Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Album Network Concert
Coleman Coliseum
Tuscaloosa, AL
recorded October 6, 1995
- Bob Coburn & George Drakoulias – Album Network Intro
xx Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – Waiting For Tonight (studio) - Bob Coburn & George Drakoulias – Interview
xx Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – Turning Point (studio) - Bob Coburn & George Drakoulias – Interview
xx Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – Ways To Be Wicked (studio) - Bob Coburn & George Drakoulias – Interview
xx Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – God’s Gift To Man (studio) - Bob Coburn – Album Network Break
- Bob Coburn – Concert Intro
- Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – You Don’t Know How It Feels
- Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – Listen To Her Heart
- Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – I Won’t Back Down
- Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – Free Fallin’
- Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – You Wreck Me
- Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – Mary Jane’s Last Dance
- Bob Coburn – Album Network Break
- Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – Don’t Come Around Here No More
- Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – Thirteen Days
- Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – Girl On LSD
- Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – Breakdown
- Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – Cabin Down Below
- Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – It’s Good To Be King
- Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – Runnin’ Down A Dream
- Bob Coburn – Album Network Break
- Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – Honey Bee
- Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – Gloria
- Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – American Girl
- Bob Coburn – Album Network Break
- Bob Coburn – Brought To You By
- Bob Coburn – Petty says goodbye
- Bob Coburn – Playback contest
- Bob Coburn – Credits
Welcome to our latest chapter of “debunking the Internet.”
If you run a search, you can find June 10th listed as the date of this show. Last.fm, Spotify, Liveone.com, and dozens of other sites say it’s June 10, 1995. The correct date is October 6, 1995. This error comes from the difference in how America records dates as compared to the rest of the world. In American English, it’s MM/DD/YYYY. In Europe and British English, they use DD/MM/YYYY. So…October 6, 1995 is 10/06/1995 here, but 10/06/1995 means June 10, 1995 in the countries producing the “gray market” CDs.
The announcer, Bob Coburn, says, “…soon, we’ll be taking you to the stage at Coleman Coliseum, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, for a great concert performance from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, recorded during the last week of their 1995 North American tour, the tour that ended just last month
That establishes he concert took place in the month before the broadcast date’s month. The show is announced as “the Album Network’s Holiday Concert Special” and “Thanksgiving Special.” There’s no cue sheet included, but the date printed on the cassettes is 11/29/95, which was the last Wednesday of November. “Just last month” would be October 1995.
I’ve included a newspaper clipping that says, “Petty will perform Friday, Oct. 6 at 8:30 p.m. in Coleman Coliseum.”
The show opens with a half hour special about the release of the PLAYBACK boxed set, and features Bob Coburn interviewing producer George Drakoulias.
This is a pre-FM copy from cassettes. Presumably, there’s also a version with commercials. I’ve seen a reel-to-reel copy on Ebay, which may have had the advertising included. I suspect this “no commercials” cassette copy was produced as a promotional item.
The “brought to you by” at the end of the show lists 1-800 Music Now, Discover Card, Fox TV, Burst Gum, and Radio Shack as the sponsors.
Some things come and go, some things stay the same. 1-800-Music Now had you call a number on your touchtone phone, type in an artist’s name, listen to samples over the phone line, and then order the CD using a credit card. It lasted a little over a year. Wiki says, “The promotion totaled about $40 million (at the time, advertisements for the service were quite regularly played on MTV and advertised heavily as part of The Simpsons Homerpalooza episode); meanwhile, its top-selling CD sold only 400 copies.”
On the other hand, Fox Televisions’ The Simpsons is still on television, twenty-nine years later.
I’ve included scans of the j-cards and cassettes.
Bob Coburn is the host. For many years he was the voice of ROCKLINE, also deejayed on Los Angeles KLOS-FM.
The credits are given over Wilson Pickett’s “She’s Lookin’ Good,” which is a smokin’ hot slab of soul. It reached #15 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Live Petty 