Yawn. I saw him in concert a couple of years ago at a festival and was bored then, too. He took ten minute breaks between songs to get ready and played identically to the album, no variation and no energy. I wasn’t surprised to see the same thing.
I’m a big Tom Petty fan, but only on albums, where the superb mixing means “American Girl” is an experience to be cranked as loud as you can handle it. His songs are far better suited to intimate intimate settings like bars and living rooms.
It was still pretty low key and bland for a rock performance, IMO.
I think safe is what they wanted. In the first three songs we got “American”, “free” and “Jesus” in the lyrics.
It seemed pretty clear to me that they were not playing. The whole performance sounded incredibly flat for a live performance. All the guitar playing looked ‘off’. There was also one point where Tom Petty had just finished singing a line, and looked into the audience and pointed and said something but you only heard the second half of what he said. Clearly his mic was off and someone turned it up real quick when the saw he was trying to talk.
“Don’t Come Around Here No More”. Love that video.
My favorite will always be “Mary Jane’s Last Dance”.
Oh my my, oh hell yes, honey put on that party dress…
I was disappointed that they didn’t play Don’t Do Me Like That. That’s my favorite Petty song.
I was really hoping they’d do Breakdown, and have the crowd sing.
I can’t watch Petty anymore without yelling to my wife, “Baby Girl! Hurry on in here and look at Lucky play his gee-tar on the television!”
“Tom Petty’s Teeth”… BAND NAME!!!
Thanks for the info WordMan. I meant to look up the guitar after the show, but now I don’t have to. I liked that guitar quite a bit.
What does FMF stand for???
Full Moon Fever, his first solo album.
Meh… not bad for a guy who’s based his entire career upon ripping off Dylan.
duck
His voice cops Dylan, but that’s where the similarity ends. Instrumentally their music has very little in common.
It would be a nice shot if it were true. He’s more like The Byrds if you are going to cite a 60’s influence. Lyrically - in style, topics, word choice and pretty much everything else - Petty and Dylan couldn’t be more different other than using words like “a,” “the” and “is.” Okay, maybe both sing with a nasal voice and are ugly as sin, but that’s not the basis of a career… 