Warren Zevon has passed away

[Kteacher]

It was just on the news

 

[GailT]

call me stupid but who is he? Maybe I should be in your room at school Kteacher, I feel so dumb right about now

 

[Kitty 34]

How sad. I really enjoyed his music. I had just added his song "Lawyers, Guns and Money" to my dance CD.

Gail, he also sings Werewolves in London.

 

[dianeschlicht]

He was a close personal friend of our X governor, Jesse Ventura.

 

[Cindy B]

Thats sad.. I remember that VH1 had a special either on recently.. or a commercial for it.

I liked the song Werewolves in London and Excitable Boy.

 

[GailT]

Thanks Kitty, I just also saw it on the news. That was so young to have your life taken away.

 

[Pop Daddy]

ahhhh ouuuuuuu, weirwolfs of London

 

[SuiteDisney]

I was just singing Werewolves of London yesterday.

Such a shame, I really enjoyed his music and sense of humor.

Sept. 8 — Warren Zevon, the iconoclastic singer-songwriter whose music often combined dark, mordant, absurdist wit with some of the more memorable melodies of the modern rock era, died Sunday in his Los Angeles-area home, his manager said Monday. Zevon, a mainstay of the Los Angeles music scene of the 1980’s and of the national scene since then, announced in late August 2002 that he had mesothelioma, a rare, inoperable cancer that had ravaged his lungs and spread to his liver. He was 56.

 

[betz]

For the past year or more, since his diagnosis, Warren Zevon has been producing his final album, The Wind. I listened to parts of it last week and it is fine.

It's not surprising that this part of Zevon's sensibility is front and center on The Wind (Artemis Records), or that the project carries with it a valedictory air. It's a mantle the record wears gracefully, though, in ways both small (the keening crunch of David Lindley's lap steel guitar, a sound so recognizable to anyone who was there in the '70s that it's sure to induce a small shock of sense memory) and big: The familiar outlaw-on-the-run motif of "Dirty Life & Times" holds an unmistakable sense of the clock running down. Even funny and very Zevonesque tropes like "I'm sprawled across the davenport of despair" are mounted in a setting of creeping decay ("Disorder in the House," with a raging guitar lead by Bruce Springsteen). Other old friends and co-conspirators are in the mix: longtime collaborator Jorge Calderón, plus Ry Cooder, Don Henley, Timothy B. Schmit, Jackson Browne, T-Bone Burnett, Tom Petty, Joe Walsh, Emmylou Harris—a Murderer's Row of singer-songwriter talent. It'd feel like a gimmick if the guest stars weren't so well-used—Cooder's plangent guitar on "Dirty Life & Times," Henley and Schmit's sympathetic vocal backing on "She's Too Good for Me," Walsh reprising the gutbucket pleasures of "Rocky Mountain Way" in "Rub Me Raw."

 

[aprincessmom]

I am so sad...he was my favorite excitable boy!

 

[luvndisney358]

I read it too, and I too love Werewolves of London.

It's so sad, I read he spent his last days with his grown children. How time must suddenly be of such great importance when we know we are soon out of it............In any event, I wish him eternal peace and his family strength and faith that one day they will be rejoined yet again

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[DISshopkeeper]

I love the edgy "The Envoy" and the sweet "Mohammed's Radio", with Stevie Nick's unmistakable background vocals. I'm looking forward to my walk today. I'll be listening to Warren.

RIP.