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"Harry, enough! It's enough already" —My mom when I was five minutes old
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For those who care: I did a 21-day Leonard Cohen video series. If you missed any of the videos—or if you missed the whole series altogether—I have packed everything into one big thread. Just click the tweet below and scroll down and all 21 videos are there. #21DaysOfLC
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"New things are beginning." Today is Day 1 of my 21-day Leonard Cohen video series. Welcome, friends. Being that today is also the first day of September, there is only one logical place to begin... and that is with Leonard Cohen's alter-ego: "September." #21DaysOfLC #Day1
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Google searches for Zevon are up, YouTube searches are up, streams for his albums are up, Amazon sales for every book about him are up. And keep in mind he hasn't been inducted into the RRHOF, this is all just because he was nominated. Exposure matters.
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For those wondering: "The Final Album of the Evening for the Grammy of the Album of the Year" was awarded to Carlos Santana. To date, he remains the only person to have ever received this prestigious award.
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You know how on cable news for elections they have these big maps and people stand next to the maps and they point at the maps and they go, "whoa, interesting... very interesting." That's me but with Warren Zevon and the fan vote leaderboard for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
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For
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and anybody else interested: I have reupped to YouTube the 2004 Grammy tribute to Warren Zevon. Featuring Ariel Zevon, Jordan Zevon, Jorge Calderón, Emmylou Harris, Timothy B. Schmit, Billy Bob Thornton, Jackson Browne, and Dwight Yoakam.
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Warren Zevon Tribute - Keep Me In Your Heart - 2004 Grammy Awards
Featuring Ariel Zevon, Jordan Zevon, Jorge Calderón, Emmylou Harris, Timothy B. Schmit, Billy Bob Thornton, Jackson Browne, and Dwight Yoakam.Vote for Warren...
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To me, "Foot of Pride" proves Dylan is a great singer far more than "Moonshiner" does. Dylan sings the hell out of "Moonshiner," no doubt, but there are a lot of singers who can do what he did there. There's nobody who can do what Dylan does on "Foot of Pride."
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Instead of saying to the skeptic, "You're right that having a pretty voice is the most important thing, here are some outlier examples where Dylan sounded really pretty," I'd rather say, "Phrasing is as important as tone of voice, here are some great examples of Dylan's phrasing"
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I often see people offer up "Moonshiner" & "Pretty Saro" & performances of that nature to prove Bob Dylan can sing & to me that's the wrong road to take because it plays into the idea that a sonorous tone = peak singing. If I believed that, I wouldn't be a Dylan fan to begin with
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Billy Joel & Warren Zevon backstage at Radio City Music Hall for the Late Night with David Letterman Sixth Anniversary Special in 1988. Photo by Marc Karzen. Zevon journal entry: "Billy Joel & I went to a seafood restaurant by S.I.R.—bad food, good conversation."
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As a Rock Hall voter I would love to have the opportunity to cast a vote for Warren Zevon. This seems like an instance where an induction would have a tangible positive impact for a beloved genius who's still mostly under the radar as a cult figure. twitter.com/harryhew/statu…
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Hurry home early, hurry on home...
Warren Zevon has received his first nomination for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a much-belated honor that places him in a potential induction class with the likes of Willie Nelson, Cyndi Lauper, and the White Stripes.
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All this comes amid an effort by a number of musicians and industry types to get Zevon onto the ballot for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, which will announce nominations Wednesday for its 2023 class of inductees. Among the boosters is Billy Joel, who recently wrote a letter to the hall’s nominating committee urging them to consider Zevon, who became eligible for induction in 1994 but has never made the ballot. (Rock Hall rules say an artist or band becomes eligible 25 years after the release of their first commercial recording.)
“I just wanted to put in my two cents of supporting Warren Zevon to be included,” Joel tells The Times. “If anyone deserves to be, he does. He was a real original, and I don’t know if that’s appreciated enough.” Joel, who was inducted into the hall in 1999 and who says he’s written similar letters on behalf of Joe Cocker and Cyndi Lauper, remembers seeing Zevon perform in the late ’70s at a club near Philadelphia. “The first minute I saw him, I was knocked out. He was like the crazy brother I never had. He was fearless, and it stuck with me. I never thought he got the attention he deserved.”
Billy Joel has written a letter to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominating committee urging them to (finally) put Warren Zevon on the ballot. Announcement is Wednesday. Whatever happens, God bless everybody involved with this campaign. From the LA Times: latimes.com/entertainment-
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Zevon deserves a place in the Hall of Fame, and Billy is a real mensch for doing this. just a comprehensively good dude.
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Billy Joel has written a letter to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominating committee urging them to (finally) put Warren Zevon on the ballot. Announcement is Wednesday. Whatever happens, God bless everybody involved with this campaign. From the LA Times: latimes.com/entertainment-
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All this comes amid an effort by a number of musicians and industry types to get Zevon onto the ballot for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, which will announce nominations Wednesday for its 2023 class of inductees. Among the boosters is Billy Joel, who recently wrote a letter to the hall’s nominating committee urging them to consider Zevon, who became eligible for induction in 1994 but has never made the ballot. (Rock Hall rules say an artist or band becomes eligible 25 years after the release of their first commercial recording.)
“I just wanted to put in my two cents of supporting Warren Zevon to be included,” Joel tells The Times. “If anyone deserves to be, he does. He was a real original, and I don’t know if that’s appreciated enough.” Joel, who was inducted into the hall in 1999 and who says he’s written similar letters on behalf of Joe Cocker and Cyndi Lauper, remembers seeing Zevon perform in the late ’70s at a club near Philadelphia. “The first minute I saw him, I was knocked out. He was like the crazy brother I never had. He was fearless, and it stuck with me. I never thought he got the attention he deserved.”
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As a Rock Hall voter I would love to have the opportunity to cast a vote for Warren Zevon. This seems like an instance where an induction would have a tangible positive impact for a beloved genius who's still mostly under the radar as a cult figure.
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Billy Joel has written a letter to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominating committee urging them to (finally) put Warren Zevon on the ballot. Announcement is Wednesday. Whatever happens, God bless everybody involved with this campaign. From the LA Times: latimes.com/entertainment-
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All this comes amid an effort by a number of musicians and industry types to get Zevon onto the ballot for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, which will announce nominations Wednesday for its 2023 class of inductees. Among the boosters is Billy Joel, who recently wrote a letter to the hall’s nominating committee urging them to consider Zevon, who became eligible for induction in 1994 but has never made the ballot. (Rock Hall rules say an artist or band becomes eligible 25 years after the release of their first commercial recording.)
“I just wanted to put in my two cents of supporting Warren Zevon to be included,” Joel tells The Times. “If anyone deserves to be, he does. He was a real original, and I don’t know if that’s appreciated enough.” Joel, who was inducted into the hall in 1999 and who says he’s written similar letters on behalf of Joe Cocker and Cyndi Lauper, remembers seeing Zevon perform in the late ’70s at a club near Philadelphia. “The first minute I saw him, I was knocked out. He was like the crazy brother I never had. He was fearless, and it stuck with me. I never thought he got the attention he deserved.”
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And in other Zevon news: "Andrew Slater, the veteran record producer and music manager who produced several of Zevon's late-'80s LPs, is at work on a film project about Zevon with the cooperation of the late singer's family."
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They're saving the soundboards for FRAGMENTS - TIME OUT OF MIND SESSIONS (1996-1997): THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOL. 17 - IONIC ORIGINAL EDITION - $37,000,000 OR 4 INTEREST-FREE PAYMENTS OF $9,250,000 (Autopenning available upon request)
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Kind of funny to read some people complaining about the sound quality on the live disc of the new Dylan Bootleg Series — seems to be primarily drawn from audience tapes, but they sound fucking fantastic.
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"Though nothing looks familiar to me I know I've stayed here before Once a thousand nights ago With the girl from the Red River shore" Bob, a thousand nights ago = less than three years. You're seriously telling me you don't recognize *anything*
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"I'm usually writing most of the time, just *fragments* of songs." —Bob Dylan, 1978
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Wow, Bob Dylan just called me to remind me of this tweet. How cool is that? Thanks Bob!
November 2014 tweet from Neil Diamond: "Wow, Bob Dylan just called me and said, 'If any record connects with me, this one does.' about Melody Road. How cool is that? Thanks Bob!"
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Steve Berkowitz, Bootleg Series producer, to UNCUT magazine, 2018: "Mr. Dylan named the box More Blood, More Tracks."
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Still incredible that Bob Dylan actually put out a compilation called More Blood, More Tracks.
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"If you ever wonder if Bob Dylan knows who Bob Dylan is ... he says, 'Yeah man, I'm sorry that we didn't use any of that stuff we cut,' pauses & goes, 'but it'll come out one of these days on one of them box sets.' [Laughs] And I was like, man, you are self-aware." —DAVE ALVIN
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This is a podcast I did, ostensibly about Warren Zevon's connections to Bob Dylan. But really it's about what Zevon means to me. Which is more than I can say. But I tried anyway. I had to try. Thanks again to
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Happy Birthday #WarrenZevon apple.co/3ws0X9W @harryhew
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In Robbie Robertson's memoir he says Bob Dylan in 1966 consumed only tea, honey, and lemon—plus amphetamines. People focus on the amphetamines, but I have a theory that what made Dylan electric was the lemons. Buddy was jacked up on lemons
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DAVID CROSBY: "I got Bob really high. There was an altercation between Bob & the Princeton people, who insisted that he wear a robe. I had to convince Bob to stay & do it. There's a line: 'The man standing next to me, his head was exploding.' That's me!"
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Bob Dylan - Day of the Locusts (Official Audio)
Official Audio for "Day of the Locusts" by Bob DylanListen to Bob Dylan: https://bobdylan.lnk.to/listenYDSubscribe to the Bob Dylan YouTube channel: https://...
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"Since flippers, no new generation has mastered the illegal body exertions, and TILT, once as honorable as a saber scar, is no more important than a foul ball. The second chance is the essential criminal idea; it is the lever of heroism, and the only sanctuary of the desperate."
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Rest in peace, Jeff Beck. Among many other accomplishments, he gave the greatest acceptance speech in the history of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
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