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Marty Stuart on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers:

"I’ve never made any bones about it. I think Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers were the greatest Rock & Roll Band the United States Of America has ever produced."

Wow. Better than The Hawks/The Band (though composed of only one American and four Canadians, I consider the U.S.A. responsible for their formation)? Better than NRBQ, and The Byrds? And Los Lobos? As I consider Marty and his band The Fabulous Superlatives the current best band in the world, his opinions carry a lot of weight with me.

Okay, maybe I’ve been wrong about TP & TH. ;-)
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tomic601
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Spend any amount of time in LA ( I commuted via jet into and out of LAX for wayyy 2 many years )
and you will realize the lyrical genius of Free Falln’
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I probably should have said failed relationship hook !!!
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I lived in Glendale for three months in '74. . . that was enough for me! 

However, later on I did find something to appreciate in Reseda-- "I and Joy's Bagels".  I'd often travel from Santa Barbra to Riverside County to visit friends and always made a point of stopping at IAJ's hole-in-the-wall bakery to pick up a couple dozen on my way south.  
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you got my point about Reseda…love it. Will have to stop there on my way North some time…..love a great bagel…or three…
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Someone posted above about the simplicity of Tom's songs. Yep, there is a lot of magic going on there. It takes just as much natural musical genius to pull off.
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