Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Don't Come Around Here No More (fingerstyle guitar)

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Guitar performance and guitar tab for, Don't Come Around Here No More, by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers.

Don't Come Around Here No More:

Very sad news about Tom Petty. He was a favorite of just about everybody. I had the opportunity to see him live a half dozen times since high school, AND just this past June -- where he looked and sounded like it was the Wildflowers tour 1995.

My favorite Tom Petty song is, Don't Come Around Here No More. It's bizarre Alice in Wonderland music video freaked me out when I was kid in the mid 80's.

Like Radiohead's Thom Yorke -- Petty had an alluring weirdness with his crotchety voice and stone(d) face delivery.

What I like about 'Don't Come Around Here No More' is the juxtaposition of a major (happy) chord progression with profoundly negative subject matter.

I always felt like Petty was taking the lyrical position of a women, who's fed up with her sociopathic, alcoholic boyfriend.

I also luxuriate in the production value of Don't' Come Around Here No More. It's a huge departure from The Heartbreakers' usual minimalist, essentialist instrumentation. I put it up there with U2's With or Without You, and Seal's Kiss From a Rose.