Tonight’s mystery artist had a riff in his head that just refused to morph into a song for many weeks, so he played it and he played it again until he says his neighbors were banging on the wall tell him not to play it any more. Can you guess our tenacious song writer or the eventual hit song the riff became??

This great story is actually found in an excerpt from the documentary, “Running Down a Dream. It featuring Tom Petty describing the evolution of the song, ‘The Waiting’ as well as Eddie Vedder describing how the song influenced him as a teenager. It is a cool look into Tom Petty’s process scroll down to see the interview.

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