Wildflowers BOX set and Filmore release potential!

[Hoodoo Man 98]

I've all too slowly been collecting Fillmore shows for ages off and on.  I just hope this does not mean they disappear if they don't release every show in their entirety which I would gladly pay for.  

Also its very cool to not they recorded all their shows digitally for the past 15 years.... Cold be some excellent things in the vault.  

 

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/tom-petty-wildflowers-fillmore-shows-722069/

 

Tom Petty’s Heartbreakers Considering ‘Wildflowers’ Box Set, 1997 Fillmore Release

 

“The 1997 Fillmore run was almost the pinnacle of the band just being totally spontaneous night to night to night,” says Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell

By 

ANDY GREENE

Tom Petty's Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell says the group is considering a 'Wildflowers' box set and the release of the band's 1997 Fillmore shows.

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The new Tom Petty box set An American Treasure won’t hit stores until September 28th, but his team is already thinking about future archival releases. Nothing is definite at the moment, but Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell tells Rolling Stone that the group hopes to release a live set commemorating their 1997 residency at the Fillmore in San Francisco. They played 20 sold-out shows at the historic theater in January and February of that year, radically changing the setlist each night. In 2009, seven songs from the Fillmore run were released on the Live Anthology compilation, but that was just a tiny sampling of their total collection.

“For me, that was almost the pinnacle of the band just being totally spontaneous night to night to night,” says Campbell. “We might throw in a Grateful Dead song that we just learned that afternoon. We recorded every show and we had guest artists from Bo Diddley to Roger McGuinn to John Lee Hooker. And I know, in my memory of those 20 nights, there’s an amazing album in there.”

The Petty vault is overflowing with other concert recordings, particularly from the past 15 years when they began taping every single show digitally, but Campbell is unsure how many of them will ever see the light of day. “Before we went digital, we just made analog recordings here and there,” he says. “But most of the digital recordings we have are just the same songs over and over. I don’t know how much interest there will be in them, but they’re all earmarked and just sitting there. I’d be hesitant to release anything that wasn’t great, though. Some nights, guitars were out of tune or someone sang out of pitch. You have to be careful compromising Tom’s excellence because he liked stuff to be good.”

A Wildflowers box set is also in the works, something that Petty frequently spoke of in his final years. The 1994 album was originally envisioned as a two-disc set, meaning many songs got cut for space when it was truncated. “I think I put four of the [Wildflowers outtakes] on the She’s the Onesoundtrack just to fill out the album,” Petty told Rolling Stone in 2017. “But they were very hastily mixed. Take ‘Climb That Hill.’ There’s a version of that on She’s the One, but the Wildflowers one I think is extremely better. I’m gonna put that out. ‘Hung Up And Overdue’ is another one we remixed and it turned into an epic. I had Carl Wilson [of the Beach Boys] and [Heartbreakers bassist] Howie Epstein singing quite a bit of harmony that didn’t come through on the original. Then again, there’s probably six songs that nobody has heard. There’s 11 or 12 [new] songs on the album. I think people are going to like it a lot. I like it a lot.”

 

 

Now that he’s gone, his former collaborators are determined to see the projection to fruition. “I see that in the cards,” says producer Ryan Ulyate. “It’s going to be fantastic.” There’s also talk of deluxe editions of key albums from Petty’s catalog. “If there’s a market for something like that,” says Campbell, “we’ll do it.”

[chimera 276]

*thumbs up*

I know the Wildflowers thing is something people have been clamoring for going on years now.  But yeah, I would love a curated Fillmore anthology for sure.

[Shelter 898]

1 hour ago, Hoodoo Man said:

"he liked stuff to be good.”

He did. He really did.

[chimera 276]

TP was many times his own harshest critic.

[RedfordCowboy 44]

Ah, again, more torturing me with hints, mentions, and teases of a Wildflowers Deluxe Box set....

Maybe someday all the dreaming will become a reality....

[Shelter 898]

Ah, yeah.. a certain sense of deja vu, right...? It's groundhog day!

[TomFest 334]

At this point, doesn't it make sense to wait until 2019 for a 25th Anniversary release of Wildflowers?  The "Super Deluxe" career retrospective is out in a couple of weeks, and that should keep us busy at least through the holidays.

[nobodyinparticular 270]

2 minutes ago, TomFest said:

At this point, doesn't it make sense to wait until 2019 for a 25th Anniversary release of Wildflowers? 

Who says they aren't? 2019 is just a few months away.

[Hoodoo Man 98]

yeah I would not expect either of these to be on the shelves this year, 2019 seems much more reasonable if they want to do things right and I can say for sure they seem to want to do things right with Toms legacy.  

[Shelter 898]

19 hours ago, TomFest said:

At this point, doesn't it make sense to wait until 2019 for a 25th Anniversary release of Wildflowers? 

Actually, yeah.. Or at this point, why not save it for 2024? We are so used to the idea of waiting for it, that actually releasing would be too obvious.

[franferparraga 9]

20 hours ago, TomFest said:

At this point, doesn't it make sense to wait until 2019 for a 25th Anniversary release of Wildflowers?  The "Super Deluxe" career retrospective is out in a couple of weeks, and that should keep us busy at least through the holidays.

yeah, 25th anniversay box set of wildflowers audio and video (i think that have a video too, i see something in Youtube)

[Big Blue Sky 130]

On 9/14/2018 at 2:57 AM, Shelter said:

Actually, yeah.. Or at this point, why not save it for 2024? We are so used to the idea of waiting for it, that actually releasing would be too obvious.

hahahahahhahahahahaha 

[bonddm 87]

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/mike-campbell-heartbreakers-tom-petty-724996/

[MaryJanes2ndLastDance 774]

On September 11, 2018 at 12:28 PM, Hoodoo Man said:

I just hope this does not mean they disappear if they don't release every show in their entirety which I would gladly pay for.  

 My opinion: I hope if they release the Fillmore they do a Live Anthology take on it but with an eye towards releasing every single deep cut played, even if it was only once, even if they don't think it was the best version, in addition to including the standard hits. That is if they don't just release the whole thing which seems like overkill to me as there will be a lot of repetition on it.

 I think it would be cool if they offered a free download show from their tours every so often, just as a freebie thank you to the fans.

And finally I think they should release a double live album of the last night with a third bonus disc of the deep cuts or one time only plays they did from the tour from different dates.

And rounding it off, a DVD of the last night as well.

Anyway, I'm sure they'll be releasing some live stuff, if Tom was already planning or leaning towards the Fillmore I'm sure that will happen. It seems like they are first going to follow through on what he planned on doing before venturing further, aside from this boxset which feels like the family's tribute to their Father/Husband.

cheers

[nobodyinparticular 270]

For what it matters, if someone posts a recording on dimeadozen that includes an officially released track, they just omit the released tracks. (This is the reason I have several different versions of the 1993 Gainesville homecoming show.) So I wouldn't worry about the shows vanishing completely.