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But he does have an ice voice and a handful of quality songs. Droge, lurched over his microphone in a beat-up old hat that made him look a little like a Sid Caesar character, doesn't have commanding stage presence. His folky, retro-pop is very much in the Petty style. Peter Droge, the guy who does that "If You Don't Love Me I'll Kill Myself" song, served up a tasty opening set.ĭroge is a perfect choice to open for Petty. Especially with his terrific reading of "American Girl" still ringing in your head. His set included just one song each from landmark albums like Damn the Torpedoes ("Refugee," an encore, was the record's sole representative) and Hard Promises ("King's Highway," but no "The Waiting" or "Woman in Love.") He did no songs at all from Long After Dark, Southern A cc ents or Let Me Up, I ' ve Had Enough.īut the material Petty did offer was all so powerful, it was difficult to miss even "You Got Lucky" all that much. Oddly, Petty also snubbed many of his most popular songs.
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An oversized figure of a winged dog was supposed to glide out over the audience during one long instrumental break. The one time he did indulge in some tomfoolery, it didn't work out so well. Petty even offered a shuffling, Cab Calloway-esque version of Muddy Waters' standard, "I Just Want to Make Love to You."įor the most part, Petty eschewed stage gimmickry. "Learning to Fly," a so-so electric studio track, seemed much more vibrant in this format. The set got off to a fine start with a twangy version of "King's Highway," complete with mandolin solo. Then Petty offered what would prove to be the highlight of the show: An eight-song acoustic set, including several songs from his rootsy new album, Wildflowers, and reworkings of some of his older material. The first third of the show was devoted to straight-laced recreations of some of Petty's classic hits - "Love is a Long Road," "Tell It to Her Heart," "I Won't Back Down," "Free Fallin'" - which matched the studio versions note for note, even down to their guitar solos.įans ate it up, greeting every tune with thunderous applause, chanting along to the choruses.īut the show didn't really begin to get into gear until Petty and his Heartbreakers ripped into an extended, guitar-soaked rendition of "Mary Jane's Last Dance." The show got off to a somewhat creaky start. At least twice during the course of the show, Petty seemed genuinely surprised by the warmth with which his show was received, as he was drowned out by applause when he attempted to address the crowd between songs.