![]() The thought that was going through my head "Whoa, you bastards, you didn't get me."īut it's very hard to even believe that someone wants to kill you. Because I felt really elated that they didn't get me. But I don't know, maybe had something to do with the song, like "I Won't Back Down" and things. It was a pretty horrific thing to happen. ![]() On writing the song "I Won't Back Down" in the years after an arsonist burned down his house And I was just one in thousands of little bands that started then in around '64, '65. This looks like a great, great job to me."Īnd apparently it did to lots of people, because very quickly after that, there were bands forming in garages all over town. You have your friends and you all learn an instrument, and you're a self-contained unit. So when I saw The Beatles, it sort of hit me like a lightning bolt to the brain that, "Oh I see. I didn't see how it could happen, because you needed to be in a movie and have the music appear on the beach and stuff. I didn't think you could just become a rock and roll singer. On being inspired to form a band after seeing The Beatles perform on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 And when I went home, I kind of scoured the neighborhood and came up with some old Elvis records, and I started listening to them, and they really took me over. I don't remember what he said really, but I was very impressed by it. A lot of, as you'd expect, mobs in the street, and he was just back from the Army. But we did indeed go there, and it was quite a circus. And I really didn't have much idea of who Elvis was. And I was invited there by my aunt, who drove me down to see Elvis. He used to film the college basketball practices and football practices, and when a movie came nearby - as a lot of them did around northern Florida - he would usually hire onto the set and work in some capacity.Īnd he was working on an Elvis Presley movie in 1961, I think, Follow That Dream, it was called. He was the guy in town that developed all the film and he had a movie camera. On meeting Elvis Presley on a movie set when he was 11 You didn't really think about it that much, but looking back on it, it was such a musical education. It was a friend and something that was there. It took us a good three hours to get that one written down. The hardest one was "Get Off My Cloud" by the Stones. You go for the second one." And then sometimes you'd wait an hour for it to come on again so you could finish it up. When I was 15 or 16 playing in groups, we used to sit in the car and try to write the lyrics down as a song was playing, and we'd assign each person a verse, you know: "I'm going to do the first one. It was this amazing thing, and I miss it in a way because music has become so compartmentalized now, but in those days, it was all right in one spot. You could hear Frank Sinatra, right into the Yardbirds. In the mid-'60s, AM radio, pop radio, was just this incredible thing that played all kinds of music. I didn't have the money to have a vast record collection, so I learned everything, really, from the radio. And so I have that kind of background, but I always kind of aspired to be something else, and I made a lot of different friends over the years that were passing through. They were more of just your "white trash" kind of family. My family wasn't involved in the college. But it's really surrounded by this kind of very rural kind of people that are - you know, they're farmers or tractor drivers or just all kinds of - game wardens, you name it. I wasn't part of the academic circle, but it's an interesting place because you can meet almost any kind of person from many walks of life because of the university. To order by phone - Call (+44) 0147485010 quoting RareVinyl.On growing up in the college town of Gainesville, Fla. Postage/Shipping Cost - Add item to your basket for a postage/shipping quote. Click here for more info.ħ0s Rock, Country Rock, POP, Powerpop, Rock.Īvailability - In Stock - Buy Now for shipping today Irrespective of the source, all of our collectables meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed. We buy items as close to Mint condition as possible and many will be unplayed and as close to new as you could hope to find. Language - Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.Īdditional info - Deleted, Picture SleeveĬondition - This item is in Excellent condition or better (unless it says otherwise in the above description). Title - Something In The Air (click link for more of the same title)Ĭatalogue No - MCSTD1945 (click link for more) Version & The Waiting, picture sleeve MCSTD1945)Īrtist - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (click link for complete listing) (1993 UK 3-track CD single including American Girl Live ![]() TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS Something In The Air ![]()
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