Five years after the departure of Tom Petty, the place he held is no less vacant. This box set of four discs, rich substrate of a residency of Tom and his Heartbreakers at the mythical Fillmore in San Francisco in 1997, tells us very strongly what is missing. Basically: a look, guitars, a sharing. Tom Petty was an admirer, a facilitator, before being a rockstar. You have to hear him here NOT singing all the time when he invites Roger McGuinn to celebrate the Byrds four great versions during. Petty was a happy participant, more than a headliner, only too happy to share his stage with his mentors and idols. More discreet than a Springsteen, he knew how to stroll smilingly through the history of rock, taking sometimes astonishing paths: who else could have rubbed the Goldfinger jamesbondian on his own American Girl, support John Lee Hooker at the bluest of his blues AND revisit the Stones — (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction, nothing less ? Let’s take advantage of our luck: it happened, it was recorded, it is available in the present. For all time.
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