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Breakdown |
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Tom Petty |
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| Date Performance |
1976-00-00 | | Running Time |
2:43 | | Performers |
Tom Petty (Lead Vocal), Tom Petty (Guitars), Mike/Michael Campbell (Lead Guitar), Ben(mont) (M.) Tench(, III) (Electric Piano), Ron Blair (Bass Guitar), Stan Lynch (Drums), Jeff Jourard (Guitar), Phil Seymour (Background Vocals), Denny Cordell (Produced By), Noah Shark (Engineered By), Noah Shark (Mixed By), Max Reese (Engineered By), Max Reese (Mixed By) | | Comments | Recorded and mixed at: Shelter Studios, Hollywood, CA (Gone Gator Records/MCA Records) "It's interesting that none of the songs I came to California with made it to the record," Tom Petty says. "Everything had been examined and tossed away. Most of the stuff on the first album was written either days before it was cut or, like 'Breakdown', in the studio. It was partly naivete. We'd run out of things to do and we'd say, 'Well, let's just write another one.' I'd go to the piano and write 'Breakdown.' We cut it with Mike's guitar riff only appearing at the end of the record. The DWight Twilley Band, a terrific group we shared the studio with, used to drift through. Their singer Phil Seymour had already had an idea for backing vocals on 'Breakdown.' Then Dwight Twilley came in and heard Mike's lick on the end and said, 'Shit, man, that's the lick, that's the whole thing and it only comes up right at the end of the song? I'd put that everywhere! I started thinking about that. And the song was seven minutes long; I started thinking this could be two minutes long. So I called everybody at 3:30 or 4 in the morning to come back in and cut it again. It's amazing to me that: (A) I had the balls to call them at that hour, and (B) they just came! I certainly wouldn't try that these days. But we were in that frame of mind where things had to be done right there and then. We cut the record in just a few takes." "When we cut 'Breakdown', it was great," Stan Lynch says. "There was so much passion and you didn't even know why. You just knew that you were going to play your fucking heart out and you could do it for days." | | Appears On | |
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7:43 | | Performers |
Tom Petty (6 String Electric Guitars), Tom Petty (6 String Acoustic Guitars), Tom Petty (12-String Electric Guitars), Tom Petty (12-String Acoustic Guitars), Tom Petty (Vocals), Mike/Michael Campbell (Lead Guitar), Mike/Michael Campbell (12-String Guitars), Mike/Michael Campbell (Lap Steel Guitars), Mike/Michael Campbell (Slide Guitars), Howie Epstein (Bass), Howie Epstein (Mandolin), Howie Epstein (Harmony Vocals), Ben(mont) (M.) Tench(, III) (Keyboards), Ben(mont) (M.) Tench(, III) (Vocals), Stan Lynch (Drums), Stan Lynch (Vocals), Jimmy Z(avala)/Z(anala) (Saxes), Jimmy Z(avala)/Z(anala) (Harmonica), Lee Thornburg/Thornberg/Thomberg (Trumpets), Lee Thornburg/Thornberg/Thomberg (Flugel Horn), Nick Lane (Trombones), Nick Lane (Euphonium), Pat Peterson (Backing Vocals), Pat Peterson (Percussion), Caroll Sue Hill (Backing Vocals), Caroll Sue Hill (Percussion), Doug Field (Recorded By), Mike Carver (Recorded By) | | Comments | Recorded at the Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles, California. Engineered in the Westwood One Mobile truck, either August 6th or 7th, 1985. With Soul Lips Horns & The Rebeletts. | | Appears On | | | Performance #2: | |
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6:16 | | Performers |
Tom Petty (Vocals), Tom Petty (Guitar), Mike/Michael Campbell (Guitar), Ben(mont) (M.) Tench(, III) (Keyboards), Stan Lynch (Drums), Howie Epstein (Bass), Jimmy Z(avala)/Z(anala) (Saxes), Lee Thornburg/Thornberg/Thomberg (Trumpets), Nick Lane (Trombones), Pat Peterson (Backing Vocals), Caroll Sue Hill (Backing Vocals) | | Comments | (Live) | | Appears On | |
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