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Man, I am having such a hard time with this!
Anybody here tab it out?

Save me!!!

Are you talking about the solo after the bridge and before the outro? It's been awhile since I tried playing it, but I don't remember it being super technical (otherwise I couldn't play it).

The two things that may be confusing you a bit are that I think he uses a touch of echo on the repeated pattern that plays over the part where the rhythm guitar breaks to the Bm7 (?) chord and if I remember correctly he's actually playing octaves on the plain strings throughout the climbing portion that goes back into the vocals. You kind of have to strum three strings but mute the middle string between the octave notes with your fretting hand.

This is all from memory. Now I'm going to have to go plug in some gear and the CD to make sure that I didn't lie to you. I haven't played that song on the guitar for years.

Do you know of an easy way to write down tab? I might be able to put most of it down for you if you can tell me how to do it on a computer.

I'm startin from the begining, the riff Mike plays over the intro. I don't have any tab software. Sorry

I think Petty actually plays that entire intro so you confused me. I'm pretty busy right now and have some things to take care of but I'll try to type that out in an email to get you started.

Not Petty's part, The drony single note sliding bit Campbell does. Plays it on the intro and the outro.

The part played in octaves? Piece of cake. Starts on an A, 1st finger at 14th fret on G string and pinkie at 17th fret, high E string.

It's been so long since I heard the song that I completely forgot that the octave part was also played over the intro.

Start where Kenny says, and since it's all played with this finger spacing on the first and third strings you have to slide between all the notes. Mute the second string and strum/pick across all three.

Going from the 14th with the index finger slide it up to the 16th, down to the 14th, down to the 12th, to the 11th, the 9th, the the 7th, then the 2nd. I think that's all of them.

Huge coincidence. I also just decided to try and tackle this song. But I’d be doing Petty’s part and my lead guitar player would do Campbell’s.
I didn’t notice or remember either that Mike plays something over the Intro (at least not in the live LP version that I’m going off of). I’ll have to give a listen again.
If it’s octaves over the G and E string (with the B string muted) I wouldn’t be surprised. That’s how American Girl starts also.

The Pack Up the Plantation version is just Tom on the intro.

Thanks Kenny, that's what I thought I remembered.

By the way, I have the Intro as:

3X0033 - 2X0033 - X02233 - XX0232 correct?

{And still waitin' for you and your band to come to DC.}

I am indeed overdue for a trip to our nation's capital - I have a cool crash pad in Silver Spring, so now it's a matter of getting a gig there, I reckon!

Thanks for the jump start!
It's sounds great on my Blueburst 330-12
Thanks again!

Eddie

Unfortunately the promo clip of TP & the HB's performing this song seems to have been pulled from You Tube.

I hope if Kenny comes to play D.C., he'll also do a show in NYC.

Now you're talking!

My last trip to DC, I discovered the wonderful Chinatown express bus - District of Columbia's Chinatown to Manhattan's Chinatown on a nice bus for twenty bucks.

That would be the way to do it again. I miss visitng the Northeast.

Well, Kenny, like my friends in the midwest know, if you need a place to crash in NYC, my floor is available.

I'm a block from Central Park, and just a block each from two main train lines.