Adria Petty recalss 'The Fillmore House Band' - 1997 (watch film Part 1 and 2)

By editorial board on October 20, 2023

Adria Petty Remembers Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers ‘Live at the Fillmore’: "The walls don’t talk in the Fillmore, they sing"

Tom Petty Bandmate and Producer Look Back at a Unique Concert Run That Makes ‘Live at the Fillmore’ One of Rock’s Best Live Albums.

It was a perfect storm that landed Tom Petty in the hallowed halls of the Fillmore and in the position to play his legendary month-long, 20-date sold-out residency with the Heartbreakers in 1997. (Americansongwriter)

“I just want to play and get away from the land of videos and records for a while,” Petty told the San Francisco Chronicle, laying out his plan before the shows. “We want to get back to what we understand. If we went out on an arena tour right now, I don’t think we’d be real inspired. We’re musicians and we want to play. We’ve made so many records in the past five years, I think the best thing for us to do is just go out and play and it will lead us to our next place, wherever that may be.”

Adria described the unique experience that the shows brought, not only for fans but for her father. “It was very spontaneous,” she says, “My dad was a taskmaster in terms of rehearsing the band and just really knowing how to get up and entertain people.” But at the Fillmore, he was more laid back, trying something different.

 

 

She explains of that moment in time, “He was going through a divorce, he was changing his life dramatically, he was changing his band dramatically, and I think he’d been through a lot giving birth to Wildflowers.

“I think he just took the pressure off of himself to play Tom Petty,” she continues. “And just allowed himself to be pretty close to home and be in one place and enjoy playing music and connect with his fans in a really deep and meaningful way. It was, for him, I think a really liberating time. He felt super happy … and at ease and sort of like he had entered this new phase of his life.”

Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench and producer Ryan Ulyate discuss the historic set of San Francisco shows captured in a new boxed set. (Variety)

Benmont Tench Releases Solo Debut, Talks Next Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Album – Billboard

“We were being what I had always wanted us to be,” the keyboardist adds, “which was a band that pulls stuff out in the middle of the set, off the cuff, or that learns three or four songs in a soundcheck just to throw ’em in.” Up to that point he had had some jealousy of the more free-wheeling approach of Elvis Costello and the Attractions, “and other bands on smaller levels and bigger that were changing it up and just going, ‘Hey, let’s throw this in. This will be fun. Let’s try it. Let’s challenge ourselves.’ I loved watching Steve Nieve when he’d pull some entirely different thread out of his head and play something on the Vox Continental where he’d played it on the piano the previous time I’d seen them. That was what I wanted to do…

 

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