Tom Petty

2003

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2004

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Book explores Petty's area roots
By DAVE SCHLENKER

Sun entertainment editor
October 30. 2005 6:01AM
ZOOM Special to The Sun
The cover of ?Conversations With Tom Petty.
hat started out as a case study in songwriting - a sit-down chat on the craft with Tom Petty - turned into a nostalgic stroll through the streets and clubs of the singer's native Gainesville.

The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Famer delves deep into his music, family and Gainesville roots in the book "Conversations With Tom Petty," which will be released Tuesday by Omnibus Press. In Q&A format, the book was written by music journalist Paul Zollo, who interviewed Petty for a little more than a year in the singer/songwriter's homes in Malibu and Malibu Beach.

"His idea was to do a book on songwriting, and I was interested in that," Petty told The Gainesville Sun. "But as we went along, it seemed necessary to add in some biographical material to understand where I was coming from. So I guess the book is kind of half and half - half biographical and half in-depth study of the songs and how they were written."
"So I don't know," Petty said, pausing before a slight laugh. "It's got a lot of nice pictures."

Four sets of pictures, to be exact - mostly stage shots and behind-the-scenes moments with Petty and The Heartbreakers. But there are gems from the early days: his first-grade picture, a photo of The Epics (Gainesville, 1966), a 1973 Gainesville Sun clipping on the band Mudcrutch.

The meat of the book, of course, is the detailed string of memories about an insurance salesman's son who hung out at Lipham's Music, met Elvis in Ocala, missed 42 days of school one year, graduated late from Gainesville High School and went on to lead a hugely successful rock band whose name adorns a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Among the book's notable nuggets:

Petty's grandparents fled to Florida from Georgia, after the grandfather killed a violent man angered about the couple's mixed marriage (Petty's grandfather was white, his grandmother was a full-blooded Cherokee Indian). This, Petty told Zollo, is the story his father told him as an adult.


Petty's father, Earl, was an avid hunter who often dragged young Tommy along: "Quail was OK," Petty recalled, "but eating a dove?"


Don Felder, who later became a member of The Eagles, taught Petty how to play piano at Lipham's Music, where the two worked. Bernie Leadon, who later played with The Eagles and The Flying Burrito Brothers, also worked at Lipham's, a store Petty called "the center of all activity in Gainesville."

Petty was fired as a grave digger for the city of Gainesville.


He met Heartbreakers' keyboardist Benmont Tench (the son of late Circuit Judge Benjamin M. Tench) at Lipham's Music, where Tench was parked at an organ and playing The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album - song by song, note for note.


"American Girl" is not about a suicidal leap off Beatty Towers at the University of Florida. "Urban legend," Petty told Zollo. "It's become a huge urban myth down in Florida."


Petty compared former Heartbreakers' drummer, and current songwriter, Stan Lynch to The Who's Keith Moon, calling him a "powerhouse on stage." Their strong personalities clashed, however, and Lynch left the band in 1994.

Petty's memories are often punctuated with laughter. The often-reserved Petty was relaxed, Zollo said, as the two talked over bottled Coca-Colas and, once, fresh chili served by Petty's wife, Dana.

"Every time I came over, he had a great big smile on his face," Zollo said. "It was a great time. He was very happy. He's got Dana and his family, and he's also very happy professionally."

In the book, Petty traces his path from Gainesville, where he left to shop his band Mudcrutch - door to door, tapes in hand - in Los Angeles. It was a rough road, one that required him to send his first wife, Jane, and their first daughter back to Gainesville while he continued to seek a record deal out West.

He found one with fledgling Shelter Records; Mudcrutch, however, broke up soon thereafter, leaving Petty to ponder a solo project or find a new band.

He wanted to stay with Mudcrutch guitarist Mike Campbell and, still armed with a record deal, convinced Tench's Gainesville band The Heartbreakers to join them. Petty, Campbell, Lynch, Tench and bassist Ron Blair recorded their self-titled album (with "Breakdown" and "American Girl") in 1976.

That's right. TP & the HBs turn 30 next year, which, Petty said, was one reason he embarked on the book with Zollo.

"I think the older you get, the more perspective you have," said Petty, who turned 55 on Oct. 20. "But then again, you have the problem of not really being able to remember it all. We'd sit down and talk. And then, eventually, Paul got enough for the book. It would have been nine volumes long, I guess, if we'd put it all in."

The Q&A format allowed Petty to tell his story his way. But, Zollo said, Petty held little back, including details about his turbulent relationship with his father, a man - he told Zollo - who "didn't mind just popping you."

Petty's candidness came as a surprise to Sadie Darnell, his first cousin and a well-known, recently retired captain with the Gainesville Police Department (Petty contends she is more famous than he is in Gainesville).

Darnell and her twin sister, Norma Darnell, remain close with "Tommy." Their mother, Lottie, and Petty's late mother, Kitty, were sisters. Sadie Darnell recently read an advance copy of "Conversations" and said Zollo did a great job presenting the Tommy she and her sister know so well.

"The writer portrayed the relaxed Tommy, the fun-loving Tommy, the prankster Tommy," she said. "It captured him in such a realistic way."

And Sadie Darnell is not surprised about the book's nostalgic tone.

While the rock star is content in scenic Malibu, he longs for the small-town South that often weaves through his music. A few years ago, the Darnell sisters visited Petty and his family in Malibu.

There, she said, they watched a DVD a family member produced from old home movies shot in the '50s and '60s. Set to music that included Petty's solo ballads, the DVD showed Norma, Sadie, Tommy and, often, his younger brother, Bruce, at the beach, in front yards and racing along Gainesville's streets in a go-cart.

One scene shows an Easter egg hunt. Happy kids scamper across the yard, as young Petty - with rolled-up sleeves and Elvis hair - stands next to his beloved mother. The music: Petty's 1985 bittersweet "Southern Accents."

"For just a minute she was standing there with me," Petty's voice sings as his younger self stands next to his mother. "There's a dream I keep baring/Where my mama comes to me/And kneels down over by the window and says a prayer for me."

Upon seeing the scene, the room fell still, Sadie Darnell said. The rock star in the Malibu mansion was genuinely overwhelmed.

"It was just a really warm moment," she recalled. "It just felt right."

The nostalgia is very real, she said.
Indeed, Petty told The Sun, he has been away from his native land too long; he hasn't been back since his father's funeral in 1999.

"It was very frustrating because I wanted to stay and visit," he recalled. "I remember a lot about Gainesville, such a lovely place to grow up. Just incredible growing up there. The music scene in the '60s was really exciting. And we didn't know it. I mean, as far as we knew, everywhere was like that."

He paused, thinking back for a moment.
"It was really special there," he added. "It was so great. Sometimes I have this fantasy of buying one of those houses by the Duck Pond and moving there. I loved it there. I really did. I think when we left, we were sick of it. We felt like we'd done everything we had wanted to do there 10 times, you know. We had outgrown it in a lot of ways.

"But we miss it."

http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051030/LOCAL/210300332/1078/news

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The Life & Times of Tom Petty
A Study in Purity and Passion


By Paul Zollo

If the old proverb “God loves the happy man” is true, Tom Petty is definitely divinely beloved. He’s a happy man for a number of reasons, as I learned while interviewing him in a succession of Saturday afternoons through interviews connected and preserved in our book, Conversations with Tom Petty. Petty is happily married to the ebullient Dana Petty, happy being the father of three children and happily making new music (as well as playing old favorites on the road with The Heartbreakers, one of the greatest rock and roll bands of all time). The new music was made differently than in the past. It’s a solo album called Highway Companion, due out early in 2006, and is the product of only three musicians: Tom, who plays guitar, keyboards and drums on the album); Jeff Lynne, who was a Traveling Wilbury with Petty and also the producer of the magical Full Moon Fever album; and Heartbreaker Mike Campbell, who plays fluid slide guitar throughout the album).
Petty proudly played the album for me during one of these joyful Saturdays, at very loud volume (because “I’m partially deaf,” he said with a smile) in his home studio in Malibu, Calif. It’s a great album, matching and maybe even surpassing the level of Petty’s previous work. “I think it might be the best thing I’ve ever done,” he said, later asking me to change the sentence to read in the book, “I think it might be one of the best things I’ve ever done.” It starts with the slinky funk of “Turn This Car Around” and proceeds through a string of strong song, including “Down South,” a masterful return to Petty’s past in Florida, and “Square One,” which is tenderly painted by two acoustic guitars and is one of the most sweetly haunting songs Petty has written in years.

Book explores Petty's area roots

http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article...LOCAL/210300332&SearchID=73225259622166

LOS ANGELES - Swathed in jewels and bathed in the spotlight, Elizabeth Taylor made a rare but regal public appearance to dedicate the new UCLA Clinical AIDS Research and Education Center.

Wearing a cream-colored jacket over a billowy black pantsuit, the 73-year-old actress, who has had severe back problems in recent years, arrived in a wheelchair Friday. She wore a jeweled butterfly barrette in her hair, her arms dripped with dozens of bracelets and a massive diamond lit up her left hand.

In front of an intimate crowd that included rocker Tom Petty and actress Carrie Fisher, Taylor cut a red ribbon to signify the center's official opening and announced the creation of the Elizabeth Taylor Endowment Fund, which will support the center through grants and private donations.

Taylor, who won Academy Awards for 1960's "Butterfield 8" and 1966's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", said she has traded in the life of an actress for that of an activist.

"Acting is, to me now, artificial," she told The Associated Press. "Seeing people suffer is real. It couldn't be more real. Some people don't like to look at it in the face because it's painful. But if nobody does, then nothing gets done."

Taylor helped establish the American Foundation for AIDS Research in 1985 and created the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation in 1991. The two organizations have raised a combined $243 million to fund research and improve the lives of people with HIV and AIDS.

"There's still so much more to do," Taylor said. "I can't sit back and be complacent, and none of us should be. I get around now in a wheelchair, but I get around."

The new center will conduct research and bring innovative treatments to patients, bridging Taylor's two charities, said Dr. Edwin Bayrd, director of the UCLA AIDS Institute. He called the actress "the Joan of Arc of AIDS activism."

Although the subject was serious, Taylor, married eight times to seven men, lightened the mood when UCLA Chancellor Albert Carnesale confessed to having had a "puppy love" infatuation with the actress.

"Are you married?" she asked him.

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>2Sweet Little Queen XIII:
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Европейское издание
TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS - Special Edition Soundstage

The work of Tom Petty is a uniquely-American blend of pop and rock that has paid handsome dividends for the star over the years. With his faithful band The Heartbreakers behind him, Petty lit up stages across the country, and became an unlikely early star of MTV with some innovative video work. Subsequent releases saw him justifiably included in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, alongside a stint in supergroup The Travelling Wilburys. Soundstage presents a live concert from Petty and his band, with a number of their biggest hits getting a welcome airing.

The set-list for this very special Soundstage concert, boasts 22 tracks including "I Won't Back Down", bonus material consisting of six extra tracks, plus two hidden songs.

30 tracks, 153 minutes, Region code 2, 16:9 Widescreen, Audio: dts,
Dolby Digital 5.1 & PCM Stereo

release on 21/11/2005

American Boy
He’s gonna get it! – Petty at home in 1978

~ By NATALIE NICHOLS ~

A common swipe at rock critics is that they’re all frustrated musicians. Not me. Sure, I took piano lessons (classical, that is) for a decade during childhood, but they only left me with a basic understanding of how music works, a deep appreciation for the magic in it, and scarcely any idea of how a song actually happens. After 20 years of getting paid to write about music – and despite all I’ve learned about minor keys and harmony singing and drop-D tuning and whatnot – it remains a mystery to me. Which does help keep the romance alive.

So, in a way, I hesitated to read Conversations with Tom Petty, a new interview book by Paul Zollo (Omnibus Press, 376 pp.; $24.95) covering the veteran rock star’s music and life, which have been closely intertwined since he was about 14 years old. I wasn’t much older than that when I first heard Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on the radio. And ever after, at so many crucial life moments, their quiet-to-visceral, cosmic rebel rock ’n’ roll has always been around to soothe my soul.

With its ringing, suspended-in-time guitar intro and shout-along chorus, “The Waiting” gave my 16-year-old self an anthem for enduring the eons it took to get my driver’s license and lose my virginity. In my mid-20s, the soaring album Full Moon Fever encouraged me and my Pennsylvania-transplanted pals as we pursued our restless, expansive dreams under the fabled California sun. And in 1999, the melancholy Echo sustained me through my mother’s final decline. I remember driving my parents’ geezermobile sedan alone on central Florida back roads, singing the poignant refrain of the rambling ballad “Swingin’,” and realizing with a chest-tightening rush of tears that “She went down/Swingin’” perfectly captured my mom, who defied some impossible odds before finally going down for the count.

As curious as I was about my favorite Petty tunes, I didn’t want to ruin the enchantment, didn’t want the magic to be explained, dissected, distilled down to its parts. A critic’s job is to pull stuff apart and see how it works. But some things you want to keep intact.

Thankfully, although the book is extremely edifying for those who grok the mechanics and process of songwriting, the story of this obsessive, self-taught musician from Gainesville, Florida – who’s lived in L.A. since 1974 – has powerful doses of magic and luck mixed into the good old-fashioned hard work. I learned, for example, that he ad-libbed “Swingin’” in the studio, which made the tune seem even more magical.

“It’s got a purity to it that clears your mind,” Petty says about the title track from 1994’s Wildflowers, one of his personal favorites. That’s how I feel about most of his songs, which Zollo, a singer-songwriter and music journalist, has absorbed as thoroughly as young Tom soaked up Elvis Presley records. The author knowledgeably draws out Petty’s early history, insights into the music biz (with which he’s often had a contentious relationship), and feelings about his work. Petty is among the first generation of rockers to be influenced both by the Beatles/Stones/Byrds/etc. and the bands those groups admired – which allowed him to work authoritatively with such icons as Johnny Cash, Roger McGuinn, and Bob Dylan, not to mention be an equal partner with giants in the Traveling Wilburys, the wonderful late-’80s supergroup of Petty, Dylan, Roy Orbison, George Harrison, and Jeff Lynne.

Building up and up – like so many of his tunes – the tale of Petty’s career is recounted with modest, slightly surprised pride. He admits his faults but ultimately emphasizes the positive. Yet, he obligingly delves into bad episodes, including the chilling details of the 1987 arson fire that destroyed his L.A. home, and sad times: most tragically, bassist Howie Epstein’s heroin-addicted decline and 2003 death. He speaks poignantly of his own mom’s 1981 passing, wistfully saying he “could have given her a really great life.”

Petty is blessed with incredible collaborators in the Heartbreakers – among them the eloquent guitarist Mike Campbell, keyboardist Benmont Tench, drummer Stan Lynch, bassist Ron Blair, and, later, Epstein – and lauds them repeatedly. They’ve piled up the hits, gold and platinum records, and milestone accolades – Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Hollywood Walk of Fame, and Petty’s forthcoming Billboard Century Award. But Petty’s got no dust on him; he still pushes himself, still learns new things, still reaches for the Big Statement even when he expects to fall short.

The book’s closing section previews Petty’s forthcoming album, due next year and tentatively titled Highway Companion, a loose concept that, Petty reflects, is “Something you could go on a journey with, and it would be a nice companion.” Yeah, man. I’m looking forward to, as always, taking it with me.

11-10-05
http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=2855&IssueNum=127

So Highway Companion which by the latest word I've gotten is going to be released in the first quarter of the new year is going to be Tom's first true solo album without The Heartbreakers.

Although TP has brought Mike Campbell along for the ride the whole album is the product of three musicians (Petty, co-producer Jeff Lynne and Campbell)

Petty holds down the drum chair and also contributes guitar and piano to the disc. Campbell of course adds his trademark lead guitar to most of the tracks while Lynne adds bass and a myriad of other instruments to the mix.

The album seems to be another one featuring Petty's ability to spin masterful songwriting into "home grown" music not unlike the early solo albums from Paul McCartney. There have been thirteen titles mentioned on this upcoming release in Paul Zollo's new book "Conversations With Tom Petty" and Tom himself feels that "Highway Companion" could possibly be his finest effort.

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>Не хочет открываться :(

У меня открылось и качается.

Tom Petty finishing new solo album
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Tom Petty's next album, "Highway Companion," is beginning to come into view and is likely to be released as a solo effort.

Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell plays on the album, as does former Electric Light Orchestra leader Jeff Lynne, who was Petty's bandmate in the Traveling Wilburys and produced his first solo album, "Full Moon Fever," in 1989.

"I pretty much had it finished before we left on tour in June," says Petty. "I would imagine it's gonna be out by the spring of next year, if not sooner. But I'm still fooling around a little bit with one more song, and then I probably have more songs."

Petty recently published a book, "Conversations With Tom Petty," with journalist Paul Zollo. He'll receive Billboard magazine's prestigious Century Award on December 6 at the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas.

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20051123-102951-4613r

Q&A: Tom Petty
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051126/music_nm/petty_dc;_ylt=AlkhXpz8MgmB2o2kgvIpT.yVEhkF...

>The music has to be affordable. It's the common man that keeps it going, and if you price it out of his realm, it becomes a thing of the elite.<

А сколько вам (максимум) приходилось выкладывать за альбомы, видео и пр. Тома Петти (учитывая заказ чего-либо из других стран), живя в России?