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Performance #1:
Running Time 6:10
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)
CommentsRecorded 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
Pack Up The Plantation: Live (0000)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Performance #2:
Running Time 5:19
Performers Tom Petty (Vocal), Tom Petty (12-String Guitar), Mike/Michael Campbell (Guitars), Mike/Michael Campbell (Bass Guitar), Ben(mont) (M.) Tench(, III) (Organ), Howie Epstein (Background Vocals), Stan Lynch (Drums), Stan Lynch (Vocal), John Berry, Jr. (Horns), Dick Braun (Horns), Jim Coile (Horns), William Bergman (Horns), Kurt McGettrick (Horns), Molly Duncan (Saxophone), Dave Plews (Trumpet), (Ms.) Bobbye Hall (Tambourine), Tom Petty (Produced By), Jimmy Iovine (Produced By), Mike/Michael Campbell (Produced By), Don Smith (Engineered By), Don Smith (Mixed By), Shelly Yakus (Engineered By), Shelly Yakus (Mixed By), Alan (Bugs) Weidel (2nd Engineer), David Bianco (Additional Engineer)
CommentsRecorded at: Gone Gator One, Los Angeles, CA. Mixed at: Gone Gator One, Los Angeles, CA and The Village Recorder, Los Angeles, CA (MCA Records) "The character in that song is condescended to, but he actually almost deserves it," Petty says. "I really liked that song but I had great frustration with the record. I worked too hard on that. That was actually the big hand-smashing incident. I worked so hard on that record and couldn't bring it around, I couldn't mix it all down. I wanted civil war horns coming up and all this stuff. I got really grandiose in my picture of the song. Then while we were tying to mix it I went in the other room and discovered the original tape with just a 12-string and me singing and it was just so much better than what we had done that it sent me over the edge. "My whole lifestyle at the time had just run off the road. Getting hurt that badly certainly calmed things down. It was the first realization of 'Wow, this shit can kill you! It's a beast that will bite back.'" Petty was not the only Heartbreaker partying himself into the breakdown lane during that time. "Mike actually wound up in the hospital the same year," Tom says. "It would be another few years before Ben recovered. We took a lot of shrapnel that year. It was very hard for me and it taught me a lot: This isn't the way to do thls! But I think, as much as drugs or booze or any musical thing, it was also that we had never been allowed to grow up. We'd never been in a situation where it was even expected of us. You know, you're bouncing everything off the same four or five people you've been around since school! And now we've got children, we're married most people would have been conducting themselves differently. We suddenly had to deal with maybe not being around much longer."
Appears On
Playback (1995)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

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2008-08-18