr. Waits was the welcome, indecorous oddball in what had been a concert of richly meditative music. Playing to a hall with many Buddhists, Mr. Waits started his miniset singing about Jesus and Satan. ’’Gotta help me keep the Devil way down in the hole,’’ he sang in his slurred growl. In a concert filled with genre-straddling collaborations, Mr. Waits was accompanied by the Kronos String Quartet and Greg Cohen on bass. The quartet arrangements worked ingenious variations on Mr. Waits’s waltzes and hymnlike tunes, skewing the oom-pah-pah to various places around the beat and applying dissonances that brought out Mr. Waits’s Kurt Weill connections. The quartet was most effective in ’’What’s He Building?,’’ a paranoid recitation that the quartet accompanied with eerie atonal creaks and scrapes. Mr. Waits’s set moved through songs about death, greed, loss, love and finally faith and hope. ’’Always keep a diamond in your mind,’’ he sang.“ - New York Times MUSIC REVIEW; Star Starts a Show; Tom Waits Ends It By Jon Pareles Sept. 23, 2003 Setlist: 0:00 1 - TEMPTATION: Way Down In The Hole 4:00 2 - LOSS: Cold, Cold Ground 8:35 3 - DESPAIR: God’s Away On Business 11:33 4 - GREED: What Keeps Mankind Alive? 14:02 5 - DIVORCE: The Part You Throw Away 18:25 6 - PARANOIA: What’s He Building In There? 23:12 7 - FATE: Lost In The Harbor 27:18 8 - HOPE: Always Keep A Diamond In Your Mind Contact me if you have any concerns, no copyright infringement intended.