Highlights
News - 2010 Tour Reviews
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October 8, 2010
For the final show on the 2010 Mojo tour, Tom and the boys went all out, bringing on the one and only Chuck Berry and his crack five-piece band to open the festivities in Phoenix. |
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October 7, 2010
The third time proved to be the charm Tuesday night as Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers rocked San Diego’s Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre under threatening skies after two postponements due to tour rescheduling and Tom’s illness last week. |
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October 4, 2010
Whereas the Hollywood Bowl was surrounded by the kind of frenzied electricity that can only be found in Tinseltown, Saturday's show at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Irvine had a more laid-back vibe that permeated throughout the venue. |
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October 2, 2010
"We wanna dedicate this next one to all our ex-girlfriends in the audience," Tom said before he and Mike launched into the opening guitar riff of "Free Fallin'," eliciting a wave of screams from the 17,000-plus fans packed into the amphitheater as they held their lighters and cell phones over their heads. |
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September 30, 2010
Last week Front of House Sound Engineer Robert Scovill showed us his approach to mixing the band’s live sound as well as the state of the art equipment that he uses. |
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September 25, 2010
Friday night at Houston's Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion was much the
same way for Billy Gibbons, the 60-year-old Houston native and frontman
for ZZ Top. A few songs into their set, Gibbons introduced his mother,
Lorraine, who appeared onstage to thunderous applause and blew a kiss to
her son. |
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September 24, 2010
Tom grinned at the capacity crowd in the beautiful BOK Center before
launching into the opening chords of "American Girl" on his blonde
Rickenbacker. |
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September 24, 2010
Without missing a beat, Tom stepped to the mike, glanced back at Mike and said, "Man, I need a new guitar stand!" |
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September 20, 2010
We're white and we're black, and all shades in between. We come from all walks of life and along all points of the journey, gathering together to celebrate an amazing band and a songbook that has served as the soundtrack to so many of our lives.
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September 20, 2010
Steve is a gentle giant off stage, funny and gregarious, but hand him a pair of drumsticks and put him behind a kit and the guy turns into a drum-pummeling maniac. On songs like "Runnin' Down a Dream" and "You Wreck Me," Steve pounds out galloping rhythms with precision and ferocity. |
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September 17, 2010
With the legendary ZZ Top on board to open the tour's final ten shows, the Mojo tour promises to be a rock 'n roll fan's dream, and Billy Gibbons and company set out to prove it in Tampa with a killer set of trademark Texas blues. |
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September 1, 2010
Affable, Athens-based rockers Drive-By Truckers reprised their role as the show opener, dropping a nifty hour-long set that featured several songs from their new album, The Big To-Do. |
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August 30, 2010
25,000 feet above Buffalo and more than an hour after the last notes rang out at Darien Lake Performing Arts Center, and Tom Petty is still buzzing about the show. |
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August 30, 2010
Nearly half a century ago, Duane La Fleche proposed in his weekly column in the Albany Times Union that the New York Philharmonic eschew an offer to make its summer residence in Stowe, Vermont and instead set up shop in Saratoga Springs. "It seems very wrong," La Fleche wrote, "that a New York orchestra should have to look outside the State for a summer residence. Wouldn't the State Reservation at Saratoga Springs make a nice location?" |
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August 27, 2010
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers are among the most "American" of bands in the history of rock 'n roll, but that doesn't dissuade folks north of the border from being amongst the Heartbreakers' most ardent fans. The Canadian shows on the Mojo tour have been excellent, and Toronto may have been best among them. |