“A blue schemer inawavy glass mirror”: Richards and Waits at the Wiltern Theatre, Hollywood, November 4, 2002
ALEXBERLINER/BEI/SHUTTERSTOCK
When I think about Keith, Iam reminded that the best songs come from the gutter..but it is a hell of aplace to fish when you have to sit on the curb What do you use for bait? apiece of red cloth will do or acandy wrapper Good songs jump right on your hook and the hook is in the song for good..Keith can grit his teeth and he can voice achord with his upper lip /// and when the night is winding down…..Keith sounds like an orchestra tuning up.. a blue schemer in awavy glass mirror, like partially melted chords left out in the sun too long..and if you listen to the chords that fall out of Keiths coat..it is like broadway out of focus..an electric powder blue fog bank with 100s of tunes inside, crying..They are like fish just dying to get down in the pan and start frying.
Feathers, finger nails scabs and scars /// some songs are written on the way to the studio in rented cars /// never confuse the amount of time it takes with the depth of the duende eh ?