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brian64

brian64

Lifer
Jan 31, 2011
10,025
16,070
More vintage live Zevon...1976...with Jackson Browne and David Lindley
You know, the Sheriff's got his problems too

He will surely take them out on you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpkoJ_pVk0M

 
philobeddoe

philobeddoe

Lifer
Oct 31, 2011
7,548
12,260
East Indiana
Currently listening to The Moody Blues ~ On The Threshold Of A Dream and smoking a bowl of McClellands Beacon Extra in a sandblasted Savinelli 320.

 
renfield

renfield

Lifer
Oct 16, 2011
5,128
41,692
Kansas
Now playing Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy. Finishing off this tin of McC 40th Anniversary in a GBD Virgin lumberman.

 
saltedplug

saltedplug

Lifer
Aug 20, 2013
5,192
5,115
Dino, thanks for posting the Van Halen link. While there have been/are many superb rock guitarists, there's no denying his being at the very top!

 
beefeater33

beefeater33

Lifer
Apr 14, 2014
4,223
6,681
Central Ohio
Warren Zevon live in '77 playing a haunting version of Carmelita on piano with David Lindley on guitar.
The video also includes an intro and outro of a street scene that goes perfectly with it, of some random dude talking to Warren.
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Just WOW! I have not seen/heard that before.......... incredible stuff.......... :worship: Carmelita is one hell of a song..........
Imagine how cool it would be to get to chat with Warren at a freakin' taco stand!?....... good stuff for sure, and thanks for posting that.
I've been on a Brian Wilson kick, as of late............ helps me through these Ohio January doldrums..... :?
"In 1966, Brian explicated the song's lyrics to journalist Jules Siegel:
"It's a man at a concert. All around him there's the audience, playing their roles, dressed up in fancy clothes, looking through opera glasses, but so far away from the drama, from life. Back through the opera glass you see the pit and the pendulum drawn The music begins to take over. Columnated ruins domino. Empires, ideas, lives, institutions; everything has to fall, tumbling like dominoes. He begins to awaken to the music; sees the pretentiousness of everything. The music hall a costly bow. Then even the music is gone, turned into a trumpeter swan, into what the music really is. Canvas the town and brush the backdrop. He's off in his vision, on a trip. Reality is gone; he's creating it like a dream.
Dove-nested towers. Europe, a long time ago. The laughs come hard in Auld Lang Syne. The poor people in the cellar taverns, trying to make themselves happy by singing. Then there's the parties, the drinking, trying to forget the wars, the battles at sea. While at port a do or die. Ships in the harbor, battling it out. A kind of Roman empire thing. A choke of grief. At his own sorrow and the emptiness of his life. because he can’t even cry for the suffering in the world, for his own suffering. And then, hope. Surf's up! … Come about hard and join the once and often spring you gave. Go back to the kids, to the beach, to childhood. I heard the word of God; Wonderful thing; the joy of enlightenment, of seeing God. And what is it? A children's song!
And then there's the song itself; the song of children; the song of the universe rising and falling in wave after wave, the song of God, hiding the love from us, but always letting us find it again, like a mother singing to her children. … Of course that's a very intellectual explanation. But maybe sometimes you have to do an intellectual thing. If they don’t get the words, they’ll get the music, because that's where it's really at, in the music."

Good Stuff!........ :puffy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3TRns_zssM

 
brian64

brian64

Lifer
Jan 31, 2011
10,025
16,070
Hey Beef...I just came in here to post this and saw your post. Glad you liked that video and Carmelita...one of my all time favorite songs...and arguably the most impressive thing Zevon ever wrote.
Will definitely be checking out the Brian Wilson material you posted there.
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This video is 11:30 wonderful mins of immersion in raw, high-energy live Zevon...nothing quite like it.
As David Letterman once said, the only man who ever used the word brucellosis in a song.
Charlie's Medicine - Jungle Work - Play it All Night Long
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgA0n2_aXXI

 
brian64

brian64

Lifer
Jan 31, 2011
10,025
16,070
He begins to awaken to the music; sees the pretentiousness of everything. The music hall a costly bow. Then even the music is gone, turned into a trumpeter swan, into what the music really is. Canvas the town and brush the backdrop. He's off in his vision, on a trip. Reality is gone; he's creating it like a dream.
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Brian's explanation is really interesting...and expresses the expansiveness of his mind.
He was/is an immense talent...of that there's no doubt...and I've always thought his full potential was far bigger than the Beach Boys.
And after all that he has been through it's good to see how things have turned so much for the better for him in more recent years.

 
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