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Yes. The problem is finding your way out.Yeah, but you'd still go there, amirite?
Yes. The problem is finding your way out.Yeah, but you'd still go there, amirite?
Definitely not. It's back when Petty's band was Mud Crutch. My brother-in-law had no idea Petty would become famous, of course. He paid him with a wah pedal, the Bigsby tailpiece and a few other things as the story goes. Petty thought my brother in law was weird, which was actually a fairly good assessment.Can you prove it came from Petty?
No photos with Petty during that period, nothing like that?Definitely not. It's back when Petty's band was Mud Crutch. My brother-in-law had no idea Petty would become famous, of course. He paid him with a wah pedal, the Bigsby tailpiece and a few other things as the story goes. Petty thought my brother in law was weird, which was actually a fairly good assessment.
It's a shame he didn't keep the negatives. It would make for some good retrospective about now. He still lives in Gainesville, by the way, I haven't talked to him in years since he divorced my sister.No photos with Petty during that period, nothing like that?
I may have been there. Can't remember which year it was. Sounds about right, although I don't remember 1000 people, but there could have been.Me and 1000 other people went to a 3 day party at Mudcrutch Farms in 71. Booze, dope. barbecue and music.
Ah, the Q Morning ZooI'll share my Tom Petty Story. 7th grade: friend won two tickets from Q105 in Tampa (remember them). Paid $20 bucks for the pair, and saw TP about 10 rows back in the Sun Dome with my dad.
Opening act was a little known artist at the time named Lenny Kravitz.
13 year old in me still gets "excited" about the skateboarding girl in "Free Fallin'" Video.
RIP TP. Better to know you and miss you, than to have never known you.
Ah, the Q Morning Zoo
Best stunt they ever pulled was putting "Electric Avenue" on constant replay for 30 straight uninterrupted minutes the morning Bundy was executed and word came he was finally worm food.
Not a music video, but him driving around Gainesville with MTV. Cool stuff.
Some things in this video stood out to me:
1) I always thought Devil's Millhopper had steps to the bottom. We would go sometime back in the late 70's to early 80's and they were there then. Makes me wonder when they were added.
2) His hat toward the end had a huge stars and bars on it. He was in a fight at a frat house for wearing one . I remember seeing a lot of hats like that back in the day, probably owned quite a few. Those last few scenes had a couple confederate flags in it. Unthinkable this day and age, he would be labeled a racist if more saw this.
3) I had no idea he was a snake handler...