Yeah, it seems that Petty was into the lifestyle considering the drama that ensued after he died and some of the stuff that his daughter said. One can’t blame her for being a little bit pissed at some of the opportunistic Hollywood types.
Unfortunately Petty was not the sharpest crayon in the box re politics or economics. He wouldn’t have fit in well here at FR, suffice to say.
He was a great pop/rock songwriter, though. Each song was unique and possibly even each in a different key.
Neither heard much about his politics but figured he leaned to the liberal side.
At least he wasn’t as obnoxious or hypocritical as Bruce Springsteen whose neither had a blue collar job in his whole life.
Petty may even had paid his taxes and not set up a fake farm to reduce his New Jersey property taxes.