When Warren took my picture
Joanne Corsano
March 14, 2000. As I usually do at concerts, I arrived early and
secured a good standing spot in the front row. I had a
point-and-shoot camera with me and took a few pictures as the show
went along. Warren sat at his keyboard to perform "For My Next Trick
I'll Need a Volunteer," and I took one, or maybe two, pictures as he
sang it, and then put the camera down on the edge of the stage in
front of me.
At the end of the song he stood up as if he was going to resume
standing at the microphone to play a guitar song, but instead he
walked over to me, leaned over, picked up my camera, and said to me in
a soft voice, "you'll get this back." He said a few things to the
audience about the song he had just performed, and then he aimed the
camera at me and the person I was with and snapped a picture of us.
Then he held the camera at arm's length, pointed it at himself, and
took a picture of himself. He then put the camera down on his piano
bench, and at the end of the next song, brought it over to me and gave
it back to me.
As you can imagine, the audience absolutely cracked up during this
incident, and it makes me smile to this day to think of it. Warren
truly showed the kind of person he was by taking the trouble to speak
to me as he was taking the camera. He didn't want me to think he was
stealing my camera, or that he was annoyed at me for taking pictures.
He just saw an opportunity for a little fun interaction with the
audience.
Needless to say I still have that camera even though I've progressed
to other cameras for actual picture taking. Here are the pictures:
http://www.cleancut-landscape.com/nicepace/axis31400-wz-took.jpg
http://www.cleancut-landscape.com/nicepace/axis31400-wz-self.jpg
I have put these two pictures on a website that I am about to take
down any day now, so if you want to download them and use them for
personal use, feel free, but do it soon. Just be sure to give proper
credit -- "photo by Warren Zevon"!
Joanne
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Very cool story, thanks for sharing that with us! One of a kind.
Jim
Susan
What a great example of what a normal guy he was, in a business that
encourages the extremes. I often think of someone like WZ when I
listen to a boot of a Springsteen performance where someone yells "I
love you" up to him on stage and Bruce got all serious on them "but you
don't even know me". Whereas, Jackson or Michael Stipe I've both heard
answer that common audience accolade with "I love you too". I could
see Warren doing that.........or what you described. Just beautiful
and natural and non paranoid.
thanks again.
susan
Lucy
those pics in a google search a long time ago and saved 'em.
Happy to "meet" you, Joanne. ;-D
-- Lucy
Lucy
> That is just a wonderful story, and very gracious of you to share it.
> What a great example of what a normal guy he was, in a business that
> encourages the extremes. I often think of someone like WZ when I
> listen to a boot of a Springsteen performance where someone yells "I
> love you" up to him on stage and Bruce got all serious on them "but you
> don't even know me". Whereas, Jackson or Michael Stipe I've both heard
> answer that common audience accolade with "I love you too". I could
> see Warren doing that.........or what you described. Just beautiful
> and natural and non paranoid.
>
> thanks again.
>
> susan
When Janine posted a "show report" from the July 2001 King
Kat in Seattle, she said:
>> At some point in the show, an audience member yelled
out, "We LOVE you Warren", to which his reply was, "How do
you MEAN, you love me? You love me like Faulkner? You love
me like your boy in prison? That's a word that gets used a
little bit too easily." <<
Leave it to WZ to mention Faulkner and "your boy in prison"
in the same breath.
-- Lucy
Susan
> When Janine posted a "show report" from the July 2001 King
> Kat in Seattle, she said:
>
> >> At some point in the show, an audience member yelled
> out, "We LOVE you Warren", to which his reply was, "How do
> you MEAN, you love me? You love me like Faulkner? You love
> me like your boy in prison? That's a word that gets used a
> little bit too easily." <<
>
> Leave it to WZ to mention Faulkner and "your boy in prison"
> in the same breath.
well, consistent with my life time batting average around the "L" word,
I was way the hell off on that guess, lol. I like his intelligent
engagement of the audience over Bruce's something of a "you're a moron"
comment (tho in all fairness, I think he was going thru a major mid
life crisis at the time).
thanks Lucy-another great WZ sharing.
susan
haro...@yahoo.ca
Joanne Corsano
>OMG!! That's YOU??!?!?!?!? How cool is that!! I found
>those pics in a google search a long time ago and saved 'em.
>
>Happy to "meet" you, Joanne. ;-D
>
LOL!!!!!! Yes, Lucy, that's me. I think I had the story and the
pictures posted on an old Kinks-fan website I used to have a few years
ago.
Valerie Brock
answered that with:
"You love me like I'm Hemingway? Or you love me like I'm your boy?" He
didn't say anything about the word itself.
If I have this FR, everybody has it, probably, as I don't have very many.
Doug
Doug
Susan
> I was just listening to an FR from a show in Chicago (I think), and he
> answered that with:
> "You love me like I'm Hemingway? Or you love me like I'm your boy?" He
> didn't say anything about the word itself.
That dichotomy nails the issue down a bit more for me (thanks WZ!)
There are different types of love, aren't there? CS Lewis wrote about
four types, from ancient Greek origins, so I don't know if he just
picked the four of many or they stopped counting after that. I think
Warren was talking about loving someone for what they do in contrast
with loving them for who they are, and I guess I'd argue that when a
person reveals themselves-disrobes in a way-in front of the public
regularly, as some musicians do, that line gets blurred. Of course,
the listeners have to maintain reality in their love-that as much as we
can never know anyone fully, we surely can't know someone who we don't
have any sort of one-to-one relationship to any real depth. We can
love what they reveal, nothing else. But that seems true to some
degree in our "real time" relationships too.........
sorry for the diversionary babbling,
susan