It seems that Jackson Browne didn\u2019t have far to go from his residence to the studio where he was making his 1976 album The Pretender, so he rarely stopped to gas up his car. \u201cI was always driving around with no gas,\u201d Browne recalled to Rolling Stone. \u201cI just never bothered to fill up the tank because \u2014 how far was it anyway? Just a few blocks.\u201d