Boy, I've bummed all weekend about this one. Never has rock music found a more ironic voice, a lyrical Hunter Thompson eye for the raw deals of life. He goes out as he lives, "Mr. Bad Example" to us all. Think of the many lines he has written that have given us a sense of dark humor and disgust with the clarity of a novelist: "I've been down in Detox Mansion, out on Last Chance Farm/ I've been raking leaves with Liza/ Me and Liz clean up the yard" "Little old lady got mutilated late last night..." "Michael Jackson in Disneyland.../ Lock the gates, Goofy, take my hand" "Grandpa pissed his pants again/ He don't give a damn" "In our old colonial home/ we drank our bitters while the empire fell" Even the hum of an old air conditioner was music to him. Draw blood, Warren... we're gonna miss you.
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