Comments on: Warren Zevon – Lawyers, Guns, and Money https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/warren-zevon-lawyers-guns-and-money/ Fri, 22 Jan 2021 07:49:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/warren-zevon-lawyers-guns-and-money/#comment-1106260 Fri, 22 Jan 2021 07:49:02 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=72516#comment-1106260 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

]]> By: Col Beausabre https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/warren-zevon-lawyers-guns-and-money/#comment-1106258 Fri, 22 Jan 2021 07:16:47 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=72516#comment-1106258 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

]]> By: eddie willers https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/warren-zevon-lawyers-guns-and-money/#comment-1105997 Thu, 21 Jan 2021 03:49:14 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=72516#comment-1105997 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!”

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/warren-zevon-lawyers-guns-and-money/#comment-1105989 Thu, 21 Jan 2021 03:32:04 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=72516#comment-1105989 Milt–
Good stuff!

Robert Earl Keen —
“Blow You Away”
Bigger Piece of Sky 1993
https://youtu.be/-fCEC52WOB4
3:36

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/warren-zevon-lawyers-guns-and-money/#comment-1105982 Thu, 21 Jan 2021 03:16:23 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=72516#comment-1105982 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.]”

]]> By: Milt https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/warren-zevon-lawyers-guns-and-money/#comment-1105979 Thu, 21 Jan 2021 03:02:50 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=72516#comment-1105979 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.

]]> By: Blair K Ivey https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/warren-zevon-lawyers-guns-and-money/#comment-1105942 Thu, 21 Jan 2021 01:43:47 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=72516#comment-1105942 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.

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