Bobtalk

July 20, 1986
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Spectrum
Concert

OK Tom and I are gonna sing an old song for you now. Not too old but a few years old. Old as the hills. Anyway this one's about a guy who thinks he knows it all. (before I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know)

OK anybody out there know what time it is? Ha-ha Yeah! Ha-ha, all right, now you know. (plays Band Of The Hand) Right. OK now. It gives us a lot of pleasure to play here in the city of the Liberty Bell. And Benjamin Franklin too. Is his house still there? Any of his family still there? Anyway that was called Hell Time Man. But we won't be doing that song too much longer. There's a magazine called Spin Magazine and they panned that song so, it's got, I know what they say it’s got, don't have too much reality to it, so. You people here will be the last people almost to hear that song. So if anybody asks you in the future years, to come, did you hear it you can say you heard it here.

OK Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Here's Benmont Tench on all the keyboards. Mike Campbell on lead guitar. One of the finest drummers in all of America, Stan Lynch. On bass guitar, Howie Epstein. I especially wanna thank Mr. Tom Petty himself. Thank you Tom! All right, before we get too far here now, I have my own Heartbreakers also. I always did and I always will ha-ha. That's Queen Esther Marrow and Carolyn Dennis. Madelyn Quebec and Louise Bethune. (before Like A Rolling Stone)

OK now it gives me great privilege and great honor to sing this song in this particular town. It's about freedom of some sort. And it's about punishment. People who get punished for doing good things instead of bad things. I wanna dedicate this song to all those people who get punished for doing good things. (before In The Garden)

All right. Good evening. I want to say hello to my good friend. Dennis Hopper. Who's here tonight. I'm sure everybody knows who Dennis is? Dennis is a great actor in the tradition of Gregory Peck, Montgomery Clift and James Dean. I think I got that right. (before Clean-Cut Kid)

All right ah, Ricky Nelson, he did a lot of my songs and I wanna do one of his right now. One called Lonesome Town.

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