In the liner notes to PLAYBACK, Tom observes that those who know the Heartbreakers only from their hit singles might not be familiar with the range of styles they have covered, from the Beach Boys influences of tracks like "You Can Still Change Your Mind" to the Nirvana-inspired hard rock of "Come On Down To My House" to various side trips into country, blues, psychedelic and surf music. Not many artists release boxed set retrospectives while still at the top of their public careers (the currently charted WILDFLOWERS and GREATEST HITS are triple and quadruple platinum, respectively), but not many artists can match Tom Petty's record of 20 years of commercial success along with an equal period of creative growth and critical acclaim. Tom, on September 7, also won an MTV "Best Male Video" Video Music Award for "You Don't Know How It Feels" from WILDFLOWERS, marking his second consecutive win in this category (last year, he won for "Mary Jane's Last Dance").
#HOW DID THEY MAKE PETE DROGE SERIES#
When MTV gave Tom Petty a special Video Vanguard award in 1994, it was a very public acknowledgment of the imagination and hard work that has gone into a series of videos that have pushed the limits of a medium struggling to grow from a promotional tool to a genuine art form. It contains 17 videos by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, from "Refugee" and "Here Comes My Girl" in 1979 (both created before there was MTV or any regular outlet for them) to the award-winning favorites "Don't Come Around Here No More," "Free Fallin'," "Into the Great Wide Open" (with Faye Dunaway and Johnny Depp) and "Mary Jane's Last Dance" (with Kim Basinger). In tandem with the release of PLAYBACK will be a long-form home video of the same name. Each of the six CDs has its own title: THE BIG JANGLE (covering from "Breakdown" to "You Can Still Change Your Mind"), SPOILED AND MISTREATED ("You Got Lucky" to "A Self-Made Man"), GOOD BOOTY ("Free Fallin'" to "Christmas All Over Again"), THE OTHER SIDES (the B-sides), THROUGH THE CRACKS (unreleased material) and NOBODY'S CHILDREN (also unreleased material). The whole thing is housed in a 6x12-inch box. Interestingly, the CDs are packaged in an unconventional manner: each disc comes in its own cardboard mini-jacket, which folds open the way gatefold LP jackets used to, including a small inner sleeve to protect each CD. The PLAYBACK box also contains a laminated backstage pass from the group's 1989 "Strange Behavior" tour and a poster of the band in the recording studio. It is a remarkably informative and revealing look at Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, even for those who've closely followed the band. Tom and the Heartbreakers' comments throughout are startlingly candid and honest - detailing disagreements between band members, the inside history of their various controversies and legal battles, and differing opinions about the merits of individual songs and albums.
#HOW DID THEY MAKE PETE DROGE PLUS#
Covering the years 1973-1993, the box consists of three CDs of LP cuts and hit singles two CDs of never-before-released material plus an entire CD's worth of non-LP B-sides.Īlso included in the package is an 84-page booklet featuring rare photos, track-by-track comments on each of the songs by Tom and the Heartbreakers, and an in-depth biography of the band by veteran rock journalist Bill Flanagan. Titled PLAYBACK, it is an expansive and lavishly packaged six-CD collection containing 92 songs by one of rock's most treasured artists.
concert tour to date on October 8 with a sold-out New Orleans show benefiting the National Veterans Foundation, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers will release a career retrospective boxed set on MCA November 21.
Having concluded their most successful U.S. MCA also to release companion Long-Form Home Video, "Playback," featuring 17 videos from 1979-1993. 21, the six-CD, 92-song collection on MCA features two CD's worth of never-before-released material and one devoted to non-LP B-sides. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Get The Royal Box Treatment With "Playback"ĭue out Nov. The official TOM PETTY and the HEARTBREAKERS Fan Club Newsletter