![]() The next year, they moved to Franco’s Spain – “Looking for trouble,” he said, “where they still point machine-guns in your face.” (Unclear to me why this would be attractive to anyone.) Somehow Zevon came to the attention of the Everly Brothers and in 1971, he became their bandleader and “the road, booze and I became an inseparable team.” (Ace guitarist Albert Lee spent many years with one or both of the Everlys but I can’t find any evidence that Zevon and Lee were in the band at the same time.)įrom an article in Uncut magazine: In 1974 he dropped acid with his girlfriend Crystal and, guzzling vodka all the way, drove through the night to marry in Reno. (The recurring lick sounds like Cream’s version of “Crossroads.”) I like this tune, “Calcutta.” There’s some cracking guitar and piano on here by Mr. You can hear the beginnings of the singular Zevon sound. However, I listened to it and you know, there’s some decent stuff on there. (Zero relation to the later Bon Jovi tune.) This album was both a critical and commercial failure. In 1969, Zevon released his first album, Wanted Dead or Alive. Sung by a woman named Leslie Miller, it was retitled “He Quit Me.” (Good taste – Zevon and Nilsson on the same album.) His labelmates, the Turtles, recorded a couple of his compositions (“Outside Chance” and “Like the Seasons.”) One of his songs, “She Quit Me” wound up on the 1969 Midnight Cowboy soundtrack. They managed to get signed to a label and released a song which sank like a stone. One of his early efforts was part of a duo called lyme and cybelle with a woman who had the terrific name of Violet Santangelo. ![]() He returned to LA on, as one article I read said, “the fringes of the LA pop scene. ![]() But suffice it to say that like so many, this dream did not work out. It’s hard to find any evidence from his playing around this time. Zevon studied classical music as a teenager and when his parents split up, he dropped out of school and made his way to Greenwich Village in the early ’60’s to try his hand at being a folk singer. Maybe all this background provides some idea of Warren’s oddball lyricism. ![]() (Who, against all odds, managed to die a natural death.) Warren’s father, “Stumpy” Zevon was Cohen’s best man. His father, taking a completely different turn, was a bookie who handled dice games and bets for notorious gangster Mickey Cohen. Warren Zevon was born in Chicago, IL in 1947. ![]()
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