I recently saw The Wallflowers. Did the entire “Horse” album, took a short break then came back to do a set of Tom Petty (It very well could have been an entire album, I’d have to research that).
What was odd, to me, was that during that Petty set, Jakob Dylan said, “Everything I know about music I learned from Tom Petty”.
We know that Tom Petty was one of the best buddies and frequent collaborator of his father, so he would have known him well. And I can imagine Petty being more open to sharing his talents with Jakob than Bob.
Yeah, I get that. But “Everything”?
Didn’t Ringo’s son, Zack say something similar about Keith Moon? If you are exposed to equally great musicians, it’s probably easier to learn from someone other than a parent. Less baggage.
I was coming in to say this exact same thing.
The Who in '89 did their The Kids are Alright tour. The show was in two acts. The first act, while the sun was up, was Tommy. The took a break, and continued with a Greatest Hits show after the sun went down.
It’s entirely possible that Jakob was exaggerating just a tiny bit, in the spirit of praising of Petty’s role in his musical education.
Yeah, obviously a bit of hyperbole, in order to praise a mentor and friend who’s not with us anymore. I mean, I think everybody loved Tom Petty, I’ve never heard or read a bad word about him.
Just FYI - for fans of Andrew Hickey’s “500 Songs” podcast, he has released a Patreon backers’ Q&A episode for June and this subject was one of the questions he answered.
Mrs Maven & I have seen Bob Dylan many times. In 1979 we saw him in Albuquerque shortly after he released his first Christian album Slow Train Coming. He played all the songs from that album but not in order. He did not play any other songs nor an encore.
Taking the concept to the next level, there’s the annual Sgt. Peppercorn’s Marathon, a concert by Columbus-area musicians who perform “perform all 215 officially released Beatles songs in chronological order.”
In 2014 I saw Stevie Wonder perform all of Songs In The Key of Life. It was one of the best shows I’ve ever seen.
Yes! My wife and I saw that in Hyde Park, London. It was perfect, because in the Venn diagram of our musical tastes, Stevie is smack in the middle of the overlap area.
Damn, that was one of those shows where I could have gone when it came through town, and I didn’t. I will forever regret it.
I’ve got the album of that tour, Come Together, tucked away in my closet somewhere. The second disc has a couple of Pete Townshend’s solo tracks mixed in with the Who’s greatest hits, including “Rough Boys”, “Face the Face”, and “A Little Is Enough”. Neat little gems. I haven’t listened to that album in probably 20 years or so at this point.
That was their “Who On Ice” tour where they recruited a keyboard player, a second guitarist, a second drummer, three backing singers, and a five-piece horn section, so it definitely wasn’t the classic raw Who sound, but fun to hear the songs live with the full instrumentation.
Join Together. I think Come Together might be an imaginary Beatles reunion tour.
Just after Rick Wakeman released his second solo album, Journey to the Center of the Earth, I attended a concert he gave at the then-Boston Music Hall (now the Wang Theater). He did the entire album. He had a full orchestra onstage, a bank of various keyboard instruments for himself, and two inflatable dinosaurs. A couple of years ago I stumbled onto a recording made at that concert. It’s the only live recording I have of a concert I attended.
I didn’t follow his concerts afterwards, but since a lot of his albums were themed I wouldn’t be surprised if he did a lot more full-album shows.
Brian Wilson has done many tours with his band doing the entire Pet Sounds album. I caught the 50th Anniversary tour with Al Jardine and a stage full of musicians. The rest of the concert was about 25 hits. Brian is barely there but his musicians made it great.
He’s also done tours doing the entire Smile album that never was, but I didn’t catch it.