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2:28 | | Performers |
Tom Petty (Vocal), Mike/Michael Campbell (Guitars), Stan Lynch (Drums), John Sebastian (Baritone Guitar), Denny Cordell (Produced By), Roger Linn (Engineered By), Roger Linn (Mixed By) | | Comments | Recorded and mixed at: Sound City, Van Nuys, CA (Shelter Records) Other Side: (1978) US/UK/Germany-Listen To Her Heart This track was recorded at one of the very first Heartbreakers sessions and was issued two years later as the flip side of "Listen to Her Heart." "John Sebastian's on that track," Stan Lynch declares. I'm pretty sure John Sebastian came in with a 6-string bass or a baritone guitar and played a finger-picking style on that song. He was riding high with 'Welcome Back, Kotter.' I think we cut that over at Sound City, real early. I don't even know why John Sebastian was there. Maybe he was working on a record next door and he just came by to say hello and ended up playing. Jeff Jourard was in the band too, at the time, playing guitar. Three guitar players if you can feature that!" Jourard was soon elbowed out of the Heartbreakers; he joined his brother Marty (the Road Turkey vet) in the Motels. Petty remembers that another Heartbreaker also nearly departed after that session. "I invited John Sebastian down to play harmonica and baritone guitar," Tom says. "He was going on tour and he almost took Stan. Stan considered it. Four hundred dollars a week. We talked him out of it." Petty ad libbed the lyrics with the help of Denny Cordell's racing form. Note that "Road Turkey's in the lobby." Learning the beat to "Summer in the City" presumably. | | Appears On | |
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