SEPTEMBER 29, 2000 Through The Years - Looks like you can Pre-Order Through The Years at the Tower Records site for $26.99. Here's the link: Tower Records (Click Here!). They have a release date of 10/31 listed. No track listing... damn damn damn! Cameron Crowe ("Almost Famous") will be writing the liner notes for the album. Here's a link to the first article Crowe wrote on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers from October 19, 1978 (Day before Tom's 28th Birthday!) I wonder if Tom is still "pissed off"! Click Here!

Through The Years - LA times Sunday, September 24 - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers have recently recorded a new version of "Surrender," a part of the band's late-'70s concert repertoire that was never released, for inclusion on "Through the Years," a two-CD anthology of the band's material. Also included will be the 1988 song "Waiting for the Night," featuring background vocals by the Bangles and previously available only on the 1995 six-CD box set, "Playback." "Almost Famous" director Cameron Crowe wrote the liner notes for the new collection.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2000

Bush Forced To Quit Using TP Song - Rolling Stone (Click Here!) reports that TP makes George Bush back down. Petty's publisher sends cease-and-desist letter on Petty's behalf.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2000

The Rest Of The World Finds Out - Billboard Article (Click Here!) on Bridge School Benefit SEPTEMBER 16, 2000

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers To Play Bridge School Concert - Attention all you TP&HB fans! Great News! Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers will be one of the headlining acts for this year's 14th Annual Bridge School Benefit Concert. In the past, Tom appeared once solo (in 1986 with Benmont joining him for two songs) and the whole band has appeared at three additional Bridge School Concerts (1988, 1989 and 1994). The last one they performed at in 1994 was Stan Lynch's last appearance with the band. This year's concert will be held on October 28th and 29th at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mt. View, California. Other performers scheduled to appear include Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dave Matthews Band, the Foo Fighters, Beck and Tegan and Sara. Tickets ($48.00 for reserved seats and $38.00 for lawn seating, plus any service charges) will go on sale September 24th and are available through local Ticketmaster outlets or at the Shoreline Amphitheatre box office. Tickets may also be bought online at www.sfx.com or www.ticketmaster.com. (Be sure to check ahead of time to make sure the tickets will actually be available from these online sites....sometimes scheduled sales change.) Tickets will NOT be available through this website (www.tompetty.com). We've been having some difficulty with the "News" section of the tompetty.com website, but very soon it should be fixed and I will include any more details I find out about the concert there.
Peace,
Cathy

From News@Tompetty.com - There will be a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers release this fall! The 34 song anthology covers TPHBs' MCA years. There is also a new studio version of "Surrender", a song Tom wrote in 1977 and is releasing now.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2000

Tom Petty on new Johnny Cash album - Cash's new album, American III: Solitary Man, consists of his first recordings since being diagnosed with Shy-Drager Syndrome in 1997. The Rick Rubin-produced album, which will be released on American Records, includes covers of U2's "One," Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down," David Allan Coe's "Would You Lay with Me (In a Field of Stone)," and Neil Diamond's "Solitary Man." Mike Campbell is also featured on "Field Of Diamonds" while Benmont Tench plays on "I See A Darkness."

Here is the track listing for American III: Solitary Man:

1. "I Won't Back Down" (featuring Tom Petty)
2. "Solitary Man" (with Tom Petty)
3. "That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)"
4. "One"
5. "Nobody"
6. "I See a Darkness"
7. "The Mercy Seat"
8. "Would You Lay with Me (In A Field of Stone)"
9. "Field of Diamonds" (featuring Sheryl Crow and June Carter Cash)
10. "Before My Time"
11. "Country Trash"
12. "Mary of the Wild Moor" (with Crow)
13. "I'm Leavin' Now" (featuring Merle Haggard)
14. "Wayfaring Stranger" (with Crow)

SEPTEMBER 14, 2000

New to site - Finished adding the rest of the newsletters, added Home Video information. I also fixed the last picture that was coming out in B&W. I think it looks better now.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2000

Newsletter - I figured many of the new fans never had the chance to see the Newsletters that were sent out to fan club members in '95 - '97. So, until someone yells at me to take them down, you can check out the first two at this page (click here). I'll be scanning the remaining 3 issues over the next few days. Eventually, I'll have a link on the navigation bar. Let me know what you think!

New Pictures Added - Click Here!

SEPTEMBER 11, 2000

New Album(s)??? - According to Billboard Online (click here), MCA/Universal records will be releasing two albums by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. Both releases are listed under "Vault Pop & Rock". The first is scheduled for October 10, 2000 and is called "Anthology". The second is scheduled for October 17, 2000 and is called "Tom Petty". Both releases are just in time for TP's birthday (or for Holiday sales for MCA/UNI depending on how you look at it)!!! I'm guessing that "Anthology" will be a "best of" type set from the Universal/MCA years. The second one, "Tom Petty", to me suggests unreleased solo stuff from the "Full Moon Fever" sessions, but I could be WAY off. I'll post more info when I find out specifics.

Added Video Stuff - Click Here!

SEPTEMBER 7, 2000

Happy Birthday

to one of the most sought after studio musicians in the world, a piano player's piano player and, oh yeah, a Heartbreaker...

Mr. Benmont Tench