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- 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
"Play It All Night Long" is a song by American singer/songwriter Warren Zevon from the album Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School, released in 1980. Warren Zevon explained that the song was written "really fast" while on marijuana on the synthesizer ostinato. The song is also considered a satire/homage to the dead band's song (Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama"). Warren had read a novel around the time the song was written by Newton Thornburg titled Black Angus and got the idea for the line "the cattle all have brucellosis" from it.
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Featured media
Warren Zevon takes a quick break from his work to stare into a camera, circa 1980.
Featured quote
"I have a certain sacrilegious lack of interest in 'grooving,' per se, the whole idea of 'the white groove.' Maybe this is all a reaction to a critic who once reviewed me and said that I had 'two grooves, only two: slow march and fast march.' To which I can only respond, 'You want groove? Eddie Palmieri has groove.' Or fill in the [blank] prominent, white singer/songwriter, rock star of our age. 'What groove? This drummer hits two and four, am I a nano-second sooner or later?' I don't know. It's ignorance, I guess, masquerading as smart-aleckry. But I still mean it."
- Stated by Warren Zevon on the topic of beats and "grooves" during an interview.
