I saw this book as a new release, and although I was halfway interested in it, I scrolled past it and moved on. Then, a few weeks later, Mike Campbell was one of the musicians featured on the FireAid concert in L.A where the proceeds helped the victims of the wildfires. So, that is when I put this book in my To Be Read list.
I enjoyed reading his story of how he became a guitar player (self-taught), and how he got to be a Heartbreaker. There were stories of how songs came to be as well, stories from being a traveling musician, and a lot of insight to the mind of Tom Petty.
I do like several of there hits. When the album, Full Moon Fever came out in 1989, I remember a lot of my fellow campers at the camp I attended that summer had the album, and it was played constantly.
I didn’t know that Tom Petty and Heartbreakers played with Bob Dylan.
I didn’t know that Campbell was in the sessions with The Traveling Wilbury’s. Even that story was told; Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, and Tom Petty.
I didn’t know Campbell co-wrote some songs for Don Henley.
Overall, I really enjoyed it. I am glad, though, this book didn’t drag on forever like some musician memoirs I have read.
