MEDIUM Vinyl Record WEIGHT 180gr (black Vinyl) 33rpm CONDITION sealed COVER Standard CONDITION COVER M mint COVER DAMAGES No, we take care about that SERIALNUMBER No LIMITED No MISCELLANEOUS Stereo, insert MUSICIAN HOMEPAGEwarrenzevon.com
stand in the fire - 3:26
jeannie needs a shooter - 4:00
excitable boy - 3:52
mohammed's radio - 4:45
werewolves of london - 4:48
lawyers, guns and money - 3:49
the sin - 3:06
poor poor pitiful me - 4:08
i'll sleep when i'm dead - 4:28
bo diddley's a gunslinger / bo diddley - 4:15
Warren Zevon had toured for quite some time as a songwriter in the rock scene, released a few singles and landed a flop with his debut LP in 1969 before the tide finally turned
Roughly ten years later, his live album – put together from a five-day residency at the Roxy Theater in West Hollywood – entered the annals of vinyl history as one of the best live albums of all time and was awarded four stars by the magazine Rolling Stone
Ambiguously entitled by the comprehensively educated Zevon, who had been confronted with the tough side of show business, "Stand In The Fire" delivers genial simple pure and straightforward rock right from the start, which hit the public with a vengeance
Full of vim and elation, the band pours out the significant, biting verses with fire ("Jeannie Needs A Shooter") and fuels the emotional inferno with high-speed bursts of rock ("Excitable Boy")
Zevon proves his skills as a singer and songwriter in the ballad-like yet powerful "Mohammed’s Radio"
In a direct comparison to this number we have the forthright, no-nonsense hit "Werewolves Of London" with its close harmonies
Just how Zevon manages to succeed in getting his delicate voice and lyrics over to the public is shown in the powerful mix of heavy and honky-tonk ("I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead") and finally in the thunderous final number – "Bo Didley’s A Gunslinger" – with its percussive and metrically complicated antiphony
RECORDING LIVE August 1980 at The Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood, CA. ENGINEERING Billy Youdelman, Greg Ladanyi LABEL Asylum RE MASTERING -- RE RELEASED 2019 AVERAGE RATING 4 ½ Sterne von 5 PRESSING by Pallas MADE IN Germany STYLE Pop / Rock / Album Rock AVAILABLE as long as inventory stock
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