June 18, 2013

Budweiser Gardens, London, ONT

Canadians love Tom Petty, and Tuesday night's show at London, Ontario's Budweiser Gardens was proof positive.

All day long, fans lingered outside the arena's backstage gate, waiting for a glimpse of Tom and the band and hoping for an autograph or picture.

Nearby bars and restaurants blasted Heartbreakers' music as fans gathered to meet friends in anticipation of the show. Even the local record shop - Grooves - sold out of all of Tom's music on any format, save for an original copy of the Traveling Wilburys' first record.

Taking the stage just before 9 pm, the guys received a hero's welcome - a standing ovation all the way to the back of the 9,000-seat capacity arena

- before tearing into "Rock & Roll Star," a song about chasing the rock 'n roll dream. The entire front row sang right along.

"So you want to be a rock 'n' roll star?

Then listen now to what I say

Just get an electric guitar

Then take some time

And learn how to play

And with your hair swung right

And your pants too tight

It's gonna be all right"

Set List:

Rock & Roll Star

Love Is A Long Road

I Won't Back Down

Baby Please Don't Go

Here Comes My Girl

Mary Jane's Last Dance

Good Enough

Free Fallin'

Woman In Love

Cabin Down Below

Tweeter & The Monkey Man

Rebels

Melinda

Learning to Fly

You're So Bad

I Should Have Known It

Refugee

Runnin' Down A Dream

Encore:

Don't Come Around Here No More

You Wreck Me

American Girl

Check Out Photos From The Show Here!