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