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• Actors: Warren Zevon
• Format: NTSC, Color
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Sony
• Run Time: 68 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000VORSC8
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #344,307 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Warren Zevon recorded live at the Capitol Theater in New Jersey on November 1982 in a concert broadcast on MTV. Songs include Johnny Strikes up the Band , The Overdraft , A Certain Girl , Jeannie Needs a Shooter , Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner , The Envoy , Simple Man, Charlie's Medicine, Jungle Work , Play It All Night Long, Accidentally Like a Martyr , Poor, Poor Pitiful Me , Cadillac Ranch, Excitable Boy , Ain't That Pretty at All , Werewolves of London.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I just brought this home, June 22, 2009

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Bruce P. Barten (Saint Paul, MN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Warren Zevon Video LP (Live on MTV, 1982) (VHS Tape)

Now that I am retired and have more time to work on music, when I was at my son's house for Father's Day in 2009 I found this VHS tape, one the first concert videos I ever bought, so I could see the rocking parts of "Charlie's Medicine" that I missed seeing when I was just listening to the song on a record. Within the last year, I have wanted to play that song everyplace people have never heard anything like "Charlie's Medicine" before.
It is taking me years to learn to play "Charlie's Medicine." Mainly I am glad that plowing into old age like a rocker is giving me the time to appreciate some of the things I liked between the time I was 12 and 62 more than I had a chance to the first time around. A pattern of notes that repeats while the verses are sung has so many things to get together at the same time that my practicing has to be repeated until it is impossible to do any one tricky thing wrong while I am doing something else. I am not quick enough to do the notes on a guitar, but using two hands on the same octave of a piano I did it often enough in the four weeks that I was with my mother that she told me the notes were going through her head when she went to sleep when she finally thought it was time for me to go home. I got out of Wichita, Kansas, before the church shooting started, but retirement allows me to appreciate Warren Zevon more than I ever liked going to church every week or work every day. Warren Zevon was the most exciting person I knew who was my age. He was born two months before I was in 1947. Then Emmylou Harris was born within two weeks after me. When I listen to people who had such great talent, it makes me proud to think: this is us.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rabid Fan, January 6, 2011

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MJM05010 - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Warren Zevon Video LP (Live on MTV, 1982) (VHS Tape)

As someone who missed out on the whole "Zevon Experience", he was dead before I was really aware of him, This VHS is the closest I will ever get to seeing him live, and it's amazing!