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Watch: Tom Waits Shares Video For ‘Hell Broke Luce’
The song features Keith Richards on guitar and Flea on bass, no less.

A video for Tom Waits’ ‘Hell Broke Luce’ has been posted online.
The song is taken from Waits’ recent album, ‘Bad As Me’, and features Keith Richards and Marc Ribot on guitar, Flea on bass, and Casey Waits on drums.
Tom says of the video ‘As most of you guessed, it’s a tour… a tour de force!
Matt Mahurin has created an apocalyptic war dream to accompany the song ‘Hell Broke Luce’. Kathleen and I envisioned it as an enlightened drill sergeant yelling the hard truths of war to a brand new batch of recruits. The video grew from the gnawing image of a soldier pulling his home, through a battlefield, at the end of a rope.
I think you will agree, it’s uplifting and fun.’
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