Those behind us grumbled but there wasn't any real confrontation.
People showed up behind us as the afternoon turned to evening, but every time a teammate arrived we signaled them to come directly to the front of the line where we held sway. That was cause for another shot which we liberally obliged ourselves. Not long after, Warren came along and greeted us casually as he went inside. Armed with a bottle of Wild Turkey, another student and I went to the bar in the late afternoon and started the line out front. I was a graduate student at Georgia Tech at the time and was therefore able to break away from school easier than my working cohorts so I stepped forward. It was a general admission concert that started rather early so we needed a volunteer to hold a place in line for the team. Zevon himself) please accept my apologies.īack in the early eighties I played rugby for the Atlanta Renegades Rugby Football Club and, as a team, we invaded a Zevon concert one night in a now nonexistent Atlanta club named the Harvestmoon. Please understand that this is speculative - based on a true story yes, but speculative none-the-less - so if someone out there knows for sure otherwise (like the honorable Mr. I have a working theory of its motivation which I'll explain with some historical perspective. Thompson, but after some discussion, we agreed that we don't know with any certainty what made him start using it in the late eighties to adorn his albums. We figure that its source may go back some years and is likely to be related to Hunter S. Zevonfan1 and I recently had an e-mail conversation about what might have motivated Warren Zevon to start using the "smoking skull" image on his album covers. Common refrain from friendly bar managers in Atlanta, circa 1983 Note: This article is no longer available on its original server - retrieved from the Internet Archiveīy Harry the Wheelchair those rugby guys they can stay and listen to Warren all night if they want,īut they're gonna have to get down off the tables.
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