12/24/2023 0 Comments Tom petty died![]() “He decided that he was going to get them through the system, so he brought them into a recording studio and taught them how to record,” Spiess said. 2, 2017, said Dan Spiess, producer of Tom Petty Weekend.Īfter learning of the band, Petty spent a lot of the time with the group, helping its members refine its vintage '60s and '70s sound played with a modern spin and co-producing the band’s self-titled, debut album in 2016. The Shelters, this year’s headliners, are a Los Angeles band that had become proteges of Petty’s before his untimely death at age 66 on Oct. ![]() ![]() Thursday and continuing through midnight Saturday, Tom Petty Weekend at Heartwood Soundstage will feature 32 national, international and regional performers on its outdoor and indoor stages along with six storytellers. Tom Petty Weekend at Heartwood Soundstageīeginning at 5 p.m. The feeling is still there, and the fact that great musicians are coming is like the old Mudcrutch Farm days, in a sense it’s these bands coming from all around and they’ve got something to show everyone.” “Almost every album (by Petty) sounds like Gainesville to me. “Tom Petty didn’t spend most of his life here but he was born here, he did grow up here and he got inspired by this place,” said Jason Hedges, front man of Heavy Petty and creator of Tom Petty Birthday Bash. 20 along with a host of acoustic performers on a smaller stage to be announced. The festival also will feature a special “Happy Birthday” singalong to Petty after the reuniting performance by The Dixie Desperados on Oct. 20 and the nationally known Philadelphia band Low Cut Connie on Oct. 18-20 at nearby Depot Park, 200 SE Depot Ave., will feature 20 performers over three days on a large main stage including the Gainesville Tom Petty tribute band Heavy Petty as headliners on Oct. This year’s Tom Petty Birthday Bash, which will run Friday through Sunday, Oct. “He always remembered (his hometown), ‘I’m from Gainesville, Florida,’ and so I just think it’s so important that we do that.” “If you have someone as famous as Tom, who has meant so much to so many people, you’ve got to pay respect to him from where he came from,” said Dan Spiess, producer of Tom Petty Weekend. The festival also features an outdoor performance by the recently reunited Gainesville band Morningbell among others on Friday, and will mark a return appearance by Mudcrutch member Tom Leadon, whose band The Bayjacks performed last year and will be among the outdoor performances on Oct. Main St., will feature 32 musical performers and storytellers on Heartwood’s indoor stage all three days and on a larger, outdoor stage Friday and Saturday including Tom Petty’s protege group The Shelters on Friday, and the Nashville-based Tom Petty tribute group Southern Accents on Saturday. This year’s Tom Petty Weekend, which will run Thursday through Saturday, Oct. 20), both festival locations are literally across Depot Avenue from each other. Held to honor the late Rock & Roll Hall of Famer on what would have been his 69th birthday weekend (on Oct. “So really, his influence on a lot of younger local musicians was pretty profound.”įittingly, the song’s namesake, Depot Avenue, will return to the spotlight next weekend as the literal street linking two large-scale music events saluting Gainesville’s favorite musical son: Tom Petty Weekend at Heartwood Soundstage and the Tom Petty Birthday Bash at Depot Park.
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