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Warren Zevon was born January 24, 1947
"The past seems realer than the present to me now
I've got memories to last me
When the sky is gray
The way it is today
I remember the times that I was happy"

 
Man, I been digging deep back into Dylan.
I mean, I was born in the late 1950’s and grew up on Dylan, Baez, PeterPaulMary, MamaandPapas, SimonGarfunkel, etc etc
But that movie A Complete Unknown brought me all the way back to my roots, when I was just learning how to play guitar.
“Blowing in the Wind” was the first song I ever learned how to play, and sing. I’ve pulled out the old dreadnought and started refreshing my memory on how to play about a dozen of those old Dylan classics.
The Byrds cover of Mr. Tambourine Man remains one of my all time favorite tracks.
 
nashcounty said:
Warren Zevon was born January 24, 1947
"The past seems realer than the present to me now
I've got memories to last me
When the sky is gray
The way it is today
I remember the times that I was happy"

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So many don't know his back story. Quite a story. And some folks wonder why he's so werdly talented. Here's a clip from Wikipedia.

Zevon was born in Chicago, the son of Beverly Cope (née Simmons) and William Zevon. His father was a Jewish immigrant from Ukraine, whose original surname was Zivotofsky. William Zevon worked as a bookie who handled volume bets and dice games for the notorious Los Angeles mobster Mickey Cohen. He worked for years in the Cohen gang, in which he was known as Stumpy Zevon, and was best man at Cohen's first wedding. Warren's mother was from a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints family and of English descent.They later moved to Fresno, California, and by the age of 13, Zevon was an occasional visitor to the home of Igor Stravinsky, where he briefly studied modern classical music alongside Robert Craft. Zevon's parents divorced when he was 16 years old. He soon quit high school and, driving a sports car William won in a card game, moved from Los Angeles to New York City to become a folk singer.

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Warren Zevon - Wikipedia

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Geisterfahrer said:
He’s an incredible songwriter.
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Saw RHP in Atlanta think 2001 and Kozelek solo in Asheville around 2012. Really good shows: Yeah, he’s really not that great a person, but definitely an amazing songwriter with a great voice. Plus does some incredible covers. Recorded a stripped down version of KISS’ Shock Me on one of the first RHP albums and put out an entire album of AC/DC covers stripped down (What’s Next to the Moon). My favorite cover though is probably the cover of The Cars All Mixed Up (best version is off of Little Drummer Boy Live).
 
Got a couple records shipped to me this week.

Warren G's Regulate. 20th anniversary edition
ODB's final album (word white people can't say) Please. Loved that CD for years. It's just so out there. Finally got a vinyl press and it's freakin' awesome.

And the big one!

Green Day Dookie--One-Step. I've got an original first press with the promo sticker on the back that I got on eBay long before vinyl came back into fashion. The One-Step, taken from the original master tape, is spec-freakin-tacular. Mix is a little different though. Drums are pushed back a little, and guitar/bass are definitely pushed forward in the mix. But it's still very nice. :-)
 
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