Friday, November 14, 2025
Time: 9:15 AM
Song: Lawyers, Guns and Money
Artist: Warren Zevon
Mode of Consumption: Listening to album “Excitable Boy” on Spotify while at work.
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/64dHj8ZxaI2Wj0brEehVMN?si=497696392ffa4487
Warren Zevon was inducted into the Rock ‘N Roll Hall of Fame earlier this week. David Letterman, who was champion of Zevon’s music, did the inducting. Zevon filled in numerous times over the years for Paul Schaeffer as the band leader for the Letterman show.
Zevon also appeared on the Letterman show about a year before his death to talk about his cancer diagnosis and perform songs from his final album along with a few of his standards.
Zevon told Letterman that night that the terminal prognosis hadn’t really changed his perspective other than to “enjoy every sandwich.”
After Letterman’s induction speech and as video package, the Killers performed “Lawyers, Guns and Money.” They did an admirable job.
This week on the Pandemonium, the theme was to provide three songs from one of your favorite albums from the 1970s. Since I had just watched the Zevon induction on YouTube, I decided I would include song from the 1978 album “Excitable Boy.”
The album features Zevon’s most successful single “Werewolves of London.” I like that song, but thought I’d go with “Lawyers, Guns and Money,” “Roland the Headless Gunner,” and “Excitable Boy.” The song “Veracruz” was also in the running.
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