Claim: The band would not rehearse Rain Dogs (written by Tom Waits, born December 7, 1949) before recording, and it wasn't a mechanical kind of recording.
Evidence: Rain Dogs is the ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits, released in September 1985 on Island Records. Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, composer, and actor. Ribot also recalls how the band would not rehearse the songs before going to record; rather, Waits would play them the songs on an acoustic guitar in the studio. It wasn't a mechanical kind of recording at all.