Warren Zevon

[oasisfan35]

BF: Did you know Zevon?

Bob Dylan: Not very well.

BF: What did you like about him?

Bob Dylan: "Lawyers, Guns and Money." "Boom Boom Mancini." Down hard stuff. "Join me in L.A." sort of straddles the line between heartfelt and primeval. His musical patterns are all over the place, probably because he's classically trained. There might be three separate songs within a Zevon song, but they're all effortlessly connected. Zevon was a musician's musician, a tortured one. "Desperado Under the Eaves." It's all in there.

Just flipped on Keep Me In Your Heart tremendous tune forever...

[Kevin Davis]

"Desperadoes Under the Eaves" is a wonderful song.

[oasisfan35]

David Duchovny on Californication Season 6

Is there a rock star that Hank is modeled after?
When we were beginning the show I got into Warren Zevon at the time. Lyrically and in terms of consciousness and attitude, I thought Zevon was really close to what I wanted Hank to be, and Zevon wrote a lot about California and really understood Hank's love-hate with California. So Zevon's always been my musical touchstone for Hank's rock & roll alter ego.

What three Zevon songs would you recommend to people as an introduction to his music?
"Desperados Under the Eaves," "Mohammed's Radio" and "Genius." I think every list has to have "Desperados Under the Eaves."

[super nintendo chalmers]

Our previous Neil Young covers post featured none other than Bob Dylan tackling “Old Man,” so I thought I’d share the entire comp from which that curiosity came. Just A Song & Dance Man collects the weird/wonderful covers Dylan performed live during the weird/wonderful year of 2002. It starts off predictably enough, with a handful of folk/gospel/country numbers — the sort of stuff that’s been Bob’s bread and butter during the Neverending Tour days. But then things start to get strange. There are no less than four Warren Zevon tunes (it had just been announced that Zevon was dying of cancer), including a wrenching rendition of “Mutineer.” There’s the Rolling Stones’ “Brown Sugar” — Bob’s joking attempt at sounding “like a Rolling Stone”? There’s a poignant reading of Van Morrison’s “Carrying A Torch.” Oddest of all, Bob and his band play Don Henley’s “End of the Innocence,” perhaps giving some in the audience hope that Henley, too, had been diagnosed with terminal cancer (kidding, Don, love ya, never change!). Finally, there’s a touching tribute to the then-recently deceased George Harrison, as Dylan sings his heart out on “Something.” All in all, it makes for a fun, unpredictable listen.

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[oasisfan35]

[oasisfan35]

Got Veracruz stuck in my head due to a conversation yesterday and decided to queue up some Zevon today. The last three albums taken as a bit of a whole, with his terminal cancer diagnosis at the center, is an interesting document of a fascinating (to me) individual.

Also been listening to a lot of live Springsteen lately as well and I adore his cover of My Ride's Here

[Simple Torture]

I feel like I've barely scratched the surface with WZ, but I never feel bad about it, because I always feel like there's something there waiting for me to discover it.

When the lights came up at two, I caught a glimpse of you
And your face looked like something Death brought with him in his suitcase

[oasisfan35]

I feel like I've barely scratched the surface with WZ, but I never feel bad about it, because I always feel like there's something there waiting for me to discover it.

When the lights came up at two, I caught a glimpse of you
And your face looked like something Death brought with him in his suitcase

I hesitate to say he was prolific in his output from '76 to '03 but he was pretty consistent over that span in releasing albums, notable for his struggles with label support given his tribulations. I've absorbed his catalog pretty well so it really feels sparse to me at times and I do still look at Preludes as a bit of a gift but even that was thirteen years ago.

[LetMeSleep]

Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
Accidentally Like a Martyr
The Rosarita Beach Café

are 3 other favourites and must hears.

[Strat]

I grew a much deeper appreciation for Zevon, and this song in particular, after staying up til the wee hours in the morning in Spain laughing my ass off/watching in awe with my GF and her father drunk on rose and scotch. What a performance!

[oasisfan35]

I grew a much deeper appreciation for Zevon, and this song in particular, after staying up til the wee hours in the morning in Spain laughing my ass off/watching in awe with my GF and her father drunk on rose and scotch. What a performance!

That's a good one back when MTV had music, Poor, Poor Pitiful Me going in to Cadillac Ranch after some Jersey call-outs is always fun.

[verb_to_trust]

Nobody has mentioned Splendid Isolation yet? The Learning to Flinch live version feels like the song of the summer to me.

[oasisfan35]

Listening to some Zevon over the long weekend and was again taking note of one hell of a personnel list for Sentimental Hygiene:

Warren Zevon – acoustic guitar, bass guitar, guitar, piano, keyboards, emulator, vocals
Bill Berry – drums
Peter Buck – guitar
Mike Mills – bass guitar
Jorge Calderón – bass guitar on "Sentimental Hygiene"; harmony on "Detox Mansion"
Mike Campbell – guitar on "Reconsider Me"
Darius Degher – sitar on "Bad Karma"
Bob Dylan – harmonica on "The Factory"
Amp Fiddler – keyboards on "Leave My Monkey Alone"
Flea – bass guitar on "Leave My Monkey Alone"
Don Henley – harmony on "Trouble Waiting to Happen"
DeWayne "Blackbyrd" McKnight – guitar on "Leave My Monkey Alone"
Craig Krampf – drums on "Reconsider Me" and "Leave My Monkey Alone"
Tony Levin – bass guitar on "Reconsider Me"
David Lindley – lap steel guitar on "Detox Mansion", bowed saz on "Bad Karma"
Stan Lynch – harmony on "Bad Karma"
Rick Richards – guitar on "Even a Dog Can Shake Hands"
Brian Setzer – lead guitar on "Trouble Waiting to Happen"
Leland Sklar – bass guitar on "The Heartache"
Michael Stipe – harmony on "Bad Karma"
Waddy Wachtel – acoustic guitar on "Sentimental Hygiene", "Reconsider Me" and "The Heartache"
Jennifer Warnes – harmony on "The Heartache"
Jai Winding – keyboards on "Reconsider Me"
Neil Young – lead guitar on "Sentimental Hygiene"
Will Alexander, Brian Bell – computer programming on "Leave My Monkey Alone"

[Malloy]

i was in a zevon phase for most of october

[oasisfan35]

I'm not crying you're crying, goddamnit!