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Tom Waits Trivia
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- He has said that Bob Dylan is his favorite songwriter and his main influence for intially getting into music. Ironically, Dylan's more recent work has been said to be comparable to Wait's music.
- He converted a 4 cubic yard metal box (intended as a debris dumpster) into a musical instrument called a "Strata Dumpster" (aka "Dumpstalele"). He cut a 2 foot hole into one side, and streched seven piano strings across it, fastening them with two welded bridges. The strings can be plucked, strummed or bowed. He describes the sound as "trainlike and huge, like trash day with a purpose."
- Close friends with the Coppola family including Nicolas Cage; often cast in Francis Ford Coppola movies.
- His grandmother, Olga Johnsen, was from Oslo, Norway.
- Shops at hardware stores for items to be used as percussion instruments.
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