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...
Re: Warren Zevon
Posted: Thu January 03, 2013 4:32 am
by Kevin Davis
"Desperadoes Under the Eaves" is a wonderful song.
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."
Re: Warren Zevon
Posted: Fri January 04, 2013 10:51 pm
by 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.
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
Re: Warren Zevon
Posted: Mon August 31, 2020 8:01 pm
by 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
Re: Warren Zevon
Posted: Tue September 01, 2020 12:31 am
by oasisfan35
Simple Torture wrote: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.
Re: Warren Zevon
Posted: Tue September 01, 2020 6:43 am
by LetMeSleep
Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
Accidentally Like a Martyr
The Rosarita Beach Café
are 3 other favourites and must hears.
Re: Warren Zevon
Posted: Tue September 01, 2020 5:38 pm
by 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!
Re: Warren Zevon
Posted: Tue September 01, 2020 7:11 pm
by oasisfan35
Strat wrote: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.
Re: Warren Zevon
Posted: Sat September 05, 2020 2:07 am
by verb_to_trust
Nobody has mentioned Splendid Isolation yet? The Learning to Flinch live version feels like the song of the summer to me.
Re: Warren Zevon
Posted: Tue November 29, 2022 8:43 pm
by 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"
