Almost Forgot about Tom Petty!

Oakland Arena with an A's game going on next door. June 5 2010

Here to your left is a badly fuzzy picture of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Joe Cocker Opened for them.

Joe Cocker: I only knew about him because he sang a song in the film Across the Universe directed by Julie Taymore. It was the cover of the Beatles song Come Together of course. He did more Beatles covers and other songs that all were very entertaining and rocking! It was great that at the last beat of every song he would do a little hop with the last bang on the drum set to show he was not too old to rock out!!! He also had many females in the band with him. There were two lovely backup singers that were dancing with soul with each song. There was also a woman playing maybe some kind of electric guitar ( sorry I am bad with what kind of guitar) but it was awesome to watch. It was a solid good performance before Petty came out!

Every part of the show was perfect. I was worried that Tom Petty was going to play mostly new songs from their new album but they said at one point that the rest of the show was just going to be hits. And I knew all of them pretty much or really enjoyed ones I did not know before.

Setlist:

Kings Highway

Listen to Her Heart*

I Won't Back Down *

Free Fallin' *

Oh Well ( Fleetwood Mac cover)

Mary Jane's Last Dance*

Drivin' Down to Georgia

Breakdown*

Jefferson Jericho Blues

First Flash of Freedom

Running Man's Bible

I Should Have Known It

Good Enough

Learning to Fly*

Don't Come Around Here No More*

Refugee*

Encore : Runnin' Down a Dream *, Mystic Eyes (Them cover), American Girl *

What was even more entertaining was these late 20s to early 30 year old guys sitting in front of us ( or standing). They were hell of stoked for this show. After every single song they would yell and high five each other. They just could not believe they were seeing what seemed like God playing in front of them on this sacred stage in Oakland. It was quite magical with the different scenery on stage behind the band too.

Short Video to come...