"We Went to the NC State Fair and All I Can Say Is Shasayaaaham, Dude"!

 

 

 

Even Rock and Roll Geniuses Need Deep Fried Foods-Meet Jack Cornell and Jonathan Lowry-Rock Music Producers and Lovers of Deep Fat

 

God, I Love Raleigh!

The gig last night at Sadlack's was an incredible dream come true. A very tough,knowlegeable rock and roll crowd embrassed me by the end of the night. Folks were actually chanting, "Monty,Monty,Monty...", demanding encores after a 2 hour performance. Al Anderson and Terry Anderson not only show up, but stay for the night-sit 3 feet away from me as I performed some of their own songs in front of them. Then, God bless him, Terry hops behind the drums and off we go on impromptu versions of "Bottle and A Bible" and "Let it Loose", with the entire house singing along.
You know,I doubt that this would happen virtually anywhere else. These people are just the warmest, most honest, sharpest folks I've ever been around. Maybe there's a kinship among underdogs.
I'm gonna think about that and get back to you...but right now, I'm gonna go get a Mexican lunch with my long lost brother, Jack Cornell, and continue to thumb my nose at anyone who's got a stick too far up their ass to get what I'm talking about, and celebrate the fuck out of my having survived another year in this best of all possible worlds.
Happy birthday to me.

3 Days To Go....

Only 3 more days before my big debut at Sadlack's, in Raleigh, on Chuck Berry's birthday-October 18 at 7pm. I've been working through my set list and playing around with the "Dylan/Neil Young harmonica/orthodontia deal" and may just work up the courage to play harmonica while I'm playing acoustic through some songs.
My thanks to Greg Rice for booking me and to Barry Herndon for agreeing to help me out on this gig.
It's gonna be a party! Hope to see y'all out!

October: A Great Month For Musical Birthdays...

John Lennon-October 9;
Chuck Berry-October 18;
Tom Petty-October 20;
Monty Warren-October 19....

Top Ten Reasons That Keith Richard's Been My Lifelong Hero

(10)5 String Open Tuned Natural Tele;
(9)Ends most sentences with a smoker's laugh;
(8)2 words:Skull Ring;
(7)Truly loves to play guitar;
(6)Truly loves to hold a guitar;
(5)Always wears the guitar slung just so;
(4)Saunters around like he doesn't give a shit;
(3)He doesn't give a shit;
(2)Made Country Cool;
(1)Taught 2 Generations how to say:"Fuck You".

Miami Dolphins 'Fight Song"

"...Miami Dolphins. Miami Dolphins. Miami Dolphins number...32! Yes, we're the Miami Dolphins.....

"The Very Best of Mick Jagger" ....

Bwahaahaaahaaa! Mwhahaaahaha! Ok,ok-seriously...Bwhaaahaaahaaaaa!!!!!!

Life Just Got Shittier

So, after enjoying a beautiful weekend in Raleigh, I fly back to West Palm Beach late last Sunday night. It's humid,hot,rainy,etc., but nothing that I'm not used to.
Next morning,it's raining like all get out and, due to the flood, I decide to break with my morning routine of getting the paper and then making coffee, by reversing the procedure-hoping that the rain will let up enough to ease my waddle down the drive way to pick up the paper-which is by now floating in a mud puddle which used to be the swale of my driveway.
I make my coffee, prepare a nice steaming cup to raise my spirits and, as my eyes start to open, I venture out to get the now quite soggy paper. Mission accomplished, paper unfolded, I return to my now, half-consummed cup of coffee and decide to settle in to read the main headline: "Boil Water Order Still in Effect;Fecal Matter Still in Water Supply; Officials Clueless".
Right on cue, I begin to hear those "come in Tokyo" sounds calling from my belly.
As I write this, the entire City is entering the 5th or 6th day of having to boil all drinking water. The city has no idea where the breech in the system occurred(they've speculated that some construction site disconnected the water line and mistakenly switched the sewer line when they went to reattach it). Since the City has slammed the system with so much chlorine, they are now encouraging the citizens to waste as much water as possible-in the middle of a drought-to clear the lines of excess chlorine.
Meanwhile, due to extreme weather systems that have been pounding away at our beaches all summer, miles of beaches are now washed away into the ocean and a number of beachfront houses and condos are in jeopardy of getting washed away too. Sea turtles lay their eggs along the beaches down here in the summer and now it looks like most of them have perished by being washed away along with the beach.
And you wonder why I enjoy a glass of wine on occassion and write love songs to the 919.
"...Am I in Heaven. Or am I in Miami[West Palm Beach]...?"