"Lawyers Guns and Money," and an inspired "Excitable Boy," which he followed with "Poor Poor Pitiful Me," practically admitting to the crowd that these two tunes are essentially the same songs with different lyrics. Lost for decades, a relic from the Beatles’ last official concert in SF has been unearthed.Why gas prices are shooting up in California and not in other states.Horoscope for Thursday, 10/06/22 by Christopher Renstrom.Chevron's Bay Area headquarters sold, but the oil company has new East Bay offices.Bay Area 'Western White House' sells for $10 million under asking price.KGO host talks about Bay Area radio station's abrupt signoff.Horoscope for Friday, 10/07/22 by Christopher Renstrom.Zevon and his band played a remarkable version of "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead," adding both a memorable, extended introduction and a hard-edged ending. "Mutineer," one of his softer, more melodic offerings, Zevon remarked, "the 80's sure would have been a lot different if I found out I could sing like Christopher Cross back then." After performing the title track to his most recent work, Performing a mix of his newer work and his better known older material, Zevon kept the audience involved with his comic sense and his self-deprecating humor. Zevon is not about to write a "moon, June, spoon" song when there are rhymes like "mystics and statistics" and tunes to be written about rottweilers and headless machine gunners. He was particularly impressive on "Play It All Night Long," the beautiful, perverted tale of country living, sick cows and the impact of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" played at top volume. Considering that his records have always showcased some of the finest session guitarists in the business - Waddy Wachtel and David Lindley, for example - it shouldn't be too shocking to find that Zevon has himself picked up a lick or 10 along the way. Smiling at the exuberance of what he called his "favorite band," with excellent keyboardist Patrick Fitzpatrick (told you they were Irish), Zevon was free to play quite a bit of guitar, which he did with semi-surprising excellence. With the five-member Something Happens opening the show and serving as his backup band, Zevon was able to draw from the youthful group, smiling as they pushed the older rocker to give his all.
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