The crowds are still there, something Petty is clearly proud of when we sit down in a hotel room on an off day. To be honest, he looks more jittery offstage than on. The band now travels like pashas: playing shows in weeklong bursts, flying privately to the gig and then returning every night to a hub city like Denver.
Backstage is no longer the den of iniquity it used to be, no longer full of starlets, hangers-on and good drugs. Petty says sleep is now his friend. Someone suggests Bloodline, a noirish series set in his native Florida. Petty is defiant about the hyper pace of the tour, which hits 30 cities this spring and summer.
What keeps the Heartbreakers together is simple: The band has been their life since How close are they? Multi-instrumentalist Scott Thurston recently sold his house to Campbell. Petty would be in the front room, and the bedroom would be dark except for the pilot light from a Fender amp. His nickname is Mad Dog. When Tench used to go on one of his tirades, a roadie would slide a dog bowl of water under his piano.
He opened a bikini shop in the Valley and was replaced by Howie Epstein, but the band loomed in his subconscious. This proved fortuitous when Epstein died of heroin-related complications in You can argue that Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are the most successful and longest-running American rock band in history, the Beach Boys be damned.
The other game-changer was Bob Dylan. By , the band had toured relentlessly for a decade. T-Mobile Park. Fenway Park. Ruoff Music Center. Kansas City. T-Mobile Center. Scotiabank Arena. New York. Madison Square Garden. Value City Arena at Schottenstein Center. American Airlines Center. Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. TBA News. Events in Your Area.
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