Warren Zevon

 

Warren Zevon's music told stories that mixed culture high and low, that were pulp fiction yet strangely intimate, and that spoke to a world that was cynical yet surprising.  "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" was about mercenaries in Africa, "Werewolves of London" was about, well, werewolves, "Carmelita" was about heroin addiction.  No matter what he wrote about, he made those songs feel personal.

They were personal to other musicians, his friends and devotees such as Carl Wilson, J. D. Souther, Phil Everly, Bonnie Raitt, Lindsay Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Hunter Thompson and Tom McGuane: and they are personal to me.

I make a point to "enjoy every sandwich", and so should you.

Today's Warren Zevon freeloads, are two very different live shows from 1982 with a band, and ten years later, solo.

 

Warren Zevon Goes to Boston
The Metro, Boston, MA
September 29 or 30, 1982

 

 

Warren Zevon - piano
John Wood - guitar
Randy Brown - guitar
Larry Larson - bass
Joe Danield - drums

Warren Zevon (solo)
Festa de L'Unità
Modena, Italy
September 5, 1992

I don't have a cover or artwork for this one, it's from a CDR, a friend gave to me.

Set list:

1. Splendid Isolation
2. Lawyers, Guns And Money
3. Mr. Bad Example
4. Carmelita
5. Excitable Boy
6. Hasten Down The Wind
7. The French Inhaler
8. The Worrier King
9. Roland Chorale
10. Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner
11. Searching For A Heart
12. Boom Boom Mancini
13. Junglework
14. Piano Fighter
15. Werewolves of London
16. The Indifference of Heaven
17. Detox Mansion
18. Poor, Poor Pitiful Me
19. Summertime Blues
20. Play It All Night Long
21. Mohammed's Radio

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