Warren Zevon – Lawyers, Guns, and Money
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
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"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Love me some Warren Zevon. I have this album (Excitable Boy 1978),and I think that is one of his best songs. Had the opportunity (privilege, really), to see Mr. Zevon in a nightclub setting in the early 90’s.. Just him, a guitar, and about three dozen people. I don’t think I touched my drink the whole time. Thanks for sharing.
As Bruce Springsteen observed in his induction speech for Jackson Browne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YFyC6pnz-k , Warren Zevon represented the darker side of the California Dream, and his songs were like something channeled from Raymond Chandler or Nathanael West. Moreover, he had the voice — dear God, the man could sing — and the chops to carry it off, and nobody else “got” the lower registers of life in the Golden State quite the way that he did.
Today, with the quality of life in California literally disintegrating before our eyes, it is hard not to see Mr. Zevon as something of a prophet, but I am not sure that he would have seen himself in quite this light. On a day when a lot of us are feeling like “desperados under the eves,” let’s just say that Warren was ahead of his time.
Warren Zevon –
“My [expletive] [expletive] Up”
May 2000
https://youtu.be/LbhYqV17CoQ
3:11
“……has to happen to the best of us, and the rich folks suffer like the rest of us,
it’ll happen to you…”
“….that Amazing Grace, sorta passed you by, and you wake up every day, hang your head and cry.
Yeah, ya’ want to die, but ya’ just can’t quit,
let me break it on down, that’s some [expletive] up [expletive.]”
Milt–
Good stuff!
Robert Earl Keen —
“Blow You Away”
Bigger Piece of Sky 1993
https://youtu.be/-fCEC52WOB4
3:36
Kinda funny, but if I printed the lyrics, I’d be violating our comments rules here.
My favorite line in his canon: “….and his hair was perfect!”
Why do I have a sudden urge for beef chow mein
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Ho_Fook#/media/File:Lee_Ho_Fook_(From_the_song)_-_panoramio.jpg
Col-
very good! (i did not know that was a real thing…)
Warren Zevon
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead
Capitol Theatre (Passaic, NJ) 4/18/80
https://youtu.be/bp1Pb-yVuv0?t=3732