What happens when you throw together two veteran rockers with a little too much time on their hands and leave them to a slow boil in the 2020 pressure cooker of a public health crisis spiced with social unrest and an imploding political scene?<\/p>\n
You get a revamped, culturally relevant cover of Tom Petty and the Heartbreaker\u2019s \u201cJammin\u2019 Me\u201d by frontmen Eddie Spaghetti of The Supersuckers and Frank Meyer of ’90s L.A. punk outfit, The Streetwakin\u2019 Cheetahs. Together, the two are known as Spaghetti & Frank, who\u2019ve teamed up in a marriage of sexy, strut-heavy rock ‘n’ roll you can thank the pandemic for making possible.<\/p>\n
\u201c[Meyer] had the idea to do a Tommy Petty song, we both love Tom Petty so much, and we just thought that would be a cool thing to do,” Spaghetti said over the phone from his home in San Diego. “The problem I always had with that song was that the lyrics seemed so dated. There\u2019s ’80s references, these things about Eddie Murphy, Joe Piscopo and Vanessa Redgrave\u2014these do not resonate anymore. So, I updated the lyrics and made it timely for the election. We\u2019re just trying to do our part to get people to go and vote.\u201d<\/p>\n
The reimagined lyrics cast an unflinching gaze upon the 21st Century pop figures and reality stars that, Meyer said, \u201cuse their fame for all the wrong reasons.\u201d Bill Cosby, Paris Hilton, the Kardashians and the most powerful reality television star in the world, Donald Trump, are all called out through the gruff, whiskey tenor of vocalists Spaghetti and Meyer.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe felt that Tom, if he were alive today, would probably be saying similar things about these same people,\u201d Meyer said. \u201cThis was our opportunity to sort of update the lyrics and the sentiment that Tom put out there, but make it about what’s going on now. If there’s one message that we would love people to get from this song, and this video, is to vote, this is a very important election. There’s a lot on the line, democracy itself is on the line.”<\/p>\n