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The Same Old You
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Tom Petty, Mike/Michael Campbell

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Running Time 3:31
Performers Tom Petty (Vocal), Mike/Michael Campbell (Lead Guitar), Ben(mont) (M.) Tench(, III) (Organ), Howie Epstein (Bass Guitar), Stan Lynch (Drums), Phil Jones (Percussion), Tom Petty (Produced By), Jimmy Iovine (Produced By), Shelly Yakus (Engineered By), Shelly Yakus (Mixed By), Don Smith (Mixed By)
CommentsRecorded at: Record Plant, Hollywood, CA. Mixed at: Rumbo Recorders, Canoga Park, CA (Backstreet Records/MCA Records) "That was Mike's," Tom says. 'Just a good rock song. I think I wrote the music to the bridge but the riff is Mike's. I don't remember who I was aiming that at. It's about somebody who thought they were not the same but they really were." "I had just joined the band," Howie Epstein says, "and we went straight into the studio to start Long After Dark. The first song we did was 'Deliver Me' and we did that for a long time trying to get the right take. It was starting to be the same thing the band went through with 'Refugee': take after take. I was coming from a situation where you did a whole record in a week, as opposed to getting drum sounds for three days. I thought, 'I guess this is how they do it in the big time.' We worked on 'Deliver Me' for a week and then I came in one day and they were trying it with another drummer, Terry Williams. I thought, 'Wo! What's going on? Am I next? One day will I come in and find another bass player?' Then Stan came back and we did get the track. At that point I think we needed to get something really quickly for morale. Mike brought in a demo of 'Same Old You' and it was a lot of fun, we got it in just a few takes. We started getting them real quick after that. 'The Same Old You' was the ice breaker. Amid all the tension with Stan leaving and coming back, no one remembered to tell Howie he had passed the audition. "I didn't know I was in the band for a long time," Howie laughs. "I did whatever audition I did and then I came in and played, but I was never told I was in the band! I never asked either. After three or four years I asked Tom, 'Am I in the band?'" "We cut that whole album with Phil Jones playing percussion live," Benmont says. "And when we toured, Phil came out and played percussion at the shows. So we didn't have to compromise anything. If we had cut it with Stan playing the backbeat and Phil playing with a shaker in one hand and a cowbell with the other, that's the way it went down on tape and that's the way we got to play it live."
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Playback (1995)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

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2008-08-18