Tom P*tty & the Heartbreakers with Carl Perkins - The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA, 1-26-1997

I was in the mood for some good ol' Tom P. and the Heartbreakers rock and roll today, so I listened to one of my favorite bootleg concert recordings by him and prepared it to be posted here.

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

This concert is from a legendary run of over 20 shows in a row P. played at the Fillmore in San Francisco. Instead of playing the usual set list consisting mostly of hits, P. and his band used the Fillmore run to stretch out and play lots of covers as well as deep cuts from their own catalog. Two of the shows were professionally recorded and broadcast on the radio at the time. This is the first one, but I'll post the other one eventually as well.

If you've been following this blog a while, you may know that I've posted a long series of albums of P.'s live cover versions. Since a lot of covers were played at the Fillmore shows, and this is one of the very best of those shows in terms of sound quality, I've used seven of these exact performances in that series. But still, it's worth hearing the entire concert. In addition to those seven covers, they played five more, plus lots of rare originals. For instance, they did "On the Street," a song done by Mudcrutch, P.'s band before the Heartbreakers. But also, it was a long show (two hours and twenty minutes), so they still had time for lots of the big hits that everyone knows and loves.

On top of all that, rockabilly legend Carl Perkins was the opening act, and he came out during P.'s show and essentially took over for about 20 minutes, singing lead while P. and the Heartbreakers backed him up. So that's another four covers, if you want to count them that way.

Because this recording was already is very good shape, I didn't have to do much tinkering. But I did do some. Mostly, I adjusted the volume of the audience cheering (often too loud) and the comments between songs (often too quiet). I also fixed a few dropouts that only happened in one channel, so I was able to duplicate the music from the other channel.

In 2022, a box set called "Live at the Fillmore" was released, consisting of highlights from this Fillmore run. But none of the songs in it come from this particular concert, so everything here is still unreleased.

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/cepZCwr2

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/QJGIudAnKE0syXg/file

The cover art photo is from this exact concert. That's Carl Perkins dressed in black and playing a guitar solo while Tom P. watches. The very red lighting (which I think looks pretty cool) was like that in the original.