400. "Free Fallin'" Tom Petty

"Free Fallin'"
Tom Petty
Full Moon Fever
1989

TWO MEMORIES

- My younger brother (still a huge Tom Petty fan) got this tape for Easter one year. Somehow he talked our dad into playing it on the tape deck in the car. A few weeks later, my dad (who had last listened to new music when Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass put out the record with the girl covered in whipped cream) asked him if he had the tape, so he could put it on.

-Riding with my college roommate to have Thanksgiving dinner at his parents' home in the Valley, 1993. This song came on the radio just as we were turning left on Ventura Boulevard. I was still new enough to L.A. to be impressed by places I'd seen in movies or heard about in songs. It goes away after a while. But after you move, it comes back. The antique shop on Melrose that I worked in for a week was on "Storage Wars" recently; I DVRed it. Save Until I Delete.



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