Latest / Arroe Collins Like It's Live / Living Up To Its Name Origins 1971 thru 78 Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers Stan Lynch

Transcript

Living Up To Its Name Origins 1971 thru 78 Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers Stan Lynch · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Hey, I want to thank you for checking out the podcast,
• 0:01
  Speaker 1: but did you know that Arrow.net is a podcast network? Yeah,
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: when you get tired of listening to the rock stars,
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: the sports stars, the authors, and you're looking for something
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: with a little bit more of a grip or grit, well,
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: you can always go into the network. Arrow.net, A-R-R-O-E.net. Enjoy
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: your exploration. Stan, what an amazing gift that you're sharing
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: with fans of music. And I'll tell you what, I've
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: been hanging out with the younger generation right now and
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: they are screaming for the deeper cuts and you are
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: handing it right to them because this is an artist
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: and this is a band that music shall never forget.
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: And we need you to continue doing what you're doing, sir.
• 0:39
  Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Arrow. That's very kind.
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: It's such I mean, it's an experience because, you know,
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: for what, 30, 40 years now, we've all been trapped
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: inside what radio wants to play for Tom Petty. And
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: you're giving us this this opportunity to say there's a
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: little bit more to this story than what you think.
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: Go for a ride.
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: I agree. It's it. I have the same feeling when I.
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: exposed to this music i go wow there's a lot
• 1:06
  Speaker 2: there's a lot here.
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: Do you find yourself doing and i'm so guilty of
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: this and i that i sit there and i go
• 1:11
  Speaker 1: holy cow this is this they're proving that they are
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: more than just people on the radio they're authentic musicians
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: that have a place in music history and that 200
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: years from now they're going to say what was it like.
• 1:25
  Speaker 2: Is there a question there? I don't even know. I
• 1:27
  Speaker 2: would go, yeah.
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, the question is, is that are you feeling
• 1:31
  Speaker 1: the same experience in the way that it really does
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: showcase the musicianship and the quality of the dedication, loyalty,
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: and determination required? Well, yeah.
• 1:42
  Speaker 2: I mean, I probably have a little slightly different effect
• 1:45
  Speaker 2: when I hear it. I hear the brotherhood. I hear
• 1:48
  Speaker 2: my friends. I see kids that we, you know, how
• 1:52
  Speaker 2: we grew up together. It's more like for me, it's
• 1:56
  Speaker 2: just a very bonding and reassuring pat on my back. from,
• 2:04
  Speaker 2: from like, from all of us to go, you know,
• 2:06
  Speaker 2: we really were pretty cool. And we had a lot
• 2:10
  Speaker 2: of fun doing it. And that shows.
• 2:13
  Speaker 1: I have the greatest time talking with the up and
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: coming musicians today when they're from Gainesville. I'll go, do
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: you know the story of Gainesville? And all of a
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: sudden you, you bring up Tom's name one time or
• 2:22
  Speaker 1: even the heartbreakers. Oh my God. Everybody's got a story.
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: And it's just so fun to listen to all of that.
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: Oh man.
• 2:30
  Speaker 2: That's so sweet. It's, Yeah, I mean, I've been so fortunate.
• 2:34
  Speaker 2: This is all this is all I've ever done since
• 2:38
  Speaker 2: I was 15 years old. I mean, like I said,
• 2:40
  Speaker 2: the last job I had was working at McDonald's and
• 2:43
  Speaker 2: everything else has been about being a musician. So this
• 2:47
  Speaker 2: is my church. This is what raised me. This is
• 2:50
  Speaker 2: what inspires me. This is what feeds me spiritually, cosmically,
• 2:55
  Speaker 2: and literally. So this is my life. And to have
• 2:59
  Speaker 2: it be celebrated and enjoyed again, it's great. And I
• 3:03
  Speaker 2: get to do it with the guys. I get to
• 3:05
  Speaker 2: do it with my wife. with my boys, you know,
• 3:07
  Speaker 2: so it's, it's amazing for me.
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm grateful that you gave yourself permission to do that.
• 3:11
  Speaker 1: And the reason why is because I was that seven
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: to midnight jock on an AM radio station that needed
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: the heartbreakers to be on those speakers so that FM
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: wouldn't come and kick us off the dial. And I mean, I,
• 3:21
  Speaker 1: I owe so much to you guys for keeping our
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: doors open.
• 3:26
  Speaker 2: Wow. I thank you. I mean, there that's, that's a
• 3:31
  Speaker 2: cool relationship.
• 3:33
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, because, I mean, you know, Tom Petty
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: and the Heartbreakers went through that evolution. Well, we're only
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: going to play them at night. This is what we're
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: going to do. They're only 7 to midnight and then
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: midnight to 6 in the morning. And then it started
• 3:43
  Speaker 1: to make the transition into the daytime radio. What did
• 3:46
  Speaker 1: you guys experience when you realized, oh, my God, it's
• 3:49
  Speaker 1: 2 o'clock and we're on the radio?
• 3:52
  Speaker 2: Man, it was happening so fast. I wasn't processing in
• 3:57
  Speaker 2: real time. Right. The first five or six years of
• 4:01
  Speaker 2: being in the Heartbreakers was like a sprint. I don't
• 4:06
  Speaker 2: remember even, I mean, I didn't even have a place
• 4:09
  Speaker 2: to live till the third album. Wow. So, you know,
• 4:13
  Speaker 2: we were living, I was living out of a trunk,
• 4:15
  Speaker 2: living in a hotel room or staying in Mike's, you know, couch. Or,
• 4:21
  Speaker 2: you know, we were running wild. You know, we were
• 4:25
  Speaker 2: just wild. So I don't have a real... sense of
• 4:29
  Speaker 2: what was happening only later we all get together and
• 4:33
  Speaker 2: talk about it and go oh i didn't remember that
• 4:35
  Speaker 2: oh is that what we did so it's really a
• 4:37
  Speaker 2: cool it's cool that we're most of us you know
• 4:40
  Speaker 2: i'm so it's bittersweet a couple guys are missing you
• 4:43
  Speaker 2: know obviously and but the remaining guys that are still
• 4:47
  Speaker 2: here it's wonderful to be able to sit down and
• 4:50
  Speaker 2: talk to them and go well that's not what happened
• 4:53
  Speaker 2: you know it's like it's really cool it's it is
• 4:56
  Speaker 2: it's a good thing.
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more on the way with
• 4:59
  Speaker 1: Stan Lynch from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. It's a
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: new box set. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. It's called
• 5:07
  Speaker 1: Origins 1971 to 1978. We are back with Stan Lynch.
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: When you go back and you listen to Origins 1971
• 5:14
  Speaker 1: to 78, do you feel that? Because one of the
• 5:17
  Speaker 1: things about Southern bands is that we love to explore
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: every genre. Do you see that Tom Petty and the
• 5:23
  Speaker 1: Heartbreakers were a fusion band that brought so many sounds
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: together as one?
• 5:30
  Speaker 2: It wasn't intentional. You're giving us too much credit. We
• 5:34
  Speaker 2: listened to the radio when we were kids. You know,
• 5:37
  Speaker 2: there was one station, WGGG, basically, in Gainesville. And we
• 5:42
  Speaker 2: were an amalgam of what we heard. We heard everything
• 5:45
  Speaker 2: from Dean Martin to Leonard Skinner to, you know, we
• 5:49
  Speaker 2: heard it all. And we heard everything. teeny bopper music
• 5:53
  Speaker 2: we heard you know and that's what we were we
• 5:56
  Speaker 2: we assimilated that so when we all got together we
• 6:00
  Speaker 2: just happened to love all the same stuff we didn't
• 6:04
  Speaker 2: have to discuss whether eric bernie the animals were cool
• 6:08
  Speaker 2: or elvis was cool or you know we we all
• 6:11
  Speaker 2: went like i love that oh i never liked that
• 6:14
  Speaker 2: great we were all in this cosmic agreement effortlessly bonded
• 6:20
  Speaker 2: by The radio.
• 6:23
  Speaker 1: Would you call this box set a prequel? Because it
• 6:26
  Speaker 1: is before we all got to know who Tom Petty
• 6:29
  Speaker 1: and the Heartbreakers were. And you're giving us such a
• 6:31
  Speaker 1: beautiful gift in the way of saying, by the way,
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: there is a story before the one you think you know.
• 6:35
  Speaker 2: Is it a prequel? I don't know. It's just a...
• 6:42
  Speaker 2: it's like a diary. Like you get to go, okay,
• 6:45
  Speaker 2: you want to read the diary? It's weird. There's some,
• 6:48
  Speaker 2: there's some awkward moments and there's some strange stuff that
• 6:52
  Speaker 2: doesn't connect. But I was fortunate to be in the
• 6:56
  Speaker 2: group with all, with these guys when we were young
• 6:58
  Speaker 2: and watch us turn into what we became, you know,
• 7:02
  Speaker 2: then it became more of a conscious effort to go, well,
• 7:05
  Speaker 2: this is what we do really well. Let's do this
• 7:07
  Speaker 2: for a while, or let's stretch this, or I'm getting
• 7:09
  Speaker 2: a little bored with this. Let's try this. So it's
• 7:13
  Speaker 2: wild for me to remember all the different phases we
• 7:18
  Speaker 2: went through, you know?
• 7:19
  Speaker 1: Can you imagine going back to, let's say, 1974, and
• 7:22
  Speaker 1: this 88-page fanzine is available at a music store? They
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: would be freaking out, which I'm sure people are going
• 7:29
  Speaker 1: to be doing right here in 2026. This is a
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: beautiful piece of display.
• 7:36
  Speaker 2: Thank you. I really appreciate that you're taking the time
• 7:39
  Speaker 2: to look. Thanks for all you're doing for us. It
• 7:42
  Speaker 2: means a lot.
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: Well, you're working in a world where we don't have
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: Musicland anymore or Tower Records. And so but yet those
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: those darn younger generation and the people of my age
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: are still sitting there going, give me my music. I
• 7:53
  Speaker 1: got to have it just like we did during those
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: record store days.
• 7:57
  Speaker 2: Well, ain't nothing wrong with that, man.
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: Well, man, you got to come back to this show
• 8:04
  Speaker 1: anytime in the future where we can break down the
• 8:06
  Speaker 1: music and get the stories behind the stories.
• 8:10
  Speaker 2: There's a bunch of them.
• 8:11
  Speaker 1: I bet there are. Well, you be brilliant today and
• 8:15
  Speaker 1: enjoy all the people that have got so many things
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: to ask because we're all going to be listening to
• 8:20
  Speaker 1: each other, learning new things.
• 8:23
  Speaker 2: Oh, man, I appreciate you. Appreciate you being here today.
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: You be brilliant today, sir.
• 8:28
  Speaker 2: You too. All right.