He was turning over the family business to his children and had begun the process while he was still alive to prove his confidence in us. That’s why I’ve asked you to make all these decisions.” I was dejected at first, but then realized what was happening. His response was, “Jordan (when he was irritated he would call me by my name otherwise it was “Johnny Son’), I’m too tired for this. I knew that I’d be up to the challenge, but my dad refused, telling me, “I need someone I can yell at without it being personal.” I went through the pictures, made notes, made my picks and went to Dad to impress him with my pre-meeting preparations. I’d wanted to manage him for years, always using Tony Bennett’s son and manager as a model. At one point I went over to tell him that Matthew Ralston had asked me to pick photos from his brilliant Rolling Stone photo shoot (one of which provided the cover to his final album, The Wind) and to let Matthew know which ones he could add to his portfolio. He was happily done with making those kinds of decisions. When NARAS asked which songs to submit for Grammy nominations, my dad asked us to pick and went back to watching a newly released Humphrey Bogart DVD. In the last few months of his life, he began to pass the torch of his legacy to Ariel (his daughter from his second marriage) and me.
We were father and son, but more importantly we were friends. We laughed like idiots and until the day Dad died we were quoting it to each other. On that trip to Reno we’d go back and forth – he played me a CD by some 60s folk duo whose name escapes me and which I found excruciating (I threatened to jump out of the moving car), while I played him the latest Andrew Dice Clay record called The Day The Laughter Died, Part 2, a rather strange and little known album that almost went out of its way to make you hate it. We talked and talked throughout his life and more often than not, we laughed.
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It had all been said at our lunches at Hugo’s on our way to the latest Bruce Willis action movie during a road trip to Reno to see Boom Boom Mancini in a disappointing loss to Greg Haugen throughout the drive to Mountain View where he performed at Neil Young’s annual Bridge School Benefit Concert when I spent a week with him riding on the bus for the Sentimental Hygiene tour, and our almost daily phone calls. The funny thing was, when we started that conversation, we had nothing to say. We should say all those things that were never said, profess our love for one another and apologize for any wrongs. In 2002, shortly after my father was diagnosed with cancer, we had a conversation in which we both realized that, in the little time he was told he had left – 3 months (though he lived on a little over a year) – we ought to have a father/son heart to heart. Used by Permission of The Warren Zevon Trust
Special thanks: Bill Cason, Raymond DiPietro, Barbara Koonce Mastered by Jerry Taub & Bill Johnson at Terra Nova Digital Audio, Austin, Texas Recorded by Marty Quinn at Quad Recording Studios, New York City Songs from Life’ll Kill Ya produced and engineered by Pal Q. Recorded live 12/3/99 at Austin City Limits for 107.1 KGSR Radio Austin 9th Anniversary Concert, Engineered by Bill Johnson. DON’T LET US GET SICK (5:10) (solo acoustic)
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Discourse – His feelings about Rhino Records 2 CD anthology of his work, the size of his audience, having his music used on TV shows and movies, performing and the response to “Don’t Let Us Get Sick.” (5:14)Ĩ. Discourse – His take on Steve Winwood’s classic, the split personality, images and inspirations in his compositions. Discourse – A chat about the producers of Life’ll Kill Ya, the album’s stark sound and other singers covering his songs (5:09)Ħ. Discourse - Musings on mortality, song noir, religion in his music and The King of Rock n’ Roll (6:07)Ĥ. Discourse - Warren waxes and wanes on songwriting, Los Angeles, modern classical music, the early days of his career and playing the guitar versus the piano (7:14)ģ. I WAS IN THE HOUSE WHEN THE HOUSE BURNED DOWN (3:02)Ģ. * denotes a song never before released on any Warren Zevon albumĪll songs written by Warren Zevon except where noted.ĭisc Two: Primate Discourse: Warren Zevon Talksġ. Zevon Music (BMI), Tiny Tunes Music (ASCAP), Leadsheet Land Music (ASCAP)Ĭompnaion Music c/o Warner-Tamerlane MusicĬompanion Music c/o Warner-Tamerlane MusicĪll recordings on Disc One previously unreleased (LeRoy Marinell, Waddy Wachtel, Warren Zevon)
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