This is more Zevon joy! Live on Dave from 11/8, here he is doing LG&M PLUS the song "Trouble" PLUS a short interview. Again, I do not own this but want to share his music with the world.
What a brilliant dark sense of humor - "caught the crew making a suicide pact". Had the chance to meet him near the end of his life at the hospital and he was asked if he needed more pain meds, he quipped, "no, but i'll take it to go" . Still ahead of his time!
You can tell from Zevon's lyrics that he would have been a kickass detective fiction writer. His quirky, evocative lines just shimmer, (tough guys, easy women, fast dangerous car rides..wow) the images are all there in the music...
I saw this tour when it played an intimate basement club in S.E. Portland, sitting just spitting distance from three of my musical heroes: Warren on piano, Timothy B. Schmit of Poco and The Eagles on bass and backing vocals and Dan Dugmore from Linda Ronstadt's band on guitar. That night Zevon performed the most outrageous song segue ever, going from an audience-confounding cover of the Tom Jones hit "What's New Pussycat?" to his own iconic anthem "Lawyers Guns and Money." Mad as a Hatter!
Saw that to in St. Louis & after the two encores we kept chanting "Warren" over & over once the lights went up & almost ten minutes later he popped out, did Mohamed's Radio😎😎😎 He hi fived me TOO😎😎😳😍😜😎😎
A lot of people always forget the impact Warren's songs had on everyone. Sometimes shocking, sometimes controversial, but always tinged with a little dark humor just so we can laugh at ourselves. A true American composer that will be missed.
If nothing else, I'd love David just for his love of music & his musical tastes. I miss Warren & will always miss him. My favorite Warren memory is when I took my sis to see Warren Zevon in the early 90's. She didn't know who he was. I sat next to a guy who had his ears stuffed with cotton balls. I asked the guy if he had ear problems. He said "No. I always have to do this for heavy metal concerts." He was serious! Warren played the piano for most of the night and I still laugh today. Great post
I remember seeing him at the Party on the patio in Houston Texas. At the end of the great music concert. He said " No more encores my ride is here". He knew that he was dying then. He was on David Letterman talking about the names of his last 3 albums. Life will kill you. ☮️💜🇺🇸
The World's most Dangerous Band!!! I still remember that from being a very young child and watching this with my dad. CBS Orchestra is a lame ass name. And of course, Zevon forever!
I love this so much! Even beyond this great performance, I think of the storied connection that he had with everyone at Letterman. I was just reminded of it while watching a recent video on the official Letterman YT channel. The rabbit hole lead to many places. This is one of them, haha. Thank you for posting this (14 years ago)!
My Golden God of Music, Legend...my ONLY Deity...you are still very much ALIVE, Irreplaceable One... You LIVE FOREVER, MR. Bad Example...for, as everyone knows, Gods and Legends NEVER DIE....and YOU ARE BOTH!!! Thank you, for BEING YOU....
Only saw him a handful of times. But one particular solo acoustic/electric set will stay burned in the best part of my memory banks eternally. The music never dies; it goes on....
@toadbeacon If you're still looking, his first "real" album (the one titled Warren Zevon) has an amazing collection of song--"Poor Pitiful Me," "The French Inhaler," "Carmelita," and "Desperados Under the Eaves" are standouts, but they're all great. The last has one of my favorite couplets from any song: If California slides into the ocean like the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this hotel will be standing until I pay my bill.
