>>>>Montreal's "The Box", e.g.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a-nG4QLdFs&NR=1>>>>
>>>>With Canadian content rules they got a lot of play up here - probably bring back a lot of memories for most Canucks < g >
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>>>Speaking of blasts from the past. Guess who is coming to the Air Canada Centre in June;
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>>>Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
>>>with special guest Steve Winwood
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>>>Of course this will be the re-formed Heartbreakers, but I'm pretty sure Steve Winwood is the old Steve Winwood.
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>>I thought Tom Petty was touring with the band that predated the Heartbreakers? The label signed him but only some of the band members.
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>I'm not really sure. I do know The Heartbreakers was big back in the 70s and early 80s. Then came the Wilburys, then he went solo and then he rejoined The Heartbreakers. It might be all the same people, but I'm not really sure. I just checked. Some of the band members are the same, some are not. The band seems to have rotated some players in and out over the years.
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>>I would quibble with the characterization of Petty, and to a lesser extent Winwood, as a blast from the past. He has been here all along, releasing new material regularly. Contrast this to, say, the Rolling Stones, who haven't done much new in 25 years.
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>I think the thing is that since I stopped listening to rock, and gave over almost entirely to jazz, just about every rock band I remember is now a 'blast from the past' to me.
That's undoubtedly part of it.
The Traveling Wilburys were just a diversion for Petty and the others who got together for it. He didn't leave his own band to join it or rejoin them afterwards. TP and the Heartbreakers have been together continuously since the mid to late 1970s.
