you're my witness, I'm your mutineer
Oct. 28th, 2005 01:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thehefnerBig, big thanks to everyone's support yesterday. I have since cooled down and gotten it out of my system, but in the likely event of a resurgence at least I know I have a lot of friends to whom I can turn.
So I was listening to a Warren Zevon retrospective last night. They were talking about how, just before he died, Zevon was a guest on the Tonight Show (where he was the sole guest the entire evening... he'd even taken over the band for the night, utterly amazing on Jay's part to do something like that). At Jay Leno's request, Warren Zevon performed a song I'd never heard before, called "The Mutineer." After the story, the deejay proceeded to play the original song, and boy oh boy, it's lovely.
The song segued into a second version of the very same song, this time a live performance which I assumed to be the performance on Leno. The audience cheered and hollered as the music began. Then he sang. Oh god, he sounded like shit. After hearing that first beautiful sad version to this, this warbling, wavering, meandering, confused, sick live performance version. This bleary, drugged-up, wheezing mumblefest, this was the same man who sang the very same song so tenderly all those years ago? My god, what a toll the lung cancer had taken on this great man.
After it mercifully ended, the deejay said, "That was Bob Dylan doing a cool cover of Warren Zevon's 'The Mutineer.'"
Huh. To me, Bob Dylan's singing sounds like Warren Zevon dying of lung cancer. Yep, that sounds about right.
So I was listening to a Warren Zevon retrospective last night. They were talking about how, just before he died, Zevon was a guest on the Tonight Show (where he was the sole guest the entire evening... he'd even taken over the band for the night, utterly amazing on Jay's part to do something like that). At Jay Leno's request, Warren Zevon performed a song I'd never heard before, called "The Mutineer." After the story, the deejay proceeded to play the original song, and boy oh boy, it's lovely.
The song segued into a second version of the very same song, this time a live performance which I assumed to be the performance on Leno. The audience cheered and hollered as the music began. Then he sang. Oh god, he sounded like shit. After hearing that first beautiful sad version to this, this warbling, wavering, meandering, confused, sick live performance version. This bleary, drugged-up, wheezing mumblefest, this was the same man who sang the very same song so tenderly all those years ago? My god, what a toll the lung cancer had taken on this great man.
After it mercifully ended, the deejay said, "That was Bob Dylan doing a cool cover of Warren Zevon's 'The Mutineer.'"
Huh. To me, Bob Dylan's singing sounds like Warren Zevon dying of lung cancer. Yep, that sounds about right.
