Zevon fans from TZG

Welcome to the board, Snake. Your Glock opinion won't meet with too much oposition here.
Yes, I am a Zevon fan. I still haven't decided which is my favorite song, though:
Werewolves of London
Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
Lawyers, Guns, and Money
Nightime in the Swithing Yard

Roland THTG
Lawyers, Guns & Money
Accidentally Like a Martyr
Veracruz
OK, all of the Excitable Boy album.
The Envoy
Desperadoes Under the Eaves
Mohammed's Radio

Sounds like you have pretty much everything available on CD except MBE, which is sort of rare these days. Envoy and SITF have never been on CD so if you see CDs of those, they're fakes. They're both supposed to be reissued next year, though.

There's a tribute album coming out, supposedly by the end of the year. And then there's supposed to be a four-CD box set of "rarities" including some stuff never before released. I'm hoping there will be a version of Figurine on that. That's a great song.

I have a friend in Australia who put together a three-CD set of nothing but WZ doing covers of other songs in concert--everything from Buddy Holley's Not Fade Away to Dylan's All Along the Watchtower and Dwight Yoakum's Santa Can't Stay. Great set!

Did you ever get to see him? I'm glad to be able to say I saw him twice. I came to the party late--didn't become a major fan until about 1996 or so.

--Snake, with a .38 Special up on the shelf....

Ah, yes....Mr. Bad Example. Man, that songs just slays me every time I hear it! :lol:

Snake45 - I really hope his son continues pushing the Zevon legacy. Rarities and never before released stuff would be great on CD. What would be even better would be DVDs of his concerts. I have a VHS copy of one that was supposedly put out by VH1 years ago. Whether that’s true or not, the copy is decent and seeing him in concert is a treat.

I’ve been listening to him since ‘82/83. He played in a nightclub in Poughkeepsie called “The Chance” in the eighties and I was supposed to go see him but didn’t. Can’t recall why I didn’t go, but I always told myself I’d see him another time. Then the years went by, time constraints grew and so did the family. I always kept listening to his stuff and picked up CDs whenever they came out. The next time I read about him, it was the article about him having cancer and only months to live. I should have never waited.

Richard Jefferies – That’s definitely one of the classics!

Here are a few sites devoted to Warren Zevon that are worth checking out:

http://members.tripod.com/~Zevonaticism/
http://morris2k.cti.depaul.edu/zevon/
http://solace.snackpants.com/zevon/
http://www.xena49.com/zevonfan/

Richard Jefferies said:

Ah, yes....Mr. Bad Example. Man, that songs just slays me every time I hear it! :lol:

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I was in college when Werewolves of London hit the charts. It brings back a lot of memories.

For years, though, I thought the pina colada drinker's hair was purple.

JR, you're not the only one who thought his hair was "purple." That one ranks right up there with "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy."

I had to drive to Charleston yesterday (140 miles,) and was listening to Zevon's "Best of" CD. When it got to Mr. Bad Example, I set the player to repeat and listened to it for about 60 miles.

Hmmmmm, never heard of the guy, but now I need to go download some of his stuff & see what all this is about. With recommendations like these, I must be missing something.

Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner?

Ok guys, this has been bugging me for years. Did WZ ever say anyhere what the inspiration was for this song? Is there a story behind it just another one of those black clouds that floated up from the bowels of WZ's twisted mind?

Ed

OK, Werewolves of London, I have heard this song. Looking for others now.

Alarmed said:

Hmmmmm, never heard of the guy, but now I need to go download some of his stuff & see what all this is about. With recommendations like these, I must be missing something.

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See what I mean? :banghead:

There are many out there that would love his music. They just never heard of him.

Re: Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner?

SpecialEd said:

Ok guys, this has been bugging me for years. Did WZ ever say anyhere what the inspiration was for this song? Is there a story behind it just another one of those black clouds that floated up from the bowels of WZ's twisted mind?

Ed

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I got this from "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" (An Anthology) -

"In 1974 I ran off to Spain and got a job in an Irish bar called the Dubliner, in Sitges, on the Costa Brava. The proprietor was a piratical ex-merc named David Lindell. He and I wrote this song at the bar one afternoon, over many jars." -Warren Zevon

Here are some more links worth noting:

• http://launch.yahoo.com/artist/default.asp?artistID=1029955
  http://www.elektra.com/warrenzevon/
  http://www.artemisrecords.com/zevon_bio.aspx?abbr=zevon
  http://www.davemcnally.com/Lyrics/WarrenZevon/
  http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/inside_out ... sode.jhtml