Vocal Coach reacts to Warren Zevon - Werewolves Of London

[@BethRoars]

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[@phil4208]

Warren left us too early, lung cancer from asbestos, he lives on forever with his music,the album excitable boy was a huge success , thanks for this great performance Beth, new york

[@heywoodjablowme8120]

Lung cancer from cigarettes more likely.

[@phil4208]

@@heywoodjablowme8120 read his obituary

[@NoNameForThisGuy]

And in his words, a "tactical error" in not visiting a doctor for a few decades

[@williamsanders2439]

Warren was so underrated as a singer and songwriter (except for his fans, friends and colleagues). He had such a knack for sardonic lyrics with a dark sense of humor. He should be in the Rock Hall of Fame, if he isn't already.

[@user-cs4fg1rm5k]

He was a frequent musical guest on David Letterman. A singer's/songwriter's singer/songwriter. Much beloved by his fellow artists. A high compliment to have.

[@ChorusArtists]

Warren was a genius. This was probably the silliest of his many songs. He studied under Stravinsky as a child, and he composed some truly brilliant tracks. I hope people unfamiliar with him will check him out. The album Sentimental Hygiene is a fave, or the Hindu Love Gods album with REM backing him.

[@kevocal]

Roland? Love the song but...

[@coppulldentalcentrecoppull95]

escitable boy ? @@kevocal

[@TristanandIsolt]

I'm sure those are great, but Warren's best album will always be Excitable Boy.

[@TristanandIsolt]

@@kevocal Roland is my favorite Zevon song and David Letterman's favorite.

[@keithbecker2412]

"Dumb song for smart people"--Warren Zevon ❤

[@rainerzufall42]

He was nominated for Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame this year (2023). His fans will probably try again, until he makes it...

[@isthatwhatemptymeans8222]

We will. As David Letterman is my witness we'll get him in.

[@RicoCosta317]

The so-called Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is a complete joke for all of the groundbreaking artists like Zevon and many, many others who have been excluded, while inducting the likes of Madonna and Whitney Houston, who are hardly rock performers. I think it is absolutely irrelevant and should be ignored.

[@rainerzufall42]

@@RicoCosta317 I can feel you, but it's not simple! Yes, it's always controversial, yes, it's always the same types, that are being snubbed, just as another example, this year, there was Iron Maiden on the list and didn't get in, although their contribution will not be denied even by non-metal-heads like me. For a long time (20 years!), Kate Bush fans had to wait, after she was able to be nominated. Switching between "why not" and "just to good to be in there", and "just ignore that silly HoF". Four nominations for her contributions, many chances, but what brings her in at the end? A silly Netflix series, in which her music was played ("Stranger Things IV"). That is humiliating! On the other hand - who cares? In the end, I agree with most of the musicians in the HoF, some of them were snubbed for a long time, before they got in, some got in much too easy/fast. But it is what it is, Albert Einstein got his Nobel price for a minor work of him, not for E = m c²... why? Because the jury wasn't able to understand, what he was doing there! Same with music!

[@firedoc5]

Should have been a long time ago.

[@georgesheffield1580]

R&R HoF has lost its status .

[@charliestevenson3500]

It became a hit because it’s fun to sing!

[@peterdoe2617]

Dear Beth: you should also take a look at the song: "Lawyers, guns and money". My favourite. His lyrics where able to paint pictures (in our minds).

[@coinneachmaclellan3121]

This song was really popular in the late '70s...I remember hearing it on the radio everywhere. Apparently the backing musicians on the original recording were none other than John McVie and Mick Fleetwood with Waddy Wachtel on guitar...

[@nathaneley6486]

He wrote one of my favorite lines “Like Michael Jackson in Disney Land, don’t wanna share it with anyone else. Lock the gate Goofy take my hand & lead me through this work of self.” He was truly a poetic genius

[@jeffdetmer4681]

Warren was such a brilliant musician. Lost too soon. Warren was often asked to sit in for Paul Schaeffer who was the bandleader for the Late Night band when David Letterman was still on the air. There is a very touching video of Warren's last time on the show. He knew he was dying and decided to do the show anyway. Letterman asked for a couple specific songs of Warrens's. He talked about living his final days etc. Very moving. Also Beth, he adlibbed about half the lyrics in this live version. You might want to listen to another version sometime. Oh, and FYI, his last name is pronounced like Zee- Von. Zee like the letter and Von like con. Loved your reaction (as always!).

[@richardkafka5625]

"Enjoy every sandwich!"

[@dannymoore6886]

On the original studio version of this song released on the Excitable Boy album in 1978 Mick Fleetwood played the drums and John McVie played the bass.

[@danielroncaioli6882]

Beth, you should listen to his album “The Wind”. He recorded and released it while he was dying of cancer. Many of the songs will bring tears to your eyes just knowing how difficult it was for him to sing…..and then the lyrics for “Keep Me In Your Heart”. Instant breakdown.

[@murraywagnon1841]

Carmelita, Desperados under the eaves, Lawers, Guns and Money, Poor Poor Pitiful Me, Hasten Down the Wind, etc. etc. etc.

[@kristianhjorth2402]

Wonderful Beth! You understand how unique this is. Warren Zevon!!!!

[@djobiwan47]

Warren Zevon is an absolute favorite. Great songwriter. Wicked sense of humor. Please listen to his whole catalog. It's great, top to bottom.

[@RoGueNavy]

He was a brilliant writer and composer!! His classic, "Poor, Poor, Pitiful Me" is a certified foot-tapper.

[@tomratcliff3755]

Loved this guy,so twisted and talented Welcome to the wierd world of Warren

[@bodine57]

Saw Warren Zevon in either '80 or '81 in East Lansing, MI. Small theater venue; great show!!

[@richardsimpson9039]

He wrote so many great songs “Excitable Boy” “Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner” “Lawyers, Guns, and Money” All from the Excitable Boy Album, and from Life’ll Kill Ya I’m going to edit the title, but you can figure it out “My s.. bleeped up” is well worth a listen.

[@dannymoore6886]

He wrote a great song named My Shit's Fucked Up when he was dying of cancer. Warren wrote beautiful music. He's a musical genius.

[@huarenxivonne9662]

He wrote that song before he knew about his condition

[@JohnLnyc]

This is very weird. I just received a Lee Ho Fook t-shirt and was listening to this song just yesterday! The original LP “Excitable Boy” is filled with the great LA musicians/artists of the era (and all time). On the original recording of “Werewolves” produced by Jackson Browne, Mick Fleetwood played drums and John McVie was the bassist with Waddy Wachtel on guitar (he co wrote the song). The story is, it was Fleetwood who kept insisting on all the takes. After Warren was diagnosed and clearly dying, David Letterman (a fan) dedicated an entire show with Warren as his only guest. I watched it when first aired and find it too heartbreaking to go back and watch it again. Warren’s final advice to Dave about life…”enjoy every sandwich”

[@VegasAlien1]

I got my shirt, too!

[@deangeorgehe1026]

I heard this amazing song for the first time watching the classic film The Colour Of Money

[@rollomaughfling380]

Warren was a real gem. Gone too soon. Friends with many of his cohort. Worth a deep dive. You'd be amazed. Maybe start next with "Lawyers, Guns and Money" and comment on his spellbinding storytelling, Beth!

[@markhenry8669]

I saw Warren Zevon In Boston ma USA 1982 LIVE Recording after concert.

[@yaboyblacklist2431]

Definitely the fastest I've ever clicked onto one of you're videos. Werewolves of London is such a great song

[@petervenkman69]

This is a great song, this and "Excitable Boy" are probably his most famous. I personally am a fan of his album "Transverse City" which is rather cyberpunky by nature.

[@stevenmeyer9674]

"Lawyers guns and money" "Roland the headless thompson gunner", "Accidentally Like a Martyr" , "Poor poor pitiful me", among many others.

[@MachiavellianWomble]

Yeah g'day, Welcome to the Rabbit hole of Warren Zevon (RIP). One of the many songs that he is known and loved for like "Poor Pitiful Me", and "Your Ride Is Here", and we need more of Warren. As Warren said Enjoy every sandwich.

[@inerlogic]

Hey Beth, Warren was a virtuoso musician with several instruments, and a great guy, met him several times, saw him live several times, if you want a great live album check out "Learning to Flinch" a live solo acoustic album.

[@isthatwhatemptymeans8222]

This is his pop song, that doesn't adequately display his musicality or his incredible writing. On your own or for the channel take a listen to "Desperados Under the Eaves" a song about how a struggling entertainer suffers in Los Angeles, his desire to find love, success, and quit drinking, while contemplating leaving L.A. for the betterment of his heart, soul, mind, and liver.

[@nemilyk]

This will always be one of his weakest songs... so of course it has to be his most popular. It's not bad, just when you stack it up against Desperados like you said (or honestly *any* song on that album), "Renegade", "Veracruz"...

[@sopwithpuppy]

One of the best alliteration lines ever "A little old lady got mutilated late last night". Brilliant. Love it.

[@scenoch]

Warren was an amazing songwriter. Check out "Keep me in your heart", a song he wrote and recorded while dying from cancer....

[@HenryBraswell]

Listen many times a day. ❤❤❤

[@d.s.9692]

I'd love to hear you react to Warren Zevon's song "Accidentally Like A Martyr," which is the opposite side of the spectrum - soft, careful, heartbreaking.

[@erickaufman6840]

I LOVE this song! Warren was a brilliant singer-songwriter.

[@Paul_Wetor]

I once was at a bar where a keyboardist was playing this. Another guy was feeding him lines, doing a call-and-response. Brilliant! _"How was his hair?"_ "His hair was perfect."

[@firedoc5]

Always loved this song but haven't seen this live performance. After learning the lyrics, we used them as catch phrases among ourselves and hoped others would get the references. The movie "An American Werewolf in London" goes great with it.

[@leekestner1554]

This may have been the inspiration for the movie, American Werewolf in London. If you never have seen it put it on your watch list for this month. It is one of the best scary movies ever. It was the first that I saw that would make you laugh and in the next breath scare the hell out of you.

[@howdy627]

Little red riding hood had a wolf 🎃

[@pegajense]

I laughed so hard when this song first came out haven't heard it in awhile thank you!

[@carolmartin4413]

Whoa...was waiting for this one 😂....if you're singing wolf..you gotta do Warren's Werewolf...Everyone sings along in every bar in America for Halloween. Enjoy! Monster Mash

[@cliptych]

The howl is very much in the style of Howlin' Wolf.

[@zathrasnotzathras9435]

I always hoped when I visit London I could go to Lee Ho Fooks and get beef chow mein. Sadly the restaurant went out of business.

[@coinneachmaclellan3121]

The werewolves were killing all the customers...

[@zathrasnotzathras9435]

@@coinneachmaclellan3121 🤣

[@billfarrelly4375]

I was visiting and could not believe the restaurant was real. Had to have meal there

[@keymack2477]

Werewolf songs? Love this one, and another story telling one you will like is "Werewolf" by The Five Man Electrical Band!! I also heard that Warren received some piano lessons from Igor Stravinsky!

[@TikiIsland]

First saw Warren in 1972, in St Louis, when he was playing piano for the Everly Brothers doing basically a lounge act in small venues.

[@rodneygriffin7666]

Knock, knock! Who's there? Ah! Ah who? Warewolves of London. 😊

[@11manabouttown11]

I saw him live at Burswood in Perth. Amazing.

[@mikethomson4290]

His song Keep me in your heart, written when he was dying is so touching. Also, his song Roland the headless Thomson gunner is a classic

[@tommccafferty5591]

When he learned he was dying of inoperable cancer of the lining of the lung, (pleural mesothelioma,) he decided to record a final album. The Wind was released 2 weeks before he died. In context, Keep Me in Your Heart is one of the most emotional songs I've ever listened to. I would love for it to be played at my funeral.

[@VegasAlien1]

Warren Zevon (Z-von) was a great songwriter and musician. Dearly missed.

[@jovialevil3456]

Keep me in your heart

[@troyshilanski380]

Thank you for due diligence on looking up the songs history Beth.

[@OUsniper1]

Hope you listen to the studio version on your own, it's a great vibe!

[@topherwhite370]

Love your stuff. Love this song.

[@robperry5293]

Beth I have been checking out your music...Your amazing!

[@DaveB806]

Love your reaction to this awesome song! ❤

[@andrea22213]

Instrumentally the same as Sweet Home Alabama. Favourite line from this song, 'I'd like to meet his tailor'.

[@kirby1ist]

Thank you, I had never heard this version before. So there was a film made in 2013 about Mickey Chen and the guys who caught him. It is called Gangster Squad, ( It starred Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone , who later made La La Land ) I hosted a radio show on the internet for 7 years. Every show this song was requested. Though my boss chewed me out every week I howled along with Warren, my listeners loved it. I would suggest listening to his song Excitable Boy, it is not for everyone, however that song also showed his dark and yet playful side. Have a great day. ( love your wolf song )

[@passing-thru]

Just learned about your new album, and that it even has a song called "The Power of the Wolf", thats my next stop after sending this. Just feels like the proper opportunity to introduce you to what may be the strangest, but certainly the creepiest, song you will hear in your life. It's called simply "Werewolf" by (not making this up) the Holy Modal Rounders, on an album whose title has them being eaten by moray eels. Probably a good time to mention this was 1968, if you werent noticing a few clues? Studio ideas were a little different, psychedelics said a song about a werewolf should start off verrrrrrrry quietly, it is what it is. But by the end, the lyrics and the way they are vocalized, hits you with perfect aim, maybe there's more to a werewolf than we think

[@BC-ui9yt]

You need to check out "My shit's fucked up", which he wrote when he found out he was dying of cancer. He went out with a smile.... sort of. Great song

[@jon-paulfilkins7820]

Always an interesting song writer, he wrote some odd songs, some heartfelt songs. Consider "Mr Bad Example" (a sonic version of a rakes progress), "Lawyers Guns and Money" and "Splendid Isolation".

[@StrangeMusical]

thanks for covering Zevon - dive into his catalogue - some good tracks. Years ago I asked Leland Sklar about the re-done tracks on the song . He said it almost 70 takes.

[@DarthStridious]

His version of Knockin' on Heaven's Doorl, so good he did on his last album knowing he will be passing away due to cancer

[@robertmcghintheorca49]

I know John Landis specifically wanted songs that had the word "Moon" in the title, but they really should've used this in "An American Werewolf In London" (1981).

[@bentindle9036]

One of the most clever songwriters who ever lived. Roland the headless Thompson is another great song

[@sixpakshaker88]

Lawyers Guns and Money - still fills a Halloween play list.

[@DeansMayhem]

Great reaction Beth!

[@peterbrown2112]

Yes it really is like that I've always loved music and will always love music I can't work without it I can't wake up in the morning without it I just I cannot make it through a day without music and this brings me to people who are deadly, But goodness gracious, God you know

[@walkawalka666]

I highly recommend watching the 1935 movie Werewolf of London. Not only was it the first feature length film featuring a wolfman, but it predicted future technology. The main character is a botanist who has a lab in his home. He does not like people coming into the lab so he has a buzzer on the outside. When people ring it, he goes to a flat screen TV to see who is at the door.

[@jimclark5454]

"Gangster Squad" 2013 Set in 1949, a group of real-life LAPD officers and detectives called the Gangster Squad are assigned to bring down crime kingpin Mickey Cohen.

[@RPRohrman]

The character Mickey Cohen was in the Warren Beatty - Bugsy movie.

[@undermined]

Thank You

[@billysequins]

The "howl" is a two note octave leap heard in millions of songs,from Over The Rainbow to Starman by David Bowie

[@magdemighty8369]

Good venue - good show.

[@grimmone09]

Lawyers, Guns and Money is a must 😊

[@oscararzate7956]

Wow me encanta ese requinto me fascina bien Beth 👏👏🍀🍀

[@howardyoung9987]

A very underrated singer-songwriter. Lots of songs to discover. Not sure the live version is the best. Roland the Headless Thomson Gunner.

[@thomashiggins9320]

It's tough to find a song-writer as purely creative as Warren Zevon (pronounced ZEE-von). He lived in Colorado for many years and had a lot of friends, here.

[@jimbeckettplay]

Fun song. Looking extra pretty today!

[@leftcoaster67]

Awwwwwwooooooooooooooooo!

[@0okamino]

Don’t just roar, Beth. Draw blood! Awwwoooooooooooooo!

[@wreckingballmedia]

Listen to his track Keep Me In Your Heart for a While - brilliant and beautiful

[@shaneeslick]

G'day Beth, Me sees Beth trying to think of a Warewolf Dancing 🤔Beth Claws

[@troyshilanski380]

His song excitable boy is a fun song.

[@tomratcliff3755]

@troyshilanski380. One of my favorites! Brings out the national lampoon in me. Funny and Sick!

[@troyshilanski380]

@@tomratcliff3755 well national lampoon was always off the wall also! Lol

[@onlylooksitalian]

Try Linda Ronstadt's cover of the Warren Zevon song "Poor poor pitiful me." Sort of a 2 for 1 of Warren's writing and Linda's singing.

[@drakeswarchannel2530]

Thank you for your work. Have you ever reviewed Jimmy Pop?! He is the lead singer of The Bloodhound Gang. The Ballad of Chasey Lain is a fair representation from their catalogue.

[@brandonvalentine2555]

You should really check out the Live 1978 Red Rocks Grateful dead performance of this song. Its amazing

[@juliahoff7158]

Warren was brilliant. Beth, listen to Lawyers Guns and Money.

[@troymiller2584]

You have to check this song out on the movie the color of money from 1986

[@TheNorcalmonkey67]

WZ is amazing....his first album is brilliant...but he's pretty consistent. Heart wrenching TV was his appearing on David Letterman & dropping the bomb that he was, in fact, dying of cancer (no one knew)...The Wind is a brilliant good bye....never forget "enjoy the sandwiches...."

[@curiousman1672]

What!! Warren's dad was a bookie for Mickey Cohen?! Proper mobster right there. Old school.

[@88wildcat]

I've always considered Warren Zevon to be the Monty Python of rock and roll (or music in general for that matter). He took the silly very seriously and the serious very sillily.

[@paulw.woodring7304]

Rock and Roll's resident In-Patient, truly crazy in a good way. The title song to the album this song is on, "Excitable Boy", is truly twisted. Gone way too soon and unfairly keeps getting passed over for the Hall of Fame.

[@treetooone]

I have to admit I got so confused when I heard the chord progression and thought that it was the same as in Sweet Home Alabama... Luckily Wikipedia was there to tell me that I mixed it up with Kid Rock's All Summer Long, whis builds on these two songs 🙈

[@edford1693]

Bet you go around for the next several days singing "ARROOO". 🤣 👍👍

[@AShiftySpock]

Hi Beth, still loving the reaction videos! Could I make a request for you to do a Victoria Canal song? Her piano sessions are beautiful, black swan in particular.

[@thomaswilliams2273]

I don't know of any such movies as you mention, but perhaps his song "Lawyers, Guns, and Money" would qualify.

[@timcarder2170]

Five Man Electrical Band, "Werewolf"

[@tomratcliff3755]

I think Anne Hathaway had the same experience with her Oscar winning performance in Les Mis. I don't know if it thinking you can do better or it's so entrancing that,as a performer, you just want to recapture the moment.

[@infopackrat]

Please do the studio version