All credit to that band should go to George Harrison and Jeff Lynn, whom I refer to as the 6th beatle...hell half the time he sounds like George’s twin when he sings.
My dream now would be to at least meet Jeff Lynn. Sounds silly, but I missed out on George...but I had the privilege of meeting Petty and Dylan during the same summer. I was a lead tour guide at Graceland, the home of Elvis, during my early Med School summers and I gave private tours to both. Petty, a true gentleman, ask tons of questions about the house and me, and really was grateful for my time...not to say Dylan wasn’t, Dylan was just Dylan. I’m, admittedly, a huge Dylan fan and the morning I heard I’d be giving him a tour of the house with his entourage I was scared shitless...cause I knew he had a reputation for clamming up whenever fans would fawn on him...so I kept it cool the whole tour and he didn’t say one word the entire time. At the end, he took me aside and thanked me and I broke down...I said “I’ve got to say, I’m a huge fan...but I’m a fan because I found your music through musicians like Elvis and I’ve been exposed to so many other amazing artists thanks to your music...I thought I’d screwed up but we talked for probably twenty mins outside Graceland about our musical likes and dislikes back and forth...it was a magical night. I will say, as quirky as the guy is...I’ve met up with him on his concert tours since then and he’s always remembered me. Maybe a total coincidence but I was on the front row in Birmingham, Al several years ago and he nodded to me early on in the show...during a quite moment on the stage I screamed out “Visions of Johanna” and there was a delay in the song...he called over all the band members and then they started to play the “my request”...the only time it was played during that tour.
Guess I feel like my bucket list needs a face to face with Jeff Lynn to be complete...guess I need to invest in plane tickets to a concert in the UK!
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