Other than Derivicus..I don't think I've ever seen a bad review..

[tompetty]

22/5 - AMAZING review from the Hollywood Reporter
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers performed before a sold-out crowd in New York.

By Mick Stingley

Bottom line: Nothing but hits.
Jones Beach, New York
Tuesday, June 21


Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers kicked off the first day of summer at Jones Beach in New York before a sold-out crowd of all ages. The air was a little brisk for those who wore shorts to the outdoor amphitheater, but the Florida-bred six-piece raised temperatures with a 20-song set that was loaded with hits.

Demurely taking the stage to zealous applause, Petty opened with "Listen to Her Heart" and spent the evening trying to out-sing the audience on the familiar choruses of his numerous chart-toppers. The concert was a testament to 30 years of fine songwriting and superb musicianship.

The original members of the Heartbreakers -- keyboardist Benmont Tench, guitarist Mike Campbell and bassist Ron Blair -- were rounded out by drummer Steve Ferrone and guitarist Scott Thurston. The band is the perfect foil for the happy-go-lucky singer, embellishing his voice with power and grace as he moved from classic-rock radio staples to lighter acoustic numbers.

Along with favorites such as "Breakdown," "Refugee," "Don't Come Around Here No More," "Free Fallin' " and "Mary Jane's Last Dance," Petty treated the crowd to the instantly singable new song "Turn This Car Around," from a new album due in the fall. He also broke out "Handle With Care" from his days with the Traveling Wilburys, with guitarist Thurston capably covering the Roy Orbison parts. The band closed with "Running Down a Dream" and returned for an encore of "You Wreck Me" and "American Girl."

Petty has so many great songs that it's almost a disappointment he can't get to them all. Yet the real downside to seeing Tom Petty is knowing that once the summer has ended, the big question on everyone's mind is likely to be, "Who will be the next American Idol?" In an industry bereft of talent like this, the real question ought to be, "Who will be the next Tom Petty?" Of course, the answer is that there will never be another one like him, and it is incumbent upon those of us who truly love music to embrace him.

Special guests the Black Crowes opened the show with a heavy set that featured deep album cuts and extended jams. Kate Hudson watched from the wings as husband Chris Robinson wriggled and bounced in a shirt that read, "Freak N' Roll." The Crowes seem well on their way to becoming the next Allmans, though they did manage to stop jamming long enough to play "Jealous Again" and "Remedy."



New album due in the fall....:) :)

[tlbonehead]

Sounds like a super heavyweight show. Not much more to say about TP so I'll switch to this. There are far too few people who realize just how good the Black Crowes are. A great melting pot of rock & roll,blues,soul,funk,and gospel.

[Chairborne]

Hella double bill. I'd like to see/hear it.

[tompetty]

Originally posted by tlbonehead
There are far too few people who realize just how good the Black Crowes are. A great melting pot of rock & roll,blues,soul,funk,and gospel. Agree...side note...I remember when their first hit "Jealous Again" hit the waves...I was listening to it on a crappy car speaker and I thought it was Keef...To me it sounded like him and sounded like something he'd do and it was around the time when Keef was doing solo stuff..:o

[tompetty]

Reuters Wire/Billboard Concert Review
By Philip Booth Wed Jun 15, 6:20 PM ET

TAMPA, Fla. (Billboard) - What's an uncompromising rock star to do when his earnest screed against the recording industry practically evaporates upon its release? Why, pretend like it never existed, of course.

That's the fate of Tom Petty's "The Last DJ," released in 2002 on the heels of the induction of the Florida-bred hitmaker and his Heartbreakers into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. At the third show on the band's summer tour, in front of a Ford Amphitheater audience of 17,000, 'nary a tune from that controversial CD was played.

Petty, longtime lead guitarist Mike Campbell and their four bandmates instead dipped into nearly three decades' worth of rootsy, jangling favorites on the way to demonstrating the continuing viability of a genuine American pop institution.

It was practically old home night for Petty. The two-hour Tampa show was closer to his old stomping grounds, Gainesville, than any other date on the concert trek. "I've got cousins and brothers and aunts and uncles and everything back stage," he quipped.

Perhaps as a result, the band sounded relaxed and confident, pausing only long enough to trade out instruments -- six- and 12-string acoustics and electrics, including plenty of Rickenbackers, and the occasional mandolin -- between songs.

"Listen To Her Heart," all sunshine-y guitar sheen, served as a friendly love-song opener, followed by the common-man pleas of "You Don't Know How It Feels," spiked with Scott Thurston's harmonica blasts; the raucous guitar rave-up "Makin' Some Noise," featuring Campbell's wah-wah solo; and "Free Falling."

Fans were treated to a long list of favorites, including a short version of "Don't Do Me Like That"; "The Waiting," with a slow-motion Petty guitar solo; the Eastern-tinged "Don't Come Around Here No More"; "Refugee," revved with Campbell's aggressive solo; and a triumphant, show-closing "American Girl."

But the band took the opportunity to veer off the beaten path, too, beginning with the slinky mid-tempo rocker "Turn This Car Around," taken from Petty's next album, due for release later this year. Benmont Tench's pastel-colored piano solo was a highlight of "Melinda," another new tune, a loping, twang-edged mood piece heard on a recently released concert DVD. The Heartbreakers also dug deep into the one-chord blues stomp of Big Joe Williams' vintage "Baby Please Don't Go," and offered a pleasant stroll through the Traveling Wilburys single "Handle With Care." Campbell's acid-washed bottleneck slide lines livened Bob Dylan's "Rainy Day Women #12 and #35."

The sturdy meat-and-potatoes sound of the Heartbreakers may not be in vogue in the age of Eminem, but it would be tough to find a group of rock'n'roll musicians as in sync with one another as these guys.

The recently reunited Black Crowes, another band that's improved with age, opened with a set mixing elements of greasy rock'n'roll, Americana and inspired jamming. Such familiarities as "Thorn in My Pride," "Jealous Again" and "Twice as Hard" bumped up against expansive covers of Marvin Gaye's "Baby Don't You Do It" and the Grateful Dead's "Brokedown Palace." Crowes singer Chris Robinson, given to a little hands-on-hips strutting ala Mick Jagger, had a famous fan club in tow: his wife, actress Kate Hudson, was seated on an equipment box on stage left, smoking, drinking and grooving to the music.

Reuters/Billboard


new album out in the fall...;) :p

[TheFloydian]

I want the new Petty album badly.

[Jimmy James]

The Crows are headlining the Long Beach Blues Fest here.

Here in L.A. they bust my balls about not being traditional enough while at the same time The Blues Police hire a rock act to bring the asses to the seats.

Fuck the police!!!

Just for that I'm going to be a hyper-sensitive singer songwriter.

[TheFloydian]

Originally posted by Jimmy James
The Crows are headlining the Long Beach Blues Fest here.

Here in L.A. they bust my balls about not being traditional enough while at the same time The Blues Police hire a rock act to bring the asses to the seats.

Fuck the police!!!

Just for that I'm going to be a hyper-sensitive singer songwriter.

Don't cry, emo-kid.

[Jimmy James]

Originally posted by TheFloydian


Don't cry, emo-kid.


Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!:mad:

[TheFloydian]

Originally posted by Jimmy James



Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!:mad:

:(

[derivicus]

I suppose you think I'moff my rocker for my review.

I said the performance was great. It's good radio stuff, but it's not the stuff of a good concert. The crowd is old and tired (these folks were too scared to fire it up, but me, my brother, and two of the spotlight operators stunk the place up), as is Petty. There was no energy. I can handle a concert with little energy, but it must be from a less poppy songwriter for me to enjoy it. I AM A TOM PETTY FAN!! The man is a fantastic songwriter and a stoner after my own heart. I was criticized for my review, but i'm just calling it like I see it.

And the Black crowes were not too good. The singer could not even muster up half the lyrics, plus, I thought they had lousy FOH work.

Plus, the ticket had me fired up too. $135 for two tickets is fucking robbery.:mad:

[Red Ant]

I'm going to the Long Beach festival - looking forward to the Crowes. Oscar, wanna go? My father-in law is a prof at CSULB so he gets tix every year ;)

As for Petty - i can't stand him. I have to change the station if a Petty song comes on. I appreciate that he's a good songwriter and i know his band is real tight, but that voice just sends me running.

[kirkvanhendrix]

Originally posted by TheFloydian


Don't cry, emo-kid.


Bwahahahaha!

[TheFloydian]

Originally posted by Red Ant
I'm going to the Long Beach festival - looking forward to the Crowes. Oscar, wanna go? My father-in law is a prof at CSULB so he gets tix every year ;)

As for Petty - i can't stand him. I have to change the station if a Petty song comes on. I appreciate that he's a good songwriter and i know his band is real tight, but that voice just sends me running.

You hate all the weird voices that I love.

:(

Atleast you like Jerry.

[tompetty]

Originally posted by Jimmy James


Fuck the police!!!

[kirkvanhendrix]

Well, tompetty, I guess you've gone and done it now.

[Jimmy James]

Originally posted by Red Ant
I'm going to the Long Beach festival - looking forward to the Crowes. Oscar, wanna go? My father-in law is a prof at CSULB so he gets tix every year ;)


Fuckin' A! Call me. Guitar Shorty is playing too. I was going to hit him up but you're alot less arrogant and crotchety.:D

I'm not into Petty either. I didn't even like covering "Breakdown" when I was doin' the cover band thing earlier this year.

I respect his economical craft but it's just not Black Crows enough for me.

[TheFloydian]

Originally posted by Jimmy James


Fuckin' A! Call me. Guitar Shorty is playing too. I was going to hit him up but you're alot less arrogant and crotchety.:D

I'm not into Petty either. I didn't even like covering "Breakdown" when I was doin't the cover band thing earlier this year.

I respect is economical craft but it's just not Black Crows enough for me.

You have to atleast respect the rocktitude of Mike Campbell.

[tompetty]

Originally posted by Red Ant
I'm going to the Long Beach festival - looking forward to the Crowes. Oscar, wanna go? My father-in law is a prof at CSULB so he gets tix every year ;)

As for Petty - i can't stand him. I have to change the station if a Petty song comes on. I appreciate that he's a good songwriter and i know his band is real tight, but that voice just sends me running. And you know what??....I don't blame you...even when I listen to him I think to myself that this is an aquired taste....To each his own....

[Jimmy James]

Originally posted by TheFloydian


You have to atleast respect the rocktitude of Mike Campbell.

That goes without saying. R-e-s-p-e-c-t!

[TheFloydian]

Originally posted by tompetty
And you know what??....I don't blame you...even when I listen to him I think to myself that this is an aquired taste....To each his own....

I guess. I've been listening to Petty since I was born because of my dad, so it's always sounded normal to me.

[tompetty]

Originally posted by TheFloydian


I guess. I've been listening to Petty since I was born because of my dad, so it's always sounded normal to me. Well,what are ya gonna do..Most of my fav singers are nose singers...seem's normal to me too...

[Red Ant]

Most of my favorite singers are soul singers, even in rock. Lowell George, Steve Marriott, Maggie Bell come to mind. Yet i like some weird squelchy voices like Lou Reed, Brian Eno, Jerry... go figure.

[tompetty]

Originally posted by Red Ant
Most of my favorite singers are soul singers, even in rock. Lowell George, Steve Marriott, Maggie Bell come to mind. Yet i like some weird squelchy voices like Lou Reed, Brian Eno, Jerry... go figure. And that's the point and the end...people will say,hey,check this out...they're jumpin' up'n down...I say,it's ok...then I'll say,hey,check this out...I'm jumpin' up'n down...they'll say.it's ok...