Warren Zevon died yesterday Sunday, September 7, 2003. I first listened to Warren Zevon in the summer of 1998. A friend had a copy of Excitable Boy and it played in the car for months. I fell in love with the song Rolland the Headless Thompson Gunner. I can't say why for sure. It will always remind me of the cost of war; in success or failure. I once heard a statistic (while standing at the Vietnam Memorial) that more Vietnam vets have committed suicide than were killed in action. We ask our soldiers to kill, die, and for many, kill themselves.
On his farewell album The Wind, with a wry wink at death, Zevon covers Bob Dylan's Knockin' On Heavens Door. The album has received excellent reviews and its great.
Peace, Paul