Tag: Tom Petty
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Reflections of a Lawyer Who’s Also Lead Singer and Rhythm Guitarist in a Rock Band
A Cambridge-educated lawyer, a property mogul, a VC executive, and a retired Microsoft veteran walk into a bar in Tel Aviv. This is not the setup for a joke. This is my band. There is a version of my professional biography that I trot out when the situation calls for it. Cambridge law, 1988. English…
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The Harmonies Nobody Noticed Disappearing: Howie Epstein and the Quiet Loss at the Heart of Tom Petty’s Heartbreakers
He wasn’t the frontman, the lead guitarist, or the founding member. He was the bass player and harmony singer who made the Heartbreakers sound like the Heartbreakers for twenty years — and whose absence most fans only recognised after he was gone. By David Cohen, Crosswinds Daily There is a particular kind of musician whose…