Heartbreakers Friday
May 18th, 2007 by Pete - - Posted in Rock |
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.
May 19th, 2007 at 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 19th, 2007 at 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 19th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
[...] Magazine (unrelated to actual Lost) Tom Petty has a great back catalogue, including his classic song from the She’s the One soundtrack, [...]
May 20th, 2007 at 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 20th, 2007 at 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 20th, 2007 at 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 20th, 2007 at 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 28th, 2007 at 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 29th, 2007 at 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!