TP Hits The East Coast!!! - Mini tour my ASS!!! More dates trickle in. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers will play July 1, 2001 in Holmdel, NJ at The PNC Bank Arts Center. Tickets go on sale April 28 at 9:00AM. Tickets cost:
$ 54.25 Reserved, $ 32.75 Lawn.

Mini-Bus Tour 2001 - Welcome to "rumor central"!!!! I just heard that the Mini-Bus Tour will be extended through July!! Dates in the Mid-West are currently being scheduled. Chicago and Indianapolis are on the list. No specifics YET! So, don't ask! haha I'll post updates AS I get them! By the way, THIS IS NOT A JOKE!

Survey - Brigitte, a fan like you and me from the Netherlands, studies journalism and has reached her final exams. She is asking you to help her with her final project. Brigitte is doing research on how much Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers can benefit from their online fans. Please ANSWER her questions and please be as honest and accurate as possible. It might help to make the Tom Petty Online Community a better place.

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Here Comes My Girl - Well, I like to laugh at myself alot. Keeps you grounded. The Heartbreakers need an opening act once The Wallflowers leave the tour. Here's my audition tape! This is a first take, complete with dogs barking (my dog Rickenbacker in particular) and many mistakes. It was never intended to be an exact copy of the song. If you want to download it, click on the link below. It's a 2 meg Windows Media file.

Sean's rendition of:
"Here Comes My Girl" (Click here)
"The Wild One, Forever" (Click here) NEW

It sounds better the more you drink!

Oh yeah, in other TP news, Tom will be presenting Stevie Nicks with an award at the Blockbuster Entertainment awards tomorrow night.

News (New) To Me! - Look what I found! Howie played in a band from Milwaukee called The Craze in 1976-1977. As I was surfing the net I came across some old pictures. I found five pictures of the band from that era. I thought you would enjoy them. I've never seen them, have you? From left to right: Scott Krueger, Breck Burns, Howie Epstein, and Jim Richardson.

Click here for the rest...

Tom Petty Is NOT Dead! - If you received the Artist Direct email with the news heading "Petty - Fight Over Death", this is what they were referring too. If you haven't seen the "Tom Petty Is Dead" site, don't freak out. It was all done as a JOKE!!! READ this:

In the fall of 1996, Bruce Ketcham and Jesse Lavery were sitting in their dorm room discussing the Beatles. They had just been "surfing the net" and found a site about the theory that Paul McCartney is dead. They both thought that it was hilarious. Not only did they find it hilarious, they actually were quite impressed at the use of lyrics and album covers to prove that Paul was deceased. Bruce thought that the same sort of logic and bastardization of facts could be used to prove that anyone was dead. Being a big Tom Petty fan, he suggested that Tom Petty was dead. The two erupted in laughter. Jesse wet himself. From there the whole theory snowballed into what you see now. So, although Jesse did the work in compiling the lyrics and writing the comments, none of it would have been possible without that first bit of inspired insanity from Bruce.

Here's the story from muchmusic.com:

Tom Petty is not dead and his fans won't back down until they prove it. A website has been set up called "Tom Petty Is Dead" (click here), which claims that the singer died in the late 70s and was replaced by an imposter. The site says that lyrics and album covers from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers also reveal hints of Petty's death. Fans who believe in their hero have launched their own site called "Tom Petty Is Not Dead" (click here). As for “Tom Petty”, he's getting set to tour the U.S. next month.

Speaking of the tour. More tickets go on sale today at 11AM Pacific Time. Come back and click on the banner ad on the gonegator.com main page.

Albuquerque Cancelled, 2nd Denver Show Added! - The May 16th Albuquerque show has been cancelled. A second show at Red Rocks has been added. The tickets will go on sale to the public Friday. The pre-sale tickets will start Thursday at 11 AM PT.

More Shows Added! - 20 more shows have been added to the "Mini-Bus Tour"!!! Some of these cities include New York City, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Charlotte, Atlanta and Miami. To top it off, the band will be doing 5 nights at The Fillmore in San Francisco! APRIL FOOLS!!!

But seriously, this Thursday, April 5th, tickets for Boise, Houston, Santa Barbara and Las Vegas will go on sale. Come back on Thursday and click on the ad below to get your password and buy tickets.