Goode.” Zevon’s somewhat sudden decision to record his new touring band in concert spoke volumes about the guy’s essential rock ’n’ roll attitude. The so-called audition consisted of a spirited version of “Johnny B. session guys from his albums, but with the little-known Colorado group. So Zevon took to the road, not with the L.A. “We liked the theme of the song, and we were moving to L.A., where we’d never been before,” lead singer Bob Harris explained. The debut album, Boulder, included a harrowing and intelligent version of Zevon’s “Join Me in L.A.” The band signed with Elektra/Asylum Records in November and moved to Los Angeles. The band Boulder – Todd McKinney, Zeke Zirngiebel, Bob Harris, Stan Bush, Mithran Cabin, Marty Stingerīoulder began recording material in Florida in January 1978 and did additional work at Caribou Ranch in Colorado. “One of our roadies was a carpenter, and we went all out with hammers and nails and plasterboard,” drummer Marty Stinger recalled. They finally built their own rehearsal studio in a two-car garage in the vicinity of Denver. The act was complete by 1976, when the members relocated to Colorado and acquired their name.īoulder did college and club dates, but the members were wary of becoming a copy band and burning out on the road. The nucleus formed in Florida in 1972, and the other members, all veterans of bar bands throughout the U.S., joined in installments. Then he met the group called Boulder (née Helix).īoulder was seven players, most of them writers and five of them singers. First, he enlisted the aid of East Coast guitar ace David Landau. In 1978, he’d had a Top 10 single with “Werewolves of London.” But his career was temporarily set back by alcoholism.Īfter a year in the studio and “in training,” Zevon’s 1980 release, Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School, represented something of a comeback for him, and he was eager to tour. Singer-songwriter Zevon’s ironic tales of physical and psychological mayhem had earned him a cult following, and he was dubbed “the Sam Peckinpah of rock” after the director who opened the door for graphic violence in movies. He said, ‘Well, it is an appointment.’ He won, and I was. A friend of mine was running for councilman, and late one night in the Hotel Jerome bar, I said that if he won, I wanted to be appointed coroner. “My ex-wife grew up in Aspen, which is a sort of rarity, I presume,” Zevon explained. After their breakup, he worked alternately with Phil and Don Everly-and sojourned to Aspen long enough to be appointed honorary coroner of Pitkin County, Colorado. Warren Zevon spent a couple of years in the early 1970s touring as the Everly Brothers’ pianist/bandleader.
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