"Life’ll Kill Ya"

[Warren Zevon]

At one time a long time ago (around the same time as my Jackson Browne phase) I was a Warren Zevon fan. We’re talking first or second album. Now it turns out he’s known, and announced to his fans, for several years that he is dying of lung cancer. This passed me by until Chuck’s comment

that people should catch him on David Letterman on October 30th because it might be their last time. I’ll try, Warren, but in any case fare thee well…

Mentioning him in the same breath as Jackson Browne is ironic because of my favorite JB story. One day I entered an unfamiliar record store and went to browse the Jackson Browne bin, to find that someone had written on the tabbed divider for his section, “Somebody please shoot this guy and put him out of his misery.” I guess you had to be there…

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