Sorry Thrash, but on every version I have of Warren Zevon's 'Things to do in Denver' the line is - I saw Waddy in the Rattlesnake Cafe. I sure like this guy and it was a thrill playing with him on stage.Also, Warren Zevon wrote 'Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead'.ĭressed black, tossing back a shot of ryeįinding things to do in Denver when you die Neil and I spent some more time together. We played Splendid Isolation and eat eat day. Later Neil and Pegi arrived, Neil wearing 'Old Velvet Nose' boldly on his T-shirt.He asked me what we were going to do. Newman seemed to have no interest in me whatsoever.Neil and I running into each other was major local news.

Rode over to the festival site early with Randy Newman and his guy. They're with their son at camp: pure coincidence. 'Stopped to eat at what seemed like no more than a crossroads in the middle of nowhere: we walked in and there was Neil Young and his wife, Pegi. The biography uses passages from his diary. Neil then returned the favour by inviting him to the Bridge Benefit. Of course 'that dead band's song' refers to Lynyrd Skynyrd's anthem 'Sweet home Alabama' with the immortal lines:Ī southern man don't need him around anyhow'įrom Warren Zevon's biography, the sory is that he ran into Neil and invited him to play a benefit show. Neil Young played on one of Warren Zevon albums, the title song of the 1987 album Sentimental Hygiene with a blistering guitar solo.Īnd a minor Warren and Neil connection is Zevon's song 'Play It All Night Long' with the lyrics: Neil also plays lead guitar on Warren Zevon's song 'Gridlock' from his 1989 album, Transverse City. Neil was a guest on two songs: 'Splendid Isolation' and 'Comes A Time'. The late, great Warren Zevon and Neil Young have a few interesting musical intersections.įrom Sugar Mountain Set Lists, Warren Zevon and Neil Young performed together on 07-11-1992 in Winter Park, Colorado. Winter Park, Colorado, 1992 - Photo by Richard Creamer Here's Warren Zevon & Neil Young on 'Splendid Isolation' at the for the 7th Annual Bridge School Benefit Concert at Shoreline Amphitheatre, 11/06/93. Back in 1987, Warren Zevon recorded 'Sentimental Hygiene' with Neil Young, Mike Mills and Bill Berry (R.E.M.'s rhythm section,essentially).

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