Warren Zevon performs Porcelain Monkey on David Letterman 2000. For the record, Jann Wenner is a dick who's keeping WZ out of the HOF for personal reasons
As a Elvis Presley fan, I can honestly say Warren is the only person on earth to make me love a song that is a darkly comic lament to Elvis' final years. It's sort of a "It's sad, but he did it to himself."
Agreed. I think some fault deservedly lies with his doctors and other close acquaintances, but at least we got the "regicidal friends" line. Truly one of the best lines I have ever heard in a song.
Saw Warren 3 times...the best in MHO was Symphony Hall in Syracuse NY. After the show I went to the Zevon message board to say I was there. One of the members said, "would u like a copy of the show?". Next week I had a sound board copy of the show.
One of my favorites from "Life'll Kill Ya". Thanks for the live version! A Zevon fan from a ways back, I saw him live at the Tower Theatre in 89 touring "Transverse City", and at the Theatre of the Living Arts in 2000 touring "Life'll Kill Ya" acoustically, both venues in Philadelphia. What great shows they were, and I'm very glad I got to see Warren playing for the last time in Philly. This guy was one of a kind indeed.
This is an another awesome song from "Life Will Kill You". About Elvis Presley and his reclusiveness that probably led to his death. A prophesy. What a story teller Zevon was.
Talk about savage, rotten injustice...I passed a newsstand today and saw a Time Magazine Special Edition on Elvis Presley. Made me want to gag. People are STILL touting that ...man, while a genuine poet/musician/composer like Warren Zevon goes largely neglected and underappreciated. Did Presley write nearly all his own songs? Play practically every instrument known to man? Produce ANY of his albums? No. He sat in his antebellum-style mansion, hiding from the world, eating himself into a human-shaped blimp, and face-planted himself in his loo for his final Farewell. The "King" of Rock 'n' Roll, indeed. Warren Zevon spent some of the few precious months he had left on earth, writing songs, recording one last amazing gift for a world which, by and large, did not remotely deserve him. O ye gods! And they're STILL kissing Elvis' ass in print! It makes you despair....
+Jiggs111 Thank you, Sir. I did. I apologize if I was over-the-top, truly, but I find it a poor habit for Society to get into: lionising celebrities who, when all is said and done, leave such a sad, pathetic last memory, as Elvis did for the millions of his fans worldwide, whose adulation of him made him wealthier than God. Warren might have been a wild child, yes, but in the end, he faced an agonizing death with courage and dignity. If I offended anyone, I apologise. But the fact is, all EP's legacy is about is what it always was: money. Money. Money.
+ThermoNuclear GR Thank you. I met Warren face-to-face in 1996. He left that bookstore with a handful of books. I left it with my soul full of wonder, ready to grab a cutlass and fight to the end alongside The Mutineer. Nothing's changed... .
It's funny because I was born in 1996 and I hadn't got the chance to enjoy Warren while he was still alive.And to be honest californication brought me to his music.But Warren managed to get under my skin briskly through his music.And when I learned his story I was really torn because such talent left the earth with little acknowledgment.I hope his soul have found piece,he's a real inspiration and made me reconsider few things about life through his music.
Paul Shaffer & Zevon were good friends. Zevon stood in for Shaffer when he was sick. In his last performance, Schaffer, sort of 'rocks out' for 'Roland ... Gunner' b/c Zevon's range is about 6 notes & his voice is week. I suspect you can look it all up.
