What's she going to do? Brother? When Jeff Townsend media runs wild on you, though, there is a lot of popular, kind of plastic computer music that's not that interesting. Yeah, I don't feel like somebody like the artists did that. You know, you put your name on it, but you didn't do that. So, man, I think we can both agree that Tom Petty is one of the greatest of all time, if not the greatest of all time. Would you agree with that? Oh yeah, I definitely definitely agree with that. The icon is a way to describe one of the most memorable things of my childhood were introducing you to different Tom Petty songs. I don't even know if you'd heard them before, but I certainly took pride in introducing them to you. I grew up but just just just old gospel music. So Tom Petty, So Tom Petty was he was really life changing to you, he would say he was. Yeah, yeah, I think the music could sound good. You didn't know what music was until you heard the King. He's like the real king of rock and roll in my opinion, you know, yeah, yeah, he's a multi genre singer, right, Yeah. I mean there's been a lot of babies made in his honor. I'm almost certain of that. So what let's go over some like great things that we like about Tom Petty. The first thing is, I'm a huge King of the Hill fan of the Hill, and Tom Petty's role in that what you really like from what I've read, like he basically was gonna because Key, they was a lot of famous people on that particular show. They come on. Actually, yeah, they're coming for like one episode maybe two, and well he was that was the original plan with Tom Petty. But he loved it so much and Mike Judge loved it so much. They were like, hey, do you want to do more? And Tom Petty's like, no, I do Actually, I don't know what he says. I don't know how this is. Like what I'm saying is it is supposed to be a one tied thing and it just set it up being great. Yeah, that's that's crazy. It's an honorable mention. It's like some of his greatest things. I wanted to play this amazing moment of when he explained how he got his name Lucky. So he's out, he's eating dinner, he's he's he's sitting down drinking with the neighbors, and they asked him how he got his name Lucky. So I'd like to share that for him before we get into the music part. Yeah. Then later on we also have another big movie moment that he was in the big greatest movie ever made. But we'll get to that. I'm excited, yeah, I'm excited about it. But this is how he got his name Lucky and key of the hill, Lucky. How do they call you Lucky? True story. I was at Costco one day and all of a sudden, the nature called, Yeah, there's more like it, So I hide tail it into the john and there's some sensitive guy changing these little boys diaper on one of them baby iron and boards, and don't you know, I slipped on peepy and broke two vertebrae which had to be fused together. I mean constant pain, but I gotta got me up. Fifty three thousand dollars settlement. That is the great glory behind hell he got his name Lucky. Your thoughts on that, Oh? I love it. Actually they bring it up so often too. After that. It's fifty three thousand dollars settlement, settle and but you to see Haig's face every time they talk about it, and it's just like so disappointed, is uh? I think the word the usage of the work using the word pepe uh in sensitive gentleman. I just he was a real proper character, wasn't he? He was a very proper Uh well, I didn't even know how to described, my guess, a proper hillbilly almost. Okay, so that was honorable, mentioned Tom Petty. That's just lucky. I just had the intro as a twenty years in in rock selling albums. What do you think of music today, big Backstreet Boys fan? I like it more when the group's actually play something, you know. So I'm gonna go ahead and start it off if you don't mind, I want to start off with the song. I won't back down. Oh man, we may have the same thing. I don't know he he did too, I don't know. I've got that tould up right now. Let's great. But I want to go ahead and give you a little bit of a backstory here. So this is on the day Tom Petty record. Are you ready to hear about what he was going through and how he got through it? Oh? Yeah, no, I've heard this. Okay. Two notable things here that I really enjoy the hell out of I had a terrible cold that day and George Harrison went to the store and bought a ginger root, boiled it and had me stick my head in a pot to get the ginger steam to open up my siduses, and then I ran in and did the take. WHOA, I've never heard of that being anything. So if you're I'm in a bad cold day, now you know. So what tomp Petty did it? It has to be the greatest thing ever. I mean, yeah, if it can. What was the clearest silences? And then he goes on to make the greatest song ever made. Absolutely, I think that's why this guy's so great. So let me so this is a little bit more into the backstory of the I want back down. That song frightened me when I wrote it. I didn't embrace it at all. It's so obvious. I thought it wasn't that good because it was so naked. So I had a lot of second thoughts about recording that song. But everyone around me liked the song and said it was really good, And it turns out everyone was right. More people connect to that song than anything else I ever wrote. I've had so many people tell me that it helped them through this, or it helped them through that. I're still continually amazed the power of a three minute song. I definitely would agree with that. It's interesting the heat well here. I want other great songs as well, though, But well, I'm back down. It's just it's just an easy one too to recommend to people. Maybe that's why he was kind of getting that there too. Yeah, and it's super easy in fact, if you just read the lyrics, let me just leave there, let me lead the read the whole song and just the most normal like like a boring college professor would if if you don't mind, Yeah, sure, yeah, I'm going to read you the whole song. Well, I walk back down. No, I walk back down. You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won't back down. No, I'll stand my ground, won't be turned around, and I'll keep this world from dragging me down. Gonna stand my ground and I walk back down. I walk back down. Hey, baby, there ain't no easy way out. I walk back down. Hey, I will stand my ground and I walk back down. Well I know what's right, hey, Yeah, just one life and a world that keeps on pushing me around, but I'll stand my ground and I walk back down, walk back down. Hey, baby, there ain't no easy way up. I walk back down. Hey, I will stand my ground, I walk back down. That's a million dollars all the right there. There is absolutely nothing in this song but everything all at once. Yeah. Yeah, there's a couple of notable things here. To me, they're just they're so damn powerful. He sends very few things in the song, but when he does, you can stand me up at the gates of hell. I want back down. But I think even more powerful than me are the lyrics that I'm about to read you here. And a world that keeps on pushing me around, but I'll stand my ground keeps pushing me around. Yeah, yeah, that's a great it's a great set of lyrics too. And you know, there aren't very many words to the song if you really really think about it, especially especially would you think of like the repeating parts. But will you listen to it? You don't really think about that at all. Isn't it amazing how I just read to you the whole song? Yeah, what do you said that? I was like, oh, okay, I don't know how long I was gonna take him because I guess all three minutes. But what do you think he was going for when he wrote this particular song. Well, I think he said it pretty quick, pretty clearly. It was just like, you know, he won't back down. Yeah, at the end of the day, you know, no matter what happens, right, No, I'm like, no matter what ship you go through, you you got back down. It's a great song. Everybody could take something away from it. One. I was gonna bring up this song for a completely different reason though obviously the song is great. But have you seen the official music video? Yes, I would like to describe the music video that kind of go along with the lyrics. Okay, you know, kind of like step by step going through the music video. He shows up in a tasseled like jacket with a cowboy hat. Oh yeah, he's got this box. Yeah, he's got this box in front of him, and he just smiles the most mischievous smile you can think of. While I'm staring at the camera, he get like an eyebrow raise. He's like, you want to see what's in this box? Like he that's like it's so clear, And so he opens it up and obviously inside is a tiny version of himself, and he's he's playing the song, you know, it's playing a little back down, and so he's the camera zooms into the box and suddenly it's like a real the life size everyone's life size and they're playing playing the song, you know, well back down. And then one of the musicians, one of the Heartbreakers, you know, all the other members of the band, he walks off and he grabs this globe. It's like four foot tall globe. They had to build this thing obviously for the set. You know. It's like four foot tall globe. And he's like kind of like dancing around it and it's like, you know what's gonna happen here? And he pulls up this geriant drill, I don't know, two foot long drill, and he drills a hole into the globe and he's he's looking around kind of like, you know what's inside this globe? Yeah, something crazy. He's got to be inside of it. Yeah, he got Yeah, So he walks out to and he looks inside the globe and he has like a big zoom on his eye, you know, because he's like peeping through the hall and the in the globe and inside the globe is a tiny version of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers playing the song. It's it's Tom Petty's actually that size in real life, and he's all three sizes. He's the giant, you know, cardival guy. He's he's the guy in the box, he's the guy in the globe, and you know they're playing the plight of the song and the kind of just gonna cycles through those three imageries throughout the rest of the music video, and I was like, this is the oh no, no, no, there's there's one last thing. He brings out a photo out and he helpens the photo album and inside of it is tiny versions of himself playing Woke back Down. It's just it just over and over and over again. Is another small version of him playing back Down. And it's just the greatest music video I've ever seen. Highly recommended for anyone. He was still ahead of his time, you know. And I'll explain, Yeah, this is decades ago and Nike now the biggest thing on YouTube that my kids watch are these unpackaging Oh yeah, well yeah, I said miscellaneous things. Tom Petty was unpackaging himself thirty years ago. This is amazing. That's true. Yeah, he did a live unboxing of Tom Petty Greatest of all Time for sure. Damn they all come to see rock and rolly. There's not a live rock and roll left in the world, you know. I mean, like, there's rock, but there's very little that has a role with it, you know. And and we are one of those particular bands that likes to have a little role with the rock. So another great Tom Petty song. I think that the probably newer generation of people because Tom Petty's obviously been making was making music before you passed away for a long time. You don't know how it feels. It was like this awesome Tom Petty comeback on this Wildflowers album that he kind of just meant like it's Tom Petty, right. I don't know if there were much heartbreakers going on with this, right, Yeah, So you don't know how it feels. It's it's a famous song, and of course it's it's famous in part because some of the verbiage in this song. Right. So here's a little factoid for you. MTV and many radio stations alike they had a censored version of this song. Of course, you don't know how it feels. Reversing the word joint and let's roll another joint, right, I mean, they didn't want to play that always. Another version came out of this with the word role replaced with hit. Okay, oh okay you no wow. I wonder what does that make it any better? I think, James, is it legally worse to roll or hit the joint? This obviously is mistaken as roll another Joint as the title because it's such a search engine big thing, so it didn't gets associated with and some people actually think that's the title of the song. Let me get another jo, I will say sometimes when I can't remember liten they of the song, I think I do search it that way sometimes, but then I'm like, oh no, no, it's called you don't know, Yeah, I mean, which is kind of silly when you think about how many times he says you don't know how it feels? But yeah, really stuck with this the verbiage of roll another Joint. So let let me read you some of the most powerful rics I think of this song, and and then you can tell me what you think he was going for and how you relate to it yourself, or how how somebody can relate to it. I guess if you don't, If you don't mind, yeah, okay, So let's just start it off. Let me run with you tonight. I'll take you on a moonlight ride. There's someone I used to see, but she don't give a damn for me. Let me with you to night out. Take you. There's some I used to see. She don't give the damn for me. I guess. Uh, he's just talking about like an X or something like that to his new girlfriend. I'm not really sure. So do you think he's saying this to a new girlfriend. I think so, Yeah. I mean it feels like he's talking to someone. So what do you think he's saying when he said, let me run with you tonight, because that sounds way cooler than to hang out. Yeah, I guess go somewhere or go to a series of places like you, because you know Tom Petty, he wouldn't have like one destination at night. He would he would go to like a couple couple of bars, a couple of jazz clubs. I don't know what is it like sophisticated people, because he's very sophisticated, very sophisticated. So he would go to the library and then to the bar, and then actually the library and then another bar. My point is you're you're getting sidetracked right now. But then he and the chorus begins. He's quick to put you right back on point. But let me get to the point. Let's roll another joint. Turn the radio loud. I'm too lone to be proud. You don't know how it feels, you don't know how it feels to be me. So he gets you on track pretty quick. Here. Let me get yeah, you know, if it ties into them again. I just I did a lot of research for this. By the way, when we decide I talk about Tom Patty, I said this in research mostly music videos. This is okay, So this is a very I'm gonna let you describe it, but this is a very fascinating music video. What he's able to do in this music video. Yes, because this music video, he's it's kind of like a cylinder stage or something like that. Like camera is panning around him, and then the scenes are playing out behind him, and and they're progressing throughout the song. So you'll see one scene and then by the time it comes around around to that scene, the story in that particular spy has has progressed or changed, and you get several spins of the camera, so you get to see all the different things that are happy. Some of them are intertwined, I think, but some of them are not. There's a lot of sensualness in this, uh, in this particular music video, so I think that that's probably has something to do. We'll get back to some other things are listed out to me about music video. We'll cover a little bit more here. This is obviously a very deep song. People come, people get, some grow, some grow young, some grow cold. I woke up in between a memory, had a dream, People come, people gold, some young, some gold. I woke up and between more and dream. How could you kids dissect that? Those lyrics? And we know, like if you say that you try to try to dissect that, that could take you to a really dark place. Yeah. What does it mean with some one to woke up in between a memory and a dream? I have no idea. It sounds like the most amazing thing yet the most terrifying thing ever. Yeah, it's like one of the things you always couldn't describe me. Do you just do your beats trying to describe, Like, even if it happened to you, there's just no way you could describe it. Yeah, yeah, well maybe it's like sleeper houses, which is weird, terrifying, it is. Okay, so let's go to another When he gets into verse three, here, my old man was born to rock. He's still trying to beat the clock. Think of me, what you will. I've got a little space to fill. How old man was born to ruck. He's still trying to beat the clock. Think of me, what you will. I've got a space to feel. Holy shit, that's big, that's good. That's actually I really like this that lyric there, because yeah, he's a kind of he's being who he wants to be. Yeah, he's telling me he doesn't give a shit what you think. Yeah, I'm Tom Petty thanking me what you want. And you know a lot of other people try to be like that, and that doesn't doesn't work the same way as it would from Tom. Tom Petty was like, I think a lot of people take those lyrics and try to just be a giant jerk or something like that. But Tom Petty it was just like, nah, I'm just over here. Sometimes a rolls joint, sometimes a hitting the giant and that's it. How significant you think it is that he brought up that his old man was born to rock. He's still trying to beat the clock. That was hard to parse too. Do you think that has like any sort of deeper meaning? Is he that because he immediately seguays to think of me what you will? I forgot that. This they okay, mostly focusing on the left. So like, what do you think Tom Petty means when he says it was born to rock? I guess born to rock would just be like, you know, it's really really energized and just up for anything. So I think to sum up this, you don't know how it feels really realized, how much of a badass Tom Petty is. How he's he's man handling this harmonica while while doing this singing and showboating. Yeah, this is about the whole song. Yeah, I forgot he he has got harmonica while the set is spinning, and he's just he's just gone for it. Have you ever seen a contraption like this is holding this harmonica is like rapp ripped around his head or is it rapperdends like some sort of like it looks like a very fine steel contraption and he's able to I don't I don't even get in place. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know, if you just kind of pivot towards it, you know, like that, I don't know. Pretty fascinating. Yeah, I've never seen it, seen one before, But I wouldn't be surprised if Tom Petty created that device just for just for his videos, created it like himself, like manufactured it, like welded it himself, because he would get a Yes, greatest of all time, without a doubt. You don't know, no, you don't know how it feel to be me, Jeff Townsend Media, seize your good night. And the question is do I stay here? Will you be back? Are you gonna come back? Will you be back? Are you coming back
