Don't care how stoned he was. Don't care what he drank. That is missing the point. Warren Zevon is one of the most under rated artists. I wish more young people could understand the poet merged music phenom. I do my best to show him to my musical appreciative friends but he deserves so much more. Rest in peace Warren.
Its 7 Sep 2023. 20 years ago already since we lost this brilliant man and his genius talent. Saw him in Adelaide, Australia in 1990..? if i remember correctly, and it was one of the BEST shows ever. Back of an Aussie pub, no more than 60 odd people and we were, up front, eyeball to eyeball. Visceral, incredible and unforgettable. Thank you Mr Zevon hope you're having a drink with Roland. Cheers. From Australia 🇦🇺
It was the Big Ticket - upstairs club on Hindley Street. He made a joke about The Eagles and ‘Don Hindley’ that night. One of the best gigs ever, even if his Roland keyboard did ironically break down during the long intro to Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner. He finished the song on his ovation acoustic with a fierce fury. You can hear me call out “go for it” on the intro to Poor Poor Pitiful Me on the learning to Flinch live LP. I was a metre away from him the whole night. Magical.
This is so stunningly beautiful. I don't think people really delve deeply enough into what they are hearing here. Beautiful, dead-on voice, with natural vibrato, and delicate piano talent. Classical, genius and a totally real passionate human, laced with some mysterious inherent knowledge of pain and the strangeness of existance. I wish I had known him.
Karen Hughes You write as though you had known Warren. I was blessed to meet him in the '90's in a Borders Bookstore in The Falls, Florida. I dove into the store to get out of a typical afternoon deluge, and I was scanning the poetry section, when my naughty female gaze was caught by a gorgeous male fanny. Add to that a long blonde ponytail trailing down the back of a light grey T-shirt like a fall of captured sunlight, acid-washed jeans covering the aforementioned magnificent rear end....I had time for a long appreciative stare, then the owner of the glorious male fanny turned profile, and I nearly had a heart attack. Unmistakable. I knew I'd never have such an opportunity again, so I approached him and spoke very softly, (combination of sheer worshipfulness, and not wishing to end his privacy) and told him how very much his music meant to me. He thanked me so nicely...a perfect gentleman, and when I made as if to leave, he said, "What's that book?" It was Rod McKuen's "Stanyan Street And Other Sorrows", and he asked to see it, opened it and read a moment. He asked me about my preferences in books, and I believe we spoke for about 10-15 minutes..how does one time their Moment in Paradise?...then a couple recognized him and ended my brief time in Heaven On Earth. I excused myself, and Warren said, "I've enjoyed our talk, Kat." I'm sure I must have blurted something appropriate, then left, my right hand still warm from his handshake. I'd been a devoted fan before I met him...I've been an adoring worshipper ever since. You're one of the few who've described my God of Music with depth and feeling. Just so you know....he is a kind, amazing human being as well as an Irreplaceable, Incredibly Gifted Talent. I say "is" because Gods and Legends never die...and Warren Zevon is BOTH. The book I had that day sits on my shelf, a tangible memento of a Precious, Perfect Experience. P.S. My middle name is Katherine, I go by Kat, and if one wishes to have me reply, that's the name they call me. It's the name I used that day to introduce myself. Just an explanation of the difference between my posted name and his quote...best wishes always to a fellow Zevonite.
John Paul Rosas, I'm glad that it's not just me and somebody else saw the guitarist and thought, despite the fuzzy video and the camera angle from the side or rear, that that's Lindley on guitar. For a minute I thought I was imagining it. Anyway, this is lovely and sublime almost beyond words or description..
Only Zevon could paint such a desperate horrible situation and give it beauty. The mariachi static on the radio is such a keen observation of someone going through opiate withdrawal? There’s no comfort of sleep just the hot n cold burn up with the mind racing at a million miles an hour that could give the appearance of mariachi music. Stuck on the outskirts of town faced with having to pawn something is as desperate as it gets.
I had a girlfriend in the early 70's who lived near Echo Park. We would walk through the neighborhood out there. I was sitting with another friend from L.A., we were both stationed in Germany. When we first heard this, he mentions the Pioneer Chicken Stand on Alvarado St, we both knew that Pioneer off of Alvarado and Sunset. It was like someone brought back a little bit of home 6000 miles away.
This is my favorite UA-cam video ever. I smile every time I hear that guy talk to Warren, tell him he knows who he is. He reminds me of someone I've lost, a woman like a mother to me. Just his mannerisms and the words he says .how he says "Y'know?" Hearing Warren always makes me think of another friend I lost who was hit by a train. As silly as it is, I can always come here and listen and feel like they are both right here with me still..even if only for a minute.
Alvarado St, Pioneer Chicken, Burrito king, Echo Park, Belmont High School, East Edgeware road, love ins at Griffith Park, 70's in L.A..~💖✌😎~ All the memories!
Well, perhaps, it is, but I don't think Warren Zevon ever lived in Mexico, or was strung out looking for a fix in the cold, dead, angry, angst-ridden streets of Juarez or Tijuanna because "Blondie" would have been used as a rent boy by a Cartel. If Zevon was a junkie, I don't think his mind would be focused on or capable of writing such beautiful songs. Zevon writes songs about his surroundings as a detached observer in the third person which is similar to what Hemingway tried to do with his writing.
"Enjoy every burrito"! Seriously, this is a lovely rendition made even better by the unexpected sight/sound of David Lindley playing Spanish-sounding licks on an ordinary acoustic guitar (and not the lap steel slide guitars or mutant electric guitars he is better known for).
There's only one song on my collection that has more than 20 versions of it by different artists, each one beautiful in its own way.. It's a g0ddammned painting. Perfection.
Absolutely one of the best songs ever written. You might want to give “San Francisco Mabel Joy“ a listen. Written by Mickey Newberry, the version I like the best is sung by Waylon Jennings.
Thanks to all of you who miss me, it's hard writing songs in the afterlife especially when your fingers go right through the keys but thoughts from you Norma and Pat keep me going. Adios
Wow! What an incredible, magical video. A great performance of one of Warren’s most beautiful songs, with such tasteful accompaniment by David Lindley, and the sequence with the local fan just makes it that much more special. Thanks for posting.
Was on a road trip summer after freshman year and someone threw this in. By the time we got home we knew most of the album, but this got the loudest singing.
His music was his own. Straight. No chaser. That's how he was our voice. There will always be a Zevon torn whole in our lives. So: Lets go! Guitars? Keys? Bass? Drums? You out there??? Lets all do our best to fix it all, even knowing we cannot... Thanks, all. Thanks, W. Z.
Absolutely Wonderful song! I first heard Linda Ronstadt's lovely version on her album with Tumbling Dice and Blue Bayou many years ago (1970s bought her album immediately). I knew Ronstadt was born 'n raised in Tucson, AZ and later lived in Los Angeles so it seemed understandable how she may have conjured the song. However, I did not discover until age 62 in 2022 that Warren Zevon wrote the song. OMG! I have been a lead singer and rhythm guitarist in bands, and although born and raised in Virginia but lived 12 years in American Southwest, I was amazed that a dude like Zevon, born and raised in UK, wrote a song about S. Cal of this beauty, truth and caliber. I love his Werewolves of London but Zevon must have spent some interesting time in Southern California during this or a previous incarnation. Furthermore, the lead guitarist who renders the Spanish guitar solo on this is so incredibly beautiful as to make this version a modern musical masterpiece. So truthful, touching and lovely on multiple levels! Thank you Warren Zevon and everyone else who contributed to your original Camelita.
When the great Warren Zevon died a part of me died also. Thank you for the wonderful video. Warren meeting people in Echo Park. And ordering a machaca at Burrito King. The only thing I buy there. I love you more now. And for dessert I think that is David playing. Thanks again.
@@williammcdonough2291 , at 2:27 Warren says "David" quietly and Lindley plays a guitar solo. A rare moment where he isn't decked out in polyester! There's also a video of on UA-cam of Lindley and Bonnie Raitt recording "Everywhere I Go" in the studio, with David dressed in basic black.....
@@huarenxivonne9662 The nights watch has fallin’ and I’m runnin’ out of breath, keep me at the Wall for awhile, there’s a raven leaving nightly called “I bang my aunt for fun” stab me in the heart for awhile.
Always loved this song. Found a strangely worthy cover of this song by punk rock maniac GG Allin . GG was strung out at a party , with a needle in the feedstock of his guitar, like Eddie van Halen with a smoke. Seeing him sing it with an acoustic, was the most musical I ever heard GG, his music usually was a bit hard to digest, but there is so much honesty and soul to his rendition. Sad and powerful, worth a listen if you love this song. Now I'm going to listen to this version a couple more times.....fantastic!
Exactly!! Regardless of anything he put in himself...he was able to reach more deeply with both his lyrics and music.that very few artists have been able to reach!! He was amazing! Thank you Warren!!
If I could go to Rock and Roll Heaven and see one performer I never saw in this life - no question who it would be. (Good news is I'm seeing Jackson Browne next week for the sixth or seventh time.)
I saw Warren once. Turns out it was his last scheduled public appearance in August 2002 at EFMF. He made an appearance on Letterman after all the bad health issues were discovered.
the letterman conversations -- talking about how he didn't think anything could be wrong with him when his dentist told him he had to get right to a doctor or, urgent, the news of his diagnosis and prognosis hit him like a giant sack of potatoes. Dave and him were friends going back, Dave had promoted his music, Dave asked good questions in the interview, Warren answered openly and as if he felt at home in who his is and where he was. He talked about his relationship with his kids. i'm not sure if i ever watched anything on Dvd Letterman before, ii watched it on you tube, memorable, just him being him.
This scene was shot at the Burrito King on the corner of Sunset and Alvarado in Echo Park. I was last there a few days ago. The Bean and Cheese Burritos ain't .60 cents no more; now they are $4.50 - but "Burrito King" and old LA live on!
Thank You Travis, that comment somehow made my day :) Up here on the north side of Portland, we've got a King Burrito around the corner. It's a far cry, but it'll have to do.
than it was heroin, today it is speed and oxys... i am born in 1989, in Croatia, Europe... Whole different part of the world, that was fucked up by war in the 90s... and whole differnet ball game... But still, some things are similair. When i started with drugs in 2005, 16 years old, i started with heroin, and now, there is hardly any heroin on the streets, older guys (now 28, but in junkie therms here, an older guy) like me are on methadone and benzos, and younger guys are on speed... and there is no therapy for that shit. they put them on buprenorphine (without naloxone here) to ease theri craving for speed... But, as you sadi... 70s were hardcore. I read a lot of musicians biographies, so i know. It seems like a chilled out time, but for a junkie, it was heaven and hell in the same time. but still... some of the greatest music was made!
@@Bojan849 Which part of Croatia you living at? My friend from here in England moved over there last year and has been active in setting up 12 step meetings in the Split area
Perhaps Warren's songs might not have been so poignant had he not experienced these addictions himself. And Warren did not live in Orange County either. He was always scratching to eke out a living. Warren was writing about his neighborhood "Echo Park". What a monumental talent he was.
@MDBrookman Warren had a huge drink / drugs problem and somehow still always managed to pull off all his live performances, the state he was really in never seemed to come across fully in his live performances, so yes, i'd say he was on drugs, drink, a concoction of both!! i'm reading 'I'll Sleep When I'm Dead' The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon at the minute, gives you an even further insight into the emotion in his songwriting....continually leaves me in awe!!
Of course he wrote rocker after kick-ass classic rocker and he could write 'em like almost nobody else. But he could also write gorgeous ballads like this. Ragged, nakedly honest, zero senimentality. Great details too. "by the Pioneer Chicken Stand," and WTF is a "pearl-handled deck"?? Gun?
He changed "well I pawned my Smith & Wesson.." to "Smith Corona". Think it was his wife that said "no no no honey" lol! I have No idea what a pearl-handled deck is but maybe that's a clue....
You're right, it's a gun how dumb could I have been haha! One gets that feeling it was about that, I just sailed right past that one that day. Ofc. It's Zevon.
![Warren Zevon- "Carmelita" LIVE (with David Lindley) 1976 [Reelin' In The Years Archive]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/bwXnBrMAbm8/mqdefault.jpg)
![Warren Zevon- "Carmelita" LIVE (with David Lindley) 1976 [Reelin' In The Years Archive]](/img/tr.png)
Don't care how stoned he was. Don't care what he drank. That is missing the point. Warren Zevon is one of the most under rated artists. I wish more young people could understand the poet merged music phenom. I do my best to show him to my musical appreciative friends but he deserves so much more. Rest in peace Warren.
Under-rated for sure he was brilliant and so sadly missed
but i bet when you see a junkie on the street you turn the other cheek..
Most great artists have pain inside, who are we to judge?
"I hit the city and I lost my band, watched the needle take another man. Gone, gone, the damage done...."
One of the greatest song writers that ever lived!!! I have a dog named Zevon. I love them both
Warren Zevon was one of those 70s guys that was just too fucking cool.
Its 7 Sep 2023. 20 years ago already since we lost this brilliant man and his genius talent. Saw him in Adelaide, Australia in 1990..? if i remember correctly, and it was one of the BEST shows ever. Back of an Aussie pub, no more than 60 odd people and we were, up front, eyeball to eyeball. Visceral, incredible and unforgettable. Thank you Mr Zevon hope you're having a drink with Roland. Cheers. From Australia 🇦🇺
Same small kind of crowd TLA Philly 92
It was the Big Ticket - upstairs club on Hindley Street. He made a joke about The Eagles and ‘Don Hindley’ that night. One of the best gigs ever, even if his Roland keyboard did ironically break down during the long intro to Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner. He finished the song on his ovation acoustic with a fierce fury. You can hear me call out “go for it” on the intro to Poor Poor Pitiful Me on the learning to Flinch live LP. I was a metre away from him the whole night. Magical.
I cried that day. 😢
Just a great freakin' song. This is a gorgeous version of it. Zevon sounds great, and David Lindley's guitar work is beyond lovely.
This is so stunningly beautiful. I don't think people really delve deeply enough into what they are hearing here. Beautiful, dead-on voice, with natural vibrato, and delicate piano talent. Classical, genius and a totally real passionate human, laced with some mysterious inherent knowledge of pain and the strangeness of existance. I wish I had known him.
Thank you, Karen, for your beautiful tribute to a an amazing guy...
Karen Hughes Warren was the best! Well said!
listen to his music and you will know him, consumed with artistic angst and a tortured soul
Karen Hughes You write as though you had known Warren. I was blessed to meet him in the '90's in a Borders Bookstore in The Falls, Florida. I dove into the store to get out of a typical afternoon deluge, and I was scanning the poetry section, when my naughty female gaze was caught by a gorgeous male fanny. Add to that a long blonde ponytail trailing down the back of a light grey T-shirt like a fall of captured sunlight, acid-washed jeans covering the aforementioned magnificent rear end....I had time for a long appreciative stare, then the owner of the glorious male fanny turned profile, and I nearly had a heart attack. Unmistakable. I knew I'd never have such an opportunity again, so I approached him and spoke very softly, (combination of sheer worshipfulness, and not wishing to end his privacy) and told him how very much his music meant to me. He thanked me so nicely...a perfect gentleman, and when I made as if to leave, he said, "What's that book?" It was Rod McKuen's "Stanyan Street And Other Sorrows", and he asked to see it, opened it and read a moment. He asked me about my preferences in books, and I believe we spoke for about 10-15 minutes..how does one time their Moment in Paradise?...then a couple recognized him and ended my brief time in Heaven On Earth. I excused myself, and Warren said, "I've enjoyed our talk, Kat." I'm sure I must have blurted something appropriate, then left, my right hand still warm from his handshake. I'd been a devoted fan before I met him...I've been an adoring worshipper ever since. You're one of the few who've described my God of Music with depth and feeling. Just so you know....he is a kind, amazing human being as well as an Irreplaceable, Incredibly Gifted Talent. I say "is" because Gods and Legends never die...and Warren Zevon is BOTH. The book I had that day sits on my shelf, a tangible memento of a Precious, Perfect Experience. P.S. My middle name is Katherine, I go by Kat, and if one wishes to have me reply, that's the name they call me. It's the name I used that day to introduce myself. Just an explanation of the difference between my posted name and his quote...best wishes always to a fellow Zevonite.
Well put!
What a talent, what a song, a genuine entertainer, and what an amazing way he approached his eventual demise. You get my vote.
My Ride's Here
"keep me in your heart...."
Zevon & Lindley......never has & never will get any better.
John Paul Rosas, I'm glad that it's not just me and somebody else saw the guitarist and thought, despite the fuzzy video and the camera angle from the side or rear, that that's Lindley on guitar. For a minute I thought I was imagining it. Anyway, this is lovely and sublime almost beyond words or description..
@@goodun2974 Same here...
Is That Really Lindley?
I went looking for these posts when I heard Zevon say, "Play it David". Glad I found these.
Oh Yeah, @ second look...It's @ 3:00....DAVE!
Only Zevon could paint such a desperate horrible situation and give it beauty. The mariachi static on the radio is such a keen observation of someone going through opiate withdrawal? There’s no comfort of sleep just the hot n cold burn up with the mind racing at a million miles an hour that could give the appearance of mariachi music. Stuck on the outskirts of town faced with having to pawn something is as desperate as it gets.
I had a girlfriend in the early 70's who lived near Echo Park. We would walk through the neighborhood out there. I was sitting with another friend from L.A., we were both stationed in Germany. When we first heard this, he mentions the Pioneer Chicken Stand on Alvarado St, we both knew that Pioneer off of Alvarado and Sunset. It was like someone brought back a little bit of home 6000 miles away.
I use to go to that Pioneer Chicken stand as a kid..the good ole days of Los Angeles..
@@JaimeMartinezJr-k5vyou shouldn’t be buying smack as a kid
@@BillyBones4365 I never did that just got the awesome chicken..
@@JaimeMartinezJr-k5v I was kidding bud. Take care
Beautiful old song from Warren who was as gifted as Jackson and JT. Sadly the song applies now more than ever for america.
This is one of the most incredible songs ever written. Like another song called Willin, it goes deep into you when you hear it.
I agree with you on both of these songs. I like the Linda Ronstadt version of “Willin”
Willin is great. Lowell is great.
This is my favorite UA-cam video ever. I smile every time I hear that guy talk to Warren, tell him he knows who he is. He reminds me of someone I've lost, a woman like a mother to me. Just his mannerisms and the words he says .how he says "Y'know?" Hearing Warren always makes me think of another friend I lost who was hit by a train. As silly as it is, I can always come here and listen and feel like they are both right here with me still..even if only for a minute.
This song echoes a huge chapter in my life..still turning pages
Alvarado St, Pioneer Chicken, Burrito king, Echo Park, Belmont High School, East Edgeware road, love ins at Griffith Park, 70's in L.A..~💖✌😎~ All the memories!
As a writer this song is amazing, based on reality and personal.
Well, perhaps, it is, but I don't think Warren Zevon ever lived in Mexico, or was strung out looking for a fix in the cold, dead, angry, angst-ridden streets of Juarez or Tijuanna because "Blondie" would have been used as a rent boy by a Cartel. If Zevon was a junkie, I don't think his mind would be focused on or capable of writing such beautiful songs. Zevon writes songs about his surroundings as a detached observer in the third person which is similar to what Hemingway tried to do with his writing.
His friends have shown him tribute playing this song every chance they get up to this day.
This is one of his best but he’s got dozens of other great ones. Go deeper folks
He was a beauty.
"Enjoy every burrito"! Seriously, this is a lovely rendition made even better by the unexpected sight/sound of David Lindley playing Spanish-sounding licks on an ordinary acoustic guitar (and not the lap steel slide guitars or mutant electric guitars he is better known for).
Ahhh Warren ❤ we miss you
There's only one song on my collection that has more than 20 versions of it by different artists, each one beautiful in its own way.. It's a g0ddammned painting. Perfection.
Absolutely one of the best songs ever written. You might want to give “San Francisco Mabel Joy“ a listen. Written by Mickey Newberry, the version I like the best is sung by Waylon Jennings.
My favorite is GG Allen’s version. Hes got a dirty syringe stickin out the headstock like a cigarette.
I love Warren, with all my ♥️
Have mercy this is amazing.
Indeed
I do this at every gig and it always brings the ppl to their feet
Absolutely beautiful!! Missing Warren...
me too
Thanks to all of you who miss me, it's hard writing songs in the afterlife especially when your fingers go right through the keys but thoughts from you Norma and Pat keep me going. Adios
Glad I saw him 3 or 4 times. This is just one of the most poignant song ever written.
Wow! What an incredible, magical video. A great performance of one of Warren’s most beautiful songs, with such tasteful accompaniment by David Lindley, and the sequence with the local fan just makes it that much more special. Thanks for posting.
...Warren Zevon, a brilliant🎙/song✒/🎸/🎹...R.I.P.
Was on a road trip summer after freshman year and someone threw this in. By the time we got home we knew most of the album, but this got the loudest singing.
His music was his own. Straight. No chaser. That's how he was our voice.
There will always be a Zevon torn whole in our lives.
So: Lets go! Guitars? Keys? Bass? Drums? You out there???
Lets all do our best to fix it all, even knowing we cannot...
Thanks, all. Thanks, W. Z.
one of the great talents of the last 50 years.
Warren was an outstanding songwriter and fantastic musician that knew music theory!
warren zevon is a truly great musician. Every song is a pleasant surprise.
Absolutely Wonderful song! I first heard Linda Ronstadt's lovely version on her album with Tumbling Dice and Blue Bayou many years ago (1970s bought her album immediately). I knew Ronstadt was born 'n raised in Tucson, AZ and later lived in Los Angeles so it seemed understandable how she may have conjured the song. However, I did not discover until age 62 in 2022 that Warren Zevon wrote the song. OMG! I have been a lead singer and rhythm guitarist in bands, and although born and raised in Virginia but lived 12 years in American Southwest, I was amazed that a dude like Zevon, born and raised in UK, wrote a song about S. Cal of this beauty, truth and caliber. I love his Werewolves of London but Zevon must have spent some interesting time in Southern California during this or a previous incarnation. Furthermore, the lead guitarist who renders the Spanish guitar solo on this is so incredibly beautiful as to make this version a modern musical masterpiece. So truthful, touching and lovely on multiple levels! Thank you Warren Zevon and everyone else who contributed to your original Camelita.
He was Southern California through and through.
Love love Warren ❤ listen to his music daily ❤
Miss Warren everyday..such a genius.
When the great Warren Zevon died a part of me died also. Thank you for the wonderful video. Warren meeting people in Echo Park. And ordering a machaca at Burrito King. The only thing I buy there. I love you more now. And for dessert I think that is David playing. Thanks again.
That does look like Lindley but you would have to see how he is dressed to be sure.
@@williammcdonough2291 , at 2:27 Warren says "David" quietly and Lindley plays a guitar solo. A rare moment where he isn't decked out in polyester! There's also a video of on UA-cam of Lindley and Bonnie Raitt recording "Everywhere I Go" in the studio, with David dressed in basic black.....
That dude probably still talks about the day he ran into Warren Zevon at a burrito stand!
I hope he's still with us
I am that guy. I’ll never forget it.
@@aegontargaryen573 you know nothing Jon Snow
@@huarenxivonne9662 The nights watch has fallin’ and I’m runnin’ out of breath, keep me at the Wall for awhile, there’s a raven leaving nightly called “I bang my aunt for fun” stab me in the heart for awhile.
@@aegontargaryen573 For the watch!
The iconic Burrito King Sunset @ Alvarado , still stands as an L.A. classic
Always loved this song. Found a strangely worthy cover of this song by punk rock maniac GG Allin . GG was strung out at a party , with a needle in the feedstock of his guitar, like Eddie van Halen with a smoke. Seeing him sing it with an acoustic, was the most musical I ever heard GG, his music usually was a bit hard to digest, but there is so much honesty and soul to his rendition. Sad and powerful, worth a listen if you love this song. Now I'm going to listen to this version a couple more times.....fantastic!
fantastic version thanks. what a legend
I was born in 72 wish I got too see him in concert shit i love this song
Skankhunt49 only saw him once but if you love him that much I think you were there in spirit.
This is so wonderful. Thanks for posting.
Magnificent !
Wonderful tune Wonderful man
This is excellent
Warren Zevon is so underrated. I loved his music. R.IP. Warren!
Together once again, RIP David Lindley😪
Thank you Trevor Burton for introducing me to Warren,s music courtesy of your version of "The Hula-Hula Boys" in the mid 80,s
40 years later still one of best songs ever ,no ifs or butts.
Wow wow wow thanks so much for this.
Exactly!! Regardless of anything he put in himself...he was able to reach more deeply with both his lyrics and music.that very few artists have been able to reach!! He was amazing! Thank you Warren!!
The mighty warren zevon
I can't get over how nice he is as an actual person, it's so great
what a beautiful charming person. he looked like alot of fun
Probably my favorite song of all time and I can definitely relate to the song to the T.
I love this video.
Thanks for the re-up. I missed this.
If I could go to Rock and Roll Heaven and see one performer I never saw in this life - no question who it would be. (Good news is I'm seeing Jackson Browne next week for the sixth or seventh time.)
I saw Warren once. Turns out it was his last scheduled public appearance in August 2002 at EFMF. He made an appearance on Letterman after all the bad health issues were discovered.
the letterman conversations -- talking about how he didn't think anything could be wrong with him when his dentist told him he had to get right to a doctor or, urgent, the news of his diagnosis and prognosis hit him like a giant sack of potatoes. Dave and him were friends going back, Dave had promoted his music, Dave asked good questions in the interview, Warren answered openly and as if he felt at home in who his is and where he was. He talked about his relationship with his kids. i'm not sure if i ever watched anything on Dvd Letterman before, ii watched it on you tube, memorable, just him being him.
Zevon was a genius. God bless his soul.
GREAT POST MANY THANKS
Guitar solo is beautiful!
Warren Zevon thank you for existing in at least part of the same timeline as me!!
This scene was shot at the Burrito King on the corner of Sunset and Alvarado in Echo Park. I was last there a few days ago. The Bean and Cheese Burritos ain't .60 cents no more; now they are $4.50 - but "Burrito King" and old LA live on!
Thank You Travis, that comment somehow made my day :) Up here on the north side of Portland, we've got a King Burrito around the corner. It's a far cry, but it'll have to do.
Geez cant even get my heroin And a burrito both. Well the burrito will have to wait
This song is best listened to late at night, alone and after a long conversation with John Powers. Sublime.
Sad but good song about the suffering that the big H brings to the world. Thank you
WHERE did this come from exactly 😳😯💜😎😆 I’m blown away lol
and god bless the family that he left behind.
70s was so chilled but I would defo be dead if I were born then
than it was heroin, today it is speed and oxys... i am born in 1989, in Croatia, Europe... Whole different part of the world, that was fucked up by war in the 90s... and whole differnet ball game... But still, some things are similair. When i started with drugs in 2005, 16 years old, i started with heroin, and now, there is hardly any heroin on the streets, older guys (now 28, but in junkie therms here, an older guy) like me are on methadone and benzos, and younger guys are on speed... and there is no therapy for that shit. they put them on buprenorphine (without naloxone here) to ease theri craving for speed... But, as you sadi... 70s were hardcore. I read a lot of musicians biographies, so i know. It seems like a chilled out time, but for a junkie, it was heaven and hell in the same time. but still... some of the greatest music was made!
@@Bojan849 Which part of Croatia you living at? My friend from here in England moved over there last year and has been active in setting up 12 step meetings in the Split area
Musically speaking, this the act of a God. Commentary is superfluous , and criticism, impossible.
love love love
This is my favorite song
Musically, this the act of a God. Once cannot surpass; one only admire and, feebly, strive to imitate.
Left LA in 2005 and there’s just no Burrito King anywhere else on earth.
You and me both Karen, an amazing human
One year off the smack tomorrow :)
What a trip...that was...
Love this song... Once in a lifetime one, never heard him write one this good. I think I'm gonna cover it.
Absolutely mint!!!!
"Playing solitaire with my pearl handled deck". Poetry
I heard the GG Allin version first. I should've known he couldn't write a song like this haha. Love both versions but man this is beautiful.
Linda Ronstadt does a good version too
Same... thought jeez that's a really good song. Ha ha ha
In fact, he could write a great song. Have you heard rowdy beer drinkin night? Maybe not a "beautiful" song, but incredibly well written.
Me too exactly!
What about "Eat My Fuck"? LMAO. Shakespeare!
Perhaps Warren's songs might not have been so poignant had he not experienced these addictions himself. And Warren did not live in Orange County either. He was always scratching to eke out a living. Warren was writing about his neighborhood "Echo Park". What a monumental talent he was.
I know where I was when I heard this song for the first time.
I still miss him. What a beautiful guitar solo?
we miss you buddy
@MDBrookman Warren had a huge drink / drugs problem and somehow still always managed to pull off all his live performances, the state he was really in never seemed to come across fully in his live performances, so yes, i'd say he was on drugs, drink, a concoction of both!! i'm reading 'I'll Sleep When I'm Dead' The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon at the minute, gives you an even further insight into the emotion in his songwriting....continually leaves me in awe!!
See this Rolling Stone article titled "The Section: Knights of Soft Rock":
www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-section-knights-of-soft-rock-20130411
Alot of dirty times
@@bobhenry2411 I read the RS article. Got to the end wondering where the good parts were
Burrito King Still the best!
Authentic 🤛🏻
Damn, I miss Zevon.
This is how good he was before Excitable Boy came out and the rest of the world discovered him.
Makes me think of leonard cohens style of writing..
Jack Kerouac and Warren
That is The Real .
Wahhhhh wahhhhhh! 😭😭😭😭!
I remember perfectly where I was when I heard the very sad news that Warren had died.
Jorge Calderon on guitar...lovely
🇨🇦👍👍👍👍👍
Couldn't agree more corey
I recommend The Machaca Burrito
Mike Brookman no substitute
What's next? The best of rock n roll history ×
Of course he wrote rocker after kick-ass classic rocker and he could write 'em like almost nobody else. But he could also write gorgeous ballads like this. Ragged, nakedly honest, zero senimentality. Great details too. "by the Pioneer Chicken Stand," and WTF is a "pearl-handled deck"?? Gun?
He changed "well I pawned my Smith & Wesson.." to "Smith Corona". Think it was his wife that said "no no no honey" lol! I have No idea what a pearl-handled deck is but maybe that's a clue....
Pearl Handled Deck would be a revolver. He is contemplating suicide as an easy way out.
You're right, it's a gun how dumb could I have been haha! One gets that feeling it was about that, I just sailed right past that one that day. Ofc. It's Zevon.
Yes, a pearl-handled deck is a gun. He was playing Russian Roulette.