Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Don't Come Around Here No More

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3. Wow, I didn't know about the electric sitar. I just figured it had to be....

...a sampler like the Emulator II everyone was using back then. That was produced by David Stewart (Eurythmics), and it's really heavy on the recording technology (LinnDrum, tons of keyboards). You can pretty much date that song to 1985-86 based just on the keyboard sounds and production alone.

I always thought it was a keyboard, because I have an old UltraProteus module with the entire E-II/E-III sample library burned into ROM. The E-II sitar is one of the more clichéd late '80s synth sounds. It's wild hearing that track--I forgot how the machines just dominated records at the time...never would have thought I'd hear a LinnDrum on a Tom Petty record!