Tom Petty’s estate have approved an expanded reissue of Petty and The Heartbreakers’ cult favorite “Long After Dark” as well as a limited theatrical reissue of “Heartbreakers Beach Party”, a legendary lost documentary created for MTV by Cameron Crowe in his directorial debut. But the party isn’t over yet: the estate is teaming up with Third Man Records to release a vinyl-only live set for the first time.
“Live in Edinburgh 1982: The Gennaro Tapes” is a triple album capturing a set at the Edinburgh Playhouse in Scotland at the close of 1982, just about a month after “Long After Dark” hit record store shelves.
With the band newly energized following the addition of new bassist Howie Epstein, this set captures a powerful 20-song set that includes tracks from the new album (lead single “You Got Lucky,” “Change of Heart,” Straight Into Darkness,” “A One Story Town”), favourites from their growing catalogue (“Don’t Do Me Like That,” “Refugee,” “Breakdown,” “Listen to Her Heart” and a powerful opening version of “American Girl”), and even a fistful of classic rock and soul covers (The Kingsmen’s “Louie Louie,” a one-two punch of The Isley Brothers’ “Shout” and The Byrds’ “So You Wanna Be a Rock ‘N’ Roll Star”). The set was captured on cassette from the soundboard by one of the band’s most loyal road crew members, house mixer Gennaro Rippo, and “has not been touched since the day it was captured, pressed directly from cassette to vinyl.”
“Live in Edinburgh” will be available on vinyl in three colour variants: turquoise (for Petty’s official web store), orange wisp (for all independent record retailers), and maroon “reverse splatter” (for Third Man’s official web store; we’ll update with this link as it goes live). All tracks recorded live at the Edinburgh Playhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland – 12/9/1982.
All three versions will be released next Friday, November 29th.
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