One of the best things about attending the University of Florida in the early seventies was Mudcrutch, Tom Petty's band. It seemed like they were playing somewhere on campus almost every weekend. I can still hear Tom singing "but I ain't got you" followed by Mike Campbell, playing a Gibson firebird and hitting a treble-to-10, sharped-ninth chord that just made your ears ring for days. I moved into the dorms in 1971 and, of course, brought my guitar along. I though I was really hot until I met my new roommate. This guy was something else. He played a big ES-175 and was a member of the university jazz band. Apparently Mike Campbell saw my roommate play somewhere and came over to our dorm room one night. Mike brought an old Gibson J-45 he said someone had recently given him. I recall Mike playing a finger-picked version of Yesterday that was darn decent (actually, my arrangement of the song is better - let me know if you want to see a tabbed version of it). The evening ended up being an audition and Mike asked my roommate to join his band. My roommate declined. When I asked my roommate about it later, he responded "those guys aren't going anywhere." The next year Mudcrutch wasn't around. But a year or so later the Heartbreakers emerged and the rest is, as they say, history. Reed Gregory