The Most Dangerous Game-In the Listening Room with Glass Rocker Dave

Dave Mies, one of the most talented guitar players in contemporary indie post-taste fuck rock, joined us In the Listening Room to take a look at and have a listen to Tom Petty’s video “You Got Lucky.” Let’s see what Dave had to say about what went right and wrong and what the band could have done differently.

 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers You Got Lucky

Dave Talks Video:  Well, the basic storyline of the video goes like this: Petty and co. roll up to an abandoned shack in the desert riding in Mad Max style vehicles. They emerge dressed like cowboys and proceed to strut toward an abandoned tent/ barracks of sorts. On the way, Petty  recovers a chrome boom box from the dust and hits “play”, providing the soundtrack to the ensuing action. Inside, the boys find what is at the same time a recording studio, video parlor and television storage unit. The emaciated desperadoes hit the over-sized light switch and the place springs to life. Live Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers footage leap from the TV screens, interspersed with scenes of alien spaceships doing battle. LED lights from various pieces of musical equipment light up; era appropriate video games play themselves, etc. Mike Campbell (Petty’s longtime axeman) finds a hollow bodied guitar right before his rippin’ whammy bar solo occurs, at which time he busts it, in unison with the recorded version now emanating from the aforementioned boom box. At some point, Petty kicks over a Space Invader type game and celebrates its demise by twirling his six-gun. Then they split. Petty keeps the radio and Campbell likewise hangs on to his guitar.

Dave Talks Storyline: Basically, it’s a cautionary tale about chasing greener pastures. Tom’s lady is testing the waters and he’s warning her that his shoes are hard to fill, but if she’s got an itch to scratch…then have at it. At this point his heart is still open, but unlike the Temptations, he is “too proud to beg”.
 

Dave Talks Connection: Give me a fucking break; there is none. If you had the budget of a pre-music-industry-crash video, you could fuckin’ do anything. With that kind of dough, maybe try something that appeals to both MTV and Animal Planet. For instance, to the tune of whatever crooner rules the day, go in search of the most difficult animal to fuck. I don’t know which one it is for sure (since I never studied exotic animal buggery) [?], but my vote is for the giraffe, and I’m guessing the sex of the animal is inconsequential since nothin’ that size has “small hands.” First, get your Rock God in the eagle’s nest of a fire department ladder truck and chase the thing down. Once he makes contact, have him quickly duct tape himself to it’s hind quarters and get this party started right! Taped in, the thing won’t be able to shake him. When the guitar solo concludes three quarters of the way through the song, whatever “genius” rocker is screwing the giraffe will climax and celebrate by tossing his cap like an overjoyed High School graduate, at which point fireworks will explode from the animals mouth like a skinny dragon and set the arid bush ablaze. Then the camera zooms way out to reveal a mushroom cloud penetrating a constellation in the shape of a giant swollen labia. Fin
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Thanks Dave, for stopping by In the Listening Room. You’ve said it all.

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