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Mike Campbell of TP & the Heartbreakers fame yaks about all the lovely stuff he & TP have scored over the years:
http://www.tompetty.com/news/tag/Mike%20Campbel%20Video/1

it wants me to sign into my TP & HBers account - which I don't have but maybe you do. TP never rang my bell, but Mike Campbell is my fave Heartbreaker for sure - he deserves permanent smoochies just for those three licks he drilled in "Boys of Summer", not by TP. Which I can't find a real version on YouTube, dam eaglets.

 
I'd like to watch it, but I'm not signing up, either. I get enough spam without chasing it down on purpose.
 
Just sign up for a throw-away Email address and use it for this stuff. That's what I do. The only time I ever sign in to that Email account is when I need to verify that I signed up for something, so I never really see the SPAM. Most Email accounts have an auto flush you can enable to dump anything in your Inbox older than a certain period. Anyway, I'll watch it and let you know if was any good!  :evil4:
 
Yeah, I've got a couple of those, but I can never remember the addresses. Email has been around for so many years that all conceivable and memorable addresses have been used and abused to the point where if you want a Hotmail or Yahoo! address you have to add a 6 digit numerical suffix to it to get it to where it's unique enough to be acceptable. So, when a site says "we'll show you our ultra-special super-valuable infinitely-unique and painstakingly conceived content if you'll let us spy on you and pester you to death", I say jam it up your ass. Life's too short and you're not that special.
 
Love me some Tom Petty.* That said, still not gonna sign up.

To me, Campbell's best work with the Heartbreakers has got to be THE LICK from "Breakdown." Smooooth.



*Note that I said "some"; not "all." Not a typo.
 
I feel it's perfectly justified to know that somebody or band is really great at what they do - but still prefer to listen to something else. It has to do with your emotional centerpoint and "Q" or bandwidth, how that matches up with the artist's emotional centerpoint and "Q" or bandwidth, your very early listening experiences... I mean, I totally "get" Zeppelin AND the Grateful Dead (coincidentally, only until heroin killed them, Zepp in 1975 and the Dead in 1978). But Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen both induce quasi-religious feelings among people who, apparently, only had one radio when they were 14 years old, and just at the right time... I just want Mike Campbell's guitars, not have to listen to them. There was a great centerfold git-porn shot of Petty's and Campbell's studio, with racks and racks of guitars divided by categories in one of the guitar mags long ago. I don't know how you'd even decide between the sections. How you needed 400 guitars to play something so bland.... :icon_scratch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Az-TuYb4h0

 
Agreed. His playing on Refugee still knocks me on my can. Great stuff and so straight-forward. Wish I could see the instrument that way.
 
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