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The Traveling Wilburys were normally the last band that anyone would think of as having any animosity towards each other. The entire premise of their getting together was about trying to make the best music that they could as a goof, and when they first hit on \u2018Handle With Care\u2019, they knew that the album was going to come easy since they were all on the same creative page. No album sessions can be great forever, though, and half the band knew that they weren\u2019t cut out for certain tunes.<\/p>\n
Going through their story, though, George Harrison always seemed to be the true ringleader behind everything. He was the one who first had the idea of forming the group, and since he had been working with Jeff Lynne, he figured that he try to get as many of his musical colleagues as he could into the mix. But, really, being able to play some of the most blistering leads wasn\u2019t normally a qualifier here.<\/p>\n
When looking back on those times, Tom Petty remembered that Harrison was more interested in the people behind the songs, saying<\/a>, \u201cIt was more about people that you could hang around with. Though George did like to surround himself with people who were good.\u201d And once he had a handful of the greatest songwriters under one roof, every one of the tunes seemed to have its own unique character.<\/p>\n The electronic soundscapes in \u2018Margarita\u2019 certainly changed the pace for Bob Dylan, and hearing them cut loose on the rockabilly number \u2018Rattled\u2019 is a nice way of calling back to where all of their roots were. But there was always room for them to grow as lyricists a bit more, and when writing \u2018Tweeter and the Monkey Man\u2019, Dylan had his sights set on what Bruce Springsteen<\/a> had been doing.<\/p>\n While most artists would tip their hat to their inspirations in song, this feels like both a loving ode and a slight jab all at the same time, considering how much Dylan includes references to songs like \u2018Thunder Road\u2019 and talks about the supposed \u201cJersey girl\u201d that occupies many of \u2018The Boss\u2019s tunes. That kind of loving look at American westerns may have been interesting, but it is also something that Harrison and Lynne could have never done on their own.<\/p>\n \u201cThe English guys [George Harrison and Jeff Lynne] left, actually. It was the only song that they were like, \u2018This is just too American. We\u2019re out on this one.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Tom Petty<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n