Friday, May 17, 2019

Tom P*tty & the Heartbreakers - Live Cover Versions, 1997-1999

This album is very much a continuation of the last one I posted in my series of live cover versions albums by Tom P*tty and the Heartbreakers.

(Note that I'm not using the full name of this artist due to concerns about copyright issues.)

As I said with that one, P*tty and his band played 20 shows in a row at the Fillmore, in San Francisco. All of that album came from those shows, and half of the album before that. Plus, all but one song in this album are from those shows. The last one instead is from a second series of shows the band did at the Fillmore in 1999.

In terms of the music, nearly all of the songs here are covers of famous songs from the 1960s, with a couple from the 1950s sprinkled in. Note especially the cover of "Gloria," which is ten minutes long instead of three minutes or so like the original, because P*tty tells a story in the middle of it that's very entertaining.

The sound quality is generally excellent. Only two of the songs are officially released, the first and the last. (The last one, by the way, features Bo Diddley as a guest star.) Despite the fact that the rest are unreleased, you'd never know it when it comes to sound quality. All of them come from one concert, on February 7, 1997, that was played live on the radio at the time, and was recorded as well as a typical live album for the era.

Anyway, if you like P*tty doing covers at all, definitely get this one.

This album is 43 minutes long.

I'm not including the track list due to copyright issues. But you can find it in the mp3 download file. 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/kBMhz3VT 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/yjInm9EAmIj6Iu4/file

As I mentioned in the last album in this series, four matching concert posters were made for the 1997 series of Fillmore concerts. Here's another one. As usual, I had to make some drastic cropping to get it to fit into the square album cover shape.

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