Tom Petty

Geffen has a 'best of' coming for Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, which will be issued on January 29. The compiled album is called Greatest Hits.

2Primal Scream
Еще один грейтист? А для чего? Ведь и первый, и Плэйбэк, и Антология до сих пор продаются!

2Alex Red:

Именно на Geffen?

Может быть это будут хиты из последних альбомов, начиная с 94 года? В предыдущие сборники они не вошли.

2Primal Scream
Коленька, а при чем тут Геффен или не Геффен. Те же яйца. Только в профайл.

2Alex Red:

>2Primal Scream
>Коленька, а при чем тут Геффен или не Геффен.
>Те же яйца. Только в профайл.

Мне-то откуда знать, Сашенька, почем и почему эти геффеновские яйца.

2Primal Scream
Cпроси у Джэйми. Шутка!!!

2Alex Red:

>2Primal Scream
>Cпроси у Джэйми. Шутка!!!

И без Джейми ясно, что яйца недешевые.

Tom Petty: How I found the real Tom
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 13/12/2007
Peter Bogdanovich's four-hour film about veteran US rocker Tom Petty is one of the best 'rock docs' for a long time. He tells Andrew Perry the secret of his success


Perhaps one of the biggest surprises in pop in 2007 came this summer, when a re-issue of two seemingly forgotten LPs from the late 1980s by the Travelling Wilburys topped the album charts. The band was a supergroup, featuring Bob Dylan, ex-Beatle George Harrison, Roy Orbison, Jeff Lynne from ELO, and Tom Petty.

At the time, this astonishing aggregation of top-flight artists was rather frowned upon, their easy-going breed of rock viewed as a waste of talent, an indulgence from indolent superstars. On release back then, the two albums barely scraped into the Top 20. The timelessness of the music has eventually won through.

In a new movie documentary about Petty, it emerges that the seeds of the Traveling Wilburys were sewn at his birthday party in London, on the night of the great storm of 1987. Petty and his band, the Heartbreakers, had been touring as Bob Dylan's backing band, and, while the wind howled outside, he was introduced to Harrison and Lynne, who had been invited along by Dylan's management. A couple of months later, the Wilburys were up and running.

From a British perspective, Petty has always appeared to be the poor relation in the band's ranks. Although he got his big break via the British music press and trend-setting television programmes such as The Old Grey Whistle Test, which first took note of the fledgling Heartbreakers in the late '70s, he has not scaled the same commercial heights here as he has in the United States.

Thanks to his edgy attitude, Petty was initially mistaken for a punk, when, in fact, he was a quintessentially American rocker, cut of the same cloth as Bruce Springsteen. In the US, however, he became one of the giants of the MTV age, scoring numerous video-assisted mega-hits and a string of platinum albums. His high-watermark was possibly 1989's Full Moon Fever, a sublime collection of melodies co-written with Jeff Lynne, which even made the Top 10 over here, at the tail end of a decade when no-nonsense American rock couldn't have been less fashionable.


Still, Petty has never quite connected with his rightful transatlantic audience. The documentary presents the most compelling case imaginable for a reappraisal of Petty's work. Called Runnin' Down a Dream, it was directed by Peter Bogdanovich, the Hollywood director whose big movies, The Last Picture Show (1971) and Mask (1985), have been interspersed by failures, disasters, personal tragedies and numerous critical lashings.

I have to admit that I was daunted at the prospect of ploughing through his four-hour marathon about Petty, but it is an absolutely exemplary "rock doc". Most tend to cram a career into a soundbite-friendly 45-minute splurge - give or take the odd overdose, they often seem almost interchangeable. Bogdanovich, by contrast, simply allows Petty, his band and his many collaborators to tell his story, as an artist, from beginning to end.

"Success stories are all the same," the director tells me, when I meet him at a London hotel. "Someone sets out to do something, and then they succeed. Where they're all different is in the details, and the details take time."

Bogdanovich, now 68, a keen aficianado of classical music and jazz who is also known for his debonair dress sense, freely admits that he didn't know a great deal about Petty beforehand. "Some critics in America said they couldn't imagine me taking off my scarf and letting my hair down long enough to rock out," he says.

Bogdanovich is, however, a good friend of George Drakoulias, a sometime producer of Petty's, who drafted him in to make a movie to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Heartbreakers' debut album.

"I insisted that I conduct all the interviews. Being ignorant of the facts, and being aware that everybody realised that, I knew that they'd take more time telling me things than they would someone who's an expert. It was a journey of discovery for me, and I was able to bring the audience along with me."

The film more or less tells the story of rock itself. Petty, aged six, meets Elvis on a movie set. In his teens, he sees the Beatles, starts learning the guitar, forms a band called - brilliantly - Mudcrutch, and hits the road, launching a professional career full of highs, lows, bust-ups, drugs, death, divorce and, frequently, redemption.

Where personal lives are revealed, such as when Petty's family are almost wiped out by an arson attack on his home, it is only fully to illuminate his creative state of mind at that time. As such, the film is an intricately woven American saga, which becomes more absorbing the longer it goes on.

For Bogdanovich, making the film has plainly been reinvigorating, after many years spent artistically out of sorts, following the murder in the '80s of his 20-year-old lover Dorothy Stratten.

"For me, that was the end of the world for a while," he says. "After I started on this movie, I went to a lot of Tom's concerts. I'd be sitting on stage in the dark and Tom would raise his hands above his head and clap. I'd pan my head to the right, and there would be maybe 80,000 people doing the exact same thing. I thought, I'm in the wrong business."

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers: Live On Air
11/02/2008

Finally, a chance to experience the sheer outstanding talent of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers first hand, with a host of rare archive performances from a band at their peak!

Tracklist:

1. Free Fallin'
2. American Girl
3. A One Story Town
4. Straight Into Darkness
5. Refugee
6. A Woman In Love (It's Not Me)
7. License To Kill
8. Rainy Day Women Nos. 12 & 35
9. Mr Tambourine Man
10. King's Road
11. I Need To Know
12. Breakdown
13. My Back Pages
14. So You Want To Be A Rock and Roll Star
15. Even The Losers
16. Spike
17. Shout

Выглядит интерсно. А откуда эта инфа?

2Primal Scream:

>Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers: Live On Air
>11/02/2008
>Finally, a chance to experience the sheer outstanding
>talent of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers first
>hand, with a host of rare archive performances
>from a band at their peak!
>Tracklist:
>1. Free Fallin'
>2. American Girl
>3. A One Story Town
>4. Straight Into Darkness
>5. Refugee
>6. A Woman In Love (It's Not Me)
>7. License To Kill
>8. Rainy Day Women Nos. 12 & 35
>9. Mr Tambourine Man
>10. King's Road
>11. I Need To Know
>12. Breakdown
>13. My Back Pages
>14. So You Want To Be A Rock and Roll Star
>15. Even The Losers
>16. Spike
>17. Shout

2Sweet Little Queen XIII:

Из паутинки.

TOM PETTY + THE HEARTBREAKERS' Super Bowl half-time performance in February (08) will be seen by nearly one billion people in over 230 countries and territories worldwide.

dvd "Runnin' Down a Dream" появился в продаже в "Пурпурном легионе" за 1400р.

Tom Petty's Los Angeles

By DAPHNE CARR
Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - 12:00 pm

There exists in sound a map of Los Angeles, filled with song-lyric street names, neighborhoods, beaches, bars, empty spaces and spaces between spaces. It's a chart that follows more than 30 years in the life and work of Tom Petty, a longtime resident of the city and an undercelebrated rock & roll icon who finally appears to be getting his due.

<-- Artwork by Scott Gursky

In 1974, Petty drove cross-country from Gainesville, Florida, to Los Angeles to get a record contract. Knocking on doors along Sunset, he played demos and eventually got a deal for his first band, Mudcrutch, then moved the group to L.A. "We fell in love with L.A. within an hour of being there," Petty told author Paul Zollo in the 2005 book Conversations With Tom Petty (CWTP). "We just thought this is heaven. We said, 'Look — everywhere there's people making a living playing music. This is the place.'" In 1976, the first Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers album hit, and aside from touring with the band, he's never left town. His songs are indelibly linked with the cityscape, sometimes explicitly but more often in hints — that rare ability of a gifted lyricist to generalize the intimate.

Last October saw the release of Peter Bogdanovich's four-and-a-half-hour documentary on the band, Runnin' Down a Dream. The director, who was unfamiliar with Petty's music prior to the project, called it "the story of a great American band, a great American story." In November, Chronicle Books released an oversize coffee-table book based on the film, also titled Runnin' Down a Dream (RDAD). And Petty's slated to perform during halftime at this year's Super Bowl (February 3). He co-produced the film and book, and one thing striking in both is the relative timelessness and placelessness of Petty's public life — he consciously avoids personal details while focusing on the particulars of songwriting, recording and touring. Which seems odd, since songs like "Free Fallin'" and "Into the Great Wide Open" offer a specific vision of the city, one that unfolded for a generation. Here is a map of that L.A., gathered from evidence the songwriter has left behind.

Далее см. карту ЛА с указанием и описанием мест, связанных с Томом Петти

http://www.laweekly.com/music/music/tom-pettys-los-angeles/18142/?page=1

Petty & Heartbreakers Announce New Tour

NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Petty says he's not much of a football fan, but playing the Super Bowl halftime show was an offer he couldn't refuse.

"The most significant thing about it is the people watching worldwide ... it's probably the biggest audience you can have I would imagine," the 57-year-old singer told The Associated Press.

"It's quite an honor to be asked, if you look at the people who have done it, it's a very elite crowd ... it's a great opportunity to play for the whole world at once," Petty said.

Tickets for Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' North American tour go on sale the day after their Feb. 3 performance at the Super Bowl halftime in Glendale, Ariz. Steve Winwood is slated to be the special opening act.

The band last went on tour in 2006. Back then, Petty told the AP that it could be their last. But, Petty said recently, "The band wants to go really bad, so we had a meeting about it, and we decided, why not? ... We're doing a shorter tour that we did the last time."

This tour will be "drastically different in content," Petty said.

"I would like to see a set list that changed every night. I think it's more fun. It's harder on the production people," he laughed.

While there's no new Heartbreakers album on the horizon, Petty just finished a disc with his pre-Heartbreakers band, Mudcrutch.

"We just thought it would be fun; we've stayed in touch over the years," he said. "It went far better than expected. ... it was so much fun that it should be illegal."

When asked if fans of Mudcrutch would find the music similar to what they remembered, Petty said with a laugh: "I think in content it's very similar back in the '70s, but I don't know if there are any fans of the band!"

Tom Petty: The Broadcast Archives
03/03/2008

Tom Petty - The Broadcast Archives After more than thirty years in the business and with more than fifty million albums sold, Tom Petty has succeeded in taking his powerful songs and American heartland rock sound around the world. Nominated for a Grammy seventeen times, the MTV Music Award and Grammy award winning singer-songwriter has become an American icon and has taken his place among the elite of the world's rock musicians.

These rare performances, many of which are previously unreleased on DVD will delight long term fans, collectors and new comers discovering Tom Petty for the first time.

These superb live performances feature standout versions some of the best loved songs from Petty's long career, including Free Fallin', Straight Into Darkness, Refugee, Even The Losers and Spike. In addition there are unique interpretations of classic Bob Dylan songs such as Rainy Day Women, License To Kill and Mr. Tambourine Man, making this collection as essential purchase for fans and serious music lovers alike.

Featured tracks include; Free Fallin', Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35, Straight Into Darkness, Refugee, License To Kill, Even The Losers, Spike, Everybody Must Get Stoned, Border Line, Mr. Tambourine Man.

Это етсь только на британском Амазоне. как я понимаю. С другой стороны, сначало надо понять с каких концертов все эти песни взяты. Возможно, что все это уже есть.

2Primal Scream:

>Tom Petty: The Broadcast Archives
>03/03/2008
>Tom Petty - The Broadcast Archives After more
>than thirty years in the business and with more
>than fifty million albums sold, Tom Petty has
>succeeded in taking his powerful songs and American
>heartland rock sound around the world. Nominated
>for a Grammy seventeen times, the MTV Music Award
>and Grammy award winning singer-songwriter has
>become an American icon and has taken his place
>among the elite of the world's rock musicians.
>These rare performances, many of which are previously
>unreleased on DVD will delight long term fans,
>collectors and new comers discovering Tom Petty
>for the first time.
>These superb live performances feature standout
>versions some of the best loved songs from Petty's
>long career, including Free Fallin', Straight
>Into Darkness, Refugee, Even The Losers and Spike.
>In addition there are unique interpretations of
>classic Bob Dylan songs such as Rainy Day Women,
>License To Kill and Mr. Tambourine Man, making
>this collection as essential purchase for fans
>and serious music lovers alike.
>Featured tracks include; Free Fallin', Rainy
>Day Women # 12 & 35, Straight Into Darkness, Refugee,
>License To Kill, Even The Losers, Spike, Everybody
>Must Get Stoned, Border Line, Mr. Tambourine Man.

Это левота голимая. Из дилановского концерта и плантационного тура. Все с кассет и с японского лазера.

2Alex Red:

>Это левота голимая. Из дилановского концерта
>и плантационного тура. Все с кассет и с японского лазера.
И, видимо еще с концерта в честь Дилана.
7. License To Kill
8. Rainy Day Women Nos. 12 & 35
9. Mr Tambourine Man