{"id":1335,"date":"2008-03-05T04:00:40","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T04:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skullcull.wordpress.com\/?p=133"},"modified":"2008-03-05T04:00:40","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T04:00:40","slug":"warren-zevon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/?p=1335","title":{"rendered":"Rebellious Jukebox: Warren Zevon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Read enough of the bullshit that I write on this page and you\\’ll start to see that when I talk about something I usually like to outline the route by which I arrived in the place where I found the artifact. This, I\\’m afraid, is going to be no different. How did I locate and become entangled in the dark and vital lyrical meanderings of Warren Zevon? Well, I was, to put it mildly, obsessed with REM and would follow their wagon wherever it led. It eventually led me to the Hindu Love Gods and that was where I found Warren Zevon hanging out with Berry, Muck and Mills.<\/p>\n

I am what some call a meta-textual reader and every single medium has its metatext, music being no different. It was a short leap from the Hindu Love Gods to Zevon\\’s own solo work and the first album that I found was a great one called Transverse City. <\/i>Why so great, I hear you eagerly ask, the thing intersected with another passion of mine — the cyberpunk world of William Gibson, which Warren had a more than passing interest in.<\/p>\n

He wasn\\’t that easy to track down in the music shops, having been dropped by several labels and going through what might be called a few fallow periods. Life\\’ll Kill Ya<\/i> bounced him back into the public consciousness and he seemed to be around pretty consistently after that.<\/p>\n

The next big impact he had on me was when I caught the news that he had cancer and that they were going to have a VH1 special on him, then that he was going to be on Letterman. That instead of taking treatment he was going to record a last album and tour. I don\\’t care what anyone says — that is a damned ballsy thing to do (Ian Dury did a similar thingwhen he was diagnosed (not that I am trying to be crass by comparing musicians with cancer as if there were some stupid club)).<\/p>\n

Anyway, as is often the way with a blog — at least when I am writing them, the meandering is all dressing around a central point which I could have got to much earlier — and it is the usual point that I am making when I am writing about anything on this blog — that you should check him out; hunt down the albums and buy them all. Read up on him — he\\’s an interesting man, and take the guy\\’s philosophy to heart, on the subject of facing death Zevon had this to say \\”Enjoy every sandwich.\\”<\/p>\n

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