[JennysCool]

This is a GREAT day! Finally, and about time!

[Jolla]

I saw the Grateful Dead in Oakland on 10/31 Halloween they did an encore cover with Werewolves of London, best sing along ever

[plain talk]

I am a fan of Warren. Not sure I ever saw him in RnR hall of fame but whatever. Better than some of the other riff raff. I like his live stuff better than studio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vXkDk3u4_k

[GaltMeister]

No kidding! WILLIE NELSON is in the Rock HOF but not Warren Zevon?

How nutty is that?

[gundog]

Just what the doctor ordered...

[lee martell]

All this, for that one hit record?

[Captainpaintball]

1. This is just a nomination.

Zevon and BOSTON need to go in.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Enjoy every sandwich, Warren!

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

I saw him open for Stevie Nicks. He was great. Stevie was drunk and crap.

[caver]

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is one of the biggest piles of bullshit that was ever created.

[dangus]

Warren Zevon? I like “Werewolves of London” as a fun, cheesey novelty song, but he is literally a one-hit wonder. That’s not a knock, a lot of great bands are zero-hit wonders and A Certain Girl, etc., are also fun rock songs. But Hall of Fame? Well, he’s better than Patti Smith, the Sex Pistols, etc.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

This is just a nomination. He still has to be voted in. Vote here. https://vote.rockhall.com/en/

[mylife]

RIP Warren

[dynachrome]

“lawyers, guns and money”
“roland the headless thompson gunner”
“Excitable boy”

All good stuff.

[Pelham]

Werewolves of London ping

[the OlLine Rebel]

Who?

And who the heck is “the likes of…the White Stripes”?

Is this like the Ramones and Smiths? Acts on the fringe that hipsters on the fringe talk up but most people don’t like? “Album-oriented rock”?

[StAnDeliver]

Agreed, but I recall a RollingStone article that summed up the problem with the two follow-ups after “Excitable Boy”: that Warren had invented a new song structure for pop that had finally ran the last tire treads over The Eagles, but New Wave from the UK (think Elvis Costello) had contemporaneously stolen all that “Crush-70s-AOR” energy/paradigm shift. “Lawyers, Guns, and Money” is just farging brilliant.

[GSWarrior]

I saw Warren Zevon in San Diego around 1987. X was the opening band.

[Michael.SF.]

My future wife worked at A&M Records as a receptionist way back when. I was going to have lunch with her and was waiting in the 'reception' area. sitting there was a scruffy looking guy. We exchanged pleasantries and a little side talk. He introduced himself. I did not recognize the name. Nice enough guy.

Maybe two years later, I saw him on Letterman. Yup Warren Zevon.

Love is stuff. Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner is a fav.

[43north]

When I used to drive long distances and had a cassette player in the car I had a tape of all of WZ’s big hits and I would sing my way down the road for hours. I would classify his music as testosterone-infused poetry that still is a lot of fun.

[Roadrunner383]

Linda Rondstat doing a live version of ‘Hasten Down The Wind’ which was on Warren Zevon’s self-titled album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-PHcEnjY_Y