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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers- Into the Great Wide Open 35th

July 1991's "Into the Great Wide Open", Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' first post-Traveling Wilburys/"Full Moon Fever" effort with his own band. First, Tom turned forty. "I'll probably look back at this as some kind of mid-life crisis album," Petty chuckled, "and go,'God, I should've just lightened up ! Should've had a drink and forgot about it!' ,,.It's very hard living your life as we have in tour buses and airplanes for all of this time... And you do kind of realize that ,' Gee, twenty more and I'm outta here!' So you do take stock of that, you do."

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers- Into the Great Wide Open 35th Anniversary

Tom Petty's new-found confidence from "Full Moon Fever'" universal acclaim, both critically and commercially, is evident from the start on "Into the Great Wide Open" thirty-five years ago with "Learning to Fly". Don't miss this cherished conversation recorded in Tom Petty's home, rebuilt from the ashes of an arsonist's attack, here In the Studio the week of June 29.
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Tom Petty- Full Moon Fever

When we met in 1978, we were both in our mid-twenties, but I realized even then that Tom Petty had a very old soul, wise and true, and that sense only increased over the next four decades...The late Tom Petty is my guest In the Studio for the story of "Full Moon Fever".

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers- I Won’t Back Down- San Francisco 2-6-97

Note how Florida natives the late Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers stood their ground with a six-string rather than a six-shooter. It's a different take on "I Won't Back Down" from San Francisco's Fillmore during a nationwide radio broadcast in February 1997.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers- Free Fallin’- San Francisco 2-6-97

Elsewhere on this site we  share Redbeard's exclusive interviews from May 1988 when Tom Petty was holed up in Mike Campbell's garage making what would come to be known as Full Moon Fever. Enjoy this live romp with the Heartbreakers on "Free…