Kevin Nealon
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I was doing a cover story on Tom Petty for Rolling Stone, and I wanted a quote from Bob Dylan, who's sort of his hero and who he's always compared to.
Mm-hmm.
He never does interviews.
He doesn't talk about himself even in interviews.
But for some reason, this request got to him the night after.
The offer got to Bob Dylan to talk about Petty very late.
The magazine was already at the printer and I get a call.
Bob will call you.
So I had to sit in a hotel at the beach without a pay cell phone.
This is pre cell phone.
And he eventually called and I said, Bob, you know, my one question is people always compare Tom to you.
Do you hear it?
And he goes, me?
Well, I realized later it was a pot joke.
It was an existential pot joke that he waited.
a year and a half for it to land.
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