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Warren Zevon: died this morning
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Dr. Bill Kobb
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Very sad. He was great. I had heard that he had some form of incurable cancer. He just released another album, too. It's kinda cool that he went on creating right up to the end. He will be missed.
"Send lawyers, guns, and money...Ma get me out of here!"--Warren Zevon
"Send lawyers, guns, and money...Ma get me out of here!"--Warren Zevon
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Although probably known best for "Werewolves of London", my favorite Zevon song (and there are many) was "Gorilla You're a Desperado"...about a gorilla who escapes the zoo by locking a yuppie in his cage and moving into his apartment; only to wind up divorced and depressed anyway. Great stuff. Warren had some inspiration on me when I wrote some of my more off-the-wall comedic tickling stories.
Warren, if you're sitting at the Big Trader Vic's in the Sky and see the guy with the pina colada and perfect hair...tell him I said Hi.
Warren, if you're sitting at the Big Trader Vic's in the Sky and see the guy with the pina colada and perfect hair...tell him I said Hi.
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Warren Zevon had some very funny songs..."Excitable Boy" was a good one.
Sorry to see him go. He used to play the Stone Pony now and again...
Sorry to see him go. He used to play the Stone Pony now and again...
I knew this was gonna happen soon after seing stuff about his final LP and that he has so much time to live. He will be missed and he was a great artist. "Send lawyers,guns and money, the shit has hit the fan"..one of his best lines of all time in my oppinon. That whole LP was great!
DJ Jimmy M
DJ Jimmy M
From the Arizona Republic today....
"A writer who often invoked the specter of death in such songs as Werewolves of London, Excitable Boy and Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner, Zevon seemed at peace with his impending passing when he filmed a recent special for VH1.
Given three months to live in August 2002, Zevon spoke of delaying much of his treatment to keep a clear mind to finish his The Wind album and surviving to see the birth of twin grandsons to his daughter, Ariel. He accomplished both goals, with the album released Aug. 26 to critical acclaim and his grandchildren born in June. The twice-divorced Zevon also is survived by a son, Jordan.
The respect that Zevon, who lived in Phoenix as a boy, earned throughout the music industry was evident by the parade of heavyweights who came into the studio to help him pen his musical farewell. Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Jackson Browne, Ry Cooder and the Eagles' Don Henley and Timothy B. Schmit were among them.
Another touching tribute came from Bob Dylan, who performed Zevon's bittersweet Accidentally Like a Martyr at last year's Arizona State Fair and other 2002 concerts.
During The Wind recording session, which wrapped up with a weakened Zevon singing the title cut on his couch at his Los Angeles home, the singer explained why he had dived into the album at the expense of medical treatment.
"Right now, it's the best way I can think of to say goodbye to my friends," he told VH1.
Those friends included writer Dave Barry and TV host David Letterman, two humorists no doubt drawn to Zevon's sardonic, offbeat look at subjects such as death, substance abuse, rock stardom and life in general. He named a 2000 album Life'll Kill Ya, and a 2002 greatest-hits package cover featured a skull smoking a cigarette.
Interviewed by The Republic in 2000 before a concert at Alice Cooper'stown in Phoenix, Zevon joked about getting older: "I feel wretched, but that's not the point. I've had kids all my adult life . . . so I'm used to the idea of getting older."
Life'll Kill Ya and 2002's My Ride's Here (the "ride" referring to a hearse) dealt with mortality, although Zevon had not received his fatal diagnosis.
"I noticed that when I turned 50, everyone I talked to who was my age, it was the first and almost only thing they wanted to talk about," Zevon told The Republic in 2000.
Zevon, born in Chicago to Russian immigrants, refused to surrender to aging and mortality, penning the ultimate kiss-off to the grim reaper, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, in 1976.
The singer, pianist and guitarist tempted fate in the '70s and '80s, abusing alcohol and drugs and taking himself to task in such songs as the title cut to his 1991 Mr. Bad Example album: "I'm well acquainted with the seven deadly sins / I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in."
Zevon claimed that alcohol clouded his memory of recording 1980's Stand In the Fire, one of rock's best concert discs, featuring such hits as Lawyers, Guns and Money and Jeannie Needs a Shooter.
Although he finally underwent successful rehab in 1980, he couldn't resist poking fun at drying-out celebrities in 1987 Detox Mansion, with images of Liza Minnelli and Elizabeth Taylor doing yardwork as part of their recovery.
But Zevon also has a more sensitive side, penning Hasten Down the Wind, which was a hit for Linda Ronstadt in 1976, and Reconsider Me. That plea for romantic reconciliation was recorded by Stevie Nicks, and the Scottsdale resident joined Zevon at Anderson's Fifth Estate in the mid-'80s to perform the song.
Zevon's defiant, rabble-rousing personality will remain a fond memory for many fans. They'll feel no pity for a man who sang in 1982's Looking for the Next Best Thing: "I worked hard for the money, did my best to please / I used to think it was funny, til I realized it was all a tease."
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"A writer who often invoked the specter of death in such songs as Werewolves of London, Excitable Boy and Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner, Zevon seemed at peace with his impending passing when he filmed a recent special for VH1.
Given three months to live in August 2002, Zevon spoke of delaying much of his treatment to keep a clear mind to finish his The Wind album and surviving to see the birth of twin grandsons to his daughter, Ariel. He accomplished both goals, with the album released Aug. 26 to critical acclaim and his grandchildren born in June. The twice-divorced Zevon also is survived by a son, Jordan.
The respect that Zevon, who lived in Phoenix as a boy, earned throughout the music industry was evident by the parade of heavyweights who came into the studio to help him pen his musical farewell. Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Jackson Browne, Ry Cooder and the Eagles' Don Henley and Timothy B. Schmit were among them.
Another touching tribute came from Bob Dylan, who performed Zevon's bittersweet Accidentally Like a Martyr at last year's Arizona State Fair and other 2002 concerts.
During The Wind recording session, which wrapped up with a weakened Zevon singing the title cut on his couch at his Los Angeles home, the singer explained why he had dived into the album at the expense of medical treatment.
"Right now, it's the best way I can think of to say goodbye to my friends," he told VH1.
Those friends included writer Dave Barry and TV host David Letterman, two humorists no doubt drawn to Zevon's sardonic, offbeat look at subjects such as death, substance abuse, rock stardom and life in general. He named a 2000 album Life'll Kill Ya, and a 2002 greatest-hits package cover featured a skull smoking a cigarette.
Interviewed by The Republic in 2000 before a concert at Alice Cooper'stown in Phoenix, Zevon joked about getting older: "I feel wretched, but that's not the point. I've had kids all my adult life . . . so I'm used to the idea of getting older."
Life'll Kill Ya and 2002's My Ride's Here (the "ride" referring to a hearse) dealt with mortality, although Zevon had not received his fatal diagnosis.
"I noticed that when I turned 50, everyone I talked to who was my age, it was the first and almost only thing they wanted to talk about," Zevon told The Republic in 2000.
Zevon, born in Chicago to Russian immigrants, refused to surrender to aging and mortality, penning the ultimate kiss-off to the grim reaper, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, in 1976.
The singer, pianist and guitarist tempted fate in the '70s and '80s, abusing alcohol and drugs and taking himself to task in such songs as the title cut to his 1991 Mr. Bad Example album: "I'm well acquainted with the seven deadly sins / I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in."
Zevon claimed that alcohol clouded his memory of recording 1980's Stand In the Fire, one of rock's best concert discs, featuring such hits as Lawyers, Guns and Money and Jeannie Needs a Shooter.
Although he finally underwent successful rehab in 1980, he couldn't resist poking fun at drying-out celebrities in 1987 Detox Mansion, with images of Liza Minnelli and Elizabeth Taylor doing yardwork as part of their recovery.
But Zevon also has a more sensitive side, penning Hasten Down the Wind, which was a hit for Linda Ronstadt in 1976, and Reconsider Me. That plea for romantic reconciliation was recorded by Stevie Nicks, and the Scottsdale resident joined Zevon at Anderson's Fifth Estate in the mid-'80s to perform the song.
Zevon's defiant, rabble-rousing personality will remain a fond memory for many fans. They'll feel no pity for a man who sang in 1982's Looking for the Next Best Thing: "I worked hard for the money, did my best to please / I used to think it was funny, til I realized it was all a tease."
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I knew this was going to happen after readin it in Time. Darn shame, his songs were excellent and unique.
"I'll sleep when I'm dead." I guess he'll finally be able to. We'll miss you.🙁
"I'll sleep when I'm dead." I guess he'll finally be able to. We'll miss you.🙁
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At least he lived long enough to see the last Bond film. I read that he was hoping for that. I'm going to watch Letterman and see if he mentions anything about this. He loved Zevon.
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I too will miss his music. Rest in peace Warren.
"...Excitable boy they all said..."
TTD😎
"...Excitable boy they all said..."
TTD😎
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I wish more musicians, especially these newer crybaby metal bands, had Warren Zevon's bizzare sense of humor. He had quite a variety of songs. Two that come to mind are "Play It All Night Long", which sounds like an ode to Lynyrd Skynyrd. The other is his cover of "Raspberry Beret", which he covered on the project he did with members of REM called The Hindu Love Gods.
R.I.P. Warren
Drew
R.I.P. Warren
Drew
Knox The Hatter
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Right, Drew. Back then, everyone had a sense of humor, and you associate certain songs and certain acts with good times: summer days at the arcades on the boardwalk, or joy riding with your friends in the beat up Buick Skylark you scrimped and saved to buy from a used car lot, just riding along at night on the interstate, no place to go, no bills to pay, Tom Petty or Bryan Adams on the radio, or whoever...just being with your friends.
Today, they're all overly concerned with taking their supposedly miserable, dysfunctional childhoods and blaming YOU for it, and smacking you in the head with it. Hey, someone's gotta pay for growing up in that $300,000 house that the parents couldn't afford to furnish, right? Man. Good reason to commit suicide, isn't it?
These kids today can't have fun without attempting to destroy themselves. And there's something wrong with that.
Today, they're all overly concerned with taking their supposedly miserable, dysfunctional childhoods and blaming YOU for it, and smacking you in the head with it. Hey, someone's gotta pay for growing up in that $300,000 house that the parents couldn't afford to furnish, right? Man. Good reason to commit suicide, isn't it?
These kids today can't have fun without attempting to destroy themselves. And there's something wrong with that.
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Exactly, Knox!
Except in my case it was a Buick Regal and listening to Tom Petty and ZZ-Top.
Other than that, you're right on the money.😎 😎 😎
Drew
Except in my case it was a Buick Regal and listening to Tom Petty and ZZ-Top.
Other than that, you're right on the money.😎 😎 😎
Drew
"so if you make your pilgramage, I hope you find your grail. Be loyal to the ones you leave with even if you fail. Be chivalrous to strangers you meet along that road. And take that holy ride yourselves to know" WZ 2000
RIP Warren. I hope you found your grail.
Ed
RIP Warren. I hope you found your grail.
Ed
