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Recorded
  
August 1980

Stand in the Fire(1980)
  
The Envoy(1982)

Release date
  
26 December 1980

Genre
  
Rock music

Length
  
1:00:32

Artist
  
Warren Zevon

Label
  
Rhino Entertainment

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Released
  
December 26, 1980 (1980-12-26)

Venue
  
The Roxy Theatre, Los Angeles

Producers
  
Warren Zevon, Greg Ladanyi

Similar
  
Warren Zevon albums, Rock music albums

Stand in the Fire is a live album by American singer/songwriter Warren Zevon, released December 26, 1980. It was recorded in August 1980 during a five-day residency at The Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood, California and featured two new original songs ("Stand in the Fire" and "The Sin") and one new cover ("Bo Diddley's a Gunslinger"). The album was dedicated to Martin Scorsese. It was released in a limited edition, LP replica sleeve on CD April 25, 2006 in Japan. A remastered and expanded edition was released on March 26, 2007 in the U.K., March 27, 2007 in the U.S.

Contents

Band members Zeke Zirngiebel, Bob Harris and Marty Stinger were in Boulder, a band signed to Elektra Records. The singer was Stan Bush. Their self-titled album was released in 1979 and it included Zevon's "Join Me in L.A." Bob Harris later went on to work with Frank Zappa.

Zevon called the concerts "The Dog Ate the Part We Didn't Like Tour".

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Track listing

All songs written by Warren Zevon unless otherwise indicated.

  1. "Stand in the Fire" – 3:26
  2. "Jeannie Needs a Shooter" (Bruce Springsteen, Zevon) – 4:00
  3. "Excitable Boy" (LeRoy Marinell, Zevon) – 3:52
  4. "Mohammed's Radio" – 4:45
  5. "Werewolves of London" (Marinell, Waddy Wachtel, Zevon) – 4:48
  6. "Lawyers, Guns and Money" – 3:49
  7. "The Sin" – 3:06
  8. "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" – 4:08
  9. "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" – 4:28
  10. "Bo Diddley's a Gunslinger" / "Bo Diddley" (Bo Diddley) – 4:15

Bonus Tracks on 2007 Remastered Edition

  1. "Johnny Strikes Up The Band" – 3:58
  2. "Play It All Night Long" – 4:50
  3. "Frank and Jesse James" – 4:27
  4. "Hasten Down The Wind" – 4:33

Personnel

  • Warren Zevon – bass, guitar, piano, keyboards, vocals, 12 string guitar
  • David Landau – lead guitar
  • Zeke Zirngiebel – guitar, electric guitar, rhythm guitar, steel guitar, vocals, 12 string guitar
  • Bob Harris – synthesizer, piano, backing vocals
  • Roberto Piñón – bass, backing vocals
  • Marty Stinger – drums
    • Technical
  • George Gruel - road manager
  • Jimmy Wachtel, Michael Curtis - art direction, photography
  • Recorded by Billy Youdelman and Greg Ladanyi
  • Mixed by Greg Ladanyi, assisted by James Ledner

    • Charts

    Album

    Songs

    1Stand in the Fire3:39
    2Jeannie Needs a Shooter4:03
    3Excitable Boy4:12

    References

    Stand in the Fire Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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