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I managed to see Zevon live once.  Pretty good show; just him and a piano.

Sounds kind of like reggae in this version.  Nice to hear this.  Thanks.

he'll tear your heart out Jim

Yeah,  I saw Warren a couple three times.  Twice he was,  shall we say? saturated, becoming more so as the night progressed.  Once he brought himself, and a large chunk of the audience, to tears with Carmalita. It was a performance as powerful as any I've ever seen or heard. He was reaching inside himself that night, pulling up disturbing ghosts to wrestle.  That night even Warewolves shed it's inherent humor and bared real fangs, glistening with bile and venom.  As I said,  it was a powerful performance from an incredibly talented wastrel.

On my last foray into the wild, I ran into an old friend who GAVE this 2 CD set to me...I am just this evening getting to listen to it all. There are interviews and several songs that I had not heard before...It is a powerful compilation of work and words. I am thinking of posting some of the interview pieces ala inrumford's Paul Simon interview posts.

Go for it

Wow thats different, he was such a great writer and I have many fond memories tied into his songs. Thanks for posting

I've heard this version before, but it was a long time ago.  This song is always good for a smile.  I like this at least as well as the radio version

...saw Yul Gibbons with the queen...

I bet Christine McVie got the idea for the high sustained falsetto note in the chorus of her song "Everywhere" on Fleetwood Mac's 1987 album Tango in the Night from Zevon's song above.

Darn it I gotta testify.   The version most of us know seems, in comparison with this rarer one, like Zevon's multifaceted weirdness had been boiled down to a prankish wackiness even the most humor-challenged could apprehend.    As though Zevon was hoping to catch Dr. Demento's ear.

Look no further for proof than the "a-Whoooo!!"  of the wolfman, which in the hit version sounds only like campy, balls-out histrionics, but which in this unfamiliar version sounds  smoothly musical (I could imagine listening to a vamp of those vocals for a good long time)  while fully representing the werewolf's howl.

Instructional, MB.