Welcome to The Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill. And I'm Brian. And what are we talking about today, Brian?

1979's Damn the Torpedoes by album of music and what makes it great.

We try to have the conversation around the music that fans do, getting into the how and the why and all the deep dives of our fandom yes and we all

know brian loves his hows and his whys so we're going to be talking about tom petty and the

heartbreakers damn the torpedoes but we're not going to be doing it alone brian not today no we got a

special Skype guest yeah all the way from he where did he, he's from Detroit.

Detroit, but he was in Wisconsin. I think he was there on like, uh, like business of some kind or another.

So he is a musician, Chad Stocker from the High Strung and a few other groups as well.

Uh, he's going to be joining us in a few minutes to talk

about Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and also tell you a little bit about himself and the stuff

that he's working on. Before we do that though, Brian, do you mind so that we're all on the same page

in the conversation? Nobody is getting blindsided with names and facts and dates that they have no reference for.

So can you give us a little bit of a background on the band, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers?

Yeah, they formed in 1974 around the Gainesville, Florida area.

They kind of had an early incarnation called Mud Crutch, which you may have heard of because

Petty got them back together recently and actually made a record with them.

But early on, they did not have that kind of luck.

They only released one single, and it kind of just floundered.

But Petty took two of the mud crutchsters, Mike Campbell, the guitarist, and Ben Monttinch, the organist.

And they went ahead and they added Ron Blair on bass and Stan Lynch on drums,

reformed as Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. They also relocated

to Los Angeles at this time. Did you know that actually in the documentary that we end up talking

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