but if he and the mastering engineer have a good relationship, which they obviously do, and if they have unlimited budget, which they probably do, then fantastic, you can get that much closer to whatever sound you have in your head!
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 30 October 2020 06:25 (three years ago) link
Dirty Knobs album is great, like a Tom-less Heartbreakers album but a bit messier & swearier - fave track “Fuck That Guy” i still hate the name but I love Mike Campbell 4ever
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 June 2021 22:58 (two years ago) link
The 2009 Live Anthology is one of the greatest things ever, and now there's another 4CD set coming in November, culled from 20 shows(!) they did at the Fillmore in San Francisco in 1997, that looks like a fine companion piece. (There's also a 2CD version, but if you're buying this, as I am, why wouldn't you get the whole thing?
Track listing:
CD 1
Pre-show (spoken interlude)Around and AroundJammin’ MeRunnin’ Down A DreamGood Evening (spoken interlude)LucilleCall Me The BreezeCabin Down BelowThe Internet, Whatever That Is (spoken interlude)Time is On My SideListen To Her Heart Waitin’ In SchoolLet’s Hear It For Mike (spoken interlude)Slaughter On Tenth Avenue Homecoming Queen Intro (spoken interlude)The Date I Had with That Ugly Old Homecoming Queen I Won’t Back DownYou Are My SunshineAin’t No SunshineIt’s Good To Be King
CD 2
Rip It UpYou Don’t Know How It FeelsI’d Like To Love You BabyDiddy Wah DiddyWe Got A Long Way To Go (spoken interlude)Guitar Boogie ShuffleI Want You Back AgainOn The Street Intro (spoken interlude)On The StreetCaliforniaLet’s Hear It For Scott and Howie (spoken interlude)Little MaggieWallsHip HuggerFriend Of The DevilDid Someone Say Heartbreakers Beach Party? (spoken interlude) Heartbreakers Beach PartyAngel DreamThe Wild One, ForeverEven The LosersAmerican GirlYou Really Got Me Goldfinger
CD 3
Mr. Roger McGuinn (spoken interlude)It Won’t Be WrongYou Ain’t Going Nowhere Drug Store Truck Drivin’ Man Eight Miles High Crazy MamaEveryone Loves Benmont (spoken interlude) Green Onions High Heel Sneakers John Lee Hooker, Ladies and Gentlemen (spoken interlude) Find My Baby (Locked Up In Love Again) Serves You Right To Suffer Boogie Chillen I Got A Woman
CD 4
Sorry, I’ve Just Broken My Amplifier (spoken interlude) Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door Honey Bee County Farm You Wreck Me Shakin’ All Over Free Fallin’ Mary Jane’s Last Dance Bye Bye Johnny (I Can’t Get No) SatisfactionIt’s All Over Now Louie Louie Gloria Alright For Now Goodnight (spoken interlude)
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 21 September 2022 17:02 (one year ago) link
The 2-CD set is just spoken interludes.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 17:27 (one year ago) link
Having Fun With Tom On Stage
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 21 September 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
oh damn i think i want this?
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 September 2022 18:19 (one year ago) link
Dang, this does look good. Disc 3 looks interesting.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 21 September 2022 18:23 (one year ago) link
i've heard a few of these shows via bootlegs and yeah, they smoke.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 18:23 (one year ago) link
the Fillmore covers alone are killer, but yeah, super excited for this
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 September 2022 02:44 (one year ago) link
My copy of the Live at the Fillmore box arrived today and it fucking rules.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 25 November 2022 23:34 (one year ago) link
So I wrote about the live box for my Substack newsletter this week, focusing on the long, hilarious version of "Gloria" that closes it out. And I excerpted a big chunk of VegemiteGrrl's brilliant piece from when Petty died, so thanks again for writing that, VG.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 30 November 2022 15:37 (one year ago) link
aw cheers!
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 30 November 2022 15:43 (one year ago) link
"Jammin' Me"!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 30 November 2022 15:43 (one year ago) link
Kinda regret asking for this for Christmas, now I gotta wait.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 30 November 2022 15:59 (one year ago) link
this is a pretty great thread of J Mascis doing Tom Petty covers includes a great karaoke video of Dont Do Me Like That, highly recommended
Happy Thursday, here’s J Mascis singing Tom Petty at karaoke. pic.twitter.com/mZ7ZYRdwjQ— Scott Heisel (@scottheisel) April 27, 2023
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 28 April 2023 01:42 (one year ago) link
Saw Mike Campbell & the Dirty Knobs last night with Steve Ferrone on drums (!)he mixed in a few Heartbreakers songs, including a few deeper cuts - Rockin Around - When The Time Comes- Fooled Again (And I Don’t Like It)- Refugee- Runnin Down A Dream His version of Refugee was slowed way down, it was so great - i posted an older video here for reference, but this is v similar to what he did last nighthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgvGyLwPJ0U
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 24 May 2023 16:00 (one year ago) link
The estate just put out a statement saying RR Auction in Boston is auctioning off a ton of stuff stolen from Petty. The auction house won't reveal the source of the materials, but the estate is taking legal action and asking people not to bid on anything.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 20:35 (one year ago) link
Eesh, I’ve never heard of that site but searched the webpage for Tom Petty and it looks like someone basically stole his wardrobe. Creepy.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 25 May 2023 04:24 (one year ago) link
the Live Anthology & Fillmore sets are such a joythe live recordings for me i think push my already huge Benmont Tench appreciation into the stratosphereall the ways you can hear so clearly the essential elements he brings to the band, accompaniment, soloing or just flourishesand the Anthology is wild because if you listen over a couple of sittings it feels like one big concert, there’s so little variation in the band’s quality or performances or sound over the breadth of those discs. Like sewing a mosaic where all the patterns line up perfectly <3
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 September 2023 03:12 (seven months ago) link
i should listen to those, not seeing petty live is a big regret of mine. certainly had opportunities.
but yeah hell of a band. dylan just played farm aid with the heartbreakers as his band, need to check that out as well.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 28 September 2023 15:11 (seven months ago) link
yeah the live stuff is very fun — the live disc on Wildflowers is cool, too. And yes! Tench really is a pleasure to listen to, he really gets more room to play onstage. I saw him guest with Robyn Hitchcock once in a small club and though he was seemingly unrehearsed, everything he did was perfect.
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 September 2023 15:26 (seven months ago) link
I've seen him with Jon Brion before, and he got to improvise a lot, a really creative player.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 28 September 2023 15:56 (seven months ago) link
When the Replacements were opening for Petty, Tench would sometimes sit in with them, even as they improvised new songs onstage.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 28 September 2023 17:02 (seven months ago) link
damn the torpedoes is an exemplary organ record, tench tone is incredible and he's a master of using the leslie to subtly build intensity or add emotion
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Thursday, 28 September 2023 17:16 (seven months ago) link
*tench's tone
Tench is pretty awesome all-around - his role in the Heartbreakers may have landed him a lot of outside gigs, but his talent totally justifies it and he's still one of the great sidemen (in studio and on stage) even though he was in a very popular band for 50 years.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 28 September 2023 19:44 (seven months ago) link
ha i like TenchTone ... he should sell a pedal or something.
it really was fortuitous that Petty stumbled across both Campbell and Tench so early on — he lucked out!
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 September 2023 19:47 (seven months ago) link
Here's the ultimate (not on youtube) Tench clip, playing with Stevie Nicks on SNL in 1981 and stuck doing the more or less sequenced synth part on "Stand Back."
https://vimeo.com/302604378
What a trooper.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 28 September 2023 20:12 (seven months ago) link
It's actually a great performance, considering how little he, Liberty DeVito and Waddy have to do. And whatever Stevie's condition might have been at the time.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 28 September 2023 20:15 (seven months ago) link
Waddy Wachtel is the ugliest man ever born.
I see Tench is playing Prince's two-finger part.
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 September 2023 20:24 (seven months ago) link
I'm not really a fan of Nicks's solo work, especially after the first two albums, but the stuff she cut with the Heartbreakers is usually enjoyable. I know she said she wished she was in Petty's band instead of Fleetwood Mac, but whether or not she was exaggerating for effect, you can hear how she could've fit in very well with that group.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 28 September 2023 20:30 (seven months ago) link
Not just "Stop Draggin' My Heart" which is basically her vocal grafted on a pre-recorded track, there's a handful of other stuff where Campbell, Tench, maybe Lynch or Epstein are backing her up.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 28 September 2023 20:32 (seven months ago) link
Heh -- I tend to think her first two solo albums are wooden and sodden until she introduces the synths.
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 September 2023 20:33 (seven months ago) link
To be fair, "Edge of Seventeen" and "Stand Back" are by far my two favorites from those albums, and they're both driven by synths.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 28 September 2023 21:19 (seven months ago) link
that SNL performance!!!!!
― fpsa, Thursday, 28 September 2023 23:05 (seven months ago) link
this was my birthday gift, thank you so much <3
― fpsa, Thursday, 28 September 2023 23:06 (seven months ago) link
Watch "Nightbird"!
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 September 2023 23:07 (seven months ago) link
Yeah, holy shit what a performance that is.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 29 September 2023 04:52 (seven months ago) link
seriously, thank you for posting that performance -- (A) what a bunch of weirdos (B) that guy who shows up to dance aggressively with Stevie, what is that?!
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 29 September 2023 15:25 (seven months ago) link
i guess he is there to demonstrate what it means to "stand back!"
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 29 September 2023 15:26 (seven months ago) link
damn waddy catching strays! leave waddy alone!!!!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 29 September 2023 15:31 (seven months ago) link
Did Flip Wilson host SNL?!?!
― brownie, Friday, 29 September 2023 15:36 (seven months ago) link
Yes, in 1983: https://www.onesnladay.com/2019/02/09/december-10-1983-flip-wilson-stevie-nicks-s9-e8/
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 29 September 2023 15:40 (seven months ago) link
Huh, I think I put it at 1981, probably because that's when the video puts it, but yeah, 1983!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 29 September 2023 16:19 (seven months ago) link
― tylerw, Thursday, September 28, 2023
"he got lucky" was RIGHT THERE
was it Tench who said Tom Petty's greatest strength as a musician was talking people out of going to college? (Campbell wasn't headed that way; Tench very much was and his family was not thrilled at the time)
― poster of sparks (rogermexico.), Thursday, 5 October 2023 19:31 (seven months ago) link
lmao that is kinda true
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 October 2023 20:16 (seven months ago) link
Headed back down southGonna see my daddy's mistressGonna buy back her forgivenessPay off every witness
One more time down southSell the family headstonesDrag a bag of dry bonesMake good on my back loans
So if I come to your doorLet me sleep on your floorI'll give you all I haveAnd a little more
Sleep late down southLook up my former mentorsLive off Yankee wintersBe a landlord and a renter
Create myself down southImpress all the womenPretend I'm Samuel ClemensWear seersucker and white linens
Spanish moss down southFind the heroes of my childhoodWho now can do me no goodCarve their names in dogwood
Chase a ghost down southSpirits cross the dead fieldsMosquitoes hit the windshieldAll documents remain sealed
I'll give you all I haveAnd a little more
― scott seward, Friday, 9 February 2024 16:58 (three months ago) link
i love petty. highway companion is so good.
― scott seward, Friday, 9 February 2024 16:59 (three months ago) link
did you guys do a petty listening thread? alfred? VegGrrl? i would totally participate in that. group + solo.
― scott seward, Friday, 9 February 2024 17:00 (three months ago) link
i don’t think we ever did a listening thread that I know of (unless i missed it)
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 9 February 2024 19:55 (three months ago) link