{The Balck Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets}
Back In ‘89 Tom Waits got together with avant-garde director Robert Wilson and legendary Beat writer William S. Burroughs to create a new theater piece, The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets.
The three of them began to re-work an old German folk tale about the Black Rider, in which a young marksman encounters a devilish stranger whose magic bullets improve his hunting prowess in superhuman ways.
Tickets for the production range from $25-$95 and are still available for the Ahmanson Theater, however the show sold out in London, Sydney and San Francisco.
Read more on The Black Rider (plus a Q & A with Tom Waits from the Orange County Register)
Tom Waits - "How's it Gonna End?" (Mp3 courtesy of Anti, from the album Real Gone)
This was the Beat giant’s first audio release, recorded at the famed English Bookshop in Paris in 1965. It features Burroughs slipping in and out of many oddball characters, have a listen...
William S. Burroughs - "Bradley the Buyer"
William S. Burroughs - "The Fish Poison Con"
Purchase Call Me Burroughs here.