Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers 2017 "40 Anniversary" Tour Thread

The comparison stuff with Springsteen and the Stones is all very well but I don't like them.

 

It's hard to tell because obviously it's all being filmed/streamed for the screens around the park so in theory yes

 

The give away is added camera cranes, camera tracks in the crowd or camera angles never seen on the big screens.

 

I didn't notice any of that but that doesn't mean it wasn't there. (You've reminded me of seeing the filming when I was at the Kate Bush concert that will never be released )

 

I do wish I'd seen him more often than I have---just once, 1989 in Jacksonville w/Replacements opening---but given the observations above that unlike say a jam band approach this is TOTALLY about the songs-not-the-musicianship, that's not a batch of songs I need to pay 100 to hear.

I hope they do more typical for the fan modern stuff down the line, the LP show, the "one song from every LP" show or somesuch.

That said, while I appreciate the element of growing into himself mentioned above that helps explain why delicate snooziness defines his quality work post 1991 or so, I miss the poppy peppy Petty of the GREATEST HITS years. He's got a FEW stone cold smash slower sadder ones. But he's written way too many of them in past few decades. (And his "rock" of the past couple of lps just falls flat to my ears.) (One of the ironies for those of us who read all the books and see all the docs re Petty is that his dogged dedication to the Heartbreakers is real and fascinating---yet he's also very open that his favorite records are the ones without them. I disagree with him on this.)

 

I saw Coldplay Vancouver 2012 that had 20-30 cameras and cranes whizzing around. Never seen a Frame of it. I was at some other shows with 15-30 cameras rolling and never they never saw daylight despite someone spending 6 figures.

 

Throwback Tuesday:

This one comes from 1977 and is generally accepted as being Petty's first appearance on US television. Here he is rocking out with Dwight Twilley, Phil Seymour and Bill Pitcock:


Also on a somewhat topical note, for those of you wishing to hear excerpts from the current 40th Anniversary Tour and have access to SiriusXM, tune in to TOM PETTY RADIO this Friday evening (6PM EST) where David Fricke will be playing selections from the current run of shows.

 

I don't typically like David Fricke (see my comments in the Stones' Mono Box for more detail), but this sounds mildly interesting. I tuned into his show this past Friday, and didn't realize what it was until he made the announcement yesterday. "That's why it was all scatterbrained!" I said.

 

Saw the show in Toronto last night, and my word of advice for anyone going to a future show: WHOLLY IGNORE the criticism of static setlists. Their playing is so goddamn tight and dynamic that you're guaranteed not to give a **** about what songs are played! Highlights for me were "It's Good To Be King", "Crawling Back To You", "Walls" and even "Don't Come Around Here No More", a song I've heard live at least a dozen times, but seems to get better with each time they play it.

If there weren't rain in the forecast for tonight, I'd be in a car driving to Ottawa for their Bluesfest show right now. Don't even care if they play the exact same set, I'd jump at the chance to catch another show before the year is out!

 

Benmont Tench recently spoke to The Boston Globe about Heartbreakers memories and the 40th anniversary tour:

Petty and the Heartbreakers’ love affair with Boston has lasted forever - The Boston Globe

 

Well, Sky Arts have been showing highlights from BST shows 2016, so hopefully they will do the same for this year as well. I don't know if they've shown any full length individual shows though

 

For those interested in what goes on behind the scenes of a Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers tour, here are some articles on the aforementioned Robert Scovill and "The Content Brothers":

Tom Petty takes EAW ADAPTive out on 40th Anniversary Tour

Delaware's stealth role on Tom Petty's 40th anniversary tour

 

It would really be cool for them to do a show from their rehearsal warehouse, "The Clubhouse" and release that as a live dvd. All the pics I've seen it looks like a cool place to rehearse and play without being bothered.

 

Campbell jammin' in Bean Town:

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1787726918185790

 

Questions: about how long are the shows for this tour? And when have they been starting? Thanks!

 

Saw him last night, he went on just after 8 and played until 10. Peter Wolf opened the show but I missed the beginning of his set. I'm guessing he came on around 7. These set times might not be indicative of the norm though, as this venue had a hard curfew of 10pm.

 

Okay, I love dramatic endings to grand finales as much as the next guy, but Tom and Mike are starting to get over-the-top with their banging around (Tom) and breaking strings and swinging from the strap (Mike) of their guitars. I give credit to Tom, though; thrashing a (built like a tank, too!) Fender is less unsettling than banging around the fragile and work-of-art Rickenbackers.



I get it, they get three weeks off and they're running out of steam, but c'mon!

 

Tom Petty recently got a pretty good write up in The New Yorker:

The Proud Pain of Tom Petty

Also this from MIX for those of you interested in BTS stuff:

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers | Mixonline

 

anyone know what time tp and the hbs will take the stage tonight? I reallllly don't want to suffer through the lumineers.

 

Same old, same old!
Even The Stones rotate their setlists more!
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Setlist at Greek Theatre, Berkeley

 

True. I even recently added the Tom Petty radio channel to my Sirius account, and that setlist looks like the songs that they play over, and over, and over, and over.....

 

But Tom said at the start of the tour they'd play deep cuts

And he said that at the tour before that, and before that, and.........

 

The waiting is the hardest part ...

 

If he'd come to my town, I'd love to see him do that setlist. Honestly - although long-time regulars may have seen him do all these songs before, it's one heck of a set of songs...

 

And I....won't, back down.....