October 30, 2000 Last Night's Set - I didn't miss the show this time, thought it was great! Here's the setlist for anyone who missed it. Same set as Saturday night minus the Johnny Cash tune. Click here for the San Jose Mercury News review! 1. Baby Please Don't Go (Muddy Waters song) 2. Face In The Crowd 3. Mary Jane's Last Dance 4. Little Red Rooster (Howlin' Wolf song) 5. Hard To Find A Friend 6. I Won't Back Down 7. Breakdown

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October 29, 2000 Tentative Schedule - For today's Bridge School Concert (Pacific Time): 2:00 - Pegi opens the show & Neil does his opening song(s) ~2:15 - Tegan & Sara ~2:45 - Foo Fighters ~3:30 - Beck ~4:30 - Red Hot Chili Peppers ~5:30 - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers ~6:30 - Dave Mathews Band ~7:30 - Neil, Friends & Relatives ~8:30 - Crosby Stills Nash & Young

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October 28, 2000 Tentative Schedule - For today's Bridge School Concert (Pacific Time): 5:00 - Pegi opens the show & Neil does his opening songs ~5:20 - Tegan & Sara ~6:00 - Foo Fighters ~6:45 - Beck ~7:30 - Neil solo set ~8:15 - Red Hot Chili Peppers ~9:00 - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers ~10:00 - Dave Mathews Band ~11:00 - Crosby Stills Nash & Young

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October 26, 2000 Bridge School Benefit Webcast - Intel will be providing the webcast for the Bridge Scool Benefit Concert on October 28 at 5 pm PST and October 29 at 2 pm PST. Closed Captioning will be available for the hearing impaired. Click here to watch!!!

Heartbreaker History Bridge I - October 13, 1986 - Tom performed solo (Benmont joined on two songs). Bridge II - December 4, 1988 - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers set included The Waiting, Refugee, Don't Come Around Here No More and Blue Moon Of Kentucky. Bridge III - October 28, 1989 - Tom joined Neil Young and Sammy Hagar on a inspirational version of Bob Dylan's "Everything Is Broken". The Heartbreakers set included Even The Losers, Free Falling, I Won't Back Down and Thunderclap Newman's Something In The Air. Bridge VIII - October 1 & 2, 1994 - The Heartbreakers set on the 1st was considered to be the best of the day! Ever the showman, Petty commanded the focus of attention, superbly supported, but never upstaged, by his formidable band, the Heartbreakers. He had a casual, playful air about him, one that gave the impression of a man playing music in his own living room. This was particularly evident when he treated the audience to a new song about being in love with a girl on LSD. (He joked that it would have to be the B side to his next single because it couldn't be played on the radio.) What followed was a rocking half hour of mostly familiar songs that culminated in Free Falling, to the delight of the singalong crowd. October 2nd was Stan Lynch's last performance as a Heartbreaker.

October 24, 2000 Surrender Available At MP3.COM - Hear Surrender before it is officially released! Click here to hear this track before its official release date at MP3.com and get a free Tom Petty T-shirt with the purchase of this new CD. I'm so glad the band did not deviate from the original version of the song. You know how some bands do "remakes" of songs and they just SUCK!?!? Well, they didn't do that... Click here to listen. News story from SonicNet click here.

October 22, 2000 UH OH!!! - I got in trouble. I got an email today from Steven Tackeff of www.tourphotos.com. Well, here's the email:

you sure do have a nice site however I dont recall allowing you to put my pics on your page??? A link would have worked well... I hope you remove them from your page without me having to ask again. thanks steven tackeff So, if you want to see the pictures from the Tweeter Center from July 9, 1999, please visit Steven's site! THANKS!!!

October 21, 2000 Tom Petty Remembers John Lennon - (From RS 853) - I was in Cherokee Recording Studios in Hollywood when I Heard. I was working with [producer] Jimmy Iovine, who knew John and had worked with him quite a bit. Someone called the studio from New York and said that John had been shot. We thought it was a gag, and we kept working. Then someone called and said, "John's dead." It just stopped the session. I went home, and on the way I could see people sitting in their cars at traffic lights just crying. It was a hard thing to believe. I still have trouble believing it. John Lennon meant everything. His influence was immeasurable in those times, when I started to play, in the mid-Sixties. He was probably one of the two or three great rock singers ever, and what can you really say about his songwriting? He was just . . . trancendental. And his rhythm-guitar playing - I really studied it quite a bit. If you ever want to see some great rhythm guitar, check out in A Hard Days Night when they do "And I Love Her." He could really just make a band just kind of surge and jump. To me, Lennon's legacy is honesty. When I was young and seeing the Beatles performing on TV, they were the first ones who weren't just saying pat, showbiz banter. They'd actually say something. He was a great role model for my whole generation, because you knew when John suffered and you knew when John was happy, but it all somehow come out OK.

October 20, 2000 Happy Birthday Tom Petty!!! - Thanks for the tunes!!!

October 17, 2000 Radio Festival 2000 - (From KLOS) The Museum of Television and Radio (click to see site) hosts this week-long festival, which celebrates the powerful presence of radio through seminars, live broadcasts, radio dramas, and family events.

Jim Ladd will be broadcasting live from the Museum on Monday, October 30 from 10:00 pm to 12:00 midnight, with special guest Tom Petty. The broadcast is open to the public. For more information about this Radio Festival, its seminars and live broadcasts, please visit the Museum's website or call (310) 786-1000. As I mentioned earlier in the month, through the MAGIC of the Internet, you can listen from anywhere by clicking here!!!

October 16, 2000 Follow That Dream - I, as probably all of you, read on the tompetty.com site that there was going to be a display of Tom Petty memorobilia in a Florida museum. I was hoping the museum's site would have more pictures of the displays, but NOOOOO! It did however have a little more information. Click here or on the graphic on the right to see the Museum's web page.

October 10, 2000 Site Updates: Added larger version of Anthology cover art thanks to MSO. (Click album cover below) Added newsletter from 1978 thanks to Luna Moon. (See Newsletter page) Added Tour Dates page. I plan to have a tour history of sorts. Email me your ticket stub scans!!!

October 6, 2000 Anthology: Through The Years - This morning I received an email from MSO (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' publicists). It was the same exact text posted on the Official Tom Petty site. So, I didn't need to post it again here. However, I did find the album cover artwork. ENJOY! Billboard Online - Article posted today about the release on Billboard Online (Click Here!).

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October 5, 2000 Through The Years - Official News - This is Cathy's post from the BBS: Hi Everybody! Okay, finally here's the official news about the new Anthology from the band's years at MCA Records... DUE OUT OCTOBER 31 - TWO-CD 'TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS ANTHOLOGY: THROUGH THE YEARS' INCLUDES ALL THEIR HITS AND FAVORITES PLUS NEW TRACK "SURRENDER." The two-CD set features 34 favorites from 1976 to 1993 including "Surrender," an unrealeased Tom Petty-written concert favorite from 1977 that was just recorded in August 2000 specifically for this project. ("Surrender" is such an incredibly beautiful song.....I can't wait to hear this recording!) The package also contains a booklet with liner notes by Cameron Crowe. And whoa, wait until you see the front cover.....ladies, you will LOVE it..... :::::sigh::::: ANTHOLOGY track listing:

Disc #1 1. Breakdown 2. American Girl 3. Hometown Blues 4. The Wild One, Forever 5. I Need To Know 6. Listen To Her Heart 7. Too Much Ain't Enough 8. Refugee 9. Here Comes My Girl 10. Don't Do Me Like That 11. Even The Losers 12. The Waiting 13. A Woman In Love (It's Not Me) 14. Stop Draggin' My Heart Around (featuring Stevie Nicks) 15. You Got Lucky 16. Straight Into Darkness 17. Change Of Heart

Disc #2 1. Rebels 2. Don't Come Around Here No More 3. The Best Of Everything 4. So You Want To Be A Rock 'n' Roll Star (live) 5. Jammin' Me 6. It'll All Work Out 7. Love Is A Long Road 8. Free Fallin' 9. Yer So Bad 10. I Won't Back Down 11. Runnin' Down A Dream 12. Learning To Fly 13. Into The Great Wide Open 14. Two Gunslingers 15. Mary Jane's Last Dance 16. Waiting For Tonight 17. Surrender

I've been trying to get cover art from MCA for weeks. I've learned that the record will actually be released on the UTV Records imprint. UTV is building a site at www.utvrecords.com. UTV is a subsidiary label of MCA. Distributed by Universal.

October 4, 2000 I Need Your Help! - VH1 is taking votes on "Coolest Fan Site". Gone Gator may not compare to some of the other sites listed, but I think Gone Gator ranks among Tom Petty Fan sites. If you like the site, please go to this page (click here) and type in GoneGator.com - Tom Petty!!! THANKS!!!

Pre-Order Through The Years - You can pre-order Through The Years through almost every retailer on the net, but the cheapest price I've found so far is through TWEC.com (click here) for $21.88.

October 3, 2000 Jim Ladd - Ok, I live in Atlanta, and I didn't know who Jim Ladd was (actually, I still don't). But, rumor has it that Tom Petty will be appearing on his radio show in late October. Possibly promoting "Through The Years"? I will post info as I find it!!! If anybody who lives in LA hears specifics, PLEASE let me know! Here's what I've found out... Jim Ladd is a DJ at classic rock station KLOS (95.5) in LA. He's on between 10 PM and 2 AM Pacific time (WAY too late for me!). But, through the MAGIC of the Internet, you can listen from anywhere by clicking here. (KLOS PD, TP and Jim Ladd)

October 2, 2000 Stan Lynch - The latest Billboard magazine dated October 7, 2000 has an article on former Heartbreaker, Stan Lynch. Ex-Heartbreaker Now Songwriter. Read it first on Gone Gator! (Click Here)