On Monday night, the Dave Matthews Band were in New York City to kick off their monster 63-date North American tour at Madison Square Garden – the band’s first extended
When is a reinvention not a reinvention? It can happen when you are Tom Petty and you act on the impulse to reform the band you fronted prior to becoming the rock icon you are now.
Petty mentioned early on that “This may be the best room for rock and roll on the planet,” and he was speaking the truth, as The Heartbreakers moved from the heavy metal-ish finish in “Don’t Come Around Here No More” seamlessly into the punk sneer of “Refugee” before closing the whole shebang with the sing along classic of “American Girl.” Make it last all night.
Mudcrutch is not a Tom Petty album. Nor is it merely a novelty. It is rather the rebirth of a band that met an untimely end when coincidence and circumstance brought together what would later became Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers.
Tom Petty’s first solo album in twelve years, revisits the myth of the
open road, as if to wrestle one more time with an ancient metaphor.
Photos by Brian Diescher of Tom Petty and Trey Anastasio performing at the Tweeter Center in Mansfield, MA on June 21st, 2006.
On the Eastern rim of the Adirondacks, the scenic gem of Saratoga Performing Arts Center was sold out and loaded with the dedicated fans of two nationally respected touring acts; neither of which has released an album of new material in over 3 years.
