Tom Petty was awful. I have a soft spot for Tom. My first concert ever was Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers with Bob Dylan, at Great Woods in ’85 or ’86 with Steven Johnson. Sure, it’s been 20+ years, but man has he gone downhill.
It goes without saying, he’s an ugly man. He looks like Bob Dylan now, and that’s not a good thing. He could get past that if he was charismatic, but he’s barely mobile. The rest of his band doesn’t move around at all either. You need some visuals!
Why were there so many guitarists? Tom and Mike Campbell are enough, why were there two more? He’s not Bruce Springsteen.
The song selection was also bad. American Girl is a great song, but was either played or mixed badly, the main riff was muddy. The other three songs were from his solo albums (bad choice). I Won’t Back Down and Freefallin’ are terrible songs. Just awful stuff. Runnin’ Down a Dream is a great song, and should have been a great closer, but somehow it just didn’t work.
After Aerosmith, The Rolling Stones, U2, and last years fantastic Prince show, this was a real disappointment.
Also I understand there was a football game, but I can’t seem to remember anything else about last night. There is a giant black spot in my head – it has been pulsing pain at shock at me for the last ten hours, and I don’t know why. If my memory comes back, I’ll post more about the game.
ok, I like free fallin.
Freefallin’ just plain sucks — and it gets a lot of airplay on the radio too. I Won’t Back Down also sucks, but at least local DJs generally have the good judgement to keep that one off the airwaves.
And agreed, he’s damn ugly, but he can still pretty much have any woman he wants, probably… Wish I’d learned to play that guitar…
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You went with Steve Johnson?
Wow, there’s a name I haven’t heard in a while.