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Did You Know...

...that recording of "The Waiting" was held up by a gorilla?

...that Tom Petty wrote a song called "Reptiles" about "what scumsuckers lawyers are"?

...that during winter tours, Stan Lynch would pack a Hanukkah menorah?

Random Quote

"But people can also give up on their dreams because they get sidetracked. They get rich or get famous or whatever it was they thought was going to bring them happiness, and they find it's not everything they thought. People sometimes have the wrong dreams."

- Tom Petty