The Malibu home studio where Tom Petty worked featured a sign reading "Beware: Cranky Hippie." Every time Shelters frontman Chase Simpson arrived there, however, that's hardly the man he encountered. "He was that great, genuine, loving person that you saw onstage," says Simpson, who grew up with Petty's stepson, Dylan, and
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