Petty Talks About Stevie

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Thanks for posting the attachment ricohv. I finally got my own copy of the magazine (I read it originally off of someone else's copy) so I could clarify for some of the folks who commented here just what Tom's own words were. Even with your attachment I will go ahead and add the section where he talks about Stevie here (the formatting is directly from the article):

But at least the session produced one good anecdote, “I do remember trying to talk Lindsey into joining the band that night,” he says. “Stevie wasn’t playing with them at the time, so I said, ‘Why don’t you just join our band and get the heat off of me?’ I never wanted to be the front guy—I got that job and I’ve been stuck with it ever since.”

Buckingham’s bandmate had a different vision: Stevie Nicks, Petty says, was dying to join the band. “Oh, she wouldn’t quit,” Petty says. “Stevie showed up at my house every night for a year—maybe more.” But Petty was firm: “There’s no girls in the Heartbreakers.” Nicks followed them on tour anyway—“every f***ing night,” Petty says. “ ‘Stevie’s in room so-and-so’ ‘Stevie wants a song.’ We gave her a hard f***ing time: ‘No way you’re coming to a session. Look at the f***ing clothes you’ve got on.’ The fact that she stuck around was amazing.” (They eventually did team up for what would be one of the all-time great rock duets: “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around.”)