Excerpts from internet.listserv.postcard2: 26-Jan-99 RE: other voices -
Linda Ro.. by Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Zevon's the whip. Or one of em, anyway. That whole EL LAY sound
> of the 70's, early 80's needed a good shot of cynical (before it was
> used for Miller Beer commercials) morbid humor to give a bitter taste to
> the sweet n lite, and WZ was just the man to deliver. The fact that he
> got so many of his songs covered by Rondstadt is interesting,
> considering his left of center viewpoint and edgy songs.
That viewpoint might be considered right-of-center, if gun ownership and
military content are relevant variables to you. I think Zevon's written
more gun songs than Ted Nugent has, and some of the percussion on
"Jungle Work" consists of him shooting a pistol into a garbage can full
of gravel.
Zevon just celebrated a birthday, is perhaps the only songwriter to have
ever namechecked the SEC ("Seminole Bingo", cowritten by Carl Hiaasen),
sang "Lawyers, Guns, and Money" at Jesse "The Governor" Ventura's
inauguration, and is on tour as we speak. I'm going to try to catch him
Saturday in Pittsburgh (Amy Rigby opens).
don't the sun look angry at me,
Carl Z.
