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The Penguin Discography: Peace In L.A.




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Peace In L.A.
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Tom Petty

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Date Performance 1992-00-00
Running Time 4:43
Performers Tom Petty (Lead Guitar), Tom Petty (Bass Guitar), Mike/Michael Campbell (Rhythm Guitar), Ben(mont) (M.) Tench(, III) (Piano), Ben(mont) (M.) Tench(, III) (Electric Piano), Stan Lynch (Drums), Howie Epstein (Telephone), Carlene Carter (Telephone), Tom Petty (Produced By), Tom Petty (Engineered By), Tom Petty (Mixed By), Mike/Michael Campbell (Produced By), Mike/Michael Campbell (Engineered By), Mike/Michael Campbell (Mixed By)
Comments(Peace Mix) Recorded at: M.C. Studios (MCA Records) Other Side: (1992) US-Peace In LA After the Los Angeles policemen who had been videotaped beating Rodney King were aquitted, riots broke out across LA and whole city blocks went up in flames. Petty wrote this plea for forgiveness, assembled the Heartbreakers, cut it, and had it to radio stations before the smoke had cleared. "Tom wrote it, came over to my house, we got the band in and had it out the next day," Mike says. "It was fun to do it, we used samples and stuff we don't usually do. It was on the radio in L.A. within four hours of our finishing it. Like the old days." Howie Epstein and his girlfriend Carlene Carter are mysteriously credited with "Telephone" on that track. "Howie couldn't make it over and we wanted him to sing a harmony," Mike explains. "So we called him up on the phone, played the track to him and miked the phone. I don't think we actually got him to sing over the phone, we taped him talking and put the voice in." Is it Howie's voice in the background describing seeing smoke and flames? "Yes," Mike says. "It was a fire in his kitchen." Not the fires from the riots, but who was going to know? The version that went to radio was the lyric-heavy A-side. The version here - the "peace mix" - is the more atmospheric flip, a rare example of the funky Heartbreakers.
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Playback (1995)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

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2008-08-18