![]() Ends up, he was wrestling with all that, and a whole lot more.īy all accounts, Warren Zevon was a musical genius held in high regard by many. He’s clearly wrestling some demons here: malaise, success, integrity. Whether he’s writing about himself here or not, an author is always implicated by his text. How’re you going to make your way in the world ![]() Moreover, though, it was clear that his sensibilities were a bit off-center. It was tough for me to work out the melody, and even more difficult to figure out the chords. In fact, I think it all added up to just a handful of songs: “Werewolves Of London” (of course), “Lawyers, Guns & Money,” “Tenderness On the Block” and one I covered a few summers ago, “The French Inhaler.”įrom covering “The French Inhaler” alone, it was apparent that the guy had a gift for both musical and lyrical composition. ![]() Unlike U2 or Luna (or even Semisonic, whose drummer, Jacob Slichter wrote the great “So You Want To Be A Rock & Roll Star?”), I knew very little about Zevon when I began the book. The result is a painful, compelling read. In addition to 300+ pages of chronologically ordered remembrances from family, friends like Jackson Brown and peers like Bruce Springsteen, the book excerpts Zevon’s own journals. Yesterday, I reluctantly finished “The Dirty Life And Times Of Warren Zevon,” an oral history compiled by the late singer/songwriter’s ex-wife. Last year, I devoured “U2: At the End of the World” by Bill Flanagan (a CBS Sunday Morning contributor and MTV SVP over whom I emphatically and somewhat embarrassingly gushed when I bumped into him in an elevator recently).Ī few weeks ago, I tore through Dean Wareham’s “Black Postcards: A Rock & Roll Romance.” Nothing wrong with that I enjoy a blockbuster page-turner like the guy in the next seat on the plane. Most readers flock to best sellers, pap like Joseph Hellerman, Dean Koontz, or Scott Turow. I’m pretty sure I’m not a tortured artist, though I may be a masochist.
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