TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS
Sunday, 11 November 1979
The Palladium
126 East 14th Street
New York, New York 10003
USA
FLAC master, 11 September 2023, by elegymart:
Analog audience recording (mono) {recorded by Gene Poole}: unknown mics/recorder > two 1975-78 US/Europe TDK D-C90 (Type I Normal) analog audio master cassettes {from the Gene Poole collection} > Sony TC-WE435 (azimuth adjustment) > Roland R05 (24/96) > Cool Edit Pro 2.0 (audio cleanup, convert to 16/44) > SHNtool (fixed SBE) > CD Wave (track splits) > TLH (WAV > FLAC8).
Created this text file.
Total running time [1:13:25]
- intro
- Shadow of a Doubt (Complex Kid)
- Anything That’s Rock ‘n’ Roll
- Fooled Again (I Don’t Like It)
- Here Comes My Girl
- Even the Losers
- Wild One, Forever
- I Need to Know
- Don’t Do Me Like That
- Refugee
- Cry to Me
xx Listen to Her Heart
xx American Girl - Breakdown
- Century City
- Too Much Ain’t Enough
- Shout
- What Are You Doing in My Life
Band line-up:
Tom Petty – lead vocals, rhythm guitar, harmonica, percussion
Mike Campbell – guitars
Benmont Tench – piano, keyboards, backing vocals
Ron Blair – bass guitar, backing vocals
Stan Lynch – drums, percussion, backing vocals
Notes:
THE GENE POOLE COLLECTION VOL. 222
Here’s the latest installment of the Gene Poole Collection, a random wellspring of recordings which surfaced during the pandemic. To paraphrase Lou: This is gonna go on for a while, so we should get used to each other, settle back, pull up your cushions, whatever else you have with you that makes life bearable in what has already been the start of trying decade…
Some of Gene’s handiwork has probably been heard by your very ears before, for the most part via the Stonecutter Archives, but this is the first major unearthing of tapes direct from the legend himself. As promising as that may seem, it’s best to let the surprises hit as they are shared. The trade-off to the prolific taping on Gene’s part is that the expectations for a perfect track record would be unrealistic and unfair. There will be instances of incomplete recordings, caused by late arrivals to gigs, recorder and microphone malfunctions, and other assorted foibles as would befall any mortal taper. There will be times where a master from another source exists which could be superior. For the most part, Gene recorded with a variety of mics and recorders, and many shows suffered from wire dropouts, so that only one channel was extant in the capture. Due warning about the past imperfect given and out of the way, credit should be given where due as well — for many shows thought lost forever, it’s exciting to discover that many of these even in incomplete form have now cropped up.
The transfers, the audio fixes, and the research all have required some lead time — many tapes had scant info (sometimes just the name of the artist/band, with no date listed for the performance). Needless to say, gear documentation is virtually nil — if we wait around for that precise detail to be forthcoming, nothing from the collection would probably see the light of day.
In case the last volume didn’t provide any hints, here’s the headlining set from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at the Palladium on a rainy Veterans Day 1979 on the first night of their tour. The show was not sold out — for a venue with a capacity of 3,800, the place was only three-quarters full.
The Fabulous Poodles opened, and as relayed in that volume, the cassette was labeled as Grateful Dead, Owsley and Ken Kesey acid tests. The Poos were on Side A of the tape, and Tom on Side B. If you’re doing the math, that only gives us 45 minutes of a C-90. The final five songs of the set were on the end of an Allman Brothers tape, unlabeled, which could actually be a dub, but we’ve turned no other tapes of this set yet. In summary, considered we’ve put together this puzzle by happenstance and are left two songs shy of the entire set is a bit of a miracle.
Some words from the man who had this destined for the trash: “I saw Tom a lot. I loved the Heartbreakers. Definitely taped the ‘Damn the Torpedoes’ tour at the Palladium. The same damn setlist and ‘peekaboo’ mic flirting for the girls, but I really felt like they were the Byrds (who I never got to see) and that he was as close to Roger McGuinn (in his prime) as I would ever get to experience.”
Another source of this does circulate (without the Fab Poos opening set) via nevinsrip, which glasnostrd remastered some time ago, and it’s worth seeking that one out for the set in its full glory. This one is a bit fuzzy around the edges, mostly on the louder parts, probably as a result of low-quality (possibly internal recorder) mics — not strident but noticeable even to hardened boot ears.
Enjoy,
elegymart
Live Petty 