Warren Zevon
The Record Plant
1978-07-27
Los Angeles, CA
01. [intro]
02. Johnny Strikes up the Band
03. Tenderness on the Block
04. Mohammed’s Radio
05. Excitable Boy
06. Werewolves of London
07. Accidentally Like a Martyr
08. [band intros]
09. Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
10. Poor Poor Pitiful Me
11. Lawyers, Guns and Money
Encore
12. I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead
Notes
01. [0:18.14] [intro]
02. [3:01.35] Johnny Strikes up the Band
03. [4:09.24] Tenderness on the Block
04. [4:55.71] Mohammed’s Radio
05. [3:48.69] Excitable Boy
06. [5:08.44] Werewolves of London
07. [4:32.30] Accidentally Like a Martyr
08. [1:50.11] [band intros]
09. [4:37.26] Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
10. [4:26.61] Poor Poor Pitiful Me
11. [4:59.09] Lawyers, Guns and Money
Encore
12. [4:40.11] I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead
Total 46:28.30
Personnel
Rick Marotta – drums
Stanley Sheldon – bass guitar
Waddy Wachtel – lead guitar
[There’s also an unidentified rhythm guitarist.]
Notes
» t07: pop at about 0:10
» A few track splits leave something to be desired
» Updated and uploaded to archive.org on 15 April 2005
This is a classic Warren Zevon set. For clarification, this recording was done at the Record Plant in Sausalito, California, not Los Angeles, and was recorded for broadcast on KSAN in San Francisco.
Wow! Warren was at the height of his success as a rock star and drinking as an alcoholic with his third album and its subsequent tour. This concert was before Warren’s leg injury in Chicago, where he was born in 1947, after falling off the stage later in the year. Judging by the music video, Warren’s drunken dancing would have occurred during “Nighttime In the Switching Yard” from Excitable Boy. I watched the bootleg videos from the tour in 1980 when Warren switched from alcohol to cocaine. The tour resulted in one of my favourite live albums: Stand In the Fire. I owned it on cassette for my car until it was finally released on compact disc in 2007.