The Wallflowers - Lawyers, Guns, and Money (Warren Zevon Cover)
The Wallflowers performing ‘Beautiful Side of Somewhere’ on The Today Show
Hours before he performed as part of Tom Petty’s two benefit concerts for the Los Angeles-based college radio station KCSN-FM on Saturday night, Jakob Dylan was about to begin a soundcheck of his smoky folk and blues when someone noticed an intruder by the microphone. A crewmember walked over and picked something up off the floor and carried it out: a full-grown Praying Mantis, lounging on a piece of paper, its long legs slowly kicking through the air.
“Did you see it? I thought we were going to step on it,” Dylan said later, backstage at the Plaza del Sol Performance Hall on the campus of Cal State Northridge. He wore a yellow Sun Records button on his jacket. “It must have come from the science room. That was incredible. It was gnarly.” He smiles. “It could be a sign. I probably shouldn’t look at it lightly.”
The shows with Petty were also Dylan’s first playing with the L.A.-based folk rockers Everest, helping recreate the dusty sounds of Dylan’s well-received 2010 album Women and Country and other songs with a light touch and some fiery soloing, while warming up for several upcoming Midwest dates this month. But Dylan also has plans to reconvene the Wallflowers in January to begin work on their first new album since 2005’s Rebel, Sweetheart. “I’ve got new songs and we’ve all been talking,” Dylan said. “We’ve been trying to carve that time out for a while.”
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