5/30/2023 0 Comments Warren zevon life will kill ya"Danny Goldberg has always been known as an artist guy as opposed to a big industry guy – although he is a big industry guy." I've always heard about Danny, but I didn't know him. He just said that Danny was starting something and he wanted Danny to hear it. "There wasn't even a label when Jackson proposed it. He said, ‘Are you going to do anything with these?’ I said, ‘I dunno. ‘I don’t think I’m gong to do anything with it, but I think you should hear it.’ We sat in my car and I played it for him. I gave a tape to David Letterman and he plugged it on the air. "I kinda made the record for six people," Zevon told Salon, explaining that the diminished financial realities of his recording career led him to cut many of the tracks in his home studio. Listen to 'I Was in the House When the House Burned Down'Īmong the first on that list was Jackson Browne, who helped Zevon secure his first record deal, and who again stepped in at an opportune moment to bring Life'll Kill Ya to the finish line. As he explained in multiple interviews, that wasn't the kind of thing he'd ever really had to chase anyway: At different points in his career, he'd always benefited from the largesse of well-heeled and/or influential fans that had shepherded his music where it needed to go. It seems to me like I'd substitute something for inspiration, which is what makes songwriting so interesting – not knowing why you thought of the songs."Ĭlear on his commercial prospects, Zevon continued writing and performing, but grew progressively more ambivalent about the idea of another record deal. So I don't know what would happen if I worked more hours and worked harder. "This is a rationalization for the fact that I'm profoundly lazy. "I've got to concentrate for an hour a day because that's all I'll be able to be really creative for – like sitting down with a guitar and a typewriter and recording stuff, you know what I mean? I may be thinking about the song the other 23 hours of the day but it's not going to do me any good," he admitted during an interview with DIG Internet Radio. It had also become increasingly difficult to put together an album's worth of songs Zevon felt truly lived up to his standards – and he wasn't willing to scratch much deeper than he already had. Both of those are pretty difficult goals, but even a laughable attempt at either one can keep you busy as a motherfucker for years and years." I decided I should be able to read 'Pater Noster' in Russian. "I decided I wanted to play flute like Hubert Laws. There are certainly a lot of things to do besides single-mindedly pursue a show-business career," Zevon shrugged during a conversation with Rolling Stone when asked about the prolonged hiatus. "The older you get, the more you realize that there’s a shitload of stuff to do.
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