There's a youtube video somewhere with TP & HB playing this live pretty recently and he explains the inspiration behind it while the band vamps. It was at some real rough-n-tumble biker bar in Gainesville that TP finally got the nerve to go in one day, so he followed this guy in, who turned out to be a new guy as well. Petty lays low while the regulars at the bar start giving this new guy a bunch of shit for his spike collar and the type of guy they figure he is. The lyric is that mocking bar-talk, judging him and acting like they've got him all figured out.
Great song, and runs with the sort-of rebel/misfit theme of the album.
There's a youtube video somewhere with TP & HB playing this live pretty recently and he explains the inspiration behind it while the band vamps. It was at some real rough-n-tumble biker bar in Gainesville that TP finally got the nerve to go in one day, so he followed this guy in, who turned out to be a new guy as well. Petty lays low while the regulars at the bar start giving this new guy a bunch of shit for his spike collar and the type of guy they figure he is. The lyric is that mocking bar-talk, judging him and acting like they've got him all figured out.
Great song, and runs with the sort-of rebel/misfit theme of the album.