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I started covering this Tom Petty song a few years back. 

Scott captured this version a few months ago with just me playing a couple of guitars and a bass.

I’ve just returned home from 10 shows in 10 days touring the UK with my mates in Dolly Varden.

We spent hours traveling through and enjoying beautiful cities, countrysides, islands and towns.

We met amazing, warm and open-hearted people in every town we visited.

We played our music to people who responded with great enthusiasm and rewarded us with their hard-earned dollars, queuing up for autographs and bestowing upon us kind words.

When we broke bread with them and took shelter in their hospitable homes, we remembered how much in common we all have. All striving to do something meaningful and provide for and protect our family, friends and fellow creatures.

I mercifully lacked time and access to my usual world news sources and e-mail and when I had all of 60 minutes in a internet cafe to catch up on things, I realized things hadn’t changed much.

Everything’s still completely fucked.

A quick check-in with the blogroll, let’s try Glenn Greenwald and .. yep .. the warmongers and propagandists are still turning up the heat as high as it will go. Bush Administration lackeys continue to disembowel consumer agencies and the Justice Department. Blackwater skirts accountability.  Orwell .. you were a goddamn genius.

I’m glad I traveled overseas. It was a nice little reminder that there’s sensible people across the pond who are disgusted with their leaders too. And they’re just like you and me. Looking to get by, treat others with respect and do the right thing.