Confessions of a Fanboy

I should have known Tom would have the answer! I decided to listen to Wildflowers this morning and as “You Don’t Know How it Feels” fades into the third track it hit me: “Time To Move On.” Yes. Yes it is.
How great did he and The Heartbreakers sound last night? [...]

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It’s a tired, tired Friday night and I’m relaxing by watching my Tom Petty DVD. It’s one way of getting ready for the Super Bowl. The way I figure, Tom Petty will be the most entertaining thing in Arizona on Sunday.
This is such a great movie and the footage is just great. [...]

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I have been meaning to talk about this all week and I just haven’t had a fucking chance to sit and write about it, so file this away in your “A Day Late and a Dollar Short” folder.
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers are, as I reported on the site earlier, playing the halftime show at [...]

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Welcome to the Buyer’s Remorse column for 2007. I called my shot and named my Top 10 Albums of the Year, and already I’m pissed about all the great records I didn’t get to mention. Fortunately there’s an easy remedy for that. In no particular order (unless otherwise noted), here are a [...]

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Oh, glory! The Super Bowl won’t be that entertaining with the way the Patriots are going to dismantle whomever is put in front of them. At least the halftime show will be worthwhile.
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers have been booked as this year’s halftime entertainment. It’s about time! It’s about time [...]

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America is preparing to celebrate/survive Thanksgiving and Confessions of a Fanboy is ready to throw down. Bring me the finest turkeys and pumpkin pies in all the land!
I tried to think of Thanksgiving-themed songs for a Thanksgiving Day playlist, but the only song on my iPod that has the word “turkey” in it is [...]

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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 [...]

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Someone just told me today is not Friday. Damnation! This week has been the strangest week in the history of weeks and I have a podcast to try to record tonight. Anything that keeps me away from the Red Sox impending doom is probably a good thing.
I’ve spent the afternoon revisiting Tom [...]

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Today’s update is coming a little late because I’m still not sure what day it is or where I am. I can tell you what I’ve been listening to, but that’s about it so here we go:
Dan Wilson — Free Life: I’ll do it to you every time. Give me ZERO turnaround [...]

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I remember reading about a film Peter Bogdanovich (Last Picture Show) was doing about Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers to commemorate their 30th Anniversary last year. After hearing almost nothing about it for a year, I found out it’s going to be released Oct. 16.
Let’s dispense with the unpleasant aspect of this otherwise great [...]

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