Heartbreakers Friday
by Pete
I ask you, what better way to kick off a weekend than with vintage Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers? Here’s a nice little set from early 1980 during a two night stand at the Hammersmith-Odeon in London town.
It’s nice to hear such great quality footage of a young and vibrant Tom Petty. He and the Heartbreakers still put on an amazing show, mind you, and every music lover should make it a point to see them live at least once – but this Tom Petty: the young, angry smartass – this is the live Tom Petty to behold.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
March 7th, 1980
Hammersmith-Odeon, London
FM Broadcast (KBFH)
Anything that’s Rock n Roll
Even The Losers
I Need to Know
Don’t do me Like That
Cry To Me
Refugee
American Girl
Breakdown
Too Much Ain’t Enough
Shout
YouTubin’ Petty
- Check out this 1980 footage of Petty and the boys working through Eddie Cochran’s “Sometin’ Else”.
- Singing “Listen to Her Heart” in 1978.
- Weird Al “interviews” Tom Petty.
- Finally, a man named Mark, who is missing both arms, plays “Mary Jane’s Last Dance” with his feet. I hate feet as a rule, but this is pretty cool.
More Buried Treasure with the Seeds
September 21, 2009 - 8:09 pm
Tags: The Seeds, Tom Petty
Posted in Rock | 4 comments
Another fine tune courtesy of Tom Petty’s Buried Treasure. The Seeds were a Los Angeles-based garage-psych-rock band in the 60’s and early 70’s. They were fronted by one Sky Saxon, who parted with the band in the early 70’s to join up with Yahowha religious family (aka the Source Family), led by Father Yod. They [...]
Let There Be Drums
September 14, 2009 - 10:38 pm
Tags: Sandy Nelson, Tom Petty
Posted in Oldies | 1 comment
Thanks to Tom Petty’s Buried Treasure, his radio show on Sirius-XM’s Deep Tracks, I heard a gem this morning. An instrumental that reached #7 on the Billboard charts in 1961, featuring the drum work of Sandy Nelson. I’m not sure how today’s modern drummers would judge the technical prowess of Nelson’s drumming on [...]
Kingsbury, “Atlantic City” and “Southern Accent”
March 28, 2009 - 7:48 pm
Tags: Kingsbury, Tom Petty
Posted in Indie, Post-Rock | No comments
Kingsbury has been at the top of my listening pile for what seems like weeks but is more likely months. Their latest release Lie to Me is a beautifully nuanced post-rock work (you can download the entire EP at the bands official site). The band recently released a pair of covers Bruce Springsteen’s “Atlantic City” [...]
Hard Promises
July 20, 2008 - 10:57 pm
Tags: Tom Petty
Posted in Rock | 5 comments
Not since my little spiel about side two of Tattoo You have I delved into my all-time favorite albums. Tom Petty has a wealth of amazing albums on his resume, and though Full Moon Fever almost takes top billing, I have to rank 1981’s Hard Promises as my favorite. It’s all about time and place [...]
Bob and Tom on the 4th of July (Part Two)
March 25, 2008 - 9:49 pm
Tags: Bob Dylan, Tom Petty
Posted in Rock | 3 comments
As promised, here’s the second part of this nice collection of tunes from the July 4th, Dylan/Petty show way back in old ‘86. An interesting note about “Rainy Day Women” – Howie Epstein plays slide guitar, and Mr. Tom moves over to bass. The last few songs of the night are missing from this [...]
Freedom! Bob and Tom on the 4th of July (Part 1)
March 22, 2008 - 11:06 pm
Tags: Bob Dylan, Tom Petty
Posted in Rock n' Folk | 5 comments
Tom Petty and Bob Dylan-RS 478/479 (July 17, 1986) – photo by Aaron Rapoport
It would be most fitting to post this 4th of July show on Independence Day, but given that this is my first post on my new host (Hostmonster), and we’ve got a new theme and some new banners, I’m feeling free and [...]
Super Petty – Live in 1990
In anticipation of what I’m sure will be a rockin’ Super Bowl Half-Time show, here’s a look back at Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, circa 1990. You can argue this was Petty at his peak in popularity. He was riding the wave from his very popular first solo album, Jeff Lynne-produced Full Moon Fever, [...]
Super Bowl Weekend
February 1, 2008 - 8:35 pm
Tags: Super Bowl, Tom Petty
Posted in Rock | 6 comments
It’s Super Bowl weekend, folks. Who else out there thinks that either Monday should be a national “recovery” holiday, or the big game should be moved to Saturday to allow for one day of rest before returning to work. More people would show up to work on Monday, productivity would increase, yada yada…
So it’ll be [...]
Petty at the Super Bowl
January 24, 2008 - 5:16 pm
Tags: The Onion, Tom Petty
Posted in Funny | 2 comments
You just can’t beat The Onion….
Tom Petty To Play Some New Stuff He’s Been Working On At Super Bowl
PHOENIX—Veteran rocker Tom Petty, known for such classic hits as "Mary Jane’s Last Dance," "The Waiting," and "Refugee," announced Monday that…
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John Prine – You Got Gold
November 13, 2007 - 10:08 pm
Tags: bruce springsteen, john prine, Tom Petty
Posted in Country, Folk | 7 comments
I’m in the John Prine state of mind.
I guess it was a year ago about this time when I professed my love for The Missing Years album. Another track popped up tonight while I was holding my youngest daughter, getting ready to give her a bath. I immediately stopped in my tracks, and we spent [...]
May 19, 2007 - 7:02 am
That armless guitar player was pretty cool! And nobody seemed to be stopping and watching, which I found quite surprising. However, I don’t think I’d want to borrow his guitar…
May 19, 2007 - 10:54 am
I love the Tom Petty show,it’s a great performance! I just wish it was downloaded at a higher rate. It would have had better sound quality at 192kbps. Still I thank you for this great show.
May 20, 2007 - 9:40 am
Great show. Thanks. I hate to disagree with the Ickmeister, but I saw Petty last summer, and he was not good. Just sounded very old and tired. But, then again, so am I.
May 20, 2007 - 1:20 pm
I don’t know Bill – I saw him twice on last year’s summer tour, and he and the Heartbreakers were fantastic both times…
May 20, 2007 - 3:01 pm
It may just be in the eyes of the beholder. I saw him in Atlanta, and honestly thought it was awful. I never saw myself leaving a TP show early, as I am a huge fan, but I hit the exits before the encores were over.
May 20, 2007 - 4:31 pm
My last TP show was in 2000 three deep from the stage at The Joint in Las Vegas. Nothing will top that in my opinion. The only semi-recent Petty I’ve heard is from Bonnaroo last June, which was very spirited, and seemed great. I always just assumed his live show would be consistently good; but some nights are better than others probably, and we all have or own experience..
May 28, 2007 - 4:46 am
Thanks,
I have been holding on to this really old tape since 1981, nice to have a CD quality version to listen to.
May 29, 2007 - 11:00 am
I have heard here and elsewhere about bad TP shows last year. Don’t know what happened at those shows, but he was great at Jones Beach. And from what I heard, he was great at Bonnaroo.
And this show rocks. Thanks, Pete!