Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers had been off the alley for about a year if the 1994 Bridge School Benefit came around. Petty spent the blow recording his abandoned anthology Wildflowers with ambassador Rick Rubin and every affiliate of the Heartbreakers besides Stan Lynch, a accommodation that did not sit able-bodied with the drummer.
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"He was pissed," Petty told biographer Paul Zollo. "He didn't like the record. If we got aback calm for the Bridge School Benefit it was just misery. That's if it fell afar with Stan."
The tensions amid Lynch and Petty had been architecture anytime back the backward 1980s if Petty recorded with the Traveling Wilburys and followed that up with his aboriginal abandoned album. The absolute bandage was affronted by those decisions, but Stan was the a lot of vocal. "Stan did aggregate he could to get fired," Petty said. "I'd apprehend that he was auditioning for addition group. Again I heard him at a gig talking to a guy in addition band. He declared us as not his capital gig. And I thought, 'Okay well, you're getting paid like it's capital gig.' I had a activity that the chef was the alone acumen he hadn't absolved off yet."
Tensions were blubbery backstage at the Bridge School Benefit, but the Heartbreakers still delivered an abundantly affective acoustic set featuring "You Don't Know How It Feels," "I Won't Aback Down," "Free Fallin'" and, appropriately enough, "Time To Move On." Here's a attractive arrangement of "Learning To Fly." Nobody knew it at the time, but it was Lynch's final gig with the band.
Longtime Petty administrator Tony Dimitriades accursed Lynch on the buzz anon afterwards the show, and the bagman didn't say a chat to Petty until the accumulation was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002. "We got calm and played at that and talked and were friendly," Petty said in 2007. "But I haven't apparent him afresh back then."
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