| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1137.1 | | LESLIE::LESLIE | Free Thinker: Worth every Penny! | Sat Apr 02 1988 20:16 | 4 |
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Sure is good. Sentimental Hygeine is very enjoyable.
Just wish the man could last a little longer per album, thats all...
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| 1137.2 | I saw Lon Chaney, Jr. walking with the Queen ... | CHOVAX::HUNT | R S T L N and an E, Pat ... | Mon Apr 04 1988 11:14 | 27 |
| Definitely a Warren Zevon fan ... I saw him in concert at George
Washington University in DC about the time he put out his live "Stand
In The Fire" album ...
His songs are just great .... My personal favorites ...
Excitable Boy "dug up her grave and built a cage with her bones"
Werewolves "gonna get a big dish of beef chow mein"
Gorilla, You're A Desperado "took the keys to my BMW"
and many, *MANY* more ...
A few years back, I made a cassette tape with all of the Zevon songs
that I liked on it. I divided it into Side A "Hard Rockers" and
Side B "Ballads and Love Songs". Still play it a lot.
I've resisted the tempatation so far to buy a CD of Warren's but
only because I have all the albums and I promised my wife I wouldn't
duplicate *TOO* much. "Dark Side Of The Moon" was no contest,
though.
I'll bet he sounds great. Good to see him recovered from his substance
abuse problems.
Bob Hunt
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| 1137.3 | "Here I sit, playin' solitare with my pearl-handled deck" | CTHULU::YERAZUNIS | Hiding from the Turing Police | Mon Apr 04 1988 11:51 | 18 |
| My favorite Zevon songs:
Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner:
"you can still see his headless body, stalkin' through
the night"
Woodrow Wilson's Guns
Lawyers, Guns, and Money:
"I went home with the waitress, the way I always do.
How was I to know that she was with the Russians too?"
Roland and LG&M are on the "Quiet and normal life" CD. Woodrow
Wilson isn't (unfortunately).
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| 1137.4 | And his hair was perfect!! | MIGHTY::MICHAUD | I have become comfortably numb.. | Mon Apr 04 1988 12:02 | 15 |
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I rememeber seeing Zevon at Folsum Field in Boulder Colorado
around 1979. He was the backup for the Grateful Dead. If Zevon hadn't
of played, this concert would have been a waste of time!!! He was
great and the Dead S_cked!
"... and he killed her and raped her, then he took her home..
excitable boy they all said!".....
" Pattty Hearst, heard the burst of Rolands' Thompson gun and BOUGHT
IT!...."
Zevon got a style that cracks me up whenever I listen to him! love
it!
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| 1137.5 | | FRACTL::HEERMANCE | In Stereo Where Available | Mon Apr 04 1988 13:26 | 9 |
| re: the replies
Well I'm glad to see I'm not the only fan in this notesfile.
I guess it pretty clear that many of his songs contain some
element of dark humor. When I'm in a bad mood I find him to
be right on about such things as politics.
Martin H.
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| 1137.6 | Really sick, Warren.... | HAZEL::CLARK | | Mon Apr 04 1988 15:13 | 8 |
| "Then he dug up her grave
And built a cage with her bones
Excitable boy they all said"
Great lyrics and great music!
I love the live LP 'Stand in the Fire' - some hot performances!
Alan S.
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| 1137.7 | Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School ... | CHOVAX::HUNT | R S T L N and an E, Pat ... | Mon Apr 04 1988 19:34 | 47 |
| I can't resist. I've got to talk more about Warren. Hope you don't
mind ...
Every so often you go through a 'phase' when, by God, you just have
to listen to something brand spankin' *NEW*. So what if you waste
a few bills or break a window or two or annoy one or all of your
friends ...
I went through one of those 'phases' when I was in school at the
University of Virginia in the late 1970's. Most of my fraternity
brothers sort of were divided among music tastes. You had your
Stones freaks, your Deadheads, your Fleetwood Mac'ers, your Who
guitar bashers and so on ... I was mostly into The Who and we
would stay up till all hours of the night screaming "Meet the new
boss, same as the old boss ..."
One day, I decided ... "Hell with it. I need something new. I
picked up a copy of Rolling Stone and there was a review of "Excitable
Boy" in it. So, off I went to the University record shop and later
that night, I heard some *strange* stuff.
o A-Woooooo. Werewolves of London ... A-Wooooo ... Draw blood.
o Blew Van Owen's body from here to Johannesberg ...
o Raped her and he killed, then he took her home ...
So, I thought ... "What is this stuff ???" I was ready to scrap
it but the tunes were so *catchy* that I couldn't put it away.
The next thing you know I've got half the fraternity humming away
and *everybody* starting to really like this guy. What a
transformation. We started to *INSIST* that the bands who played
at our house during party weekends know and play Zevon songs. Whole
crowds of people yelling "A-WOOOOOOOO ...." What a scene.
So, I've been hooked on Zevon ever since. I've got *ALL* his LP's
and each one is deliciously different. Seeing him live was a great
treat.
Super memories. I've always been proud of the fact that I turned
on a whole houseful of people to Warren Zevon ... Shows what can
happen when you take a chance ...
By the way, "Send Lawyers, Guns and Money" makes a *great* personal
name for your VAX Notes notebook ...
Bob Hunt
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| 1137.8 | how about the first album? | VICKI::LEBLANC | | Tue Apr 05 1988 11:22 | 4 |
| and if California slides into the ocean
like the mystics and statistics say it will
I predict this motel will be standing
until I pay my bill....
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| 1137.9 | | FRACTL::HEERMANCE | In Stereo Where Available | Wed Apr 06 1988 11:49 | 13 |
| re: .7
I once got my entire dorm hooked on the Tubular Bells album
by Mike Oldfield. For about a month you could hear it being
played by someone in the dorm.
re: .8
Desperados Under the Eaves is one of his better slow songs.
My roommate claims it's about cowardice, but I think it's
more about feelings of paranoia.
Martin H.
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| 1137.10 | And lets not forget... | TLE::REAGAN | Moe! Larry! The cheese! | Sat Apr 09 1988 21:11 | 3 |
| "Grandpa pissed his pants again ... the cattle all have brucellosis..."
-John
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| 1137.11 | Why You... | VICKI::LEBLANC | | Tue Apr 12 1988 18:49 | 5 |
| re:.10
It's hard to find anyone who is into the Stooges not into Zevon
and vice versa....
Draw Blood
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