WARREN ZEVON : THINGS TO DO IN CLEVELAND

 

  1. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
  2. Play It All Night Long
  3. Poor Poor Pitiful Me
  4. Mr. Bad Example
  5. Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead
  6. First We Take Manhattan
  7. Detox Mansion
  8. Boom Boom Mancini
  9. Excitable Boy
  10. Model Citizen
  11. The Envoy
  12. Jungle Work
  13. Searching For A Heart
  14. That's Amore
  15. Werewolves Of London
  16. Into The Mystic
  17. Lawyers, Guns And Money

Label : Zip City

Venue : Empire Concert Club, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Recording Date : January 5, 1992

Length : 81:53

Quality : FM recording (A+)

Review : Things To Do In Cleveland captures Warren Zevon on January 5, 1992, tearing through a full-band show at the Empire Concert Club in Cleveland, Ohio, broadcast live over local FM radio while he was touring behind Mr. Bad Example. The set draws heavily on that then-recent album, with the title track, "Model Citizen" and "The Envoy" sitting alongside older favorites, while the dark humor and razor-sharp songwriting that defined his career come through in staples like "Excitable Boy," "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" and "Lawyers, Guns And Money." A tough, road-hardened backing band pushes extended workouts like "Play It All Night Long," "First We Take Manhattan" and a lengthy "Werewolves Of London" well past their studio running times, while a brief detour into "That's Amore" shows off Zevon's wry sense of humor on stage. As an unofficial FM broadcast rather than an official live album, the recording offers a warts-and-all document of Zevon in fine form during one of the more turbulent stretches of his career, and remains a favorite among collectors for the sheer energy of the performance.

Note : In this recording, the DJ's comments were carefully erased.