And so I have that kind of background, but I always kind of aspired to be something else, and I made a lot of different friends over the years that were passing through. I didn't have the money to have a vast record collection, so I learned everything, really, from the radio. In the mid-'60s, AM radio, pop radio, was just this incredible thing that played all kinds of music. You could hear Frank Sinatra, right into the Yardbirds. It was this amazing thing, and I miss it in a way because music has become so compartmentalized now, but in those days, it was all right in one spot. When I was 15 or 16 playing in groups, we used to sit in the car and try to write the lyrics down as a song was playing, and we'd assign each person a verse, you know: "I'm going to do the first one. You go for the second one." And then sometimes you'd wait an hour for it to come on again so you could finish it up. The hardest one was "Get Off My Cloud" by the Stones. It took us a good three hours to get that one written down. It was a friend and something that was there. On meeting Elvis Presley on a movie set when he was 11 You didn't really think about it that much, but looking back on it, it was such a musical education. He was the guy in town that developed all the film and he had a movie camera. He used to film the college basketball practices and football practices, and when a movie came nearby - as a lot of them did around northern Florida - he would usually hire onto the set and work in some capacity.Īnd he was working on an Elvis Presley movie in 1961, I think, Follow That Dream, it was called. #SOMETHING IN THE AIR LYRICS TOM PETTY DRIVERS#.#SOMETHING IN THE AIR LYRICS TOM PETTY MOVIE#.
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