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    Toronto, ON: Recap, Setlist, Photos
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    August 27, 2014

    Air Canada Centre
    Toronto, ON
    August 26, 2014

     

    It’s pretty incredible to watch Scott Thurston work during a show.

     

    At Tuesday night’s show in Toronto, the Heartbreakers’ stage-left multi-instrumentalist bounced from guitar to harmonica to keyboards to singing harmony vocals…and that was just the first two songs of the set!

     

    Scott’s contributions onstage are always tasteful and spot on, and the parts he handles are like the musical glue that helps hold the songs together.

     

    Every great band has someone like him, but there is only one Scott Thurston.

     

    So You Want To Be A Rock ‘n Roll Star

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    Detroit, MI: Recap, Setlist & Photos
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    August 26, 2014

    DTE Energy Music Theatre
    Clarkston, MI
    August 24, 2014

     

    “I don’t know what they call this place now, but I’ll always know it as Pine Knob!”

     

    The mere mention of the venue’s original name elicited an eardrum-rattling roar from the 15,000-plus that packed the DTE Energy Music Theatre.

     

    Sunday was a special day on the Hypnotic Eye tour. With lots of family in attendance on a gorgeous Michigan summer night, Tom and the band were all excited for a rare outdoor show on this arena tour.

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    Chicago, IL: Recap, Setlist & Photos
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    August 26, 2014

    United Center
    Chicago, IL
    August 23, 2014

     

    It’s so cool to see how the audience reacts when they recognize a song.

     

    At the United Center in Chicago on Saturday night, it only took hearing those three familiar guitar licks from Mike Campbell for fans to scream with approval at the beginning of “I Won’t Back Down.”

     

    A lot of Tom’s songs are like that. Whether big rock anthems or acoustic ballads, these songs are familiar to us, engrained in the soundtrack of our lives.

     

    So You Want To Be A Rock ‘n Roll Star (The Byrds cover)
    Mary Jane's Last Dance
    Baby Please Don’t Go (Big Joe Williams cover)

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    Winnipeg, MB: Recap, Setlist & Photos!
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    August 26, 2014

    Around 4 pm every show day, Steve Winwood and his band sound check onstage.

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    Calgary, AB: Recap, Setlist & Photos!
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    August 22, 2014

    The Heartbreakers are a crack blues band.

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    Boston Night 2 Recap
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    August 21, 2014

    "Saturday night, and time for a little rock 'n roll!"

     

    With that, Tom Petty tore into the rollicking guitar riff for Chuck Berry's "Carol," the first surprise of the band's second night at the sold-out Comcast Center outside Boston. Typically slotted for encores, "Carol" appearing in the first half of the show should have served as a not-so-subtle hint that Tom and the band were ready to rock.

     

    My Morning Jacket once again got the night off on the right foot, opening with the gorgeous "The Way That He Sings." An epic "Gideon" followed, but the highlight of Jim James and company's opening

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    Edmonton, AB: Recap, Setlist & Photos!
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    August 19, 2014

    The new songs are taking hold.

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    Gorge, WA: Recap, Setlist & Photos!
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    August 18, 2014

    There’s nothing like big amphitheater sing-a-longs.

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    Vancouver, BC: Recap, Setlist, & Photos!
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    August 15, 2014

    Canadians love Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers.

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    Portland, OR: Recap, Setlist, & Photos!
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    August 15, 2014

    Moda Center at Rose Quarter
    Portland, OR
    August 12, 2014

     Sometimes, the most memorable moments of a show are just brief seconds of silence, and they’re gone in an instant.


    After a rollicking, show-opening cover of The Byrds’ “So You Want To Be A Rock ‘n Roll Star,” Tom walked slowly toward stage left, playing a slow progression on his dark red Gibson SG.


     Just as he reached the lip of the stage in front of Scott and Ron, TP stopped, looked out over the sold-out Moda Center and paused…one…two…maybe three seconds, allowing the tensions to build…before picking out the famous opening notes to “Mary

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