Petty overturns an Astro Invader arcade video game before they all ride away, leaving behind the cassette player. Epstein hits the jackpot on a slot machine, causing coins to flow over his hands. As they explore the tent, Campbell finds a hollow body Gretsch 6120 guitar just in time to play the song's guitar solo. You better watch what you say You better watch what you do to me Dont get carried away Girl, if you can. They find a radio/cassette player wrapped in bubble wrap and play the tape, which begins the music of "You Got Lucky." The other band members, Howie Epstein, Benmont Tench and Stan Lynch, arrive in a sidecar racing motorcycle.Įntering the tent, they turn on a bank of cobweb-covered switches that control power for music studio equipment as well as a bank of television sets which show the videos for Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' "Here Comes My Girl" and "A Woman In Love (It's Not Me)." A clip from the Galactica 1980 episode " Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I" playing on one of the televisions elicits a visceral reaction from Petty, possibly explaining the cause of the destruction in the video's universe. The video begins with Tom Petty and Mike Campbell happening upon a black tent in front of the Vasquez Rocks after riding in a hovercar (from the television series Logan's Run). Songs similar to You Got Lucky by Tom Petty, such as Listen to Her Heart by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Only the Good Die Young by Billy Joel. If you want to leave, then go because youll never find a better man than me. Petty felt the video was "a real groundbreaker," and stated that he and the band wrote the treatment themselves, borrowing heavily from the post-apocalyptic look of Mad Max 2, released in 1981. General CommentActually I got the feeling that the guy feels good about himself. Reception Ĭash Box said that "smoldering synthesizer and guitar melody sets the moody scene" and that there is a "sharp edge" to Petty's vocal, making him sound "earnest and convincing." Music video ĭespite the song's popularity, it was initially rarely played live by the band, since it was not one of Petty's personal favorites it became more of a staple since 2014. It was Tom's idea to put that approach on there. Sort of a surf guitar with a tremolo arm, like a Clint Eastwood movie, a Good, The Bad And The Ugly kind of thing. The guitar solo was Tom's idea, he suggested we do an Ennio Morricone guitar sound, kind of a vibrato arm strat kind of solo. We ran it around the room over some mic stands and through the tape heads, and then printed that for three or four minutes and then recorded the song over that drum loop. YOU GOT LUCKY By Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers 373,745 views 1.9K Dislike Share Save Playtime 24x7 19.5K subscribers Subscribe Greatest Hits is a compilation album by Tom Petty and. The drummer would actually go out and play, then we'd cut the tape and tape the loop together. We went into the studio and actually recreated another drum loop. I had made a drum loop in my studio and put the music together. "You Got Lucky" was written to a drum loop. In a November 2003 interview with Songfacts, guitarist Mike Campbell explained the song's origins:
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