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Revision as of 01:04, 2 April 2012
Welcome to the Warren Zevon Wiki
The wiki about Warren Zevon that anyone can edit
141 articles since November 28, 2008.
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What's new on Warren Zevon Wiki
- April 1, 2012
- Our apologies for not having any new featured media up for the past two months. To make up for it, we have put up a brand new article!
- December 6, 2011
- After over a months absence, the featured media is back! Whoo!
- August 18, 2011
- Well, here is this month's featured media. All delays have reasons, some of them interesting...
- May 1, 2011
- The Warren Zevon Wiki celebrates two full years of featured content each month.
- October 8, 2010
- We apologize for the late update of this month's featured media as the moderators were ill, under the (dental) knife, or otherwise engaged.
- May 3, 2010
- The Warren Zevon Wiki celebrates a full year of featured content each month. We the moderators apologize for being a few days off this month.
- January 20, 2010
- Inspired by our January featured image, and the moderators' similar work on the Blood Wiki, we are uploading fan artwork (largely from deviantART) to help illustrate the wiki and recognize the work of the fans.
- December 28, 2009
- The Warren Zevon Wiki now has a new logo, created by Malcolm Wilson.
- November 28, 2009
- As of its first anniversary, the Warren Zevon Wiki now has 100 articles.
- August 7, 2009
- The Warren Zevon Wiki welcomes User:Doom Reverb!
- May 1, 2009
- The Warren Zevon Wiki now has a monthly updated (if at all possible) featured article, image, and quote.
- April 26, 2009
- The Warren Zevon Wiki now has an offical logo.
- April 25, 2009
- User:Technopeasant and User:Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner now have administrative powers.
- March 29, 2009
- The Warren Zevon Wiki now has 50 articles!
- November 28, 2008
- The Warren Zevon Wiki is now open to editors!
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Featured article
"Worrier King" is a song that Warren Zevon would sing during live performances, although it nerved appeared on any of his studio album. A recording of him playing and singing the song does however appear on the live compilation album Learning to Flinch (1993). In 1992, Warren met blues performer John Hammond, whom he considered to be one of his heroes. Inspired, he went out the next morning and bought a pair of fingerpicks and a bottleneck and in the course of only one half hour taught himself how to play slide guitar, subsequently writing the song Worrier King for Hammond.
More Information...
Featured media
Warren Zevon and some of his guitars.
Featured quote
"You take up the guitar in the first place because you're an inarticulate person and then you go out and talk eight hours a day about it.'"
- Warren Zevon commenting on the motivations behind guitar playing.
