Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Paradise, Boston, MA
July 16, 1978

Retro Rock show #82-9 for broadcast the week of 2/22/82

1. Anything That’s Rock and Roll
2. Fooled Again
3. Don’t Bring Me Down
4. You’re Gonna Get It
5. Breakdown
6. Strangered In The Night
7. I Need To Know
8. Shout
9. I Fought The Law
10. Route 66
11. I’m A King Bee

This concert is listed as having been originally broadcast by WBCN-FM in Boston.

A year later, the King Biscuit Flower Hour distributed a show with Tom Petty and Steve Forbert for syndicated broadcast
on July 15, 1979, which may be part or all of the 1978 show. The Petty KBFH segment is from the Paradise in Boston.
I couldn’t find a track list of the 1979 broadcast for comparison, so I can’t confirm that the 1979 KBFH show was sourced
from the 1978 Paradise show (althougit’s very likely.) The 1979 KBFH show was distributed on reel-to-reel tape.

Retro Rock was a syndicated radio show distributed on vinyl LPs in the early 1980s by the Clayton Webster Corporation.
I’ve seen shows on EBAY with distribution dates between 1981 and 1984. The formats were rebroadcasts of live concerts, or an interviews
or artist profiles with studio or live cuts, with national commercials. The concerts were often several years old, hence the “retro” in the show’s name.

Retro Rock syndicated the Tom Petty 1978 Paradise show for re-broadcast during the week of February 22, 1982. The Retro Rock version has
eleven out of the thirteen songs originally performed, and is missing “American Girl” and “Too Much Ain’t Enough.”

The Retro Rock cue sheet inexpicably lists the song “Anything That’s Rock and Roll” as “Rock and Roll Spy.”

Wolfgang’s Vault has a version of the Tom Petty 1978 Paradise show posted in streaming audio with twelve tracks (it’s missing “Strangered In The Night”).

The “Breakdown!” bootleg on Italy’s Great Dane Records was released in 1990, and has all thirteen tracks.

There was vinyl bootleg in the 1970s on Excitable Recordworks 4510-1 titled “It’s Only Rock and Roll” sourced from the 1978 Paradise who with eight tracks.

This Retro Rock version was digitized in June 2014 directly from the Retro Rock syndicated LP. I cleaned the record and
removed most of the clicks, pops, and surface noise in Audacity. As there’s some tape hiss audible in the quieter portions,
it’s likely the show was made from a copy of the WBCN master tape, as opposed to cut directly from the master tape.
I’ve left in all of the original commercials, but tracked them so they can be removed.

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