Tom Petty Book Review

This book wrote by Paul Zollo called Conversations With Tom Petty (2005 on Omnibus Press) is exactly that. It's a book of interviews collaborated by Paul Zollo that is pretty much a biography but all just done by interviews. He asks some interesting questions that I am not sure Tom would really write about had he wrote this book himself. It covers Tom Petty's whole career from his start in Gainesville, Florida with his band Mudcrutch right up to 2005's release of Tom's box set. There are lots of talk about the couple albums he did with The Traveling Wilburys, touring with Bob Dylan back in 1983 and hanging out with George Harrison and Ringo Starr. I actually learned a few things about Petty in this book as the writer Paul Zollo is without a doubt a huge fan of Petty and surely did a lot of research with his questions. I found the last third of the book to drag a bit as they go over almost every tune Tom Petty has recorded, as in where he wrote,where he recorded it, who played on it, nothing wrong with that, I just found it to get a little boring after a while.

If your a fan of Tom Petty I recommend buying this book.

In concert news... Tom Petty with Opener Joe Cocker will be playing in Edmonton at Rexall Place this Wednesday June 16th.

Concert Shirt/Poster Of The Day June 14th (Weezer)

Today's t-shirt is from the Weezer concert I saw in Calgary with Mik,Nerraw and my brother at MacEwan Hall in Calgary back in 1997 when Weezer were touring for their Pinkerton album. I still think Pinkerton is the best album they have put out. An amazing show it was too.

After the concert we went to a bar, can't recall which bar it was but we ran into 2 members from Weezer, whom I got to autograph my ticket stub. Good time was had by all.

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In concert news...Weezer will be playing the second annual Sonic Boom Festival here in Edmonton on Saturday September 4th on The Northland's Exhibiton Grounds. Also on the bill are Rise Against, City and Colour, Bad Religion, Tokyo Police Club, Mother Mother plus a few other bands.

Concert Shirt Of The Day June 12th (KISS)

Today's t-shirt is from the KISS reunion show I went to Vancouver to see in 1996 at GM Place (Stabbing Westward opened). I went to this show with my brother as he and I have been huge KISS fans forever, and this was our first time getting to see KISS perform in make-up.

What a great time we had at this show too. Started by drinking beers in the bushes outside GM Place with a junkie next to us doing his thing while my brother and I were tripping out on mushrooms. Once we got our six pack in to us, off to the show we went, by the time we entered the building the shrooms were kicking in. As we walked around the building there were all kinds of people dressed up in KISS costumes as you would expect, it was an awesome atmosphere. When we got to our seats, we were both tripping pretty good when we looked to our right, much to our surprise were two people walking down to the floor seats dressed in caveman costumes, well that threw us for a loop to say the least. That brought on the laughs which were really hard to control, we couldn't even look at each other without losing it,lol. Thankfully KISS hit the stage and put an end to the laughing fit we were in.

The first time seeing KISS in make-up and playing all the classics made for an amazing show. Especially with KISS being the very first band I really got into as a little kid.

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Old School Album Of The Week For June 7th-11th

This weeks album is one I still listen to on a regular basis. It is Alice Cooper's 1980 release Flush The Fashion which a very under rated album. Between 1980-83 Alice released some albums that never got the recognition that I think they deserve. Flush The Fashion,Special Forces,Zipper Catches Skin and DaDa. Out of these three albums, I do like Flush the best. I guess you could say this was Alice Coopers new wave era as they don't sound like your typical Alice sound.

I was going to pick out my favorite songs from the album, but I have to say the whole damn thing is good. Alice Cooper is a very under rated songwriter.

I think it would be neat to see Alice do a concert only playing songs from this era 80-83, not sure what attendance would be like, but it would beat the hell out of hearing him do the same old songs.

Concert Shirt Of The Day June 10th (Robert Plant)

Today's t-shirt is one I actually won as well as tickets from local radio station K97 back in 1990 for the Robert Plant and Black Crowes concert at Northlands Coliseum. Plant was touring for his Manic Nirvana album. They had this t-shirt for sale at the show but without the tour dates on the back.

Side note about this show, as I mentioned The Black Crowes opened, this was only a month after they had opened for Heart where they got no reaction whatsoever from that crowd. But at this show with Plant, they had a much better reaction, their music was starting to get played on the radio and I think it was much more like their kind of crowd.

This time a bunch of my friends came out to this concert Eor,Nerraw,A-Bomb,Hurl,my Bro and few others I believe too. Part way through Crowes set, we sparked up a few doobies, we were sitting in the lower bowl right next to the stage, when lead singer Chris Robinson acknowledged the sweet smell of pot coming from our section, that's when he left the stage and came up into our section and shook our hands and thanked us for the support. How I wish I could find a video bootleg of this show.

All and all a great double bill.

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Lyrics Of The Day June 9th (Bob Dylan)

"You got innocent men in jail, your insane asylums are filled
You got unrighteous doctors dealing drugs that'll never cure your ills"

Lyrics by Bob Dylan from the song When You Gonna Wake up from the album Slow Train Coming (1979)

Concert Shirt/Poster Of The Day June 8th (Scorpions)

Today's t-shirt I got in 1988 when I saw the Scorpions with openers Kingdom Come at Northlands Coliseum in Edmonton. It's hard to tell from this picture, but the shirt has 3/4 length sleeves, that was all the rage for concert shirts in the 80's.
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In concert news...The Scorpions will be playing in Edmonton at The Shaw Conference Centre on Tuesday August 10th, I'm not sure who is opening for them here, but looking at their website some of the opening bands they have had so far on this tour have been Tesla,Dokken,Ratt and Cinderella. Tesla or Cinderella would be cool to see again.