Warren Zevon - Full Concert - 10/01/82 - Capitol Theatre (OFFICIAL)

I'm an aspiring young musician who's only just discovered Mr. Zevon's music. I wish I could tell him that he's the first artist I've discovered in a long time who's made me really excited about playing music again. R.I.P. Warren, you're still touching people's lives.

Saw him on the Excitable Boy tour. The audience went nuts and wouldn't let him go. They did the usual encores, but after two or three there was a long delay. Even when the house lights came on, the crowd wouldn't stop clapping so the band came out rather awkwardly but finally got organized and did another song. They left the stage obviously in gratitude and it happened again! A fifth encore--this time an awkward huddle while they decided on a song. When that one was done, the crowd couldn't believe what had happened! So they called them back for another encore! Warren came out and played a song at the piano by himself. By this time the applause was as much a thank you as a call for more. They closed the stage curtain to try and give the audience a hint, but the applause continued. Warren and the band came out a seventh time in front of the curtain to say thank you and they didn't have any songs left!

Warren Zevon was an underrated genius. There was/is nobody like him. Unfortunately, he left us WAY too soon.

No offense to Billy Joel, but Warren will always be the true Piano Man to me. It's because of him that I picked up a keyboard and started to seriously try my hand at music. One of the world's finest.

1/8/2023 Fantastic performance!! RIP, friend. You can bet that I "enjoy every sandwich" now, having colan cancer four years on. And sick again. 🎼👏👏✌💪🏖

I was a HUGE Warren Zevon fan in the 80's...played all his stuff NONSTOP...he had come to Univ. of Colorado at Boulder (1976), I was a freshman... and he was TRASHED...couldn't finish his set...but I still loved his music. As life had it I was in Melbourne Australia in a Hilton Hotel and he was playing with the Little River band (1990), I knew the keyboard player for LRB and he introduced me to Warren. I asked him about "detox mansion" and asked me if I "knew Bill W?"...I sort of did and he sat with me for dinner and then invited me to lunch the next day in the hotel...HE then left me a message with the front desk before he left...wishing me well. I was a pilot for Australian Airlines and he said he "wished he could do something like that"...i thought it was ironic...he was with some politicians daughter. I ran into him again years later in my hometown of Ft. Collins Colorado 1993?..he was just walking down the street to get some "marlboro Lights" and he was playing in a small bar...he put on a HELL of a show..but there couldn't have been more than 100 people..he was a true hard driver...he gave it all he had. Miss his music..he told me he liked to play the guitar best but was better at piano.

I was there and it FUCKING rocked !

Forty years later and still this is a classic concert.

Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner.....might be the fullest complete story ever told by a rock song. Brilliant.

Grew up in Nj - my uncle lived in cali in late 70s. Was always hungry for that next album. He brought me a copy of Excitable Boy, put it on my phonograph w giant headphones. The rest was history. Had the pleasure of seeing WZ over 40 times through the ups and downs. Always slayed me to the core. Last show was in Annapolis Md on my birthday - during his second to last album- his encore was wind beneath my wings which he sang with utmost sincerity. I Did not know he was sick at the time but he must have known as his edge was way more serious than all previous shows. His last two albums are fucking gems, no one writes songs like that anymore. While never mainstream he deserved a lot more recognition than he received. He is my go to on the darkest of days and the brightest of days. Dude was beyond genius. Let’s keep passing his music on, because he was an American treasure.. Keep him in our hearts for a long while..

Its 7 Sep 2023. 20 years ago already since we lost this brilliant man and his genius talent. Saw him in Adelaide, Australia in 1990..? if i remember correctly, and it was one of the BEST shows ever. Back of an Aussie pub, no more than 60 odd people and we were, up front, eyeball to eyeball. Visceral, incredible and unforgettable. Thank you Mr Zevon hope you're having a drink with Roland. Cheers. From Australia 🇦🇺

As I grow older I appreciate his music more and more

What a great show, when Warren was near his peak of popularity. As the years passed, the record sales slowed, and the audiences and venues got smaller, but Warren never lost his edge. In his last years, I heard him say in an interview, with his classic dark humor, that he did not think of himself as a has-been rock star, but more as a really successful folk singer. He was one of a kind!

My husband just reminded me that we were at this concert. He was working at his very first job in Passaic and we had just moved down the road a piece to Montclair. Man, what a wild ride of music we were fortunate to have when we were young. Awesome that YouTube lets us relive it.

I met Warren in '95...the summer he was hangin with Carl Hiaasen , working on his FLORIDA-FLAVOURED ALBUM "MUTINEER". BTW, the album was named for a restaurant where the girls from my office and I lunched a couple days a week. Genius that he was, Warren had this problem of finding places where he was supposed to meet up with friends. Thats how I met him.. While he was waiting for Carl to rescue him at a Borders bookstore. I came away from that 10-15 minute contact with the Force Of Nature that was Warren Zevon utterly besotted. If I could have seen that less than a decade later he would be gone...I think I'd have focused more on the ephemeral things like the scent he wore..the flash and dazzle of that incredible grin of his....and bugger the book of poetry I had picked up. ICARUS FLEW TOO CLOSE TO THE FLORIDA SUN.

I don't know how I ever missed this. Never got to see Warren in person, this is the next best thing. Great to see him in his prime, with a killer tight band!

How can anyone who loves music not love Warren Zevon? This man was a brilliant musician who gave the special gift of his music to generations past and, I hope, he will be appreciated by generations to come.

What an artist! He's not from my generation, I'm 25 but still the man speaks directly to my soul. One of a kind person. And immortal by the way.

He wasn’t writing songs for pop music he was writing the music he liked and i love his music.

Zevon defines the word, "Intense."