Blogcritics: Comments on Warren Zevon The Wind

Comment by Yobar

Sat, 20 Sep 2003 02:11:55 EDT

I bought the Wind CD and jammed on it in my car. When I got home I popped it in my comp to listen while reading email. Artemis Records has altered the files so playback on a computer is shitty with random pops!!! I wanted a nice, clear CD, not some hissing/poppy vinyl.

Comment by Terry

Wed, 17 Sep 2003 21:49:52 EDT

I've been through thick and thin with Warren. Listening to the lyrics and relating as he worked his way through alcohol and marriage problems. He has been my support, my admiration. I am so grateful that I seen him in concert at the Phoneix in Toronto Ontario a few years ago. One of his roadies gave me his Jim Dunlop guitar pick after asking. I have his self entitled album "Warren Zevon" framed with the concert tickets and his pick as my trophy. Warren, I'll keep you in my heart forever. Terry

Comment by sheldon

Sat, 6 Sep 2003 22:28:47 EDT

Hi all you Ann Coulter fans; As a Canadian admirer of your country I'd like to make a few salient points; You are the 2nd greatest country in the world (next to mine!!!) & the contributions you have made & will continue to make to the world demand respect & admiration... But... What the hell are you guys thinking???...Your President is a lightweight who can't find Midlothian, Texas on the map, never mind Mosul...Where has your Administration's arrogant, mean-spirited, and narrow-minded rhetoric got you?...Right back to the U.N. (to paraphrase Rumsfeld & Wolfowitz "that instrument of irrelvance")...We have shit politicians in our country too, (who doesn't?) but when they tell the truth it's a pleasant surprise & when they don't we treat is as a "Casablanca shock"...Jesus Christ, my friends, PRESIDENTS' LIE AND THEY HAVE ALWAYS LIED!!!The important thing is whether they lie about small things (Monica) or big things (Iraq)...In 2004, please vote out (for your own sakes) the undeserving non-entity you currently have as President for someone with an intelligence and curiosity about the world...In the words of Pete Townshend: "Don't get fooled again"...(Although you may not have been fooled the 1st time since Gore got more votes)!!! P.S. I'm not some namby-pamby liberal; I just recognize a moron when (a immensely powerful one, at that) I see one. P.P.S. What's the solution, you ask?...I'm not sure...But I suggest you vote for Howard Dean since he was the 1st one of out of the gates with any balls to take on the Bush administration while the the other Dems. were suckholes kissing ass. P.P.P.S. You really are a great people & a great country in spite of your shithead President...Oh well, nobody's perfect!!! P.P.P.S Zevon's great C.D. makes me love you even more!!!

Comment by sheldon

Sat, 6 Sep 2003 21:01:43 EDT

Natalie, where the hell are ya??? I need some back up here to ease my restless conscience ( and I'm afraid, my spineless backbone!!!)

Comment by sheldon

Thu, 4 Sep 2003 15:57:58 EDT

I accidentally left my copy of "Stand In The Fire" at an ex-girlfriend's place sometime in the mid-1980's...she still lives around here but unfortunately it's on the "outskirts of this town" and I've always been too chickenshit to ask for it back!!!

Comment by Mark Saleski

Wed, 3 Sep 2003 14:35:26 EDT

after the comments about Stand In The Fire, i went and dug out my vinyl copy this past weekend. phew! that thing rocks! ...and it's a crime that it's out of print.

Comment by Eric Olsen

Wed, 3 Sep 2003 14:20:48 EDT

Sheldon, Zuma is one of my top 5 Young albums, amazing. But you forgot to mention the other parallel to "Cortez" - the part about offering up sacrifices, in Saddam's case that's somewhere around 2 million. What a killer...

Comment by sheldon

Wed, 3 Sep 2003 14:04:26 EDT

Hmm...Talkin' about "Zuma" led to me listening to Neil's "Decade" album and it struck me that the lyrics to "Cortez" could be applied to George Bush...except he's dancing across desert rather than water!

Comment by Natalie Davis

Fri, 29 Aug 2003 17:17:07 EDT

Thanks, Sheldon! Oh, and Rodney, I just saw your last comment. You rock!!! It will be worth the wait.

Comment by sheldon

Fri, 29 Aug 2003 17:07:25 EDT

The Web address for the petition to get Warren into the Hall of Fame is www.petitiononline.com/bucsrule/petition.html (6000 signatures so far.)

Comment by Natalie Davis

Fri, 29 Aug 2003 16:33:44 EDT

People have differing principles. When I'm low on fundage, I wait to buy what I want at a decent place. Others' mileage varies.

Comment by The Theory

Fri, 29 Aug 2003 16:20:25 EDT

my first stop will be good ol' Circuit City because if they have it they'll be cheaper than anyone else. Saving money is more important to me at the moment than supporting my local indie shops. Yes, I am bad.

Comment by Rodney Welch

Fri, 29 Aug 2003 16:18:11 EDT

Actually, Natalie, it was the local independent music seller. They said check again Tuesday. But Zuma is a fine, fine disc -- it has "Cortez the Killer" on it, one of Mr. Young's finest moments.

Comment by Natalie Davis

Fri, 29 Aug 2003 16:07:48 EDT

ummm... Zuma... Keep trying to find The Wind; it's more than worth the effort. And shop your local independent music seller. The chains blow chunks.

Comment by Natalie Davis

Fri, 29 Aug 2003 16:07:23 EDT

ummm... Zuma... Keep trying to find The Wind; it's more than worth the effort.

Comment by Rodney Welch

Fri, 29 Aug 2003 15:26:23 EDT

Well I tried to get it at lunch and the bastard was sold out. So I bought Neil Young's Zuma instead.

Comment by The Theory

Fri, 29 Aug 2003 15:09:05 EDT

i think after work today I'll try to go and pick up a copy of this. I've been hearing good things about it ever since the release.

Comment by sheldon

Fri, 29 Aug 2003 14:49:26 EDT

Got the album; it stands with his best work regardless of the circumstances...I just hope it sells a shitload of copies so that a lot of new people can be introduced to his music & take the time to check out his catalogue...And let's get him into the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame; it's shameful that he isn't there already. I forget the Web Site address for the petition to get him in, but I'll take a bit of time to look it up and get back to you.

Comment by marilynn

Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:47:52 EDT

I saw the special and it was GREAT. Can't wait to get the album. Warren rocks and I hope he has at least another year.

Comment by Jim Carruthers

Fri, 22 Aug 2003 19:17:52 EDT

That's why I regret not seeing David Lindley a couple of weeks ago at Toronto Bluesfest. Not because I have a Lindley deathwatch, but I've seen him before and he is both entertaining and technically wonderful. Plus he has dozens of great guitars which I am impressed as artifacts. Hey, at least with Warren, we'll have the words, stories and tunes.

Comment by Eric Olsen

Fri, 22 Aug 2003 18:51:17 EDT

It is a great live album with a very hot band. I predict tha the cliche will hold and Warren will come to be very highly regarded in the long run, long after he's gone. The is some consolation in the recognition he has received in the last year and it looks like "The Wind" is receiving the deification it deserves right off the bat.

Comment by Jim Carruthers

Fri, 22 Aug 2003 16:20:21 EDT

I have "Stand In the Fire" on vinyl LP, and it is about the only album in my "Z" section (the other underpopulated section is "Q" with one Robert Quine solo album - I once owned a Queen album, but I was young and dumb and bought it for the cover as an SF geek) I think, the Rhino best of aside, if I had to recommend one Warren Zevon album to someone who didn't know his music, it would be "Stand In The Fire".

Comment by Eric Olsen

Fri, 22 Aug 2003 16:16:22 EDT

Alas neither is on Amazon - I have them both on vinyl. Maybe trip to the used record store?

Comment by Jim Carruthers

Fri, 22 Aug 2003 16:14:28 EDT

From a quck search on Amazon, I can only conclude that Elektra has not kept those in print. I think they are really only interested in Warren dropping dead and then just push the single "best of" title as hard as they can at a really "special price" I was talking to a young woman last week, and she said she'd never heard of Warren Zevon. So, I did what any geek would do, I gave her a mix-tape (CD really, but you get the idea). Of course, she spent most of the listening time saying: "oh, I know this!".

Comment by Rodney Welch

Fri, 22 Aug 2003 16:13:25 EDT

I don't believe they are, which is too bad. Stand in the Fire is one of the really great live albums; one that captures the experience of a performer who really was on fire, and just flat out playing and singing his balls off. I bought it on cassette twenty some years ago, and that's STILL the only thing way I have to hear it. I don't think it has ever made it to CD; not sure if The Envoy ever has either. That one, too, has some truly great stuff on it that no Zevonhead need be denied, namely the title song as well as "The Overdraft,"(yet another Zevon paean, co-written by Sam Shephard, to the joys of running off with a nice piece of jailbait) and "Charlie's Medicine," which ranks with Neil Young's "Tired Eyes" in the pantheon of Great Songs About Offing Pushers. The whole Zevon catalog needs to be out there and available; considering they recently released his shitty early stuff, I don't see why they won't release the better stuff as well, in time.