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You Get Me High
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Date Performance 1992-00-00
Running Time 2:48
Performers Tom Petty (Lead Vocals), Tom Petty (Background Vocals), Tom Petty (Guitar), Mike/Michael Campbell (Lead Guitar), Ben(mont) (M.) Tench(, III) (Piano), Howie Epstein (Bass Guitar), Stan Lynch (Drums), George Drakoulias (Percussion), Tom Petty (Produced By), Mike/Michael Campbell (Produced By), Mike/Michael Campbell (Engineered By), George Drakoulias (Produced By), George Drakoulias (Mixed By), Jim Scott (Engineered By), Jim Scott (Mixed By)
CommentsRecorded at: Gone Gator Two. Mixed at: Johnny Yuma Recordings, Burbank, CA Jimmy Iovine got the drug reference out of "Louisiana Rain," MTV got the "roll another joint" out of "You Don't Know How it Feels," and the inspirational concert favorite "Girl on LSD" did not make it onto Wildflowers. So it should be no surprise that "You Get Me High," another of Petty's periodic celebrations of toxic substances, was dropped overboard after this 1992 session. "It will make them nervous," Petty shrugs. "I'm not really a big druggie or anything, but I don't mind dealing in reality. I sometimes think that's refreshing. Especially around 1979 or 1980 there was this prevailing idea that rock stars in America were very wholesome guys. I was never comfortable in that role, didn't want to have that role, because I really don't see it that way. They're not necessarily wholesome guys. They may be good guys but I can't see how you can live this life and not be aware of drugs or many things that may not be particularly pleasant to deal with. You don't want to knock anybody for being clean living, but I'm a bad boy too from time to time and I'm not going to try to hide it. Nothing to be proud of though."
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Playback (1995)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

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