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Transverse City is the seventh studio album by American recording artist Warren Zevon, released in October 1989 by Virgin Records. It features appearances from a number of prominent musicians, including guitarists Neil Young , David Gilmour (of Pink Floyd ), Jerry Garcia (of Grateful Dead ) and Mike Campbell (of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers ...
Jun 4, 2012 · Transverse City feat. Jerry Garcia. All rights belong to the artists. Shared with all love for Warren Zevon - get to know his whole catalog including this great album, which also features...
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This album - Garcia, Neil Young and David Gilmour on guitar - this dude had the respect in the music bizz, for some reason he never really appealed to the masses but def one of my all-time faves.
The album opens with “Transverse City” which has this cold industrial sound; it just feels like dystopian hell both sonically and lyrically. Jerry Garcia is featured on guitar and has a great guitar solo.
Warren: Woozy from reading the Thomas Pynchon canon at a sitting, so to speak, I conceived of Transverse City as a multi-layered cyberpunk album. This track, with several simultaneous vocal lines including a list of carcinogens in the environment I got from the Sierra Club, suggests the dense texture I was striving to create when I ran out of ...
Warren Zevon. ROCK · 1989. After Sentimental Hygiene returned Zevon to public consciousness with its use of R.E.M. as his primary backing band, Transverse City is his call-up to the classic-rock elite. Jerry Garcia, Neil Young, Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour, Jefferson Airplane’s Jack Casady and Jorma Kaukonen and Tom Petty’s Benmont Tench ...
It was basically the people who made the album with Warren (Andy Slater, Duncan Aldrich) asking musicians they either knew or have worked with in the past. There is a whole chapter about the making process of Transverse City in this book if you are really interested. https://www.amazon.com/Nothings-Bad-Luck-Lives-Warren-ebook/dp/B07H29B3TT
