Hier gibts ein ausführliches Interview mit Tom, exklusiv für die Website. Viel über die Travelling Wilburys, die Anfänge der Heartbreakers etc etc
http://www.tompetty.com/interviewtext.htm oder
http://www.tompetty.com/interview.pdf
Ich wusste gar nicht, dass Howie Epstein an einer Heroin-Überdosis gestorben ist:
It’s the final day of March, 2004, and Tom Petty is in
the recording studio of his Malibu home… He also expounds about the late Howie Epstein, a founding member of The Heartbreakers, who died in 2003 of a heroin overdose.
We always questioned, did we do enough for him? Did we help him? And I think
we did. We tried so hard to pull him away from that. It’s such a strong drug, such an
evil drug. I mean, it just took years to kill him. It’s kind of like in that last year, we kind
of knew it was going to kill him. You just had to look at him to know it was going to kill him. We were all very prepared for it.
You were?
Yeah. We knew he was going to die. We kicked him
out of the group. That was the last thing we could do to
tell him to wake up. It got to be where we felt we were
enabling him. All we were doing was keeping a steady
stream of money coming in for him to live that life. And
we thought that maybe if he lost the group, he’d have to
get his shit together. And we got him to go to rehab. But he
just wouldn’t stick with it. Then, of course, you know
heroin makes you a fabulous liar. So it was kind of
hopeless.