Fact #64287
When:
Short story:
Mudcrutch, a band from Gainesville, Florida, USA, sets off to drive to Los Angeles, California, in search of fame and fortune. They will eventually find it, but under a new name, Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers.
Full article:
Tom Petty : We didn't have a manager, we didn't have nothin'. We drove out in a Volkswagen van. I had $37 and I remember packing sandwiches in bags. We'd go, "OK, dinner time," and everybody'd pull out a sandwich and eat it. We slept on the floor of a friend of a friend who wasn't real happy about us bein' there.
Then, I couldn't believe that you just go in and play these guys a tape and they start jumpin' around the room, goin' "Who's your manager?" Don't have one. "Oh yeah?! Well..." I left a tape at Shelter and Denny (Cordell) called us, the day before we were leavin' and said, "I think it's a great group, I'd love to sign you up." We said, "Well, we're talkin' with this one and this one." He had a studio in Tulsa and he said, "Why don't you stop halfway across the country in Tulsa and just take a breather and record some." We said great. Just to go in the studio was worth something.
Cordell was a great guy, really smart, really talented. I dug him right away. I can say that he gave me a great education in the studios and stuff. He always had the right ideas musically. On the business side, I don't agree with anything that he wanted to do, but on the creative end, I have to appreciate that he did all that for us. So we said no to the others. "We're gonna go with Denny because he talks like we do, and to hell with the rest of 'em."
(Source : interview in Billboard Magazine, March 20, 2006)
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Then, I couldn't believe that you just go in and play these guys a tape and they start jumpin' around the room, goin' "Who's your manager?" Don't have one. "Oh yeah?! Well..." I left a tape at Shelter and Denny (Cordell) called us, the day before we were leavin' and said, "I think it's a great group, I'd love to sign you up." We said, "Well, we're talkin' with this one and this one." He had a studio in Tulsa and he said, "Why don't you stop halfway across the country in Tulsa and just take a breather and record some." We said great. Just to go in the studio was worth something.
Cordell was a great guy, really smart, really talented. I dug him right away. I can say that he gave me a great education in the studios and stuff. He always had the right ideas musically. On the business side, I don't agree with anything that he wanted to do, but on the creative end, I have to appreciate that he did all that for us. So we said no to the others. "We're gonna go with Denny because he talks like we do, and to hell with the rest of 'em."
(Source : interview in Billboard Magazine, March 20, 2006)