Tom Petty - Wildflowers
As I often do, this has a little story... some years ago we were in Florida staying with my sister-in-law who lived there at the time & I saw that Tom Petty was playing in Tampa with Steve Winwood as support.
For years I had wanted to catch up with Petty & as a Floridian this would be a 'home' gig for him so I got tickets for me & my Daughters boyfriend. Winwood played for nearly an hour & a half & Petty approached three hours, a really memorable gig. That night, on the live version of this song Honey Bee, the guitars were heavy, grungy and full of fuzz distortion, a great track on the album but something else entirely in that setting - 'sublime' doesn't' come even close!
Back home I enthused about having finally seen another one of my heroes
at last - to which my mate Mike replied "what are you talking about, you saw him at Knebworth in '78!!" I genuinely don't recall that, Genesis, Jefferson Starship, Roy Harper, Devo definitely but how the hell did I somehow miss Petty, there was only one stage? Doh
...imagine this version with the guitars cranked up to 11 & with more distortion