Online Petition and Open Letter to Tom Petty: Release Gainesville on CD!
It begins here. This is my petition. This is my plea. I am officially lobbying for Tom Petty to follow in the footsteps of Bruce Springsteen by releasing the Gainesville homecoming show on CD.
Springsteen released a DVD of an amazing show from the Hammersmith-Odeon in London as part of the 30th Anniversary edition of his classic Born to Run. Fans were so enthusiastic about that brilliant show Springsteen released an audio companion separately on CD.
Petty’s Gainesville homecoming performance was included in the box set of the new film Running Down a Dream, and it is a fabulous show. This being a 30th Anniversary show, the set list is balanced and representative. Guest vocalist Stevie Nicks adds to the celebratory nature of the night. The sound is wonderful. The extended “It’s Good to Be King” and acoustic “Learning to Fly” are spectacular! Releasing Gainesville as a CD would be the live album that ties an incredible 30-year run together. Somebody say “AMEN!”
The live album concept got plenty of run in my review of the recent R.E.M. live set because I love live music and great live albums. Having watched the Gainesville show multiple times, I see the potential for one of America’s most enduring bands to release the first definitive live album of their career. Whether they choose Gainesville or not this needs to happen; Pack Up The Plantation nis nowhere near adequate.
Stay tuned for my next Petty Petition where our hero seeks remastered versions of Southern Accents, Let Me Up (I’ve Had Enough) Full Moon Fever, and Into the Great Wide Open.
Filed under: Tags: Fanboy Manifesto, Tom Petty
I don’t see anywhere to sign up. go to petitions online and create one.
Just make your voice heard here, that would be my advice. What a great show. Gainesville was the night before my show in Atlanta and only days before you got to see them, if memory serves.
Eh, who cares. It’d just be another $20 spent on something you already own when you could just rip the audio yourself in a half hour with DVD Audio Extractor like I do. Best program ever.
I wish there was a Mac version of that program. I have a couple that I use at home on my MacBook Pro that do more or less the same thing.
Still, I’d gladly pay the $20 for a nicely packaged CD version of this show.
Oh, you’re a Mac people. Well, that’s worked out well for you, hasn’t it?
Imtoo has a Mac ripper. I’ve used the PC version and while it wasn’t quite as intuitive (nor did it find all easter eggs like DVDAE does) it was a decent program, based on my experiences with an older version. The newer one might be much better.
And you may know someone who can and will rip this DVD soon . . . (ahem)
Mac life is great. I have three separate friends — all college graduates and above — whose computers are in the toilets because of ad and spyware, etc. I’m a proud iProduct man.
I do have apps that will rip DVD audio from me but I haven’t found one app that I really love, one that makes this process quick ‘n’ easy.
In the meantime, I handbrake’d the DVD and can watch it on my iPod. That doesn’t suck.
Besides, even if I can rip it I still want a proper release of this on CD!
i have a friend who’s a big parallels desktop fan. he uses it on his mac for the one or two pc programs that he can’t live without.
I paid a lot of money to not have to run Windows. There’s no way I’m filthing my MacBook Pro with godawful XP or Vista.
I really don’t feel limited by my Mac in anyway and actually feel liberated, smug, and superior because of it.
Now, back to getting Tom to release this on CD!
ok, i don’t wanna get all nerdy here (because that’s never what the fanboy is all about) but i do want to say that if you run something like parallels, it is in no way filthing your mac with xp. this is a program that lets you run an os as a virtual machine. it’s a weird concept. i use it all the time at work. on my windows pc i actually run mandrake linux as a virtual machine. really weird, but incredibly powerful..AND: it keeps a solid wall between the two.
that said, i’d sure be looking for a mac version of this before bothering with this approach.
Audio Hijack Pro is what I’m using on my Imac. Nothing amazing but it does a darn decent job of pulling audio for me.
If it was cheaper to go Mac, and it wasn’t for little things like this, I’d be happy to jump ship for Apple. They’ve got neat stuff. Playing with my coworker’s Macbook Pro is a pretty fun experience, but not $3000 worth of fun, not to mention the cost of all my software - another couple of thousand dollars on top of that. Were I starting over, and not doing anything with graphics ever again, I’d happily go with a low-end Mac of some sort.
There, have I somewhat redeemed myself? Oh, and I’d sign the petition and all, but I probably wouldn’t buy it, since I have it already, and then it would further fuel the label’s belief that consumers just don’t want to buy CDs, which is not true. You can see the dilemma.
You lost me right after Tom Petty. What in the fuck are you people talking about?
Whether you have a Mac or a PC, ‘Tunnel of Love’ is still Springsteen’s best record, and ‘Spare Parts’ is the worst song on it.
Show me love!
Ignore the technospeak, 11. Join me in pleading with Tom Petty to release a CD companion of his Gainesville show.