The Tom Petty Project

For today's episode, I ended up doing somethign different. My pal - and very long time listener - Dallas Heliker and I were chatting offline and I asked him if he wanted to jump on a call to discuss this song and Mojo in general as I know it's a favourite record of his and that this song in particular strikes a chord. We had a fantastic chat and it was really enjoyable to have a guest for a song episode for the first time since I covered Wildflowers! I also discovered why the narrator in this song and his buddy would have been heading up to Mendocino! Who knew... I hope you enjoy this one folks because any chance to chat to a genuine superfan like Dallas is a chance to learn! Song : https://youtu.be/Gf4IDejQH88 Dallas's first appearance on the podcast : https://pod.link/1580769475/episode/NjE4Yjg0NWFhNmY4MGMwMDEzNmE0YTZh Tell me what Mojo means to you! https://tompettyproject.com/mojo.php Don't forget to follow me on social media, like, subscribe, and please, leave a rating if you like the show. Follow: https://linktr.ee/tompettyproject Listen: https://pod.link/1580769475 All music, including the theme song, provided by my very best friend Randy Woods. Check him out at https://www.randywoodsband.com A special thanks to Paul Zollo. Without his book, "Conversations with Tom Petty", this podcast wouldn't be nearly as much fun to research. The Tom Petty Project is not affiliated with the Tom Petty estate in any way. Producer: Kevin Brown Executive Producers: Paul Roberts, Steve Ursell Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-tom-petty-project. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Drew Olson writing for OnMilwaukee.com, in a very brief tribute to Howie, quotes Tom as saying "I'd always wanted to deal with Howie's death, and there's some of that in there. One of those embarrassingly revealing songs. It just crept into my mind one day. I was playing the guitar, and it started falling out." It’s also important to note the wording Tom uses; “there's some of that in there”. So I wouldn’t go so far as to say “This song is about Howie Epstein” but when you dig into the lyrical content, I think you can see a very easy connection to anyone who is dealing with addiction. Song : https://youtu.be/YFzvaf90OKM Live (from the Mojo Tour Edition) : https://youtu.be/Lr984UfVCVM Sue Nelson's art Facebook page, Milkweed Studio : https://www.facebook.com/milkweedstudio Tell me what Mojo means to you! https://tompettyproject.com/mojo.php Don't forget to follow me on social media, like, subscribe, and please, leave a rating if you like the show. Follow: https://linktr.ee/tompettyproject Listen: https://pod.link/1580769475 All music, including the theme song, provided by my very best friend Randy Woods. Check him out at https://www.randywoodsband.com A special thanks to Paul Zollo. Without his book, "Conversations with Tom Petty", this podcast wouldn't be nearly as much fun to research. The Tom Petty Project is not affiliated with the Tom Petty estate in any way. Producer: Kevin Brown Executive Producers: Paul Roberts, Steve Ursell Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-tom-petty-project. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Artist Conversation Series

The Petty 8ight - Number 5

The track comes out firing on all cylinders with those aggressively swept ascending notes. Yet again, we’re being treated to something that’s a million miles from anything we’ve heard before. Mike and Scott Thurston are in complete harmonic lockstep here and Tom tells Mike Mettler, “There are a lot of dual guitars on it, so Scott and Mike worked a long time on the double harmony parts. They rehearsed that a lot.” and you can hear it in the performance. It would probably have been much easier to do if Mike added his part first, with Scott adding in his guitar afterwards so he would have had time to get it right, but the fact that this was done live makes it all the more impressive. Tom actually says “We rehearsed that one on the studio floor for a long time before we even rolled and were finally able to say, "Okay, we're ready to do a take." What we wound up keeping was the second pass. This group tends to play most passionately early in a session. They can surprise me sometimes, but usually it's early. So that's the one we kept.” Song : https://youtube.com/watch?v=QfEwYYSq1sI Tell me what Mojo means to you! https://tompettyproject.com/mojo.php Don't forget to follow me on social media, like, subscribe, and please, leave a rating if you like the show. Follow: https://linktr.ee/tompettyproject Listen: https://pod.link/1580769475 All music, including the theme song, provided by my very best friend Randy Woods. Check him out at https://www.randywoodsband.com A special thanks to Paul Zollo. Without his book, "Conversations with Tom Petty", this podcast wouldn't be nearly as much fun to research. The Tom Petty Project is not affiliated with the Tom Petty estate in any way. Producer: Kevin Brown Executive Producers: Paul Roberts, Steve Ursell Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-tom-petty-project. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.