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Date Performance 1993-11-04
Running Time 3:30
Performers Tom Petty (Vocal), Tom Petty (Guitar), Mike/Michael Campbell (Mandolin), Ben(mont) (M.) Tench(, III) (Piano), Howie Epstein (Bass Guitar), Howie Epstein (Background Vocal), Stan Lynch (Percussion), Tom Petty (Produced By), Mike/Michael Campbell (Produced By), Richard Dodd (Engineered By), Richard Dodd (Mixed By), Mark Lin(n)et(t)(e) (Mixed By)
Comments(Live) Recorded at: The O'Connell Center, University of Florida, Gainesvile. Mobile Recording by: Westwood One. Mixed at: Sixteenth Avenue Sound, Nashville, TN (MCA Records) Other Side: (1993) Germany-Something In The Air This acoustic version of the Great Wide Open track was issued as the B-side of "Something in the Air" in Germany. "I really think it's better acoustically than the way we did it on the album," Petty says. "You can hear the song a little better. We rocked it up, and it didn't need to be rocked up." Completely transformed, the song now feels like Petty's "Thunder Road," a hymn to hope in the face of adversity. Listening to the defiant optimism in "King's Highway" it feels as if the promise of a reward for sticking out the sacrifices is the thread that runs though all this music, and the theme that ties so much of Tom Petty's work together. The ten-year-old kid took Elvis' advice; he followed that dream.
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Playback (1995)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

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2008-08-18