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The Penguin Discography: Baby, Let's Play House




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Baby, Let's Play House
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Arthur Gunther

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Running Time 2:33
Performers Tom Petty (Lead Guitar), Tom Petty (Acoustic Guitar), Mike/Michael Campbell (Lead Guitar), Ben(mont) (M.) Tench(, III) (Piano), Howie Epstein (Bass Guitar), Stan Lynch (Drums), Rick Rubin (Produced By), Tom Petty (Produced By), Mike/Michael Campbell (Produced By), Jim Scott (Engineered By), Jim Scott (Mixed By), George Drakoulias (Mixed By)
CommentsRecorded at: Ocean Way, Hollywood, CA and Gone Gator Two. Mixed at: Johnny Yuma Recordings, Burbank, CA From the last Heartbreakers session with Stan Lynch, the 1993 date for the greatest hits album that produced "Mary Jane's Last Dance." As always, the ghost of Elvis loomed large in Petty's consciousness. "These are all things from my youth, from my box of Elvis 45s," Tom says. Asked where he was when Presley died, Tom says, "I was home in L.A. Very weird day, because it was also one of the first times I heard myself on the radio. I'm listening to KROQ and I hear that Elvis died. KROQ, if you believe this, didn't have any Elvis records! The disc jockey said, 'Our Elvis library is locked. While we're getting it open we're going to play some artists that Elvis inspired.' And then on comes ME. And I thought, 'Well, this is wrong, get him on as quick as possible!' I turned the radio off and turned on the TV and there was zero, zip about Elvis dying. I remember walking out in the backyard complaining, 'Jeez, you'd think we'd get a little coverage on this!' Then of course in the next hour all hell broke loose on the TV. I really think if he'd lived he may have had another shot at doing some really great work, but how do you know?" It is fair to say that Petty and a number of other young artists who had the right idea about Presley were just getting in a position to perhaps... "Talk to him!" Petty interrupts. "I know I would have been up there trying to talk every day! I'd have driven him fuckin' crazy!" "I love Elvis now, but at the time I was sort of embarrassed by our whole Elvis thing," Stan Lynch says. "I guess I was always at odds with the group on a lot of the Elvis and rockabilly stuff. I wasn't into any of the southern rock stuff either. I was influenced by Traffic. I was in a whole other thing. My dad dug Elvis."
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Playback (1995)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

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2008-08-18