Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Marcus Amphitheater
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
June 28, 2013
Source: Church Audio CA-11 cards => UGLY pre-amp => Tascam DR-2D (24/44.1)
Transfer: DR-2D => WAV => Audition 1.5 (dither to 16-bit) => WAV => Magix Audio Cleaning Lab => WAV => FLAC (level 8)
Location: Stage left, ~10th row
Setlist
- Warm Up
- So You Want To Be A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star
- Love Is A Long Road
- I Won’t Back Down
- Baby Please Don’t Go
- Here Comes My Girl
- Mary Jane’s Last Dance
- Free Fallin’
- A Woman In Love (It’s Not Me)
- Cabin Down Below
- Band Introductions
- Tweeter And The Monkey Man
- Rebels
- Melinda
- Learning To Fly
- Yer So Bad
- I Should Have Known It
- Refugee
- Runnin’ Down A Dream
- Encore Break
- Don’t Come Around Here No More
- You Wreck Me
- American Girl
Comments:
Enjoyable Summerfest performance by TP&TH on a Friday night, a setting which is usually extremely taper-unfriendly due to frat boys and concert amateurs who have spent the day drinking Leinie and PBR leading up to the show. By and large, the audience was well-behaved, and the performance was a notch above his typical show. He commented at one point that the band had been looking forward to Milwaukee for the entire tour because they love playing Summerfest (and indeed, I think they’ve performed on the main stage four times in the last decade) and one could tell they were enjoying themselves.
Though not as adventurous as his recent club shows in New York and L.A., I thought the setlist was really good for a festival setting. He’ll never be able to play a shed without old warhorses like “American Girl,” but there were a lot of covers and relative obscurities in the set to satisfy those of us who have seen him many times. Of the 15 or so Petty shows I’ve attended over the years, I thought this was near the top.
In terms of sound quality, this came out really good – particularly given the setting. Seats were right under the overhead stack at about a 30-degree angle from the stage, and I got most of the benefit of those along with some of the stage monitors. The mix is pretty good and overall balanced, although I felt the vocals could have been a little more prominent (I used Audio Cleaning Lab to emphasize the vocals a little, and drop the midrange slightly – but this recording didn’t need much help). With the exception of two or three woo-woo’s and outbursts (and of course chatter between songs) near the mics, there really isn’t much audience interference to distract from the recording. I’ve done a couple masters at Summerfest shows where the nearby crowd was so bad that I never even went back to check my master; I felt pretty lucky. (Part of my good fortune came from the fact that the fan in front of me – a gentleman in his late 50’s in a Blackhawks jersey – made FIVE separate trips for beer during the show and double-fisted each round. He might be dead now after consuming 1 1/4 gallons of beer in two hours, but it worked out great for me since he was too preoccupied to clap or talk.)
This doesn’t match up to the Schoeps recordings from New York and L.A., but this should be good for even the casual Tom Petty collector.
There are no fades on this file set, so the CD breaks (for those who still burn to CD) are merely a suggestion – you can split discs wherever you want.
Live Petty 
Hi! I’m about 99.99% sure this was my last TP show before his sad passing. I wanted to ask you a few questions about this one to see if I hopefully have the right show for me to download for my own memory-sake.
I know I drove from MI to TPHBs playing WI’s summerfest (I’d never been to summerfest so I didnt know how it was setup with various stages all in one main location), but anyways, 3 very distinct details I recall from this year was first in being extremely upset that there was major road construction in town which blocked the normal exit route people took to summerfest and my GPS kept sending me in a circle repeatedly to take the main exit which was closed down, and it wouldnt reroute me. I actually got so frustrated, thinking I’d never make it in time, I tried another random exit to head back to MI, when lo and behold i started to see signs saying “summerfest this way!” And si i booked it there, stumbled around the grounds till someone pointed me to TPs stage and i found my seat just as he was midway through i wont back down.
the 2nd recollection i had was that I was just outside the canopy and it began to rain just after I took my seat and it continued to do so for awhile.
the 3rd memory I had (and this part matches as I see the setlist) I was delighted that Tom played Tweeter and the Monkeyman. I.know you’ve seen a zillion shows, but the exit road construction and it raining (if you can recall) would confirm it for me. Thanks si much for capturing all these TO shows!
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