RIP Tom Petty

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 Around
Jammin’ Me
Runnin’ Down A Dream
Good Evening (spoken interlude)
Lucille
Call Me The Breeze
Cabin Down Below
The Internet, Whatever That Is (spoken interlude)
Time is On My Side
Listen To Her Heart
Waitin’ In School
Let’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 Down
You Are My Sunshine
Ain’t No Sunshine
It’s Good To Be King

CD 2

Rip It Up
You Don’t Know How It Feels
I’d Like To Love You Baby
Diddy Wah Diddy
We Got A Long Way To Go (spoken interlude)
Guitar Boogie Shuffle
I Want You Back Again
On The Street Intro (spoken interlude)
On The Street
California
Let’s Hear It For Scott and Howie (spoken interlude)
Little Maggie
Walls
Hip Hugger
Friend Of The Devil
Did Someone Say Heartbreakers Beach Party? (spoken interlude)
Heartbreakers Beach Party
Angel Dream
The Wild One, Forever
Even The Losers
American Girl
You Really Got Me
Goldfinger

CD 3

Mr. Roger McGuinn (spoken interlude)
It Won’t Be Wrong
You Ain’t Going Nowhere
Drug Store Truck Drivin’ Man
Eight Miles High
Crazy Mama
Everyone 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) Satisfaction
It’s All Over Now
Louie Louie
Gloria
Alright For Now Goodnight (spoken interlude)

The 2-CD set is just spoken interludes.

Having Fun With Tom On Stage

oh damn i think i want this?

Dang, this does look good. Disc 3 looks interesting.

i've heard a few of these shows via bootlegs and yeah, they smoke.

the Fillmore covers alone are killer, but yeah, super excited for this

My copy of the Live at the Fillmore box arrived today and it fucking rules.

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.

aw cheers!

"Jammin' Me"!

Kinda regret asking for this for Christmas, now I gotta wait.

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

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 night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgvGyLwPJ0U

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.

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.

the Live Anthology & Fillmore sets are such a joy

the live recordings for me i think push my already huge Benmont Tench appreciation into the stratosphere
all the ways you can hear so clearly the essential elements he brings to the band, accompaniment, soloing or just flourishes

and 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

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.

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.

I've seen him with Jon Brion before, and he got to improvise a lot, a really creative player.

When the Replacements were opening for Petty, Tench would sometimes sit in with them, even as they improvised new songs onstage.

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

*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.

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!

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.

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.

Waddy Wachtel is the ugliest man ever born.

I see Tench is playing Prince's two-finger part.

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.

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.

Heh -- I tend to think her first two solo albums are wooden and sodden until she introduces the synths.

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.

that SNL performance!!!!!

this was my birthday gift, thank you so much <3

Watch "Nightbird"!

Yeah, holy shit what a performance that is.

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?!

i guess he is there to demonstrate what it means to "stand back!"

damn waddy catching strays! leave waddy alone!!!!

Did Flip Wilson host SNL?!?!

Yes, in 1983: https://www.onesnladay.com/2019/02/09/december-10-1983-flip-wilson-stevie-nicks-s9-e8/

Huh, I think I put it at 1981, probably because that's when the video puts it, but yeah, 1983!

it really was fortuitous that Petty stumbled across both Campbell and Tench so early on — he lucked out!

― 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)

lmao that is kinda true

Headed back down south
Gonna see my daddy's mistress
Gonna buy back her forgiveness
Pay off every witness

One more time down south
Sell the family headstones
Drag a bag of dry bones
Make good on my back loans

So if I come to your door
Let me sleep on your floor
I'll give you all I have
And a little more

Sleep late down south
Look up my former mentors
Live off Yankee winters
Be a landlord and a renter

Create myself down south
Impress all the women
Pretend I'm Samuel Clemens
Wear seersucker and white linens

So if I come to your door
Let me sleep on your floor
I'll give you all I have
And a little more

Spanish moss down south
Find the heroes of my childhood
Who now can do me no good
Carve their names in dogwood

Chase a ghost down south
Spirits cross the dead fields
Mosquitoes hit the windshield
All documents remain sealed

So if I come to your door
Let me sleep on your floor
I'll give you all I have
And a little more

I'll give you all I have
And a little more

i love petty. highway companion is so good.

did you guys do a petty listening thread? alfred? VegGrrl? i would totally participate in that. group + solo.

i don’t think we ever did a listening thread that I know of (unless i missed it)

group + solo + mudcrutch

petty listening thread

yes please!