>>>>>>>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.
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>>>That's undoubtedly part of it.
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>>>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.
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>>Not really. Continually, not continuously. There were breaks. The Heartbreakers went on without a break, but Tom Petty joined, left, joined left, joined (I think that's the right number of joineds and lefts).
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>Wikipedia describes it in those terms but I don't agree with them. For one thing it's silly to make a distinction between Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and a Tom Petty solo career. They are both Tom Petty with a band behind him, mostly the same guys. I also disagree about the Traveling Wilburys being a band one would join and leave. It was a once-off (or maybe twice-off) collaboration between a bunch of superstars. Nobody would say Bob Dylan, George Harrison or Roy Orbison made career changes to "join" the group. It was just a fling and never intended to be more than that. (Similar to the less well known but vastly superior Little Village, who did an album and tour in the early 90s).
Sure, but if The Heartbreakers were performing without Petty, then for a time (a couple of times), he was not part of the group. If you find a playbill for one of their concerts from that time, you won't find his name on it no matter how hard you look. It won't even say, "With Tom Petty, only he's on sabbatical."
