Two and a half hours of solid Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers songs Sunday night made enduring humid, muggy Nissan Pavilion tolerable. How hot was it? Hot enough that two heat-crazed teen girls got into a fight right behind where we were sitting, to the delight of the delirious crowd.
I know you're a proud Gainesville native, Tom, but, jeez, did you actually have to bring the entire State of Florida to open for you this 2008 tour? (Really, it was Steve Winwood and he was great.) I was dying out there waiting for the sun to go down. You were no doubt back there in a really nice air-conditioned tour bus, weren't you, Tom? That's right. So you really don't know how it feels to be me, do you?
No, he was a good sport about what his fans were going through. "Nice to be with you here on a very humid southern night," he said. The sun did eventually go down, of course, but it was still muggy. The show definitely made that worthwhile, yes, but it must be said: The Waiting was the hardest part:
I blogged about watching this 4 hour documentary earlier in the year. Here's the trailer for Runnin' Down a Dream:
And I was impressed The Heartbreakers included "Bo Diddley is a Gunslinger" in the encore. So with Sunday night's scorching show, I'm pretty much done forever with Nissan Pavilion. Biblical rain and the surface of the sun itself, respectively, the last two times out? Hmm. Think they're trying to tell me something?
2 comments:
Did Steve Winwood shred "Dear Mr. Fantasy" for what must have been the 3,043rd time??
He did. A war whoop went up from the faithful. I was excited by my old college road trip staple "Can't Find My Way Home". It was a decent even very good set. The new material is strong, too.
He came onstage with Petty during the main set to stagger through a Wilburysesque "Gimme Some Lovin".
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