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Love Zevon. Couple of clips:

Performance of Roland on Letterman shortly before his death

Part of his interview with Dave.

My favorite moment in that second clip is when Dave asks him if there is anything Warren might know about life that Dave doesn't considering his illness, and Warren replies "Not unless I know how much you're supposed to enjoy every sandwich."

Edit: Poking around and discovered that "Enjoy Every Sandwich" is the name of the postmortem Zevon tribute album.

Last edited by Hey_Porter; 03-09-2010 at 12:02 PM.

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03-09-2010 , 12:20 PM

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Max H

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Originally Posted by Hey_Porter

David Letterman also provides some backup vocals on Warren's hockey epic Hit Somebody-The Hockey Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8qs6...eature=related

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03-09-2010 , 12:23 PM

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Dominic

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I liked Warren on the Larry David Show when he Tells the producers he doesn't want to play Werewolves but Larry asks to play it anyway. And he does.

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03-09-2010 , 12:34 PM

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jasperdgg

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<3 Warren. I can recommend the demos/outtakes compilation Preludes... has some great otherwise unavailable songs on it, like Broken Hearted Town: "Cigarettes make the sun come up, whiskey makes the sun go down" and Rosarita Beach Cafe which has a nice poker related verse:

Well, I soon fell in with thugs and thieves and gamblers from the beach
And the devil himself suggested an all-night game
But the night winds came along like some dark-eyed senorita's song
And blew my straight flush out across the waves

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03-09-2010 , 12:35 PM

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Zevon called Letterman "the best friend my music ever had." Letterman used to always quote those lines from Searching for a Heart: "They say love conquers all. You can't start it like a car; you can't stop it with a gun."

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03-09-2010 , 07:13 PM

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Crystal Zevon, his ex-wife, evidently wrote a biography/oral history called I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon. They say he encouraged her to write it, warts and all. Good reviews on Amazon. I'm sold.

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03-09-2010 , 07:16 PM

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sockhead2

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You guys think he was underrated? I'm not a hater; I am very fond a few of his songs, but on the whole, I think he is levely-rated (not over-, not under-).

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03-15-2010 , 08:35 AM

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Stagger_Lee

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Well, he's just an excitable boy

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03-15-2010 , 09:50 PM

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mad_hatter

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he'd leave the change and tuck the bills inside his cummerbund

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03-16-2010 , 02:53 AM

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My band covers lawyers guns and money and it might be my favorite song we do! the wallflowers did an awesome version as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmiORfT5ySA

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02-02-2012 , 07:14 AM

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important bump

Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School

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02-02-2012 , 08:47 AM

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i love this song.

(i put it in spoilers cuz i'm not sure if posting a song that contains the f-word counts as circumventing the profanity filter...)

Spoiler:

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01-22-2013 , 05:15 AM

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kioshk

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Play that dead band's song!

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01-22-2013 , 08:26 AM

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I love Warren Zevon. The contrast between the beauty of some of his music and the irreverence of his lyrics makes for awesome listening. Play if All Night Long is a great example.

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01-22-2013 , 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Dominic

I liked Warren on the Larry David Show when he Tells the producers he doesn't want to play Werewolves but Larry asks to play it anyway. And he does.

Almost three years, multiple bumps, and none of you pedants corrected this. Sanders. Great scene.

Also surprised nobody posted Mohammed's Radio yet. Most Zevon fans I happen across list it as high on their favorites:

Everybody's desperate
Trying to make ends meet
Work all day, still can't pay
The price of gasoline and meat
Alas, their lives are incomplete

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01-22-2013 , 12:09 PM

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BrokeDonk

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great bump. now i'm listening to a bunch of zevon songs

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01-25-2013 , 06:04 PM

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A few years ago, there was a tribute album released, with a boatload of iconic artists doing Warren's song. But the best cut on the album was this one by his son, Jordan. It's a song his dad never released, although the acoustic version showed up as a bonus cut on a posthumous collection of his early years.

Beautiful song, and has that uniquely Zevonian feel. The boy sounds a bit like his old man, too. And many songwriters would kill to come up with a line as vivid as "It made a sound that cracked my heart in half"

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01-29-2013 , 03:10 AM

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herbertstemple

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Thanks for bump

Love that Boom Boom Mancini

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01-29-2013 , 03:29 AM

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What other rock star would write a song about American diplomat Philip Habib. The 2 men later met and had a good talk, apparently.

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02-04-2013 , 07:47 PM

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rip Warren Zevon, an amazing talent indeed

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02-04-2013 , 10:34 PM

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Dominic

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Crap, did he die again?

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02-05-2013 , 02:30 PM

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Crap, did he die again?

he rose up to gamble in Havana and then died again, but hell be back

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01-03-2017 , 05:27 PM

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I recently reread my copy of Warren Zevon's bio by his widow, and I've been listening to a lot of his great songs. This one is pretty cool, the drama he packs into this geopolitical stuff. Baghdad do whatever she please, so true.