Friday Night Music
I forgot about this collaboration with Misters Zevon and Springsteen.
Disorder in the house
Reptile wisdom
Zombies on the lawn staggering aroundDisorder in the house
There's a flaw in the system
And the fly in the ointment's gonna bring the whole thing downThe floodgates are open
We've let the demons looseThe big guns have spoken
And we've fallen for the ruseDisorder in the house
It's a fate worse than fame
Even the Lhasa Apso seems to be ashamedIt's the home of the brave and the land of the free
Where the less you know the better off you'll be- Warren Zevon, Disorder in the House
That's the thing about getting old, more and more people just disappear, some you wish not.
Zevon’s mom was Californian Mormon, his dad, Russian Jewish, what a place America can be. His father, William Zivotofskys came to US in 1905 when he was two, out of Kiev, when it was, as it had been for centuries, part of Carzist Russian Empire. Williams parents seem to have fled an infamous Kiev pogrom. The Jews always had to be looking over their shoulders in Europe, a good Christian land, or use to be anyway.
His dad went from New York to Capone Chicago, where he fell in with the mob. Even in 1920s there were gangstas in Chicago. Warren was born in Chicago. Then the family moved out to California, where among other things, it seems William ran book or something for Mickey Cohen.
At 13 in Los Angeles, talented, classical music training Warren met Igor Stravinsky a number of times and talked music, now there's some pedigree.
Many, many years ago, I saw Zevon in Chicago, small club. Just him, no band, a couple guitars and piano, it was great. He wrote the best song ever about Los Angeles, Desperados Under the Eaves.