Tom petty damn the torpedoes1/28/2024 ![]() The Damn Torpedoes formed in 2009 and played their first show inadvertently and coincidentally on Tom’s 59th birthday, and ever since have paid tribute to one of America’s greatest rockers and songwriters with a special connection to his music. ![]() Amazing musicians like Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench contributed to a sound that’s unmistakable Heartbreakers. The RP Funding Center is excited to announce the 2023 Series Lineup for Classic Albums Live, as it returns with five iconic album performances Come see a selection voted one of Rolling Stone Magazine’s Greatest Albums of All Time, Tom Petty’s, Damn the Torpedoes on May 18, 2023, at 7:30pm. While no one will argue with the fact that Tom Petty was one of our greatest songwriters, Tom himself would’ve told you that he couldn’t have done it without his band. Such staying power was a testament to the fact that the whole is always greater than the sum of its parts. ![]() From “American Girl” and “Into the Great Wide Open” to “Free Falling”, “Mary Jane’s Last Dance” and beyond, they left an indelible mark on the American pop cultural landscape. Starting in the mid-70s stretching to his untimely passing in late 2017, Tom, along with his band, the Heartbreakers, churned out unforgettable classic rock gems. Wildflowers is worthy of that longstanding impact and evidence that this American boy is moving through middle age with all the gusto and poise that his admirers have come to expect.The Damn Torpedoes have it: attitude, mojo, chemistry, skill, determination…and use those qualities to pay tribute to an American band who for 4 decades were the pure embodiment of the same, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. and others would later use to revitalize contemporary music. "Buoyant tracks like 'A Higher Place' and 'You Wreck Me' remind us that Petty and his band were the first to marry the chiming lyricism of the Byrds to a more raw, harder style of rock & roll, prefiguring the approach R.E.M. "The key virtues are grit and grace, and Rubin's taut, muscular production emphasizes both these gifts," Elysa Gardner noted in the original Rolling Stone review. Rubin insisted the group use no synthesizers and non-acoustic keyboards so they'd have a more organic sound. It's an extremely mellow effort, highlighted by the title track, "You Don't Know How It Feels to be Me," "It's Good to be King" and "Honey Bee." Petty cut the solo album over the course of two years with producer Rick Rubin. It was an extremely close contest, but Petty's 1994 solo disc Wildflowers won this poll by a hair. ![]() After this one, he could sell out arenas all over the country until the end of time. He never had another album this huge, but it didn't matter. It cemented Petty as a rock giant, and when he played the Super Bowl in 2008, 75 percent of the songs came from the album. The result was a commercial juggernaut, landing classics "I Won't Back Down," "Free Fallin'" and "Runnin' Down a Dream" onto the charts and MTV. (Heartbreakers drummer Stan Lynch wasn't included, and he was quite furious with the situation.) Members of the Heartbreakers did play on the album, but Lynne and Petty wrote all the songs together. He decided to make some big changes, bringing in his Traveling Wilburys partner Jeff Lynne to produce his first solo album. Living up to the promise of Damn the Torpedoes was tough, and when 1987's Let Me Up (I've Had Enough) stiffed at the record stores, it was beginning to seem like he was on a downward trajectory. The record opens with 'Refugee', one of the best rock tracks ever put to. But DtT made Tom Petty and his group of young punks what they were. They had already conquered the UK market and word of their sucess filtered back to their homeland. Tom Petty was a superstar in the 1980s, but for much of the time, he was creatively unfulfilled. Damn the Torpedoes was Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' third album, and their US and global breakthrough. It's not a bunch of old assholes trying to take your money.'" Like the song says, 'I was so much older then/ I'm younger than that now.' And I listen to the new album and I feel so good, because it's not a cheap shot. I didn't go through it a few years ago, when I was feeling like a failure at everything. "And it's tough when you look in the mirror and go, 'Shit, I'm an old guy.' But the night I turned 40 there was a big party for me, so I was surrounded by friends, and I'm glad that I turned 40 at a good time in my life. "The night before we started the record, I turned 40,'' Petty told Rolling Stone in 1991. The record wasn't quite the commercial monster of Full Moon Fever, but "Learning to Fly" and "Into the Great Wide Open" were huge hits and fans loved the disc. Much to the relief of the Heartbreakers, he brought them back into the fold for the highly anticipated Full Moon Fever follow-up disc. Full Moon Fever, his recent solo album, was an enormous hit and restored much of his commercial luster after the poorly received Let Me Up (I've Had Enough). Tom Petty was in a very good place when he began cutting Into the Great Wide Open in late 1990.
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