Tom Petty & HBs live in Gainesville, FL 1983-02-10 (audio only)

Given the Petty Estate's celebrating of 'Long After Dark' and the documentary 'Heartbreakers Beach Party,' I thought I would go back to my collection and find a rare live performance to upload here and continue the celebration. And what better than finding a performance from the band's hometown!

Notable about this setlist is the cover of "An American Trilogy" in the encore, better known as "Dixie." From our retrospective vantage point, you can tell TP was thinking about the South and getting ready to write songs for what would become the 'Southern Accents' album. For more on TP's regret over using and thus renunciation of the confederate flag, see here: https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/...


SETLIST:
A One Story Town 00:23
Listen to Her Heart 05:23
A Thing About You 08:47
[TP talks 13:55]
You Got Lucky 14:45
I Need to Know 19:35
Don't Do Me Like That 22:12
Here Comes My Girl 25:30
Change of Heart 33:24
[TP talks 37:26]
The Waiting 38:15
My Girl Sloopy (Hang on Sloopy) (The Vibrations cover) 42:52
Straight Into Darkness 47:43
A Woman In Love (It's Not Me) 54:49
Kings Road 01:01:20
Breakdown 01:07:59
Refugee 01:17:26

Shout (cut briefly in middle) (The Isley Brothers cover) 01:24:07
[TP talks 01:35:10]
An American Trilogy (Mickey Newbury cover, popularized by Elvis) 01:36:04
American Girl 01:39:11


Photo credit: Paul Natkin. He took this photo at the Gainesville show! (https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/...)

Audio credit: unknown audience taper. I used Adobe Audition to remove the loud tape hiss, correct some whistles, and tone down some loud cheering.

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