We didnt get pigeonholed into a genre or a fad the songs hold up to me and still sound true.Following a half-decade of collaborations with the ornate Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty decided it was time to strip things back for 1994's Wildflowers.He swapped Lynne for Rick Rubin, the Def Jam founder who started cultivating a production career outside of hip-hop and metal in the early 1990s, then hunkered down with a team of musicians anchored by his longtime lieutenants Mike Campbell and Benmont. Which I dont agree with, but when I hear them on the radio now, Im really proud of the recording and the songcraft and the timelessness.Īnd I think the songs are not in any kind of genreits not New Wave or grunge or whatever, its just rock n roll done really well. In fact, he said, I dont need to hear any more songs, weve got the two we need, the rest doesnt matter, recalls Campbell. It was the embryonic demos of Refugee and Here Comes My Girl that made Iovine so excited about producing the album to begin with, and so confident of the bands impending megastardom. I wrote the music pretty much as the record stands and gave those tapes to Tom, and he wrote these incredible words and made the songs what they are. Wed written a lot of songs before, but that one just had some magic. Refugee is one of the first songs that Tom and I wrote that really, really was huge. I remember even everybody in the room, like the whole crew, staff, and the girl at the front desk all came in.
We went through a lot of tuning the drums endlessly, trying different guitars and ampsgetting so nitpicky about every little nuance of the sound. We didnt have our studio chops, and that was very frustrating because we kept thinking we had it.
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