Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Westwood One Superstars In Concert show #CO 90-05
Broadcast window of March 30 – April 1, 1990
Recorded at the Dean E. Smith Activities Center
at the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, North Carolina on Sept. 13, 1989

Setlist

1. Bye Bye Johnny
2. The Damage You’ve Done
3. Breakdown
4. Free Fallin’
5. The Waiting
6. Benmonts Boogie
7. Don’t Come Around Here No More
8. Southern Accents
9. Even The Losers
10. Listen To Her Heart
11. A Face In The Crowd
12. Something Big
13. I Won’t Back Down
14. I Need To Know
15. Refugee
16. Runnin’ Down A Dream

NOTES: This show was bootlegged on silver discs several times in the 1990s during the “copyright gap” era of silver bootlegs. One of the bootlegs, “Southern Choice” lists the venue as “Wilmington, North Carolina May 18, 1990.” According to the Tom Petty Gigography at http://www.mudcrutch.com, there were no Tom Petty concerts in May of 1990. While Wilmington and Chapel Hill are both in North Carolina, they’re one hundred and sixty miles away from each other, so the misattribution of the venue isn’t a mix-up involving a suburb and nearby city.

The show was also bootlegged under the title “Lost In North Carolina,” “Live In North Carolina ’89” on the Living Legend label, and “Free Fallin'” on the Pluto Records imprint.

The introduction to the CO 90-05 show says that Westwood One “joined the star of this evening’s show for five dates of the Eastern leg of his tour.” That indicates that Westwood One may have recorded several dates and venues as a source for this show. During the intro to “Southern Accents,” Petty exclaims, “it’s the last night!” and mentions that “this one we haven’t done very much but seeing as how we’re here in North Carolina I thought we’d do it…”

The Chapel Hill show was the last night of the 1989 tour. so Petty’s statement indicates that song wsa recorded on the last night of the tour in North Carolina. So while the show may be sourced from multiple dates, an attribuion of Chapel Hill Sept. 13, 1989 is a reasonable guess.

Westwood One broadcast this show at least three times:
CO 89-30, broadcast dates of November 10 – 12, 1989
CO 90-05, broadcast dates of March 1 – April 1, 1990 (the source of this version)
90-22 and/or 90-34, broadcast dates of August 22-28, 1990 This show has the discs labeled as 90-22, but the cue sheets are labeled as 90-34.

Note that the first broadcast date of November 1989 means that this can’t possibly be from May 1990.

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