US Festival '82, Glen Helen Regional Park, San Bernardino, CA, 9-4-1982 - Day 2, Part 6: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

The sixth act presented here from Day Two of the 1982 US Festival is a set by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers.

I can't believe how lucky I am to be posting this, the complete set from this band, which is probably the first time it has been made publicly available anywhere. I was minutes from posting a 55-minute-long version when I got lucky. You see, when I originally searched the Internet for music from this festival, all I could find was that 55-minute-long version, which consisted of the second half of what is here (from track 104 to the end). But I figured there almost certainly had to be more, since Petty was the big closing act of Day Two and it would have been odd if his set was less than an hour long, meaning it was shorter than nearly all the other sets from the festival. Also, I'd found a mention of one song performed that I didn't have ("The Waiting"). So, while writing my write-up just before posting the album, I thought I'd do one last search for a more complete set list, at least.

To my surprise, I found a Reddit post I'd previously missed that not only gave the full set list, but had links to YouTube videos of ALL the songs I'd missed! It turns out that, back in 2018, the official Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers YouTube page posted videos of all the songs from the never bootlegged first half of this set, but none from the commonly bootlegged second half. It was almost like they knew which songs were available and only posted the missing ones. 

But, in a twist, none of the posted videos were labeled as from the 1982 US Festival. No source info was given at all. Apparently, years went by with hardly anyone noticing the missing portion of the set actually was available. But those videos are still on YouTube, and if you closely compare these videos with the video of the second half of the concert, one can tell they're all from the same concert, due to the clothes Petty and his band members are wearing. Plus, there are occasional shots of the massive nighttime crowd of 200,000 people, apparently the largest crowd by far that the band ever played for, or would ever play for.

So I was pretty psyched to find the length of this set had doubled with those newly discovered songs. Adding to the good news, the second half I was already aware of had great sound quality, but this newly discovered first half sounded just as good. (It seems they're all different pieces of the same film footage.) Now, the entire thing can be heard with sound quality just as good as a typical official live album

That's what I'm presenting here, the full set. I would think this immediately has to become of the best and most important Petty concert recordings that is publicly available, because it's a great recording of a great performance of one of the band's most important shows in their long career, performed in front of their biggest ever crowd. 

However, note that I've previously had lots of trouble with copyright issues when it comes to Petty's music. I'm sticking my neck out to post this, and I'll probably get in trouble for it. So get it while you can!

Note that the YouTube videos of the first half of the concert did have some problems. Namely, they consisted of the full songs, but little else. In a few cases, there was some banter by Petty that was included too, but those were just brief comments directly relating to the song just played or about to be played. I think it's pretty likely there was more general banter that got cut out. The reason I think this is because most of the applause at the ends of songs got cut out too. Even the start of the first song, "American Girl," got cut out, and I patched in a few seconds from a different 1982 live version to fix that. 

There was nothing I could do about any missing banter. But for the missing applause after each song, I found bits of cheering from the second half of the concert and patched those in so there would be a normal amount of cheering after each song. And I edited it all carefully so it sounds like one continuous recording, instead of having fade-ins and fade-outs between all the songs in the first half. (Thankfully, the second half comes from one continuous video, so there wasn't anything missing there.) 

On top of that editing, I made some other edits to improve the sound quality. Petty's voice was a bit low in the mix, so I fixed that with the UVR5 editing program. And sometimes there was too much crowd noise during the songs, so I reduced that with the MVSEP editing program. I think the final result sounds great. This is a must-have for any Tom Petty fan!

Now, let me address the song selections here. At the time of this festival, the band was close to releasing their next album, "Long After Dark." But that wouldn't come out for two more months, at the very start of November 1982. Despite that fact, the band played two songs that would appear on that album, "You Got Lucky" and "A One Story Town." The also played four cover songs that hadn't appeared on any of their albums at the time: "I'm in Love," "Louie, Louie," "Shout," and "So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star." Furthermore, they played every original hit the band had had by that point, plus some deeper album tracks. 

As an aside, not long before this concert, the bass player for the Heartbreakers, Ron Blair, quit due to burnout. He was replaced by Howie Epstein. Epstein's first concert with the band was on September 1, 1982, making this his second concert with the band. He would stay with the band until 2002, when he would be replaced by Blair again.

Oh, and there's one little bit at the end that amused me. In my post about the Kinks set earlier on Day Two, I told a story about a big dispute between the Kinks and promoter Bill Graham, who helped organize this festival. At the end of this set, you can hear Graham thanking all the bands who performed that day. When he gets to the Kinks, there is a veeeeeery long pause before he decides to mention their name.

This album is an hour and 37 minutes long.

91 American Girl (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
92 Listen to Her Heart (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
93 A Thing about You (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
94 talk (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
95 Here Comes My Girl (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
96 talk (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
97 The Waiting (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
98 I Need to Know (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
99 I'm in Love (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
100 Don't Do Me like That (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
101 Louie, Louie (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
102 talk (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
103 You Got Lucky (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
104 A One Story Town (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
105 A Woman in Love (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
106 talk (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
107 Kings Road (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
108 Breakdown (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
109 Refugee (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
110 talk (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
111 Shout (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
112 talk (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
113 So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
114 talk (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
115 Even the Losers (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
116 talk (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)

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The cover photo comes from this exact concert.

No Nukes Concerts, Madison Square Garden, New York City, 9-23-1979: Tom P*tty & the Heartbreakers

As I mentioned previously, I've gotten in trouble twice posting music from this artist. But I want to post this to complete the 1979 No Nukes recordings that I have. So I'm not going to say much. Note that I'm sharing this set via SoulseekQT. 

Look in the comments and you might see a way to grab the files for that.

Live Aid - JFK Stadium, Philadelphia, PA, 7-13-1985, Part 4: Ashford & Simpson with Teddy Pendergrass, Madonna, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Kenny Loggins, and the Cars

This is Part 3 of the Philadelphia portion of the 1985 Live Aid benefit concert. There are seven parts in total for Philadelphia, so I'm not more than halfway finished. The London portion will follow.

The first act up in this part was the soul duo Ashford and Simpson. For their second and final song, they were joined on stage by soul singer Teddy Pendergrass. This was a very emotionally moving moment for the concert. Pendergrass was injured in a car accident in 1982, and permanently paralyzed from the waist down. His musical career was put on hold for a while. He was still able to sing though, and he put out an album of new material in 1984. But this appearance in Live Aid was his first time on a public stage since the accident.

 Madonna was the next act. She was a very big deal, and a cultural phenomenon, at this time, after becoming a superstar in 1984. The same month of this concert, Playboy and Penthouse magazines published nude photos of Madonna, taken when she moonlighted as an art model in 1978. As a result, she made a jokey comment between songs about how she was going to keep all her clothes on.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers came next. They were followed by Kenny Loggins. But he only got to play one song. The last act on this album were the Cars.

As with the other albums in this series, sometimes I was able to include introductions to the acts, and sometimes I couldn't. Madonna was introduced by actress and singer Bette Midler, and Tom Petty was introduced by Don Johnson.

This album is an hour and 11 minutes long.

075 Solid [Edit] (Ashford & Simpson)
076 Reach Out and Touch [Somebody's Hand] (Ashford & Simpson with Teddy Pendergrass)
077 talk (Bette Midler)
078 Holiday (Madonna)
079 Into the Groove (Madonna)
080 talk (Madonna)
081 Love Makes the World Go Round (Madonna)
082 talk (Don Johnson)
083 American Girl (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
084 talk (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
085 The Waiting (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
086 Rebels (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
087 talk (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
088 Refugee (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
089 Footloose (Kenny Loggins)
090 talk (Bill Graham)
091 You Might Think (Cars)
092 Drive (Cars)
093 talk (Cars)
094 Just What I Needed (Cars)
095 Heartbeat City (Cars)
096 talk (Cars)

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 There actually were five musical acts in this part, but I only had room for photos taken from the concert of four. The one that got left out is Kenny Loggins, since he only performed one song. Ashford and Simpson, with guest Teddy Pendergrass, is in the top left, Madonna is in the top right, Tom Petty is in the bottom left, and Ric Ocasek of the Cars is in the bottom right.

Various Artists - Bridge School Benefit 1988, Oakland Coliseum Arena, Oakland, CA, 12-4-1988

As I mentioned in my last post, I'm a big fan of the annual Bridge School Benefit Concerts, and I recently was given soundboard versions of most of the complete shows from 1988 to 1999. All I had of the 1986 show with excellent sound quality was the Bruce Springsteen set, which I just posted. But I have the entire 1988 show, so here it is. There has been a very good audience bootleg circulating for years, so good that one might even mistake it for a soundboard. But this is an actual soundboard and it sounds even better than that other version.

I have a particular fondness for this show, because it was one of the first concerts I attended, when I was a teenager. Consider the list of performers: Neil Young, Nils Lofgren, Billy Idol, Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia & Bob Weir (the two leaders of the Grateful Dead), Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Tracy Chapman, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY). The vast majority of those are musical legends, in my book. 

The one artist that the crowd looked at skeptically was Billy Idol, because all the performances were supposed to be acoustic or at least semi-acoustic in nature and one doesn't think of "Billy Idol" and "acoustic" in the same sentence. But he played a genuinely acoustic set and get a good reaction.

The soundboard recording was generally great, but it had some problems. I mostly fixed them. The most glaring problem was that portions of two songs were missing: "Comes a Time" by Neil Young and "Gates of Eden" by Bob Dylan. Luckily, I had that very good audience bootleg I mentioned above. I used that to patch in the missing bits, which is why those two songs have "[Edit]" in their titles. I also used that audience bootleg to fill in some other missing bits, such as intros to a couple of the performers. (The voice making the intros belongs to actor Timothy Hutton.) But some intros either didn't happen or are missing from both versions, for instance with Bob Dylan's set. With Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, the recording cut in part way through the artist name in both versions, only a couple seconds apart.

One great thing about soundboards is that the songs are clear because there's very little crowd noise. But, taken to extremes, that can be weird when there's almost no cheering when the songs end. Strangely, there was a lot of variability with the crowd noise in this soundboard recording: sometimes the cheering sounded normal, and other times there was almost no cheering heard at all, especially at the ends of sets. So I used the audience bootleg version to patch in more applause whenever necessary, using the actual applause from that song. As a result, the applause may vary a bit from song to song, with some guess work on my part as to how loud the reaction actually was, but there should be a decent crowd response after each and every song.

Another thing I did was trim some dead air. For instance, the Tom Petty set started with over a minute of guitar tuning. I cut all that out. I also cut back on some of the cheering. For instance, the applause might go on for two minutes after a set ended, but I'd cut that after only a minute. I figured this concert was long enough as it is.

Note that Neil Young, who brought the concert together along with his wife Pegi Young, played a short set to start the show. On the last number, "American Dream," Crosby, Stills and Nash walked onto stage during the song to sing harmony vocals. That's why you get a huge surge of applause partway through the song, even on the soundboard version, because the audience recognized who they were. Then Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young came back to do the last set of the night. By the way, I've previously posted the CSNYset at this blog, together with their 1986 Bridge School Benefit show. I'm keeping that post up if you just want their set.

Here's some other random notes. Billy Idol was backed by a couple other musicians, but still basically had an acoustic sound. Bob Dylan was assisted only by guitarist G. E. Smith. Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead were also assisted by bassist Rob Wasserman. When Tom Petty performed at the 1986 Bridge School Benefit, it was just him on stage. But this time he was assisted by all of his backing band, the Heartbreakers. So that was more of a semi-acoustic set, especially due to the presence of some drumming. Also, if you look closely at the credits, you'll see that Neil Young backed Nils Lofgren for a song, and Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir for a song. He played harmonica and sang backing vocals. Finally, Tracy Chapman and Nils Lofgren joined CSNY for the very last song, "Teach Your Children."

This album is three hours and 52 minutes long. That makes it the longest album I've posted at this blog so far, beating out a 1975 Bob Dylan Rolling Thunder concert by only one minute. Currently, I'm only offering it as a single download. But if there's a demand to break this up into pieces, I could do that too.

01 talk (Neil Young)
02 Comes a Time [Edit] (Neil Young)
03 Sugar Mountain (Neil Young)
04 This Note's for You (Neil Young)
05 talk (Neil Young)
06 American Dream (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
07 talk (Nils Lofgren)
08 Dreams Die Hard (Nils Lofgren)
09 talk (Nils Lofgren)
10 Live Each Day (Nils Lofgren)
11 Believe (Nils Lofgren with Neil Young)
12 talk (Nils Lofgren)
13 Keith Don't Go (Nils Lofgren)
14 No Mercy (Nils Lofgren)
15 talk (Billy Idol)
16 Untouchables (Billy Idol)
17 talk (Billy Idol)
18 Sweet Sixteen (Billy Idol)
19 talk (Billy Idol)
20 Bo Diddley (Billy Idol)
21 talk (Billy Idol)
22 To Be a Lover (Billy Idol)
23 talk (Billy Idol)
24 Prodigal Blues (Billy Idol)
25 San Francisco Bay Blues (Bob Dylan)
26 Pretty Boy Floyd (Bob Dylan)
27 With God on Our Side (Bob Dylan)
28 Girl from the North Country (Bob Dylan)
29 Gates of Eden [Edit] (Bob Dylan)
30 Forever Young (Bob Dylan)
31 talk (Jerry Garcia & Bob Weir)
32 Wang Dang Doodle (Jerry Garcia & Bob Weir with Neil Young)
33 Friend of the Devil (Jerry Garcia & Bob Weir)
34 Throwing Stones (Jerry Garcia & Bob Weir)
35 Ripple (Jerry Garcia & Bob Weir)
36 Even the Losers (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
37 talk (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
38 Blue Moon of Kentucky (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
39 talk (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
40 The Wild One, Forever (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
41 talk (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
42 Refugee (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
43 talk (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
44 Don't Come Around Here Anymore (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
45 The Waiting (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
46 talk (Tracy Chapman)
47 If Not Now (Tracy Chapman)
48 What Child Is This (Tracy Chapman)
49 Fast Car (Tracy Chapman)
50 Mountain O' Things (Tracy Chapman)
51 All That You Have Is Your Soul (Tracy Chapman)
52 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
53 Helplessly Hoping (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
54 Love the One You're With (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
55 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
56 This Old House (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
57 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
58 Southern Man (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
59 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
60 Don't Say Goodbye (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
61 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
62 Compass (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
63 talk (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
64 Long Time Gone (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
65 Southern Cross (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
66 Teach Your Children (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young with Tracy Chapman & Nils Lofgren)

UPDATE: On June 8, 2023, the link has been removed due to a request by people associated with the Bridge School Benefits. Sorry about that.

The cover is the promotional poster for this concert. I cropped it and stretched it horizontally a bit to get it to fully fit into a square shape.

The Traveling Wilburys - Volume 2 - Non-Album Tracks (1989-1990)

The Traveling Wilburys were a great but short-lived "supergroup," consisting of George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison, and Jeff Lynne. Unfortunately, they only made two studio albums, and never did any live performances. The unexpected death of Orbison due to a heart attack effectively killed the group, even though they did their second album without them.

Due to the limited amount of material the band made together, people naturally want more. And since their albums were called "Volume 1" and "Volume 3" (as a joke), it's just as natural that when people put together stray tracks to make another album, they call it "Volume 1." Many others have put together various versions of "Volume 2," but here is my attempt.

In terms of actual songs recorded by all of the Traveling Wilburys, it's slim pickings. I count four songs, all of which eventually came out as bonus tracks as part of the archival album "The Traveling Wilburys Collection." So I started with those four. 

Luckily, and the reason this album is possible, is that different members of this band helped out with various solo albums. Plus, member Jeff Lynne typically did the production, and he had a distinctive sound that he put on everything he produced during this time period. So, if it wasn't an actual Traveling Wilburys song, I limited myself to song where at least two of the band members collaborated, and it had their typical production sound. To help make things clear, I've included who was on each track in the song list. And while I didn't list the songwriters, many of these were collaborations. For instance, the big Roy Orbison hit "You Got It" that starts this album was co-written by Orbison, Petty, and Lynne.

I could have included more songs, but I tried to avoid songs that were on very famous albums, such as George Harrison's "Cloud Nine," Tom Petty's "Full Moon Fever," and Bob Dylan's "Oh Mercy" and "Under the Red Sky." For the sources of the other songs, check the mp3 tags. But I'll note I did use some songs from Lynne and Orbison solo albums from around that time. Maybe it's just me with my personal record collection, but those don't seem as overplayed as the songs from the other albums mentioned above. (Certainly, the song from Petty's album are played on the radio a zillion times a day.)

I think there's a good mix of songs sung by all the band members, except for Dylan. He's heard some here and there, but not as much as the others. That's not too surprising, since he's tended to do his own thing for his long music career. I've added an early, unreleased version of his song "Everything Is Broken" as a bonus track, just in case you want to up the amount of Dylan on the album. But it's only a bonus track because it doesn't have any of the other Wilburys on it. I considered using the Dylan song "Under the Red Sky" because it has a Harrison guitar solo on it, but I ultimately decided against it because it didn't have that Jeff Lynne-esque sound all the other songs have.

The last song is somewhat unusual because it comes from a solo album by Jim Horn, a saxophone player who is a long-time session musician. I've included it because, although it's mostly an instrumental, it has vocals by Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne only (Horn doesn't sing at all). Those vocals have that exact Traveling Wilburys sound, and the production is by Lynne, also making it fit sonically with the rest. Using the audio editing program X-Minus, I boosted the vocals some (so that's why there's "[Edit]" in the song title).

This album is 51 minutes long, not including the bonus track.

01 You Got It (Roy Orbison with Tom Petty & Jeff Lynne)
02 Cheer Down (George Harrison with Tom Petty & Jeff Lynne)
03 Runaway (Traveling Wilburys)
04 A Love So Beautiful (Roy Orbison with Jeff Lynne & George Harrison)
05 Poor Little Girl (George Harrison with Jeff Lynne)
06 Lift Me Up (Jeff Lynne with George Harrison)
07 Nobody's Child (Traveling Wilburys)
08 California Blue (Roy Orbison with Tom Petty & Jeff Lynne)
09 Cockamamie Business (George Harrison with Jeff Lynne)
10 Don't Treat Me like a Stranger (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers with Jeff Lynne)
11 Like a Ship (Traveling Wilburys)
12 Blown Away (Jeff Lynne with Tom Petty)
13 Maxine (Traveling Wilburys)
14 Work It Out [Edit] (Jim Horn with Tom Petty & Jeff Lynne)

Everything Is Broken [Early Version] (Bob Dylan)

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For the cover art, I found a promotional photo of the band taken around the time of the release of their first album. There's a famous logo of the band name, but looking at the band's official website, I noticed a different band name logo. So I used that one, then added "Volume Two" with a similar font to some of it.

Various Artists - Tom Petty's 70th Birthday Bash, 10-23-2020

Here's something that I think is great if you're a fan of Tom Petty's music at all. And who isn't a fan of Tom Petty's music? Petty died in 2017. Had he lived, he would have turned 70 on October 20, 2020. There has been a yearly tribute concert in his hometown of Gainsville, Florida, on his birthday each year since his death. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, a normal concert wasn't possible, so a virtual home concert was held instead, with different artists sending in their cover versions of Petty songs from their homes. The entire concert was well over five hours long. I've cut that down to three hours to make a really strong concert.

Somewhat strangely, this concert was broken into three different parts. The first two parts were only played on SiriusXM satellite radio. The first part consisted mostly of performances by Gainsville musicians. Most of those musicians are obscure, with no officially recorded music whatsoever. In cutting this concert from five hours down to three, I mostly cut from the first part. There are a lot of generic and unremarkable covers of Petty songs by bands you've never heard of, such as the Arts in Medicine Hospital Band and Jeff Slate's Weekend Wilburys. But there were some excellent performances by some unknowns, so I've included those. There are were a few songs by more famous artists sprinkled in early, such as one of my favorites, Larkin Poe, doing a song with Steve Ferrone of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on drums. Another Heartbreaker, guitarist Mike Campbell, also helped with a song by Starcrawler.

For the second part of the concert, a different SiriusXM DJ took over. The focus on Gainsville musicians ended. Instead, more famous musicians from all over were featured, starting with Eddie Vedder, lead vocalist of Pearl Jam. This section continued through the performance by the Raconteurs.

The final and longest section tended to feature the most famous names, though a few lesser knowns are scattered in as well. This last second was made available on video at Tom Petty's official website and other places. You can find all of it on YouTube if you want to watch and not just listen. Since this section is much more widely available, most press accounts mistakenly asserted that was the entire concert. But in fact it was only about half.

Now, let me explain some more about what I chose not to include. There were five songs performed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers scattered through the concert. Judging by appearances, they're from different years of Petty's long careers. I didn't include any of those because I felt they didn't fit the rest of the concert. They were typical versions of his famous songs, like "Refugee" and "I Need to Know." Most of the songs were done by other musicians in the concert, so including them would have increased the repetition of songs a lot.

There also were a lot of spoken word sections. I removed nearly all of those. They're nice to hear once or twice, but they don't have much replay value after that, in my opinion. I've only included the between song banter by Mike Campbell & Benmont Tench, the lead guitarist and pianist, respectively, of Tom Petty's band the Heartbreakers. They did a mini-set of three songs, and the banter between the songs was an important part of that, in my opinion. Nearly all the talking was in the last section of the concert. If you watch that on YouTube, you'll hear nice spoken tributes to Petty by his wife Dana, his daughter Adria, Stevie Nicks, a poem by George Harrison's wife Olivia, and more.

Most of the songs sound great. But a few were recorded from homes with poor recording equipment. I rejected a few songs due to sound quality issues. I didn't include a version of "Yer So Bad" by Adam Sandler mostly because it was so poorly recorded. The songs by Beck and Susanna Hoffs also were not recorded well, but I included them because they just barely sounded good enough for my ears, and I particularly like those two artists.

Another problem was that there didn't seem much effort to prevent multiple versions of the same songs. For instance, there were no less than four versions of the song "Wildflowers!" I removed two of them, by the bands Grouplove and the Arts in Medicine Hospital Band, while keeping the versions by Eddie Vedder and Brandi Carlile. The song "Honey Bee" was another problem. There were three versions that I decided to keep, by Larkin Poe, Grace Potter with Reysonator, and the Foo Fighters. There were all good, and all different from each other. I removed some other songs that were done more than once. There are a few other songs with two versions: "American Girl," "Room at the Top," "Runnin' Down a Dream," and "Walls (Circus)." Since the concert is so long at three hours, I figure a few of those are okay.

Almost all musicians played just one song. There are a couple of exceptions though. As mentioned above, Heartbreakers Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench did three songs together to end the concert. Norah Jones played two songs. And Margo Price and Lukas Nelson each did one song, but then also did a duet together.

As I mentioned above, this a great concert. All sorts of my favorite musicians were included, and they did excellent versions. Honestly, I could hardly have picked a better line-up myself. If you like Tom Petty at all, please give this a listen!

Another point I want to mention is that the vast majority of the performances were done on or just before the broadcast date, from the musician's homes, but there are a few exceptions. The Gary Clark, Jr. and Jason Isbell performances comes from concerts in 2017. The Killers did their song "American Girl" in concert. I don't know the date or location, but they played that song a bunch of times in concert from 2017 to 2019. Eddie Vedder's version of "Wildflowers" is a solo acoustic version done without an audience, so it sounds much like the others. But it actually was done in 2017 at some point after Petty's death and not made public until this concert.

Oh, and one last thing: as Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench repeatedly said at the very end of the concert, if you're a US citizen, please VOTE in the election on November 3rd!

01 Saving Grace (Andrew Leahey & the Homestead)
02 Anything That's Rock 'N' Roll (Hannah Harber)
03 Ways to Be Wicked (Sunkat)
04 Yer So Bad (Tristen)
05 Kings Highway (Michigan Rattlers)
06 Honey Bee (Larkin Poe with Steve Ferrone & Tyler Bryant)
07 Joe (Hannah Wicklund & the Stepping Stones)
08 The Apartment Song (Miss Tess)
09 Sweet William (Edan Archer)
10 There Goes Angela [Dream Away] (Emma Swift)
11 I Need to Know (Starcrawler with Mike Campbell)
12 Wildflowers (Eddie Vedder)
13 Walls [Circus] (Dawes with Mike Viola)
14 Room at the Top (Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit)
15 Square One (Caamp)
16 Honey Bee (Grace Potter with Resynator)
17 Learning to Fly (Kurt Vile)
18 American Girl (Killers)
19 Runnin' Down a Dream (Raconteurs)
20 Listen to Her Heart (Flaming Lips)
21 Don't Come Around Here No More (Beck)
22 The Waiting (Jackson Browne)
23 Stop Draggin' My Heart Around (Lukas Nelson & Margo Price)
24 Southern Accents (Lukas Nelson)
25 Free Fallin' (Susanna Hoffs)
26 Walls [Circus] (Wesley Schultz of the Lumineers)
27 Breakdown (Spoon)
28 Angel Dream No. 2 (Lady Blackbird)
29 Crawling Back to You (Margo Price)
30 Honey Bee (Foo Fighters)
31 Runnin' Down a Dream (Lucinda Williams)
32 Rockin' Around [With You] (Sabina Sciubba)
33 Good Enough (Gary Clark, Jr.)
34 Love Is a Long Road (Dhani Harrison & Graham Coxon)
35 Room at the Top (Amos Lee)
36 Climb That Hill (Patterson Hood of Drive-By Truckers)
37 Cabin Down Below (Alison Mosshart)
38 Wildflowers (Brandi Carlile)
39 Don't Fade on Me (Chris Stapleton)
40 Time to Move On (Norah Jones)
41 Only a Broken Heart (Norah Jones)
42 King of the Hill (Roger McGuinn)
43 I Won't Back Down (Stephen Stills with Christopher Stills)
44 It's Good to Be King (Dave Stewart)
45 Alright for Now (Emily King)
46 talk (Mike Campbell & Benmont Tench)
47 American Girl (Mike Campbell & Benmont Tench)
48 Something Good Coming (Mike Campbell & Benmont Tench)
49 talk (Mike Campbell & Benmont Tench)
50 We Want Boogie 'bout Midnight (Mike Campbell & Benmont Tench)
51 talk (Mike Campbell & Benmont Tench)

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The cover art is the official artwork for the convert. I didn't have to make any changes at all.

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - VH-1 Storytellers, Soundstage One, Burbank, CA, 3-31-1999

Here's a nice little concert from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. It's not the full show, but this is what was shown on the VH-1 TV show "Storytellers." Some performers on that show played in a solo acoustic format. Petty did some of that, but most of the songs were performed with the rest of the Heartbreakers.

However, what differed from a typical concert by the band is that Petty stuck to the format of talking a lot between songs, mostly to explain what his inspirations were behind the songs he chose. He was very entertaining and charming with his dialogue.

The album is only 43 minutes long, which is the length of an hour long TV show minus the commercials. About 13 minutes of that is made up of Petty talking between songs.

The sound quality is consistently excellent, like a professionally recorded live album in front of a small audience. I don't believe any of the performances have been officially released.

01 talk (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
02 Free Fallin' (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
03 talk (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
04 You Don't Know How It Feels (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
05 talk (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
06 You Wreck Me Baby (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
07 talk (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
08 Room at the Top (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
09 talk (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
10 Walls [Circus] (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
11 talk (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
12 Swingin' (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
13 talk (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
14 Angel Dream (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)

NOTE: The download link has been removed due to a copyright issue, sorry. However, take a look at the comments.

For the album cover, I found a screenshot of Petty from a YouTube video of the "Storytellers" show. I later upgraded it using the Krea AI program.