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"I don't know if it's just Gainesville, maybe it's the whole country, but there are few places where you can go into a club and actually hear musicians doing things, playing rock. 'I'm into jazz, I'm past rock & roll.' That's a fairly common excuse. Rock music is just pretty rare these days."

- Tom Petty

Did You Know...

...that Mike Campbell was invited to play guitar on the Traveling Wilburys' "Handle With Care"?

...that Tom Petty wrote a song called "Reptiles" about "what scumsuckers lawyers are"?

...that a teenaged Tom Petty got put on probation for stealing hood ornaments?

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"We've had our problems over the years, but we're united to make Tom's songs work. Hey, we're lucky. We got a guy who can write a cool tune. How many bands can say that?"

- Stan Lynch