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What SMOKING music are you listening to? (2026)

Live Friday

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Pack Up The Plantation - LIVE! (1985)

Their first live album out of 6 was a double album set available in a 16 song vinyl set or a 14 song CD or cassette. I can understand why the CD was shorter but you can always stuff more tape in a cassette since there were many longer double albums on tape. There was also a VHS tape made with 4 more songs that has been released on DVD. It is the show at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles where most of the live album was recorded.

In 2015 the CD was remastered in a 24/96 hi-rez format but only the 14 song CD even though the missing 2 song were available as a free digital download. That was corrected about 6 months later with all 16 songs being available in hi-rez.

This was Tom's mini comeback after he had punched a wall during the recording of Southern Accents. Doctors weren't sure he would be able to play guitar again. The album is most noted for the 2 live songs with Stevie Nicks, the crowd sing-a-long on Breakdown and the cover of The Searcher's 1964 hit Needles and Pins of which Petty's version reached #37 on the charts. That song was originally written by Sonny Bono.

Below is the DVD version

 
Continuing with Tom Petty most people know about the 2 songs he released with Stevie Nicks

Needles and Pins

And Stop Dragging My Heart Around
This is more a Tom Petty song then most realize. It was a finished song when Tom gave it to Stevie. They just cut out some of Tom's vocals and inserted Stevie's - there was no rerecording of the song.

However, there is a third song that most don't know about which Stevie inspired. Stevie had just broken up
with Joe Walsh. Tom along with Dave Stewart and producer Jimmy Lovine had come up with a rough cut of a song which Stevie said she would work on the next day. The boys kept at it that night and Tom had put on a mostly finished vocal to it. The next day Stevie hears what had been done, fires Jimmy Lovine and tells Tom she doesn't want his song. Tom takes it, reworks it a little and when it is released becomes one of his biggest singles

 
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You'll notice in the above lip sync for TV that there is no horn player shown even though the horn was the 2nd lead and this was the first Byrd's song with any horns. That horn player was South African Hugh Masekala who would have his own Grammy Hall Of Fame hit the next year in 1968 with


That song was redone by Friends Of Distinction and released in 1969

 
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Live Friday

The Who - Live at Leeds (1970)

Considered one of if not THE best live hard rock albums ever made, I'll let you in on a little secret. Live at Hull is better. More on that later.

Recorded during the Who's 1969 Tommy tour this album was a concerted effort to get away from the "Rock as an art form" label that Tommy was pushed as by Kit Lambert the Who's manager. This is a "warts and all" with no overdubs, no splicing of different shows and almost no studio changes. There is even a copy of a memo ib the liner notes telling the engineer not to try and fix the "crackles" heard on the master disc.

The band expressly wanted to do two shows near the end of the tour just to make this album. With that they scheduled a show at Leeds om 14 February 1970 and a show at Hull the next night. 6 Songs were taken from the Leeds show for the album even though there were some minor technical problems during the recording. Unlike many live album where the perspective is what the audience hears these recording were taken from what the band was hearing. There are no audience mics so crowd noise is barely heard.

Live at Leeds was released on May 11, 1970 with a faux bootleg style cover with red block letters. The first 300 released in England had Black letters and are worth some serious cash second only to an original Beatles Yesterday and Today butcher cover. The original issue was a six song album which was laterr released as a CD that the "crackling" noised mentioned above had been corrected. In 1995 an expanded CD was released for the 25 anniversary, in 2001 a 2 cd remastered set was released and in 2010 the Deluxe 40th anniversary versions of the Leeds and for the first time - the Hull concert was released. Oddly enough because of some recording problems at Hull there were parts of the bass that were spliced from the Leeds show. Finally in 2014 a digital downloa of the show for the first time in concert order was released.

Below is the Hull show - Maximum R&B indeed

 
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