Deep in the vault, Warner Brothers has kept an extensive archive of recordings from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' month-long engagement at the Fillmore West in 1997. They are releasing the recordings alongside a new music video by Hornet Director Peter Sluszka.
"We played with the fundamental the idea of bringing 2D things into a 3D world. In the album artwork, it looks like the Tom Petty illustration wants to jump off the album cover. So I thought, All right, let's have him actually jump off! We made a sculpture and because we really wanted that surface texture to have a tactile quality, there's real paper cladding on the entire puppet." – Peter Sluszka, Director
To inspire the team, the Tom Petty estate sent over all kinds of memorabilia taken directly from the walls of the Heartbreakers Clubhouse.
Ticket stubs, backstage passes, original posters & film slides were all recreated in the art department for the music video.
Since this engagement wasn't their normal tour, they didn't have to do all the hits every night. They covered the "Goldfinger" theme song from James Bond; they had guests like John Lee Hooker come on and jam. It was really informal- just a band having a good time.
This fanzine shows just how varied and dynamic the set list was!
