Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Rockin' Round the Gene Pool

Holy Christ -- from 2004, it's the Wallflowers (with Jakob Dylan) and Jordan Zevon doing his dad's fricking great "Lawyers, Guns and Money."



Wow. Rather spectacular evidence that talent, if not necessarily genius, can be inherited, wouldn't you say?

10 comments:

geor3ge said...

Wow!

I always gave the Wallflowers short shrift before. They can wail, can't they?

TMink said...

Wow as well. The bands saound so much better when they play with their own rhythm section.

A great song, and one of Dave's favorites I understand.

Good find, thanks for sharing.

Trey

Anonymous said...

I remember being blown away when that first aired; so nice to see it again. Still, it's a shame that we're such a bunch of crybabies that they had to censor the word "shit" in there.

Hey, has anyone seen a recent photo of Jakob Dylan? He's got some fuzz on his face, and you'd swear he just stepped off the cover of Nashville Skyline.

steve simels said...

I just got his new album in the mail. Haven't heard it yet, but I guess I'll throw it on the iPod for the weekend...

Ali said...

Heartthrob alert!

MBowen said...

Poor Jordan...it must suck to lose your hair before your dad does...

Who Am Us Anyway? said...

Cool, cool, cool. And hey you know what, Justin Townes Earle is another case in point re apples, falling, distance & trees.

Cleveland Bob said...

Wallflowers rock.

NYMary said...

Hmmm, I used to go drinking with The Wallflowers guitarist, back in the days when Ben Peeler had just been unceremoniously dumped from The Mavericks. He was the housemate of a guy I went to school with. Nice guy. Quiet; very, very talented.

MBowen said...

More r&r offspring notes: Richard & Linda Thompson's son, Teddy, is about to drop his fourth album, while their daughter Kamila's debut is also imminent. (Third child Muna is staying far from the music biz, at least so far.) Both seem to take after Mom more than Dad, with Teddy in particular being a spectacularly talented harmony singer.