![]() ![]() “We fought over songs, over having been together too long, and we broke up.” freak-out,” recalls Benmont Tench, who along with Mike Campbell was also a member of Mudcrutch. The group signed with Shelter, which at that time was co-owned by Leon Russell, and Cordell sponsored Mudcrutch’s move to Los Angeles. office, and insisted that the band stop by his Tulsa studio on their way out West. Shelter Records President Denny Cordell had heard the tape Petty left at his L.A. The day before the band was to move out to L.A., the phone rang with yet another deal. A week later, Petty returned to Gainesville with seven such offers. By the end of the day, he had collected offers from Capitol, MGM and London. ![]() His first day there, Petty began making calls from a pay phone on the corner of LaBrea and Sunset in Hollywood. Watching other regional stars like Duane and Gregg Allman find fame out West, Petty and two friends brought the Mudcrutch demo to L.A. His first guitar came latter, after he saw girls flocking to the set of an Elvis Presley movie, Follow That Dream, being filmed near his house.Īfter quitting school at age seventeen, Petty eventually became a local bar sensation with his band, Mudcrutch. There were no musicians in his family and, in fact, no music in the household at all until Petty bought the family’s first stereo. The son of a Gainesville, Florida, insurance salesman, Petty was toothy and unpopular in school. How dare they think that we’ve become too L.A. I could live in New York and do the same album. I really don’t care if they want to give me shit about where I live. Comparing it to a Linda Ronstadt record is really funny to me. “They criticize us because we’ve become too L.A.-ized. “Did you see the reviews in England?” Petty asks, brushing his yellow hair out of his eyes. Today by and large that doesn’t appear to be a problem. But, says Petty, “The last thing I want to be is a critics’ band.” Through it all, Petty and band had local media and collected fanatical concert reviews. There had been a riotous 3000-seat sellout in Seattle one night, a half-full house in Portland the next, and a curious clubful of Vancouver teenagers the third. The last three days on the road illustrated why a hit record is so vital to this band on the verge of stardom. And second, what’s champagne going for these days? Two bucks a bottle?” “I mean,” says Petty, “first of all it’s anti-cocaine. The problem is that “Listen to Her Heart,” the second single off the album, contains the line, “You think you’re gonna take her away/With your money and your cocaine.” And despite record company and radio-station pressure, Petty has refused to change “cocaine” to “champagne.” ![]() Though their second album, You’re Gonna Get It!, has gone gold, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers still need a big hit single to make their mark in the platinum-oriented business. “Everything’s banking on that one song right now,” he says in a slow drawl, “and I’m prepared for the worst.” All except for Petty, who orders coffee and in an uncommonly talkative mood, reflects on the past two years. Once on board the plane, the band members happily collapse for the two-hour flight. Hands dart to the radio dial, and these weary rocker come alive with schoolboy notes of their new single, “Listen to Her Heart,” on AM radio, the Heartbreakers – Petty, Lynch, guitarist Mike Campbell, keyboardist Benmont Tench and bassist Ron Blair – give themselves a whooping cheer and continue on to the airport. Wildly motioning to roll down the window, drummer Stan Lynch shouts: “We’re on! Right around 102.” Suddenly, one of the cars pulls up alongside the other. The daughters argued that their father wanted all three parties equally involved in decisionmaking regarding his estate, and Dana Petty countered that he had made her sole executor.Two rent-a-cars carrying Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers roll toward Vancouver International Airport for an early-morning flight back to Los Angeles, where the band will take a two-day break from touring before heading to England for more shows. 2, 2017, just a week after he and the Heartbreakers completed a triumphant, six-month 40th-anniversary world tour.ĭifferences that emerged following the rollout of two posthumous releases - “Tom Petty: An American Treasure” last year and “Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: The Best of Everything” earlier this year - led to a $5-million lawsuit filed last spring by his daughters against their stepmother, who countersued. ![]() Rocker Tom Petty’s widow and his two daughters have reached a settlement agreement in their months-long dispute over the administration of his estate, and going forward will serve as equal participants in the release of additional recordings and other projects, according to a joint statement issued Wednesday.ĭana York Petty, the singer’s widow, and daughters Adria and Annakim Violette, from his first marriage, had been at odds in the months after his death at 66 on Oct. ![]()
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