Durante
as gravações para o disco Don’t Tell A
Soul de 1989, os Replacements tiveram a presença ilustre de Tom Waits nos
estúdios. Regados de muito Jack Daniel’s, os caras gravaram algumas faixas que
acabaram infelizmente descartadas. No box lançado no ano passado pela banda, Dead Man’s Pop, enfim as gravações viram
a luz do dia. Abaixo você confere um trecho da biografia dos Replacements escrita
por Bob Mehr, “Trouble Boys”, em que ele narra esse encontro e o som gravado por
Westerberg e companhia e Waits.
The band got together with Waits and his
wife and collaborator Kathleen Brennan at the Formosa Café in West Hollywood.
Though Waits and Westerberg could both be shy in such situations, they hit it
off grandly. Waits was particularly enamored of [guitarist Slim] Dunlap, who
seemed like a character straight out of one of his own songs.
The band invited Waits back to Cherokee
to hear their new tracks. “Waits’ wife was with him, and he was being really
mild-mannered,” recalled Matt Wallace [producer of Don’t Tell a Soul]. “And the
band is drinking a lot, of course.” Around midnight, Brennan got tired and
taxied home. The moment she left Waits reached for a bottle of Jack Daniel’s
and began chugging. “And he just turned into Tom Waits,” said Wallace. “It was
like Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde.”
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