In all my conversations with Warren Zanes over the years — whether we’re talking his Tom Petty biography or Del Feugos reunion shows — two names pop up frequently:

Piero and Lucian. His sons.

The Concord, New Hampshire native/Del Fuegos alum wears many hats — author, bonafide rock star, college professor — but you sense he self-identifies as Dad.

“I always talk about my sons because that’s what I orbit around. Those guys know they have something I never had: a father they can reach out to,” Zanes, 60, tells me in our recent phone interview.

“My father, I met him less than a dozen times. He lived near me for a period. He could’ve reached out. I never saw him,” he says. “I brought Lucian and Piero to meet him once. That was it. Then he died.”

The year Zanes’s father died, Zanes l

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