Latest about Tom Petty
The guitarist didn’t have the gear but he had the chops, and that was all that really mattered
Petty was so excited to find the hook, he called the band back in the studio to remake the song — at four in the morning
In a flash of anger over a song, the guitarist saw his future nearly disappear
The folk-rocker peels back the curtain on his friendships with a host of fellow music icons
Petty's high regard for Stephen Stills dated back to their days as musicians on the Gainesville, Florida rock scene
Producer Rick Rubin discovered the tossed-off riff on a cassette of demos Petty gave him and thought it was the better than anything else on the tape
The song came out of one of Petty's greatest tragedies but proved almost too personal for him to record
“I can’t tell it was something that was in the water or something in what we were smoking," the former Eagles guitarist remarked of Northern Central Florida's impact on rock
