Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream

I have continued on with my movie watching extravaganza, especially since I've been re-doing this website and this website too. (Can't just do
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without some kind of entertainment.)

I finally got around to watching "Runnin' Down A Dream" tonight. Four hours of back story after back story on TP&TH. And I was reminded that during the MTV awards in 1989, Axl Rose & TP&TH performed "Free Falling" together. Amazing:

[mp3] Tom Petty + Axl Rose - "Free Fallin'"

The movie is currently playing on the Sundance channel, who has this to say about it: "Comprehensive, revealing and epic in scope, this rare examination of three decades in the history and development of an American rock band from filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich (THE LAST PICTURE SHOW) focuses on 2002 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Incisive interviews and plentiful concert footage tell the story of a band and its front man - described by Bogdanovich as "an American troubadour in the truest sense of the word" - who have earned 16 Grammy™ nominations and sold more than 50 million recordings."

*In the movie, Tom Petty's steadfast beliefs on artistic control are briefly highlighted. (What a bad ass.)

[mp3] Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - "Don't Come Around Here No More"

[mp3] Tom Petty - "Runnin' Down A Dream"

Tom Petty to VH1 - "This is an emergency crisis we're in. The entertainment media is affecting everything on the planet in a very negative way. I'm only interested in rock 'n' roll. Rock 'n' roll is a music that represents truth. Your TV channel has taken the word "rock" and knocked the "roll" off the end. You made rock this umbrella term for everything. That's wrong. Shakira isn't rock. These country artists with fur coats aren't rock - or country. I offered a video to VH1 of my band playing in the studio and they don't want to air it because it had musicians playing in it. They want some babe walking on the beach or whatever. I got turned onto this music by watching the Beatles and the Rolling Stones actually on TV playing their guitars. It completely took me over. When you can't see musicians playing any more, I'm not interested any more."

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Tom Petty on Wiki-p