Story by Craig Rosen SoundSpike Contributor
Published June 23, 2010 02:09 PM
Tom Petty has been making solid albums with and without the Heartbreakers for nearly 35 years. It's the sort of legacy that brings in loyal fans by the thousands to see the band playing its greatest hits on the road, but those same fans aren't necessarily clamoring for new material. (In fact, at least part of the album's impressive debut at No. 2 of The Billboard 200 can be attributed to a promotion that had a download of album... [Read More]
They finally posted the interview, it's great! There's obviously a bunch of amazing and rare guitars and lots of information and cool stories about the gear they brought on tour.
Here's the Chinner interview:
Drake's Thank Me Later debuts at #1 on the Billboard 200 this week after moving 447,000 copies in its first week. That's the third best week of the year, behind Sade's Soldier of Love and Lady Antebellum's Need You Now.
The entire Top 4 is comprised of new albums this week. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' Mojo lands at #2 with 125,000 in its debut. That's Petty's biggest first week in the SoundScan era and his highest chart effort since Damn The Torpedoes hit #2 in 1980.
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Mike Ragogna: Mojo is your first official blues-inspired album. Before Mojo, were you tempted to do a project like this?
Tom Petty: Yeah, I've been trying to get there for over a decade, really. It's the music we've always played. I guess over the last decade or so, it just became where I went when I wanted to listen to music. We haven't made a record in almost a decade, so when we got around to this one and we started writing for it, this is what... [Read More]
I tried getting pictures of all the band, but the light just wasn't really on anyone but Tom or Mike, and well, I'm a Mike fan so I got a lot more pics of him than I did of Tom. These are the ones I got, not the greatest, but just thought I'd share them.
No one could blame Tom Petty for feeling a little entitled. After all, most rock stars who have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, played the Super Bowl halftime and sold more than 60 million records are well into the rock-royalty phases of their career. Which means they’re coasting.
But Petty is a rock star who doesn’t behave like one. He’s more about work and process, rather than rewards and nostalgia. Chalk it up to his working-class Florida roots or a litany of potentially career-ending (or at least career-sidetracking) roadblocks: the break-up of his first... [Read More]
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