Tom Petty (January 2013 - Goldmine magazine) But the next one we wrote was Free Fallin'." Then I can't remember how we decided to write some more. helped me with the B-section of the verses, and he came up with a chord or two that really opened it up for me, because I didn't really know where to go with it. Jeff Lynne (OctoDeep Tracks SiriusXM radio show) And it was just going so well, I just had to do the whole album." And then I think we did I Won't Back Down after that. And the next one we did was Free Fallin' I believe. Tom Petty (2007 - Runnin' Down A Dream book) The next day we recorded the second song, which was Free Fallin'. He played the drums and Mike, Jeff, and I played the rest of the instruments. I rounded up a drummer friend, Phil Jones, someone we've known for a long time. The rest of the Heartbreakers weren't even in town. We wanted to cut right away because Jeff was going to go back to England. In a makeshift fashion, he had crammed this gear into a bedroom, M. He had a studio in his house that we've done a lot of work in. "I'd written a couple songs with Jeff, and now he was going to help me record them. Tom Petty (NovemConversations With Tom Petty) And Jeff said, 'Well, put and E minor there.' And when I put the E minor in, it led me right through everything." I was stuck on the little turn-around and couldn't figure out where to go. And having those two tracks on cassette, and I must have played them for two hours, over and over, just sitting there on the bathroom floor, feeling, wow, this is so great. And he showed me this little bit, and I said, 'Great! Will you produce this!' And he said, 'Sure, let's do it.' I remember coming home after we cut Free Fallin' and Yer So Bad. And he showed me this little part, E minor to C, and he said, 'You could do this.' And I said, 'That's great!' And I was so elated, because I had been working on the song for days and I couldn't get from the verse to the chorus somehow. But there was one little bit in the B-section where I didn't know where to go. "So it was around this time that I showed Jeff one night I had written the song Yer So Bad. It was like a college education in making records.'"īill Flanagan (1995 liner notes for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Playback) He can pull off anything with ease and it just fascinated us. We had never met anyone who was such a wizard in the studio. 'And I think Jeff had a huge impact on Mike as well. Tom and I were amazed that you could make records that fast after so many years of slaving over tracks.' 'Jeff had a huge impact on me, my music, my life,' Tom says. The night after we did Free Fallin' Tom and Jeff went off and wrote that one and came in the next day and said, 'Let's do another.' We recorded it in a couple of hours. We were kind of in a rut and he came in with all these fresh ideas. That was such an incredibly inspiring period for us because Jeff knew so much about recording technique and songwriting that we didn't know. ' Yer So Bad was the second song we did for Full Moon Fever. 'I love that English Beatles sound,' Mike says. "The Wilburys period seems to have infected all involved with a taste for circle songs with the 'It Ain't Gonna Rain No More' tradition. Maria Hanna with contributions by Andrew Whiteside (1989 - Face The Music fanzine #6) " Yer So Bad reminds me a lot of people: Roy Wood, The Kinks, They Byrds, The Beatles, Guns 'n' Roses (on a bad day), Bros (on an extremely good day), and doesn't sound much like TP, yet for all that, works rather well."
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