| Date Performance |
1984-00-00 | | Running Time |
3:16 | | Performers |
Tom Petty (Lead Vocal), Tom Petty (Guitar), Tom Petty (Harmonica), Mike/Michael Campbell (Lead Guitar), Ben(mont) (M.) Tench(, III) (Organ), Ben(mont) (M.) Tench(, III) (Fake Clavinet), Howie Epstein (Bass Guitar), Stan Lynch (Drums), Tom Petty (Produced By), Mike/Michael Campbell (Produced By), Don Smith (Engineered By), Don Smith (Mixed By) | | Comments | Recorded and mixed at: Gone Gator One, Los Angeles, CA (MCA Records) Other Side: (1985) US/UK/Japan/Germany/Italy/Canada/New Zealand-Don't Come Around Here No More One of the great obscure Heartbreakers songs, everyone now agrees that "Trailer" should have been on Southern Accents - for which it was conceived - rather than relegated to the flipside of "Don't Come Around Here No More." Written about the south he left behind, the song is one of the best examples of Petty's ability to speak in the voice of a character who gives away things about himself that he does not even recognize. "'Trailer' was something that we really lived and understood very well," Petty says. "It was where we all came from." "It was done during that dark period," Mike says, "before Dave Stewart entered the picture, before we got real confused about the Southern Accents album. It fit the theme. I like the story. It reminds me of the Florida days: scuffling, trying to get something going." Asked if he is able, twenty years and a world of success later, to relax in Gainesville with people he knew growing up, Petty says, "The problem is usually not you, it's more them. If they can accept you as somebody they went to high school with, then I have no problem. But if they're really intimidated by your presence, then you're not going to be able to just sit and talk." | | Appears On | |
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