Pirate Radio 13

06/16/2026

Happy 56th birthday, Workingman’s Dead!

06/16/2026

The Rain Dogs sessions were filled with guest musicians playing everything from accordions and banjos to marimbas, saxophones, bowed saws, and chests of drawers. “You can bang on anything,” Waits often explained. The arrival of Keith Richards into this chaotic ecosystem, however, still managed to make a big impression on Waits, leading to a friendship that would last for decades.

“[Keith] is part of the earth; an animal,” Waits told the LA Times after Rain Dogs‘ release. “I was expecting a big entourage like a Fellini movie, you know—people that don’t speak English, a lot of fur. And they just tumbled out of a limo. He comes in laughing, shoes all tore up.”

From here, Waits proceeds to describe the physicality of Keith Richards in the studio, doing so in the way Salvador Dali might have painted the same scene.

“[Keith] stands at 10 after 7, if you can imagine that,” Waits said. “Arms at 5 o’clock, legs at 2 o’clock, with no apparatus, nothing suspended. He’s all below the waist. And if he doesn’t feel it, he’ll walk away”.

“I was just flattered that he would come,” Waits added. “It’s kind of like a rite of passage or something.”

Keith Richards: “How do you write with Tom? You actually sit back and say, ‘That’s good, Tom! And that’s good, too!’ Then you throw in an idea here and there. It’s fun to watch him work, and he’s very relaxed about it. The sessions I do with him, it’ s just him and me. He has a unique angle on just about everything, and it’s refreshing to hang around with him and join in. We kick around every subject under the sun and then we get in front of the microphone and do something.

“Tom’s music is so American. Probably more folk-American than anything, but somehow modern. He’s a weird mixture of stuff; a great bunch of guys!

Sources: Far Out / Uncut
Photo: Alex Berliner/BEI

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Eric Idle and George Harrison on the set of Life of Brian 1978. 💬 ⬇️

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🌟RUSH🌟 Tour 2026
THEY HAVE FUN TOGETHER 😁

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The one where the deer terrorises a troop of Boy Scouts. Full story in the comments

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