This is the last song from the album Bloodshot. This is the bands first single to reach the Top 30 in the United States. When you didn’t end up doing it, everybody talked me into putting it on the record. Geils Band song) ' Give it to Me ' is a song by the American rock band The J. And he said, “I gotta thank you for that. I said, “Tom, I gotta tell you, ‘Don’t Do Me Like That’ …” And he goes, “Oh, yeah! Whatever happened?” I explained the whole thing – we were in the mix process or something. Tom and I were together in his dressing room. It’s funny – it came up in our last conversation. I always felt, “Man, I wish we’d jumped on it sooner.” In the public eye, you’re gonna humiliate me? Baby, your time is gonna come.” That was a theme in Lennon’s work too – “No Reply.” But the way Tom recorded it, it just became so Tom. There is also a Dylan-esque quality : “Well, you’re gonna get yours. I always heard it as having a Lennon-esque quality, especially in the bridge – just the way Tom puts the edge on his voice.

It was almost like, “As soon as I finished writing it, I thought of sending it to you.” But I do like the song.” Tom wasn’t sure of it for himself for some reason. Maybe we thought we had the songs for our album: “We can do it for the next one.” I called up Jimmy and, I think, Tom and said, “Love the song. I think you and the band can really do something with it.” It was in Tom’s handwriting: “Don’t Do Me Like That.” And there was a note: “Hey, I think this would be a cool song for you. I got this package and in it was a cassette. One day I got this call from Jimmy Iovine’s office, confirming my address. It turns out, in this previously unpublished excerpt from our conversation, that Petty first offered the song to another band … During a long, fond reminiscence, Wolf told a wonderful tale of the hit that got away: “Don’t Do Me Like That,” Petty’s first Top 10 single and the smash that detonated the multi-platinum breakthrough of Petty and the Heartbreakers’ third album, 1979’s Damn the Torpedoes. Wolf had a long friendship with Petty, going back to 1977 when Petty and the Heartbreakers tore up every stage they hit as an opening act for the J. Indeed, Wolf was one of the first artists to respond when I contacted him for the story – literally a minute after I emailed him.

A few days after Petty’s unexpected death on October 2nd, Wolf spoke to me for Rolling Stone ‘s feature tribute to Petty. Geils Band said, reflecting on his working vacation this past summer as an opening act – with his solo group, the Midnight Travellers – on Tom Petty‘s last tour with the Heartbreakers.

“To be on this last tour was such a thrill,” singer Peter Wolf of the J.

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