Shelter

^ Yeah, mine too, really. I always thought there was an extra portal - straight to the rock'n'roll hyperdrive dimension - opening, whenever TPATH pulled out something by the Animals or the Kinks. To me those were always the best cover moments!

I always preferred Taj Mahal the monument over TM the rocker. I would love to see/hear Bob Weir join the Knobs though! Sounds like a fun show either way..

I suppose Should I Stay or Shoukd I Go (The Clash) could be said to be a bit of an oddity as well.. Sure it was already 5 years old when TPATH picked it up for frequent playing in 87 (they kept it til 89, I seem to recall)... But in those days (and certainly for a 70s band like the Clash) it was still fairly contemporary and a fairly commercial hit as well. Not to mention that obscure jeans brand (can't think of it's name, but it somehow got the letters in Elvis name a bit scrambled..!) making the song REALLY big in 1991.. making TPATH's call catching it right in the middle of it's heyday.. so to speak. The timing, again... speaking of Georgia Satellites (even opening for TPATH at the time, how's that for making the cover in question even more odd, or obvious, depending on angle.). Anyway.. end of 80s.. there's Tom, actually on the verge of his own commercial hits peak, with an extra keen eye seemingly for contemporary hits to cover.. a special era, for sure. How I wished that they picked up Sweet Child Of Mine while they're at it.. and let Mike loose...

As for Tom, I'm not sure he ever aimed for the format as such, as a goal in itself. I think, for him, it was about was served the music and what the music added up to. In some cases, the ones you mention, the double idea may have fit the mood or amount of songs/ideas. But if he was talked out of it, in the case of Wildflowers, he probably blew the other ones more himself, so to speak, by not having enough good material or handling it strange, making odd priorities, production decisions or whatever. Until I get to hear ALL the leftover material from SA sessions and LMU sessions, I won't be able to tell if there is a double there somewhere or not. As they stand, to me, both of them can just barely be made perfect single albums, even if the best known material is culled and resequenced and put to use for the purpose.. It's some ways to a double for any of them.. but again, we haven't heard what's on the shelf.

Could it be all the turn over - change record - turn over, it takes to listen to them...

Mine too. Well said!

Buy merch! Buy merch! Buy merch... Just saying.

..and its accents.

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/people/family-fans-of-tom-petty-gather-to-name-park-in-his-honor/

So.. given that Tom's music, more or less saved all of our souls once.. you may say that, at least for a weekend, there, Tom indirectly saved your's a second time... How beatiful!

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^ Would explain the lyrics to "Anything that's Ropinrole"

"I'm half lit, I can't dance for shit.." really puts a big smile on my face. As so often is the case with Tom, so much is being said somehow...

Yes, more about it here:

And then what would Tom say? Are you guys like creating a play? How fun 😀

"mixed with nearly unlistenable second-rate 80s music" Hm.. I know a guy who finds that stuff to be the highlight, of the album and perhaps of the career. Not naming names. But it starts with MJ2....

Link not working..? Never mind. I just have so many of those TDK tapes...

Yes.. In the meantime, I wonder if this is any good... https://goo.gl/images/WxxEDG

This comes highly recommended. Quite fantastic actually, and the sort of thing that, to me, opens up that magic rift and time and space, that prooves beyond all things how timeless and eternal Tom's songwriting could be at its best. I hear this and I realize Wildflowers, in tune, lyrics et al, could easily have been something recorded by the Blue Sky Boys or the Louvin Brothers way back before any of us (well?) was born.. This is real space music!

Sure. They would certainly need to get paid a l-o-t more, were they actually to play by themselves. Goes without saying. Again, not a dig.. Just saying.

^ Nurk, that would mean more dollars for guitars for you... Or a new warehouse or two to keep em in. Plus maybe setting up a shop or a music school right? Didn't you mention that at some poiint? Hmm.. As for me, I'd just take a 13888 years long vacation from working. Now that's some money well spent! Or, I suppose, I could just hire Fleetwood Mac for a night, but the budget will be tight for that one. Would be fun though.

Gotcha. It's a weird place. So little room, yet such vast amounts of beard.

Leaving the old dysfunctional core of the lot aside for a moment, focusing instead on the new cool guys, the hot blood that could revive all of them if put to use properly (although I'm still not 100% positive, sorry for saying so, that it's so far the landslide some may have hoped for), I hope that Neil and MC will find their place and that they will grow into their new roles before too long. I still don't feel the chemistry between SN and NF too much, judgeing from clips, and that is really a bummer for the experience, must say. Mike, although he feels like he's partially in a dimension of his own a lot of the time, is serving the music beautifully, as per usual. His Oh Well, is a very cool element of the show. Anyone here who know the SOP for FM when it comes to the setlists. I haven't paid much attention to them as a live band in the past, myself. Will they keep a largely same set over the course of the tour, supposedly just like it has been this far? (They do strike me as the kind of band that prefer a neatly scripted display to hustle around with, and that the fan core may expect them too as well. You don't get paid $12 millions to be creative or take risks, I take it..) Or will it perhaps start to change gradually and eventually? Or is there likely to be legs that has different setlist focus? I guess it's already too late for anyone to hope for a more floating approach this time, and maybe they never have been playing that game? Either way, I'm sure MC can handle it. Most of this is fairly new to him anyway, so even if they stick to the same set for all 50 dates, that is a situation that he is more or less used to, from recent tours with his previous employer. To some extent - contradicting my own patented logic, here - vast repetition may even be a good thing for the moment, working up that certain instinct and almost supernatural feel for the material, that he has for some of the TPATH stuff that he played every day of his life for 30 years or more. I guess a certain rotation of songs may not hurt, though. For anyone. (I, for one, really hope that MC will get his moment in the spotlight with Albatross before this flight is over!) Being the utter pro that he is, the music will get what it needs from him, no matter. What he may not be used to, though, is 50 dates of 24:ish long sets. Hard work for anyone, and these guys are not super young, so to speak. The last few TPATH tours may have been long stretches too, but each show then was usually held at 18-19 songs, and I suppose that makes quite a difference over time. I am very confident though, that MC will manage, whether the shows stick to 24-25 songs or becomes somewhat shorter with time. Again, I don't know the FM SOP with that.. As for Neil, I have no idea what so ever.. I suppose he always takes the weather with him, so.. let's hope it's gonna be a fair trip!