Werewolves of London

[Stub Mandrel]

2 hours ago, Dad3353 said:

This ˅˅˅ is bass playing ...

 

Hendrix played with his teeth, but that guy takes playing by ear literally!

[chris_b]

2 hours ago, Dad3353 said:

This ˅˅˅ is bass playing ...

 

 

He should have 4 strings, everyone knows Jaco did.

[Beedster]

So, back on topic (could a moderator speak to this Dad bloke who keeps taking it off?), just listened to the whole Warren Zevon Excitable Boy album and loved it, definitely an album that you have to listen to as an album, one that the whole is so much greater than the sum of its parts, but well worth a listen. Very distinctive late 70's West Coat feel if you like that sort of thing (as opposed to mid 70's West Coast feel; the shift is to my mind a bit like the shift from mid 60's to late 60's Motown)

[Stub Mandrel]

1 hour ago, chris_b said:

He should have 4 strings, everyone knows Jaco did.

Plus he's clearly playing from memory. A real musician would be sight reading.

[wateroftyne]

8 hours ago, lowdown said:

Agreed...For example, Adam Sandler used more vibrato on the Werewolf  "Ah-hooo" line.

 

 

 

 

He's singing that well, but they've 'average-pub-rock-band-ified' the backing.

Surprising for a team of crack NY legends.

[skankdelvar]

2 hours ago, Beedster said:

Warren Zevon Excitable Boy album

 One of his best and includes my favourite Zevon track, the entirely epic Lawyers Guns and Money.

Vid from 1980 concert - better than the plodding version from the Stand In The Fire live album (even if top end missing in action).

 

[Beedster]

Send lawyers, guns and money, the stinky poo's about to hit the fan 

[Beedster]

11 minutes ago, wateroftyne said:

He's singing that well, but they've 'average-pub-rock-band-ified' the backing.

Surprising for a team of crack NY legends.

Exactly. Who are they?

[skankdelvar]

1 minute ago, Beedster said:

Send lawyers, guns and money, the stinky poo's about to hit the fan 

Maybe the best opening verse to any song ever:

I went home with the waitress
The way I always do
How was I to know
She was with the Russians too
 

* Except poss Guts by John Cale

[wateroftyne]

Just now, skankdelvar said:

Maybe the best opening verse to any song ever:

I went home with the waitress
The way I always do
How was I to know
She was with the Russians too
 

* Except poss Guts by John Cale

I would agree*

^{*Except poss Highway 61 by Bob Dylan}

[wateroftyne]

3 minutes ago, Beedster said:

Exactly. Who are they?

It's blurry, but I think I can see Will Lee,  Paul Schaffer (probably MD), Waddy Wachtel, Anton Fig, Felicia Collins and Sid McGinnis...

[Beedster]

3 minutes ago, wateroftyne said:

It's blurry, but I think I can see Will Lee,  Paul Schaffer (probably MD), Waddy Wachtel, Anton Fig, Felicia Collins and Sid McGinnis...

An embarrassment of riches, literally

[Stub Mandrel]

These Zevon songs are definitely up there with 'Right Said Fred' and 'Shadduppa-you-face' in the top-100 novelty songs.

[Beedster]

1 minute ago, Stub Mandrel said:

These Zevon songs are definitely up there with 'Right Said Fred' and 'Shadduppa-you-face' in the top-100 novelty songs.

I think that's fighting talk on two levels

First, Zevon is a lyrical genius

Second, Right Said Fred are...

OK, that's fighting talk on one level

[wateroftyne]

"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..."

 

[Beedster]

59 minutes ago, skankdelvar said:

Maybe the best opening verse to any song ever:

I went home with the waitress
The way I always do
How was I to know
She was with the Russians too
 

* Except poss Guts by John Cale

I have to agree, but it is so much better when listened to than when read, Zevon has the knack of making it sound like it was really happening to him at the time he recorded it

[EMG456]

On 06/09/2020 at 18:18, wateroftyne said:

"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..."

 

My favourite (and there are many contenders) Zevon song, the great "Desperados Under the Eaves".

[pete.young]

On 05/09/2020 at 21:30, Misdee said:

Back in the 1980's there actually was a Chinese restaurant on or around the Edgeware Road called Lee Ho Fooks, I seem to remember. Whether   the name was a reference to WZ, I have no idea!

In Gerrard St. Apparently the song was a reference to it.

Better still, there was one called Ho Lee Fook at the end of the New Kings Road in Chelsea, late 70's early 80's.

[Reggaebass]

10 minutes ago, pete.young said:

there was one called Ho Lee Fook at the end of the New Kings Road in Chelsea, late 70's early 80's.

There was , it was at the top near the new kings road  , I used to live opposite it, I think it closed down about 1985. 

[upside downer]

1 hour ago, pete.young said:

In Gerrard St. Apparently the song was a reference to it.

 

They had a picture of Zevon up in the window when I was there 20 odd years ago.

[Beedster]

[Beedster]

So a while back someone posted that the Warren Zevon's biography is about a good a rock and roll read as anything out there. Anyone recommend which biog is best, there seem to be quite a few now? 

[wateroftyne]

4 minutes ago, Beedster said:

So a while back someone posted that the Warren Zevon's biography is about a good a rock and roll read as anything out there. Anyone recommend which biog is best, there seem to be quite a few now? 

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, by Crystal Zevon. The only one that matters.

[Beedster]

5 minutes ago, wateroftyne said:

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, by Crystal Zevon. The only one that matters.

Lovely, ordered, thanks Michael. Introduced myself to Poor Poor Pitiful Me today (on headphones). What a great live band sound.

[wateroftyne]

25 minutes ago, Beedster said:

Lovely, ordered, thanks Michael. Introduced myself to Poor Poor Pitiful Me today (on headphones). What a great live band sound.

Good stuff!

The book is incredible. By the end of it you’ll hate him, pity him and love him all at the same time.