Comments on: Is Tom Petty A Big Enough Draw For Super Bowl Audiences? http://idolator.com/350726/is-tom-petty-a-big-enough-draw-for-super-bowl-audiences Music News, Reviews, and Gossip on Idolator.com Sat, 26 May 2012 12:06:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Thierry http://idolator.com/350726/is-tom-petty-a-big-enough-draw-for-super-bowl-audiences/comment-page-1#comment-440882 Thierry Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:36:50 +0000 http://c9d568cd749af5f56b5a3ab17e7e0965#comment-440882 <p>@<a href="#c3972700">AcidReign</a>: If Jeff Lynne makes an appearance, you can bet Tom will sing "Handle with Care", which has become a staple of his set in recent years.</p> @AcidReign: If Jeff Lynne makes an appearance, you can bet Tom will sing “Handle with Care”, which has become a staple of his set in recent years.

]]> By: Thierry http://idolator.com/350726/is-tom-petty-a-big-enough-draw-for-super-bowl-audiences/comment-page-1#comment-440892 Thierry Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:34:27 +0000 http://c9d568cd749af5f56b5a3ab17e7e0965#comment-440892 <p>@<a href="#c3970551">plasticaisle</a>: I watched that documentary as well, and I think it makes a fantastic case for Tom & the Heartbreakers (let's not forget those guys, who make up perhaps the finest, most versatile backing unit since the Hawks and Booker T and the MGs) being the last great American rock'n'roll band.</p> @plasticaisle: I watched that documentary as well, and I think it makes a fantastic case for Tom & the Heartbreakers (let’s not forget those guys, who make up perhaps the finest, most versatile backing unit since the Hawks and Booker T and the MGs) being the last great American rock’n'roll band.

]]> By: AcidReign http://idolator.com/350726/is-tom-petty-a-big-enough-draw-for-super-bowl-audiences/comment-page-1#comment-440902 AcidReign Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:26:56 +0000 http://c9d568cd749af5f56b5a3ab17e7e0965#comment-440902 <p><br><br>     More likely, a guest appearance on Petty's stage by Jeff Lynne. I could go for a Petty/Lynne redux of "Hold on Tight." It's been on commercials enough, this year. Better would be "Mr. Blue Sky." The best would be a real oldie, like "Poker," "Dreaming of 4000," or "Fire on High." I'll hold my breath...</p>     More likely, a guest appearance on Petty’s stage by Jeff Lynne. I could go for a Petty/Lynne redux of “Hold on Tight.” It’s been on commercials enough, this year. Better would be “Mr. Blue Sky.” The best would be a real oldie, like “Poker,” “Dreaming of 4000,” or “Fire on High.” I’ll hold my breath…

]]> By: Evgeni Merkin http://idolator.com/350726/is-tom-petty-a-big-enough-draw-for-super-bowl-audiences/comment-page-1#comment-440872 Evgeni Merkin Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:21:21 +0000 http://c9d568cd749af5f56b5a3ab17e7e0965#comment-440872 <P>@<A href="http://idolator.com/350726/is-tom-petty-a-big-enough-draw-for-super-bowl-audiences#c3964515">iantenna</A>: <BR>You're jammin' me. Quit Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaammin' me.</P> @iantenna:
You’re jammin’ me. Quit Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaammin’ me.

]]> By: plasticaisle http://idolator.com/350726/is-tom-petty-a-big-enough-draw-for-super-bowl-audiences/comment-page-1#comment-440912 plasticaisle Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:26:06 +0000 http://c9d568cd749af5f56b5a3ab17e7e0965#comment-440912 <p>I got major flack for watching the entire 4 hour Sundance doc about Tom Petty. But I can't help it...the man's been churning out great songs for years. And he seems like a really normal, down to Earth kinda guy. Perfect for the football crowd, IMO.</p> I got major flack for watching the entire 4 hour Sundance doc about Tom Petty. But I can’t help it…the man’s been churning out great songs for years. And he seems like a really normal, down to Earth kinda guy. Perfect for the football crowd, IMO.

]]> By: disinterested 3rd party http://idolator.com/350726/is-tom-petty-a-big-enough-draw-for-super-bowl-audiences/comment-page-1#comment-440922 disinterested 3rd party Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:10:59 +0000 http://c9d568cd749af5f56b5a3ab17e7e0965#comment-440922 <p>@<a href="#c3967596">Lucas Jensen</a>: I'm not a huge fan, but I think American Girl is one of the great American rock singles. It's sort of the southern "Born to Run". The production is also really great.</p> @Lucas Jensen: I’m not a huge fan, but I think American Girl is one of the great American rock singles. It’s sort of the southern “Born to Run”. The production is also really great.

]]> By: Lucas Jensen http://idolator.com/350726/is-tom-petty-a-big-enough-draw-for-super-bowl-audiences/comment-page-1#comment-440932 Lucas Jensen Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:30:29 +0000 http://c9d568cd749af5f56b5a3ab17e7e0965#comment-440932 <p>Yeah, come on...Foghat? At least nobody I hang around doesn't like Tom Petty. Them's fighting words in Athens, GA, thank God.</p> <p>@<a href="#c3963172">extracrispy</a>: dissing football and Tom Petty in the same breath? I almost had a heart attack.</p> Yeah, come on…Foghat? At least nobody I hang around doesn’t like Tom Petty. Them’s fighting words in Athens, GA, thank God.

@extracrispy: dissing football and Tom Petty in the same breath? I almost had a heart attack.

]]> By: Artie Fufkin http://idolator.com/350726/is-tom-petty-a-big-enough-draw-for-super-bowl-audiences/comment-page-1#comment-440942 Artie Fufkin Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:35:50 +0000 http://c9d568cd749af5f56b5a3ab17e7e0965#comment-440942 <p>As the resident Tom Petty expert (see name/pic), I'll guess the setlist that will have people talking til the next act pulls out a tit.</p> <p>Running Down a Dream<br> The Waiting<br> I Won't Back Down<br> American Girl</p> As the resident Tom Petty expert (see name/pic), I’ll guess the setlist that will have people talking til the next act pulls out a tit.

Running Down a Dream
The Waiting
I Won’t Back Down
American Girl

]]> By: Chris Molanphy http://idolator.com/350726/is-tom-petty-a-big-enough-draw-for-super-bowl-audiences/comment-page-1#comment-440952 Chris Molanphy Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:12:38 +0000 http://c9d568cd749af5f56b5a3ab17e7e0965#comment-440952 <p>@<a href="#c3965520">Figgsrock</a>: Oh yeah -- duh! on me. Good call on "I Won't Back Down." That's a gimme.</p> @Figgsrock: Oh yeah — duh! on me. Good call on “I Won’t Back Down.” That’s a gimme.

]]> By: Chris Molanphy http://idolator.com/350726/is-tom-petty-a-big-enough-draw-for-super-bowl-audiences/comment-page-1#comment-440962 Chris Molanphy Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:11:49 +0000 http://c9d568cd749af5f56b5a3ab17e7e0965#comment-440962 <p>First off, word to <a href="#c3964515">iantenna</a>. You're allowed to be grumpy about Petty (coughMatoscough), but you're not allowed to lump him in with Foghat.</p> <p>As for <a href="#c3964127">capn-pajamabottoms</a> et al, I'll take the other side of the Stevie bet. "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" is a great, <i>great</i> song in the Petty canon, but it's also hella bluesy/slow for a Superbowl halftime show. Trust me, we're gonna hear three, four songs tops, and they will all be barnburners: "American Girl," "Don't Do Me Like That," "The Waiting," and if he plays anything at a slow-to-medium tempo, "Free Fallin'." I don't see how you fit in a song about recrimination and heartbreak into a mini-set like that.</p> First off, word to iantenna. You’re allowed to be grumpy about Petty (coughMatoscough), but you’re not allowed to lump him in with Foghat.

As for capn-pajamabottoms et al, I’ll take the other side of the Stevie bet. “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” is a great, great song in the Petty canon, but it’s also hella bluesy/slow for a Superbowl halftime show. Trust me, we’re gonna hear three, four songs tops, and they will all be barnburners: “American Girl,” “Don’t Do Me Like That,” “The Waiting,” and if he plays anything at a slow-to-medium tempo, “Free Fallin’.” I don’t see how you fit in a song about recrimination and heartbreak into a mini-set like that.

]]> By: Figgsrock http://idolator.com/350726/is-tom-petty-a-big-enough-draw-for-super-bowl-audiences/comment-page-1#comment-440972 Figgsrock Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:58:21 +0000 http://c9d568cd749af5f56b5a3ab17e7e0965#comment-440972 <P>The NFL will get exactly want it wants with Petty--a set of safe well-known songs (I'm sure "You Don't Know How It Feels" or "Mary Jane's last Dance" <I>won't</I> make the cut) that won't drive people away.</P> <P>That being said, TP& the HB's have never done a bad show in the 20 plus years I've been seening them. Mike Campbell's guitar work is worth the price of admission alone.</P> <P>My set prediction:</P> <P>"American Girl"<BR>"I Won't Back Down"<BR>"Refugee"<BR>"Runnin' Down a Dream"</P> The NFL will get exactly want it wants with Petty–a set of safe well-known songs (I’m sure “You Don’t Know How It Feels” or “Mary Jane’s last Dance” won’t make the cut) that won’t drive people away.

That being said, TP& the HB’s have never done a bad show in the 20 plus years I’ve been seening them. Mike Campbell’s guitar work is worth the price of admission alone.

My set prediction:

“American Girl”
“I Won’t Back Down”
“Refugee”
“Runnin’ Down a Dream”

]]> By: extracrispy http://idolator.com/350726/is-tom-petty-a-big-enough-draw-for-super-bowl-audiences/comment-page-1#comment-440982 extracrispy Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:52:29 +0000 http://c9d568cd749af5f56b5a3ab17e7e0965#comment-440982 <p>I hadn't thought of the Stevie Nicks possibility. It just got interesting.</p> I hadn’t thought of the Stevie Nicks possibility. It just got interesting.

]]> By: Jasonbob7 http://idolator.com/350726/is-tom-petty-a-big-enough-draw-for-super-bowl-audiences/comment-page-1#comment-440992 Jasonbob7 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:46:16 +0000 http://c9d568cd749af5f56b5a3ab17e7e0965#comment-440992 <p>@<a href="#c3964515">iantenna</a>: I second that. No cheap shots at Petty please...he's had the career every rock star dreams of. Huge hits with his band, huge hits as a solo artist, major success on MTV, and for pete's sake, he was in a band with GEORGE HARRISON AND BOB DYLAN. Homeboy deserves his Super Bowl halftime moment. And I agree - the demographic fits just right.</p> <p>Although I can't help but chuckle at this Onion article:<br> <a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/tom_petty_to_play_some_new">[www.theonion.com]</a></p> @iantenna: I second that. No cheap shots at Petty please…he’s had the career every rock star dreams of. Huge hits with his band, huge hits as a solo artist, major success on MTV, and for pete’s sake, he was in a band with GEORGE HARRISON AND BOB DYLAN. Homeboy deserves his Super Bowl halftime moment. And I agree – the demographic fits just right.

Although I can’t help but chuckle at this Onion article:
[www.theonion.com]

]]> By: Mike P. http://idolator.com/350726/is-tom-petty-a-big-enough-draw-for-super-bowl-audiences/comment-page-1#comment-441002 Mike P. Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:45:45 +0000 http://c9d568cd749af5f56b5a3ab17e7e0965#comment-441002 <p>@<a href="#c3963267">ghostofduane</a>: Petty's lead guitarist, Mike Campbell, was indeed a Brian May doppleganger for most of the '80s and early '90s. Though their styles of playing are pretty different.</p> @ghostofduane: Petty’s lead guitarist, Mike Campbell, was indeed a Brian May doppleganger for most of the ’80s and early ’90s. Though their styles of playing are pretty different.

]]> By: iantenna http://idolator.com/350726/is-tom-petty-a-big-enough-draw-for-super-bowl-audiences/comment-page-1#comment-441012 iantenna Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:20:15 +0000 http://c9d568cd749af5f56b5a3ab17e7e0965#comment-441012 <P>@<A href="http://idolator.com/350726/is-tom-petty-a-big-enough-draw-for-super-bowl-audiences#c3964167">Schluby</A>: oh, come the fuck on. you can not even begin to put foghat on a level remotely approaching tom petty. just because music started for you at <I>slanted and enchanted</I> and the only thing you know about before then is thanks to those sweet soul jazz comps doesn't mean that the rest of it is all equal.<BR>/gets off soapbox</P> @Schluby: oh, come the fuck on. you can not even begin to put foghat on a level remotely approaching tom petty. just because music started for you at slanted and enchanted and the only thing you know about before then is thanks to those sweet soul jazz comps doesn’t mean that the rest of it is all equal.
/gets off soapbox

]]> By: Evgeni Merkin http://idolator.com/350726/is-tom-petty-a-big-enough-draw-for-super-bowl-audiences/comment-page-1#comment-441022 Evgeni Merkin Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:08:07 +0000 http://c9d568cd749af5f56b5a3ab17e7e0965#comment-441022 <P>Tom Petty...What? Was Foghat booked that evening?</P> Tom Petty…What? Was Foghat booked that evening?

]]> By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/350726/is-tom-petty-a-big-enough-draw-for-super-bowl-audiences/comment-page-1#comment-441032 Anonymous Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:06:28 +0000 http://c9d568cd749af5f56b5a3ab17e7e0965#comment-441032 <p>One million dollars says Stevie Nicks will show.</p> One million dollars says Stevie Nicks will show.

]]> By: Jupiter8 http://idolator.com/350726/is-tom-petty-a-big-enough-draw-for-super-bowl-audiences/comment-page-1#comment-441042 Jupiter8 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:06:23 +0000 http://c9d568cd749af5f56b5a3ab17e7e0965#comment-441042 <p>Can't wait for Superbowl LXXII when they have the Foo Fighters!</p> Can’t wait for Superbowl LXXII when they have the Foo Fighters!

]]> By: iantenna http://idolator.com/350726/is-tom-petty-a-big-enough-draw-for-super-bowl-audiences/comment-page-1#comment-441052 iantenna Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:04:33 +0000 http://c9d568cd749af5f56b5a3ab17e7e0965#comment-441052 <P>@<A href="http://idolator.com/350726/is-tom-petty-a-big-enough-draw-for-super-bowl-audiences#c3962569">Lucas Jensen</A>: i'll second that shit. but i'll take stevie nicks over axl as far as guest appearances are concerned. he's brought her out every time i've seen him (or rather heard, as when you sit on the hillside behind the greek in berkeley you don't actually see anything, but shit is free) to do that dope duet from hard promises. i love me some prince, but i love love love me some tom petty. if it weren't for american girl the strokes wouldn't exist.</P> @Lucas Jensen: i’ll second that shit. but i’ll take stevie nicks over axl as far as guest appearances are concerned. he’s brought her out every time i’ve seen him (or rather heard, as when you sit on the hillside behind the greek in berkeley you don’t actually see anything, but shit is free) to do that dope duet from hard promises. i love me some prince, but i love love love me some tom petty. if it weren’t for american girl the strokes wouldn’t exist.

]]> By: GhostOfDuane http://idolator.com/350726/is-tom-petty-a-big-enough-draw-for-super-bowl-audiences/comment-page-1#comment-441062 GhostOfDuane Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:36:29 +0000 http://c9d568cd749af5f56b5a3ab17e7e0965#comment-441062 <p>Kinda looks like Brian May on guitar (the Rickenbacker) as well. But yeah, Petty is not that great and he's definitely not cool, but his band is real tight and Breakdown is a good song.</p> Kinda looks like Brian May on guitar (the Rickenbacker) as well. But yeah, Petty is not that great and he’s definitely not cool, but his band is real tight and Breakdown is a good song.

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