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Странно, конечно, про предложение Джорджа. Я читал, как петти умолял Джорджа отправиться в тур и Джордж категорически был против. Он сказал,... что как представлю себе, что просыпаюсь каждое утро в новом отеле, так...

А что, концерт никто не пытается послушать?

Сетлист концерта в Гейнзвилле:

1 Listen To Her Heart
2 Mary Jane's Last Dance
3 I Won't Back Down
4 Free Fallin'
5 Saving Grace
6 I'm A Man
7 Oh Well
8 Handle With Care
9 Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around
10 I Need To Know
11 It's Good To Be King
12 Down South
13 Southern Accents
14 Insider
15 Learning To Fly
16 Don't Come Around Here No More
17 Runnin' Down A Dream
18 You Wreck Me
19 Mystic Eyes
20 American Girl

2Neil Gardener:

>А что, концерт никто не пытается послушать?
Увы, у меня в такое время домтупа в сеть нет.


Rock icon Petty gets key to city, university award


Associated Press

GAINESVILLE -- Rock icon Tom Petty has come home.

"Every corner you turn is some kind of memory," said Petty, who grew up in Gainesville and hasn't played here in 13 years.

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers were playing to a sold out crowd Thursday night at the O'Connell Center on the University of Florida campus. The concert sold out in 10 minutes.

Guitarist Mike Campbell, and keyboardist Benmont Tench were born and raised in and around Gainesville, and bassist Ron Blair lived in the area for many years.

Chris Machen, the University of Florida's first lady, presented Petty with the University of Florida's Distinguished Achievement Award, which is given to individuals for exceptional achievements in a chosen profession, for demonstrated leadership, and for other exemplary accomplishments that merit the special recognition of the university.

She also made each of the band members honorary Gators.

Gainesville's Mayor Pegeen Hanrahan presented each band member with a key to the city and proclaimed Sept. 21 as "Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Day."

"It's a lot nicer than the one we got in Chicago," Petty quipped while holding his key.

Although Petty never attended the University of Florida, he once worked as grounds crew. While working there, he planted a tree which is now called the Tom Petty tree.

The long delays between Gainesville concerts is a result of the band's summer tour schedule, he said. He said the band decided to expand its tour schedule this year.

The band is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and sold more than 50 million albums.

Oh my my, oh hell yes!
Gainesville hadn't seen Tom Petty in 13 years.
No wonder the crowd wouldn't back down.
By JOE HUNTER
Alligator Staff Writer

Homecoming isn't until October, but no one told Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers.

Petty, along with Heartbreakers Mike Campbell, Benmont Tench, Ron Blair, Scott Thurston and Steve Ferrone, performed Thursday night at the Stephen C. O'Connell Center to a sold-out crowd.

Petty, Campbell, Tench and Blair - the original Heartbreakers - were all either born in or lived in and around Gainesville.

But Petty had not performed in Gainesville in 13 years.

"What can I say?" Petty asked the screaming crowd in between hits "Mary Jane's Last Dance" and "I Won't Back Down." "It's so great to be here. I really feel like I've come home."

And the crowd was a good one: The screeching guitar solos and audience's screams could be heard from across West University Avenue.

The show came in the midst of the band's tour promoting Petty's new album, "Highway Companion." Concert tickets sold out less than 30 minutes after going on sale in July.

Hours before the concert and just inside the O-Dome, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers were honored with Gainesville's most prestigious accolades.

Gainesville Mayor Pegeen Hanrahan and Chris Machen, UF President Bernie Machen's wife, paid respects to Petty and the band.

"He truly embodies what it means to be human," Machen said.

She presented Petty with the UF Distinguished Achievement Award for his musicianship and his humanitarian works.

"I've met presidents and vice presidents and heads of state, but I'm a native of Gainesville, and there's nobody bigger than Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers to someone in Gainesville," Hanrahan said. "Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers are to Gainesville what the Beatles are to Liverpool."

She suggested that the Heartbreakers' international renown helped elevate Gainesville's reputation, and she proclaimed that Sept. 21, 2006 be known as "Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Day."

Each band member received a key to the city.

"It's much nicer than Chicago's," Petty noted.

Thurston and Ferrone, who do not hail from Gainesville, were named honorary Gators.

Petty got his start in the Gainesville music scene as a teenager in 1965, and was influenced by Elvis Presley's visit to Florida.

By 1971, his band Mudcrutch gained a following and performed for audiences topping 1,000 people.

In 1975, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers was formed.

The band became legendary.

The many songs in Petty's repertoire about Southern living are inspired by his upbringing.

"It's a double-edged sword, the South," he said after the ceremony. "That makes it very intriguing, and sort of ... It's a romantic place - it's easy to write about, really. It's very colorful. Characters are very drawn. And there's a mystery about the South that I like."

Thirty years, 16 Grammy Award nominations and more than 50 million album sales later, Petty - meek and soft-spoken - has a rock star's reputation and a hero's welcome upon returning to Gainesville.

"It's a beautiful town," Petty said. "I have nothing but fond memories."

The band's 13-year hiatus from performing in Gainesville resulted from a tour schedule that would have brought Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers to the city during summer, when few students would be in town to hear them.

This time, the band went out of its way to be on the road a little longer and play in Gainesville.

"I really, really love this town," Tench said. "It's very special, and y'all really need to know what you've got here. It doesn't feel like any other town that I know - it's really warm, and it's really lovely."

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Homegrown legend receives key to the city



By ALICE WALLACE

Sun staff writer
September 22. 2006 6:01AM

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Looking cool in a hot pink shirt covered by a black velvet jacket and accented by black cowboy boots, Tom Petty greeted a flock of reporters with that wide, familiar smile Thursday afternoon.

After a humble and quick "thank you" for the accolades that had just been announced by University of Florida President Bernie Machen's wife, Chris Machen, Petty quickly grabbed his seat.

"We'll just sit down and talk to you now, OK?" Petty said warmly.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers sat down and chatted with reporters for about a half hour before they took the stage at the O'Connell Center Thursday night. But first, they had a few honors bestowed on them.

"In the past three decades, Tom has made an impression on the music scene like no one else," Chris Machen said before presenting Petty with a Distinguished Achievement Award from UF.

Mayor Pegeen Hanrahan had goodies for all six of the Heartbreakers in the form of a key to the city of Gainesville.

"It's a lot nicer than Chicago's," Petty said with a laugh as he reached for his key.

Hanrahan also presented Petty with a framed and matted photograph of the square on the 34th Street wall that had been decorated in Petty's honor and she officially proclaimed Sept. 21 "Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers" day in Gainesville.

The rest of the Heartbreakers - Benmont Tench, Mike Campbell, Ron Blair, Steve Ferrone and Scott Thurston - all looked equally suave for the meeting, Campbell especially with his hair in dreadlocks and dark shades.

For the Gainesville natives of the group, Tench, Blair and Petty, they said it is always nice to come visit the place of their youth.

"Really, every corner you turn, there's some kind of memory," Petty said when asked what places he visits when he comes home.

He mentioned that he can always find comfort that the Seagle Building will tower over downtown, though he's sad the Florida Theater isn't the venue it once was.

Petty also commented on the song "Down South," on his new album, "Highway Companion." He has said it is about returning to Gainesville and to his southern roots.

"It's a double-edged sword, the South," he said. "So that makes it intriguing. It's a romantic place."

Tench said he is always reminded what a beautiful place Gainesville is when he comes home.

"I really, really love this town," Tench said. "You all need to realize what you've got."

For the few Heartbreakers who aren't from this university city, Petty said they're simply sick of hearing about it. But drummer Ferrone, who is from Brighton, England, said there are some similarities between his hometown and Gainesville.

"The only thing is in Brighton we don't have any alligators," he said, smiling.

When asked how their music seems to cultivate fans from all generations, Petty replied modestly.

"Just lucky, I guess," he said.
He also commented on why music changes over the years.

"I think every generation goes for something the parents can't stand," Petty said. "If the parents understood, it wouldn't be much use."

But Petty did say he's glad his music has never had to use profanity or vulgar images in order to convey his thoughts. Though he respects the music of today, he said he doesn't always understand the need to use those tools to make a point.

"But poetry is poetry," he said. "And sometimes you're just reporting what life is."

Heart of band's homecoming is found backstage



By SARAH L. STEWART

Sun staff writer
September 22. 2006 6:01AM

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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench chatted with his sister Rachel in the bowels of the O'Dome as the music of the opening band The Strokes vibrated through the building.

"I haven't had enough time," Tench said of his visit to his hometown of Gainesville for the band's 30th anniversary tour. "I wish I had another two days. It's very sad to go."

Backstage before the concert at the O'Connell Center on Thursday night, the rockers greeted family members and friends with hugs, smiles and autographs. If the band's Gainesville homecoming had a heart, this was it.

Rachel Tench grew misty-eyed when talking about seeing her brother in the band's return to Gainesville.

"For me, the excitement is that he's happy and he's doing so well and he's back home," she said. "When I'm in the audience, I literally have tears in my eyes because it's so much fun."

Bassist Ron Blair sported a Less Than Jake T-shirt, a memento from the concert he and drummer Mike Campbell attended at Common Grounds while in town this week before the show.

Blair said he had spent part of Thursday in Micanopy, as he's considering buying a place and moving back to the area one day.

Though he noticed many changes in Gainesville in the five years since he was last here, he said he was pleased to see that much of what he remembers is intact and he still knew his way around on the roads.

"It's nice," he said. "It's very nice."
Drummer Steve Ferrone, one of two band members without Gainesville connections, seemed to be enjoying his stay here.

"Everybody's really buzzed about being back here, that's for sure," Ferrone said, still wearing the golden alligator pin that University of Florida first lady Chris Machen had presented him and the other band members at a news conference earlier in the day.

The Brighton, England, native joked that his bandmates had taught him "to speak Gainesvillian."

Milling among Heartbreakers and eventually The Strokes, once their set was finished, were Campbell's cousins from Jacksonville, Tench's girlfriend and extended family, countless other friends and family members.

Also on hand was actor Stephen Root, the '70s UF grad who played Milton on the film "Office Space" and knows Petty through his appearances on "King of the Hill."

Root came to Gainesville from Los Angeles for the show and Saturday's football game.

"It'll be very cool to see him in this setting," Root said before the show.

A self-described "huge" fan, Root remembers listening to Petty and the Heartbreakers before they were the Heartbreakers, when Petty, Tench and Campbell were in early band Mudcrutch.

The journey home has been a sentimental one for the Gainesville natives.

"We haven't played here in 13 years," Tench said. "It's wonderful."

Tom Petty's old friends, family flock to concert



By SARAH WOOD

Special to The Sun
September 22. 2006 6:01AM

Nothing gives that homecoming touch quite like relatives and old friends - even for rock stars.

Nearly two hours before the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers concert began Thursday, an uncle, cousins and an old roommate waited with dozens of fans outside the O'Connell Center who were all clamoring to see the partially homegrown rockers.

"I never realized back then that they'd become such a huge success," said Red Slater, who roomed with Heartbreakers Mike Campbell and Randall Marsh on the Mudcrutch Farm in Gainesville from about 1969 to 1971.

Slater and his wife, Linda, passed out fliers advertising the sale of old photos that Slater had taken in the early years of the band. The two didn't have tickets, but hoped to squeeze in, as they have in the past, by getting the attention of one of the crew members.

Campbell's family, from Baldwin and Middleburg, had a more planned approached. His uncle Stuart Campbell and cousins had backstage passes. Stuart said the musician of the family gives him "a lot of bragging rights."

But one of his cousins joked that he didn't even know Campbell was famous until he was about 16 and walked into his uncle's house and saw a gold record.

Other than family, fans both young and old crowded the entrance way. The numbers reached well into the hundreds as the concert's countdown neared to one hour. Many parents brought their teen-aged children.

Jacksonville dad Brad Straley, 45, came to the concert as a birthday present. It is something he'd never have done if it wasn't for his son, Daniel Ellis, 16, who had began listening to the music about three years ago.

"I'd heard of Tom Petty before, but I really didn't get into it until I heard him listening to it," Straley said about his son. "Now I enjoy it. His music has a catchy melody that just sticks in your head."

Another father-and-son duo also both enjoyed Petty's music, but talk about it in different formats. Father Carey Blanton first heard Petty in the late '60s and early '70s when he played a small venue in Lakeland, while son Dustin features Petty's music on his MySpace profile.

But no matter the age group or fan status, all seem to have one thing in common to say: "It's good to have him back in town," said Ocala fan Tom Fallis.

No heartbreak at Petty's Gainesville homecoming
Petty and Heartbreakers given keys to Gainesville at news conference

BY DAVE SCHLENKER
STAR-BANNER



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Tom Petty, left, addresses the media at a news conference in the Stephen C. O'Connell Center, Thursday. At right is Ron Blair. Petty hadn't been to Gainesville in 13 years.
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GAINESVILLE - It has been 13 years since home-grown hero Tom Petty plugged into an amp on Alachua County soil. And, to be sure, this city has missed him.

Fact is, the University of Florida celebrated homecoming - of sorts - two weeks early when more than 8,000 fans wildly greeted Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers the second the band stepped onto the O'Connell Center stage Thursday night. Fans came from out of state and all points in Florida, from Jacksonville to Palm Beach to the Panhandle to - naturally - Ocala and every corner of Gainesville.

They went berserk - stomping, screaming and causing a rumble that rivaled the neighboring Swamp on game day.

The crowd started going nuts when the lights went down, and when the first chord of "Listen to Her Heart" was played, the noise only intensified.

In fact, the crowd sang along, word for word, as well as on the next song, "Last Dance With Mary Jane."

Later, at 9:45 p.m., Stevie Nicks joined him on stage to sing their song, "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around."

"It's so nice to be here, I really feel I've come home," Petty said early in the concert, launching 20 seconds of foot-stomping and screaming. "We have a long show for you tonight, I hope you have paid the baby sitter and everything."

In fact every time Petty approached the microphone on the third leg of the band's 30th anniversary tour, he was nearly drowned out by the screams. "Thank you so much, man. Just incredible. Everywhere I look around here, there are a lot of memories."

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer now calls Malibu home, but Thursday clearly was Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Day. Really. It was TP & the HB Day - as proclaimed by Gainesville Mayor Pegeen Hanrahan hours before the concert.

At a pre-show news conference, UF's First Lady Chris Machen introduced Petty and the band.

"What we have here today is a homecoming of a different sort," Machen said, referring to UF's real Homecoming on Oct. 7. She then presented Petty, a former Gainesville High School student who skipped graduation for a gig, with a UF Distinguished Achievement Award.

"I thank everybody," Petty said, accepting the UF award. "I thank the university for making us distinguished people."

Then, the mayor presented hometown musicians Petty, Benmont Tench, Ron Blair and Mike Campbell, as well as non-Gainesville members Steve Ferrone and Scott Thurston, with keys to the city. Members graciously accepted their keys, with Petty noting, "It's a lot nicer than Chicago's, I'll tell you that."

And with that, Tom Petty and Heartbreakers were home. Some band members arrived days earlier to spend time with family, while Gainesville's famed 34th Street graffiti wall - usually reserved for student spray-paint art and fraternity proclamations - welcomed the band of 50-somethings home.

It has been years since Petty, himself, has been back to Gainesville, and he said he has been absorbing the evolution of his hometown. "It's a lot bigger, a lot of strip malls," Petty said, noting it is still "beautiful, though."

"I really, really love this town. You need to know what you've got here," said Tench, who lives in California, but recently purchased his family's Gainesville home after his father, former Gainesville judge Benmont Tench Sr., died. Tench spoke during the news conference as dozens of cameras snapped in the cramped corner of the O'Dome.

Because of the homecoming, this stop on the anniversary tour generated more media requests than any other stop, according to publicists. There has been much nostalgia among band members in recent days - friends, family, old haunts, clubs and houses. The band even gathered at Tench's family home to show Ferrone and Thurston where they used to rehearse. Clearly, Gainesville means a lot to this band.

Most of the band, anyway.
"Scott and Steve are sick of hearing about it," Petty said, as the band started laughing.

Ferrone, who replaced original drummer and current Floridian Stan Lynch, chimed in and said Gainesville reminded him a lot of his hometown in England.

"The only thing," he said, "in Brighton [England], we don't have any alligators."

The show sold out in 30 minutes - the second-fastest sell-out in O'Connell Center history - and many ticket holders were making the trip from Ocala.

Two of those residents, John and Cindy Harvey, were riding their Harleys in Cedar Key the day tickets went on sale, continually redialing TicketMaster on their cell phones, and were more than elated when they finally got through.

"It's an event," John said before the show, motioning toward the crowds and media. "People on the radio said people were taking the day off for this."

Jason and Jeanna Turner of Ocala were both wearing Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers T-shirts.

"I've always been really inspired by his music, and this will probably the last time I ever get to see him," Jason said.

Kelly Canonico, who came to the concert from Toms River, N.J., was also wearing a band T-shirt.

"It's Petty," she said. "It's Gainesville. Had to go."

She described Gainesville as a mecca and her journey as a pilgrimage. She said it was her 14th Tom Petty show.

UF alum and actor Stephen Root made the trip from Los Angeles for a long weekend in Gainesville with his brother Rick, a fellow UF alum, now living in New Orleans, and a friend from Jacksonville. Root came to see his old buddy Petty and the UF-Kentucky game.

Root, who stared as Milton in "Office Space" and Jimmy James in "News Radio," first saw Petty's Mudcrutch band in the early '70s, but the two got to know each other on the set of the Fox animated comedy, "King of the Hill." Root provides the voices of Bill and Buck, while Petty gives voice to the reappearing character Lucky.

Root said he just saw Petty at a recent taping, so why travel all the way Gainesville?

"I thought it would be really cool to see him in this venue."

Sarah L. Stewart of The Gainesville Sun contributed to this report. Dave Schlenker can be reached at dave.schlenker@ocala.com or 352-867-4120.

Недавно у меня появился сольник Тома Петти 2006 года Highway
Companion.

Я всегда стараюсь сделать к альбомам вкладку с текстами, если текстов
нет в буклете. Все песни я нашел в Сети, но вот одна песня, а именно
Down South, везде с ошибкой. Пропущены 3 строки одного из куплетов и
начало следующего. Я попытался сам вставить недостающие строки, но...

У меня просьба проверить текст и дать правильные слова. Мои слова я
выделяю пунктиром.

4. Down South

Headed back down south
Gonna see my daddy's mistress
Gonna buy back her forgivness
Pay off every witness

One more time down south
Sell the family headstones
Drag a bag of dry bones
Make good on my back loans

So if I come to your door
Let me sleep on your floor
I'll give you all I have
And a little more

Sleep late down south
Look up my former mentors
Live off yankee winters
Be a landlord and a renter

Create myself down south
Impress all the women
Pretend I'm Samuel Clemens
Wear seersucker and white linens

So if I come to your door
Let me sleep on your floor
I'll give you all I have
And a little more

Spanish moss down south
------
Findly heroes of my childhood
You not can do me no good
Hardly names and dockword

Chasin' goes down south
-------
Spirits cross the dead fields
Mosquitoes hit the windshield
All document remain sealed

So if I come to your door
Let me sleep on your floor
I'll give you all I have
And a little more

I'll give you all I have
And a little more

Вот строчки из буклета:

Spanish moss down south
Find the heroes of my childhood
Who now can do me no good
Carve their names in dogwood

Chase a ghost down south...

Одна из любимых песен на альбоме :)

Вот,просто,на собственном опыте,в машине,для сравнения,но это моё мнения,Sorry.

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The legendary Stevie Nicks set Atlanta on fire Friday night! Miss Stevie performed with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, who she's been touring with this summer. The Gainseville, Florida show on September 21st was filmed for a DVD, which we can't wait to see.

Tom Petty's old friends, family flock to concert



By SARAH WOOD

Special to The Sun
September 22. 2006 6:01AM

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Nothing gives that homecoming touch quite like relatives and old friends - even for rock stars.

Nearly two hours before the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers concert began Thursday, an uncle, cousins and an old roommate waited with dozens of fans outside the O'Connell Center who were all clamoring to see the partially homegrown rockers.

"I never realized back then that they'd become such a huge success," said Red Slater, who roomed with Heartbreakers Mike Campbell and Randall Marsh on the Mudcrutch Farm in Gainesville from about 1969 to 1971.

Slater and his wife, Linda, passed out fliers advertising the sale of old photos that Slater had taken in the early years of the band. The two didn't have tickets, but hoped to squeeze in, as they have in the past, by getting the attention of one of the crew members.

Campbell's family, from Baldwin and Middleburg, had a more planned approached. His uncle Stuart Campbell and cousins had backstage passes. Stuart said the musician of the family gives him "a lot of bragging rights."

But one of his cousins joked that he didn't even know Campbell was famous until he was about 16 and walked into his uncle's house and saw a gold record.

Other than family, fans both young and old crowded the entrance way. The numbers reached well into the hundreds as the concert's countdown neared to one hour. Many parents brought their teen-aged children.

Jacksonville dad Brad Straley, 45, came to the concert as a birthday present. It is something he'd never have done if it wasn't for his son, Daniel Ellis, 16, who had began listening to the music about three years ago.

"I'd heard of Tom Petty before, but I really didn't get into it until I heard him listening to it," Straley said about his son. "Now I enjoy it. His music has a catchy melody that just sticks in your head."

Another father-and-son duo also both enjoyed Petty's music, but talk about it in different formats. Father Carey Blanton first heard Petty in the late '60s and early '70s when he played a small venue in Lakeland, while son Dustin features Petty's music on his MySpace profile.

But no matter the age group or fan status, all seem to have one thing in common to say: "It's good to have him back in town," said Ocala fan Tom Fallis.

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