Tom Petty

Видео с прессконференции в Гейнсвилле

Не подскажет ли кто-нибудь, реально ли найти где-то фильм 1987 года Made In Heaven, где Том сыграл эпизодическую роль некого Stanky? Ну интересно же...

Ага... Прочитала предыдущие посты и поняла, что не у меня одной такая проблема.

2McAnnie:

>Не подскажет ли кто-нибудь, реально ли найти
>где-то фильм 1987 года Made In Heaven, где Том
>сыграл эпизодическую роль некого Stanky? Ну интересно же...

Нужно кого-то найти, кто может на Амазоне заказы делать.

Если вам принципиально, записан ли концерт стерео или моно, поосторожнее с бутлегом концерта из Гейнзвилла - часть радиостанций его транслировала почему-то в моно (хотя online он шел стерео - но там с частотами не так хорошо). Собственно, стерео версия пока еще никому из знакомых не попадалась. Еще почему-то вырезали "Refugee". В этом какой-то подтекст? Не сбегал ТР из Гейзвилла, просто one storey town маловат для него. :-)

http://www.roks.ru/index.php?chapter=hittop
Очередная неделя голосования.

Tuesday night Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers rocked the Hollywood Bowl and the surprise of the night was when long-time Petty producer and fellow Wilbury joined the band to play the classic cut "Handle With Care".

Although no one can fill Roy Orbison's shoes, Lynne does a fair job and it's also nice to hear Mike Campbell on the slide.
Видео можно вот тут вот увидеть.
http://www.laist.com/archives/2006/09/28/tom_petty_w_jeff_lynne_handle_w_care_hollywood...

Простите, но мой компьютер перепутал Петти и Пет Шоп Бойз

Tom Petty plays it safe with solid L.A. show
Thu Sep 28

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Tom Petty seemed to have even more strut in his stride than usual. "I've come to rock Hollywood," he told the sold-out Hollywood Bowl crowd Tuesday, not bothering to conceal a mischievous grin.

And rock he did, as dependably as always, if not as long at 110 minutes. The cocky-cool Petty and his Heartbreakers are celebrating 30 years together, and time has polished their sound and show into an effortless exercise in solid rock and giving the people what they want. All the while, they have remained among the elite on the perpetual touring circuit -- even on a night when they were a little less fiery than recent local shows.

The band got off to a rather mellow start, from the midtempo jangle of opener "Listen to Her Heart" through the happy plod of sing-along fave "Free Fallin'." But the fifth song revved things up nicely. "Saving Grace," the punchy lead single from Petty's new solo album "Highway Companion," featured a growling riff that gives a nod, wink and nudge to ZZ Top's "La Grange." The throwback rocker was backed by a pair of career-influencing covers -- the chest-thumping "I'm a Man" and the early Fleetwood Mac rave-up "Oh Well" -- that presaged the spoken-sung style Petty honed on the band's pre-Traveling Wilburys albums.

While the requisite '60s covers were enjoyable, it's easy to wish the Heartbreakers would mine their own catalog more deeply. Such '90s live staples as "It's Good to Be King," "You Wreck Me" and "Learning to Fly" are perfectly adequate, but any of them could be jettisoned from the set list to make room for an early- or midcareer album cut to placate the more fervent fans. That also might invigorate the band, which occasionally sagged just a bit during the most familiar songs.

Mike Campbell, whom Petty called his "co-captain," remains one of rock's underrated guitarists and the band's foundation; his licks easily melded British invasion and mid-'60s California rock with dirty blues. Fellow original Heartbreaker Benmont Tench's keyboards regrettably seemed to be featured less than in past years, with his longest time in the spotlight coming during an encore cover of Them's "Mystic Eyes."

Longtime Petty collaborator and fellow Wilbury Jeff Lynne came onstage to add the Roy Orbison parts to "Handle With Care," which came off as well as or better than any Petty original. He then ceded the guest-star role to the venerable Stevie Nicks. Introduced as "an honorary Heartbreaker," she flitted and twirled, with her voice abutting blues-mama territory on "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" and during her solo lead vocal on "I Need to Know." She later returned for a country-soulful acoustic duet on "Insider," a haunting ballad from 1981's "Hard Promises" that probably would have been a radio monster if it had been on a Nicks solo record.

Meanwhile, Petty's sneering drawl still punctuates a lyric like few can, and his smooth confidence fuels a band with a rare mix of consistent albums and bracing live shows. And 30 years looks to be just a mile marker on the Heartbreakers' long and rewarding road.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060928/music_nm/review_music_petty_dc;_ylt=AnWbpkRgb_slcXC...

Рецензия какого-то Барабанова из Коммерсант Викеенд.


Tom Petty "Highway Companion" (American Recordings) А вот один из самых преданных и талантливых последователей господина Дилана – Том Петти – выпустил совсем проходную пластинку. Не помогло даже привлечение продюсера Джеффа Линна, с которым Дилан и Петти дурачились в составе Traveling Wilburys. Ясно, что песня "Saving Grace" – это попытка вернуться к лучшим временам артиста, которые пришлись на 70-80-е, а "Flirting with Time" – попытка вновь вызвать духов, которые жили в записях Traveling Wilburys. Однако все напрасно. Думаю, и лояльная к дорожным балладам господина Петти американская аудитория с трудом снизойдет до покупки альбома, а в Европе ему и подавно ничего не светит.

Песня Тома Петти на сайте Радио Рокс заняла 3-тье место! Иак держать!

Я приложил к этому свою р... мышку :)

Memories of Petty: How singer found way in Gainesville area


By ALICE WALLACE
The Gainesville Sun
September 30. 2006 9:48AM

Rumors abound when it comes to the specifics of Tom Petty's days as a fledgling rocker in Gainesville.

Did he drop out of high school to focus on music? Where exactly was the infamous "Mudcrutch Farm?"

Petty's friends and former bandmates know the answers, and Petty himself discussed many of those details in his recent book, "Conversations with Tom Petty." Yet friends say the most vivid memories they have of "Tommy" are of a mostly quiet Southern boy with a quirky sense of humor and a serious mind for music.

"The thing about Tom musically is that he is as big a fan as he is an artist," says former Gainesville musician Marty Jourard, who recalls Petty sitting down to listen to Bob Dylan's album "Slow Train Coming" when it was first released. Petty listened to it from beginning to end without saying a word, Jourard said.

Petty was born in Gainesville in 1950, and his classmate and fellow Gainesville musician Mike Boulware - who still lives in Gainesville and works at the Butterfly Rainforest - says he can recall standing next to Petty in chorus class at Howard Bishop Middle School in ninth grade.

"To be honest, he was pretty quiet," Boulware said. "We all sort of didn't know what to make of him. But he was one of the first guys I knew who had a black turtleneck and Beatles boots."

Boulware says Petty also didn't seem to get much of a thrill out of the class.

"He dropped out," Boulware said. "I think because he didn't want to do sight-reading or something. And his voice was too different - that was the thing. That's really his best selling point these days. When he opens his mouth, you know right away who it is."

Petty's first official band in high school was called the Sundowners. He was 14 at the time.

After a fallout with the drummer in the Sundowners, Petty joined The Epics - with band members Rick and Rodney Rucker, Dickie Underwood and Tom Leadon, the brother of the Eagles' guitarist Bernie Leadon.

"We realized Tom was the real musician of the band," said Rick Rucker, who is now a high school teacher in Ocala. "But it took him a while to figure it out."

To dispel the famous myth that Petty dropped out of school to pursue music, Rucker says he can specifically remember when The Epics were down in South Florida playing a show while Petty's Gainesville High School classmates were walking across the stage.

"He skipped graduation to play with us," Ricky says. "There's a lot of information out there that is totally false."

Petty describes his time in The Epics in "Conversations with Tom Petty," as a time "where I kind of grew up." The members were much older than Petty - Petty was only in 10th grade at the time, whereas two of The Epics' members had already graduated from high school- and their habits were considerably more rowdy than the 16-year-old Petty was used to.

"They were nuts, just nuts," Petty says in the book. "These guys were just crazy. But they had a really good drummer. I bet he's still really good. Dickie Underwood."

The Epics eventually renamed themselves Mudcrutch. Petty says in his book that the name was something "somebody came up with it one night." But Dickie Underwood remembers a different story.

"Petty came up with the name, because we figured that would be the only way we'd ever agree on anything," Underwood said, laughing. Underwood also still lives in Gainesville and works at Gainesville Regional Utilities.

After about a year as Mudcrutch, all of the members except Petty and Leadon left for various reasons.

So Petty posted an ad at Lipham's music store - the hub of local music at the time and a place Petty worked for a time - in search of new musicians. Eventually, Mudcrutch became the band that most locals now remember, including future Heartbreakers Mike Campbell on guitar and Benmont Tench on keyboards, as well as drummer Randall Marsh.

The band's stomping grounds were a tin-roofed house that wasn't much more than a shack. Boulware says the walls were lined in leather, blacklights illuminated every room and topless dancers were never hard to come by.

The Mudcrutch Farm, as it came to be known, was where Marsh and Campbell lived. Tom Holtz, a Gainesville musician who says he filled in with Mudcrutch for a two-week stint at one point, said he remembers the area was wooded at the time.

"All I remember is that there was a house and a bunch of land," said Holtz, who works at Lipham's music store in Gainesville. "There was a clearing and woods all the way around it. Now it's all subdivisions there. I'm sure that building and everything else is long gone."

Marty Jourard - who now lives outside Seattle, teaching music and playing in a bossa nova band - says it wasn't uncommon for Mudcrutch, or any one of the bands in town, to hold impromptu concerts on prime land like that around the Mudcrutch Farm in late 1960s.

"There was a huge hippie movement in Gainesville, and they all knew what was going on musically," Jourard says. "Someone would say, 'So-and-so is playing a free gig on their lawn Tuesday,' and everyone would show up."

Thanks to the Mudcrutch Farm Festivals, as well as other festivals held in places like the Plaza of the Americas on the University of Florida campus, Mudcrutch soon became known throughout the Southeast. But eventually, the band members knew they would have to leave Gainesville in order to make a name for themselves.

"We played everywhere you could play 10 times," Petty says in his book.

"And we realized we were just on a merry-go-round, that we would just keep playing the same bars and the same thing and not really get anywhere. So that's when California came into the picture."

In 1970, Mudcrutch headed to Los Angeles - tapes in hand - to seek a record deal. There were detours, and the Mudcrutch of Mudcrutch Farm days fell apart. But Petty and Campbell remained close, and both kept tabs on the soft-spoken keyboard player Tench, whose father was a judge in Gainesville.

Petty signed a deal with fledgling Shelter Records; with Mudcrutch disbanded, however, Petty had to ponder a solo project or find a new band.

He wanted to stay with guitarist Campbell and, still armed with a record deal, convinced Tench's Gainesville band The Heartbreakers to join them. Petty, Campbell, Tench, drummer Stan Lynch and bassist Ron Blair recorded their self-titled album (with "Breakdown" and "American Girl") in 1976.

The band has enjoyed a 30-year career laden with hits and solo/side projects. They are members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and Petty is widely considered one of the greatest songwriters of his generation.

For the Gainesville musicians who watched Petty grow from a lanky, tow-headed kid with a dream of greatness into one of the country's most recognizable pop musicians, it seemed as though it was destined - but nobody knew it at the time.

Купил, наконец.. :)
хороший альбом!
Но я бы не сказал, что он создан "для дороги", хотя и в пути его тоже можно слушать.
На диске-"пиратке" имеется дефект на поверхности, в виде маленького пупырышка, но диск играется без ошибок

Результаты этой недели на Радио Рокс!!!!!!

http://www.roks.ru/index.php?chapter=hittop
Голосование продолжается!

Напоминаю про голосование

Проголосовал за Bob Dylan: Someday Baby,конечно :), RHCP и Тома Петти.

Late Night with David Letterman, 8th Anniversary Special. Part 8 of 10.

Highlight: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Tom поет Face in the crowd

Broadcast Date: 2/01/90.

Вчера прочитала в журнале "Авто-ревю" рецензию на последний альбом Тома, написанную Андреем Хрисанфовым.
Нашла в ней очень интерсный момент. По одной из строчек песни Turn this car around ему удалось разгадать, на какой машине ездил герой этой песни.
Вот эта строчка песни:
Rockets in the tail lights
Red burns into night
Оказывается , что ракетообразные хвостовые подфарники были только у единственной машины, у фантастического "корабля грез" - у Cadillac 1959 года выпуска.