Tom Petty Videos
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A new TP thread in celebration of the big tour this year. Sooooo many good songs/videos, right? 
Sure wish I could find a video of Looking For Daddy, The Woods
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Casa Dega live 1978
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6wAR1rVbLs
Sure wish I could find a video of Looking For Daddy, The Woods
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Casa Dega live 1978
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6wAR1rVbLs 0
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The Best of Everything TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS Pittsburgh PA Consol 6-20-2013
Tom Petty & Eddie Vedder -- The Waiting (Tom Petty)
"When the first album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers appeared in 1976, it seemed to come out of nowhere. Literally nowhere. Listening to that record-which sounded shockingly alive and immediate in a time full of disco and Kiss and mellow Californians remaking oldies-it was very hard to figure out where this band came from. The airy vocal harmonies and bright guitars suggested the west coast, but the gutsiness edging into nastiness seemed like what was happening in New York. The songs had an economy right out of England, but the voice in the lyrics was unmistakably American....
Once, talking about being lumped in with Springsteen, Mellencamp, and Seger in rock critic shorthand. Petty said "I think I'm more, dare I say - eccentric than those guys. I know all those people quite well and I think that they're terrific...I was into that straight rock thing for a longtime. However I don't think that's the whole ball of wax. I think there's more to it than that."
TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS " crawling back to you " live
Tom Petty - A Face In The Crowd
Tom Petty - Shadow Of A Doubt (Live On Fridays)
From Damn The Torpedoes sessions 1978 // the MCA fight
"The songs Petty was recording were influenced by the war he was fighting,
Think of the lyrics that jump out from that album
Everybody's had to fight to be free
Even the losers get lucky sometime
I can rise abut it
The struggle to complete Torpedoes helped Petty to focus on what would become
a theme through his work for years after: the refusal to be bullied and the willingness to fight against bad odds.
It's striking how many of Petty's most famous slogans sound like
a guy in the middle of a brawl:
Quit Jammin Me
Don't Come Around Here No More
I was born a rebel
I won't back down
During the Torpedoes period even the love songs were packed with what could as
well have been references to his court fight
There's people running 'round loose in the the world who ain't got nothin'
better to do than make a meal of some bright-eyed kid"
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Even The Losers - 12/30/1978 - Winterland (Official)
To Find A Friend - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - KCSN Benefit - Northridge, CA - 10/29/11
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Spike (Live at Farm Aid 1986)